Art Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 “In the Crack of the Space”, DL Gallery, Athens
2021 “With the Fear of the Other”, DL Gallery, Athens
2019 “This is not the World I dreamt of”, C&C Gallery, London.
2018 ”Personal Maps”, Municipal Gallery of Corfu, Greece
”With the Gaze on the Map”, Municipal Gallery of Athens -Marousi-, Greece
2016 “Utopian Topographies”, Gallery Cube, Greece.
2015 “The Violence of the Days”, Art Wall, Athens
2014 “Flyways”, C.C. Gallery, London
2013 “2nd Aegeanale”, Kivototos Art Projects, Mykonos, Greece.
2012 “This is not my World”, Gallery Cube, Greece
2005 “Personal Geographies”, Gallery Gazon Rouge, Athens
2005 “Yiannis Christakos, Painting”, Gallery Amimoni, Ioannina, Greece
2004 “Yiannis Christakos, Paintings”, Gallery K, London
2003 UEL, London
2003 “Mapping games”, Gallery-K, Nikosia, Cyprus
2001 “Yiannis Christakos, Painting”, Gallery, London
1997 “Yiannis Christakos Paintings”, Antinor Art Gallery, Athens
1995 Myrovolos Art Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Mapping Mnemosyne – Where am I/WE/YOU?”, Julio Fine Arts Gallery,Baltimore, USA.
(cur. A. Herber)
“Prallel Lives ” House of Dance, Kalamata / Black Box, Kalamata, Greece. (cur. A. Potamianou)
“InvisiblePeople, InvisibleThoughts”, Patra’s International Festival 2023, Patra, Greece. (cur. L. Zoza)
”Kampos/Field: The energy of the void”, Museum of The Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki.
(cur. Y. Ziogas)
2022 Supermarket Stockholm International Art Fair 2022, Tidal Flow Platform, Stockholm.
(cur. J. Tsoumpri)
“Invisible Cities – Continuous Cities”, The Project Gallery, Athens. (cur. A Maganiotis, L. Zoza)
2021 “Weaving Justice”, The Anya and Shyva Gallery, New York, USA, (cur. Th. Vrahopoulos)
2020 “Death in Athens”, Athens Artcore Festival 2020, Fokianou Studio, Athens. (cur. S. Ettlinger)
”Pinned, Stitched and Glitzed: Challenging the Gender Stereotype”, Art Appel gallery, Athens.
(cur. Th. Vrahopoulos)
2018 ”Highlights”, Astrolavos Gallery, Athens.
2017 “The right to human”, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece.
(cur. Ch.Savopoulos, Th. Vrahopoulos),
“Abstract and Abstraction”, Gallery 7, Athens.
”Gateway to Freedom”, -Back to Athens-, Cheap Art gallery, Athens. (cur. Th. Vrahopoulos)
”Tidal Flow-Relocated”, Cyclades Gallery, Syros, Greece. (cur. J. Tsoubri)
”Action Field Codra17”, Thessaloniki, Greece. (cur. K. Kostopoulos),
2016 “Exquisite Porch”, Morean Arts Center, St.Pets, Florida, U.S.A. (cur. D.Lombardi)
“Trans Continental Nexus”, Donopoulos Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece.
“I walked through the See”, Art Prisma, Athens
“1460 Days”, ArtWall, Athens. (cur. F. Kapiri)
“Opposites”, Art Prisma, Athens
2015 “Little Things Mean a Lot”, Woo Choi Gallery, N.York, USA. (cur.Th.Vrahopoulos),
‘1095 Days”, Art wall, Athens. (cur. F. Kapiri)
“Of Human Bondage”, Anya & Andrew Shiva Gallery, N.York. (cur.Th.Vrahopoulos),
2014 “Auction” , C.C.Gallery, (cur. J. Gore & Christies), London.
“Goplacia”, Taf Gallery, Athens.
London Art Fair 2014, C.C.Gallery, London.
”I painted my future”, The Foundation of the Hellenic Parliament, Athens.
2013 ”The Cabinet from Darkness to Light”, Remap 4, Athens.
“Routs with bridges”, Art Prisma, Athens.
“Contemporary Art Auction 2013”, Christies Auctions-C.C.Gallery, London.
2012 “Christakos, Adonopoulos, Tserionis”, Gallery Art Prisma, Athens.
2011 “11th Plateau”, Museum of Hydra, Greece. (cur. S. Goudouna)
”Nostos”, Art Prisma Gallery, Athens.
“11th Plateau”, Archeological Association Museum, Athens.
2010 “Copy Paste” , Gallery Container, Thessaloniki, Greece.
“Lost Heritage-Cyprus”, Archeological Museum of Cyprus, Cyprus.
2009 “Lost Heritage-London”, Gallery K, London.
“Erotica”, Art Prisma Gallery, Athens.
“ Alex Stanas” , Alecton Project Space, Athens. (cur. A. Stanas)
2008 “9”, Gallery Gaia, Athens.
“After Abstraction” Bonikos Gallery, Athens.
2007 “Meme”, Café Gallery, TowerBridge Business Complex, London.
“The Angel”, Gallery K, Nicosia, Cyprus.
“Visibility”, Athens. (cur. M. Paschalidou)
2006 “A4”. Kodra-06, Thesaloniki, Greece.
“The Angel”, Gallery K, London.
“1500+1”, Art- Prisma, Athens.
“International Action Art”, Athens.
2004 “The Fellow Artists”, Gallery K, London.
2003 “Its all Greek to Me”, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, Hastings, U.K.
“10 Greek Artists of London”, Gallery K, London.
2002 “Water”, Gazon Rouze, Athens.
“Chaos Contemporary Cosmologies”, The Bishopsgate Goodsyard, London. (cur. M. Rogakos)
“Next Station” Srtand Old Tube Station, London. (cur. Gr. David)
“Reactions”, ExitArt, N.York. (cur. B. Martin and J. Hanel)
2001 “Wired Room 1” Public Installation, Group ‘Capsule’ Plaistow, U.K.
“Nexus” East73gallery, group show, London.
“Self Service” Five Years Gallery, London.
2000 The Shop Gallery, London.
1999 “Mind your Language”34 Underwood Street Gallery, London. (cur. John Russel)
MA show,East London Gallery, London.
1997 “9th Panhellenic Art Show” Gazi, Athens.
1996 “4 Emerging Young Artists” Astir Gallery, Athens.
Sellini Art Gallery, Athens.
1995 “Young Emerging Artists”Museum of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki, Greece.
1994 “Heineken Art Prize” Mylos Art Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece.
“Intervention in the Town” organized by the Greek Railways, Thessaloniki, Greece.
PROJECTS
Homecoming an exhibition of young artists of the Greek Diaspora, designed for the Patra Cultural Capital of Europe .
Inquiring Minds a project that attempts to address issues of marginalisation of young people (12-16yrs) by creating an international communication between young people and their families in Britain and Greece.
He has been Artist in residency at the following institutions
Tidemill School, Deptford, London, Byron School Birmingham,. Stavroupoli secondary school, Thessaloniki, Greece.
He is funding member of Deptford Art Development Association, (DADA+), since.
He worked as an art curator at Di Robson Events and Art Management (DREAM)
He was art advisor and consultant of the Greek Navy and artist in residency in The Greek Maritime Museum, Athens, 11/1995-9/1996
Throughout his 14 years of Fine Art practice, he has built an international professional profile by exhibiting in a number of solo and group shows, in UK, USA and Greece.