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Yorgos Sapountzis was born in 1976 in Athens. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1998-2002) under the tutelage of George Lappas, followed by postgraduate studies at the Berlin University of the Arts in the workshop of Rebecca Horn (2002-2004). He lives and works in Berlin. His artistic practice encompasses a wide range of visual media: performance, sculpture, drawing and video. Taking public monuments as his starting point, he creates projects that combine private and public space and that focus not only on the interpretation of the monument but on its significance to groups of people. At the same time, his installations and performances combine elements from different fields: theatre, poetry and ritual acts. Similarly, in his sculptural works he uses flexible materials such as aluminium sheets and rods, coloured fabrics, pins and knots, ropes and newspapers, whose volume can be reduced and are easily transportable. He held a series of solo exhibitions, among them: Forgotten Tactics, Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery (Berlin, 2006); After Electricity, ART BASEL 2008, STATEMENT, Loraini Alimantiri Gazonrouge (Basel, 2008); Horizon Drop, Hermes und der Pfau (Stuttgart, 2009); Pre-Bellevue, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (Spain, 2010)- Charleroi, Loraini Alimantiri Gazonrouge (Athens, 2010)- Sculptures and Mirrors, Freymond Guth Fine Arts (Zurich, 2011)- Apparere, Fondazione Morra Greco (Naples, 2011)- Fast Cast, Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery (Berlin, 2011) etc. α. He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions throughout Europe: Based in Berlin (Berlin, 2011); performIC 2011 - Trial & Error, Kunstraum Insbruck (Innsbruck, 2011); Informell Natur, Galerie Sabine Knust (Munich, 2011); Arivals and Departures, Fondo Mole Vanvitelliana (Agona, 2010); The First Icon, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki, 2010); 6th DESTE Award, Museum of Cycladic Art (Athens, 2009); In present time. Young Greek Artists, National Museum of Contemporary Art (Athens, 2007); Destroy Athens, 1st Athens Biennale (Athens, 2007). Apart from the Athens Biennale, he exhibited his work at the Ponteverda, Brussels and Tel Aviv Biennales.