PAINTING Apostolos Georgiou Bio Born in Thessaloniki in 1952. Studied architecture in Vienna at Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst and then continued at the Academia di Belle Arti in Florence where he received a degree in painting in 1975. Solo exhibitions: 1972: ZM Gallery. Thessaloniki. / 1977: ZM Gallery. Thessaloniki. / 1978: Ora Gallery. Athens. / 1993: Organization of the Harbour of Thessaloniki (organized by the Municipality of Thessaloniki ) / 1994: Athens Gallery. / 1997: Vilka. Thessaloniki. / 1998: Rebeca Kamhi Gallery. Athens. / 2000: Rebeca Kamhi Gallery. Athens. / 2003: Zina Athanassiadou Art Gallery. Thessaloniki. / 2005: Xippas Gallery. Paris, Xippas Gallery.Athens / 2007: ZM Gallery. Thessaloniki Group exhibitions: 1974: Kohlias. Thessaloniki. /1976: French Institute of Thessaloniki. / 1977: Stayrakaki Gallery. Heraclion. / 1988: lleana Tounta Center of Contemporary Art.Athens. / 1989: Cyprus House, DESTE organizer. Athens. / 1996: FOKA Gallery. Thessaloniki. /1997: Wigmore Gallery. London. /1998: Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner.Berlin. / 2000: Rebeca Kamhi Gallery. Athens. / Legend 2000 Cylindrical Mills Sarantopoulos.Piraeus. / 2001: Glossalgia, Hellenic American Union, Athens, (curator M. Stefanidis and N. Argyropoulou). / 2002: The Pioneers, Beltsios Collection, Kalambaka Center of Modern Art, (curator D. Zacharopoulos). / E. Averoff Museum, Metsovo, (curator L. Tsikouta). / 2003: Deste Foundation, Center for Contemporary Art / 2003 Deste Prize. Athens / Outlook. Athens (Oct. 2003-Jan. 2004) Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art. Thessaloniki, Beltsios Collection (Dec.2003-Jan.2004) Gazon Rouge, Athens (curator Th. Moutsopoulos) Athens Gallery, Athens. / 2004: Breakthrough! Greece 2004, Contemporary Perspective in the Visual Arts. Madrid / Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art. Thessaloniki. / 2006 Odyssey: Greek Art from the last fifty years. Curator Ch. Joachimidis. Galerie Gmurzynska, Zyrich. Anos 80 Una Topologia (curator Ulrich Loock) / Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves. Porto. / 2007: Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art. Thessaloniki (curator D. Zacharopoulos). / Realia Mundi/Εγκόσμια, P.&M. Kydoniefs Foundation, Andros (curator A. Schina).