BIO

Born in Athens in 1967, lives and works in London and Athens. He started his studies in Higher School of Fine Arts of Thessaloniki at Aristotle University and continued in Madrid at Complutense University where he completed his PhD (1996). He is an artist that moves in the fields of painting, digital art, video theatre as well as installation art. He has also worked in the field of interactive experiential theatre, video theatre, exploring the limits of them since 1990.

Filippos Tsitsopoulos video installations have been presented in many exhibitions and shows and workshops in Madrid where he worked and stayed from 2991 until 2012. He worked at the El Prado Museum in Madrid from 2005 until 2012 (Art department, Museum legacy collection and workshops). His installations and artistic theatrical performances influenced by Baroque are known in exhibitions, such as The Serpentine Gallery, with the support of Hans Ulrich Obrist for film and perform Kage where K for Kott in the gallery premises, with Jan Hoet in several exhibitions, with Fernando Castro Florez in Madrid, at the FACT Liverpool, the Bluecoat, Frieze Art Fair (London), Alte Nationalgalerie (Berlin), twice in Tate Modern, Toynbee Studios and Artsadmin and Live art Development Agency LADA. Worked with Jan Fabre and Joanna De Vos at the project Het Vlot. Kunst is (niet) eenzaam / The Raft. Art is (not) Lonely and in several theatres and stages, festivals of performance in the UK such us Fringe, Edinburgh festival Fringe, Leeds, Southbank Performance festival, and collaborate with the historic BONE Festival of performance in Bern and Norbert Klassen and The Black market International. In Greece has exhibited at Batagianni gallery at E. Tseliou gallery and in Madrid with Rafael Perez Hernando. Performances and installations at Megaro Mousikis with Anna Kafetsi and with Denys Zacharopoulos among others.