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Stefanos Tsivopoulos is a visual artist, filmmaker, writer, and educator who lives and works in New York and Amsterdam.

Known for his research-based work on archives and experimental film, Tsivopoulos' practice is driven by a sense of urgency to examine the anthropological dimension of current global crises: ecological, economic, and political. His oeuvre is marked by an investigation of how personal and collective histories impact social discourse.

Tsivopoulos' films and video installations have been showcased in several biennials including the 55th Venice Biennale Greek Pavilion; Documenta 14, Kassel; 8th International Manifesta Biennial, Murcia; 2nd CAFAM Biennial, Beijing; 6th Industrial Biennale, Istria; 6th Thessaloniki Biennial; 6th Fotobiennale, Mannheim; EVA Limerick Biennial (2014, 2009); 2nd Xinjiang Biennale; 5th Bucharest Biennial; the 4th Riga Quadrennial; and the 1st Athens Biennial.

Group exhibitions in contemporary art institutions include the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (2023); Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei (2022); High Line Art, New York (2020); MAXXI, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (2020); The 8th Floor, New York (2019); MUKHA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (2017); Bundeskunsthalle Contemporary Art Museum, Bonn (2016); LEEUM, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2016); MACBA, Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona (2015); Kunsthaus Zurich, National Museum of Art, Zurich (2015); Tate Modern, London (2014); Rencontres Internationales, Haus Der Culture Der Welt, Berlin (2013); SALT, Istanbul (2012); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2011).

Tsivopoulos studied painting and set design at the Fine Arts Academy of Athens (BFA 1996) before moving to the Netherlands and continuing his studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Media and Video-Art (BFA 2000-02.) He completed his MFA at the Sandberg Institute Department of New Media (MFA 2002-04).  Tsivopoulos went on to participate in various artists-residencies, including Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam (2005-06), Platform Garanti, Istanbul (2009); IASPIS, Stockholm, (2010); ISCP, New York (2011).

Tsivopoulos is a core faculty member at the Lens Based Art (MFA) program of the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and adjunct faculty at the BFA and MFA programs of The New School—Parsons, New York.

He is the founder and co-director of Artists for Artists, an online pedagogical non-profit organization that works with leading international artists and early-career artists from the Global South.

For more information, visit www.stefanostsivopoulos.com

Recent Publications

Tsivopoulos Stefanos, Archive Crisis: Shaking Up The Shelves of History, visual essay, Jap Sam Books, the Netherlands (2015).

Journal of Visual Culture, SAGE Publications (Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC), Vol. 14 (2), 2015

Altern Ecologies,  Frame, Contemporary Art Publications Finland, 2015

Tsivopoulos Stefanos, History Zero - Greek Pavillion at the 55th Venice Biennial, exhibition catalog, Greek Ministry of Culture (2013).

Tsivopoulos Stefanos, The Real The Story and The Storyteller, monograph, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade (2008)