Christos Tzivelos

Christos Tzivelos (1949–1995) lived and worked between Athens and Paris. He studied Interior Design at the Athens Technological Group (Doxiadis School), graduating in 1971, and pursued Fine Art studies at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1976). In 1990, he graduated in Architectural Engineering from the École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris–Belleville. Tzivelos’ research returned obsessively to cosmogony and cosmology, alchemy, mythology, and philosophy, approached with a sensitive, poetic attentiveness to the world. He left behind an extensive body of work (installations, sculptures, drawings, preparatory sketches, photographs, transparencies, and design objects) often shaped by light and time as primary materials. He held solo exhibitions at Medusa Art Gallery in Athens (1986), Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations in Paris (1989), and Galerie Renos Xippas in Paris (1993). He participated in group exhibitions, including Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain (1985) and Fondation Danae (1986). Posthumously, the retrospective “Modelling Phenomena,” curated by Christopher Marinos and Bia Papadopoulou, was presented at the Benaki Museum in Athens (2017). More recently, his work has appeared at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zurich (2023), Melas Martinos, Radio Athènes, and Akwa Ibom in Athens (2024), and the 15th Baltic Triennial (2024–2025).