ABOUT

Despite his classical studies in painting, in the workshop of Panagiotis Tetsis at ASFA, Alexandros Psychoulis appears on the Greek art scene in the ’90s, with the first digital interactive works made in Greece and worldwide. The first of these, the “Black Box”, is presented at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997 and awarded with the Benesse Prize. The creative exploration of the challenges of the digital age permeates the whole of his work, which in the coming years will take the form of large installations with “soft” materials. The refutation of visions for digitally free-sharing community and the transformation-in recent years-of cyberspace into a control tool, is redefining his creative tactics. He invents robotic design machines where the intangible meets the randomness of natural space. He continues to make use of digital technology and at the same time uses painting, drawing and wood sculpture as a meta-language to deal with the hybrid possibilities of thought and action in the present.

BIO

Alexandros Psychoulis (b. 1966, Volos, Greece) studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts. His early works took the form of interactive installations activated by the viewer, exploring the realm of the subconscious through the decoding of images, sounds, fears, desires, and memories. The investigation of digital reality remains central to his artistic practice, which spans immersive installations, animation, and painting.

In 1997, he was awarded the Benesse Prize for his work Black Box, presented at the 47th Venice Biennale. In 2011, his work Body Milk was featured in The Luminous Interval, an exhibition drawn from the Dimitris Daskalopoulos Collection at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Since 1991, Psychoulis has presented 27 solo exhibitions in Greece and internationally, including in Nicosia, Tokyo, Boston, New York, Bradford, and Athens. His work has also been included in major international group exhibitions such as Documenta 14 (Athens–Kassel, 2017), Expanded Ecologies: Perspectives in a Time of Emergency at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2009), and Synopsis 1: Communications at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2000), among others.

In 2026, the Municipality of Chania organized a major retrospective exhibition of the artist at the Municipal Art Gallery of Chania, offering a comprehensive overview of his artistic trajectory and highlighting his significant contribution to contemporary art in Greece and internationally.

Works by the artist entered the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Tate, and EMST through the Dimitris Daskalopoulos Collection Gift (2023). Psychoulis is currently Professor of Art and Technology in the Department of Architecture at the University of Thessaly.