Vasilis Papageorgiou

Vasilis Papageorgiou (b. 1991) is an artist working and living in Athens. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts in Greece and the Luca School of Arts in Brussels. In 2025, he will organize a panel discussion on the intersection of tourism and labor at Onassis Stegi in Athens, following the publication of his recent book by Mousse Publishing. He will also present a solo show at UNA in Milan. In 2024, he took part in the group exhibition “The Moths” at CRAC Alsace and opened his first institutional solo exhibition, “Sunseekers or Dimming the Sun or,” curated by Mirela Baciak at the Salzburger Kunstverein. Papageorgiou has previously presented his work at the 7th Athens Biennale; the Benaki Museum in Athens, in collaboration with the New Museum (New York) and the DESTE Foundation (Athens); the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Foundation Center in Athens; the MAXXI Museum in Rome; the 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Arts; and BOZAR Brussels, among others. His work is part of La Gaia Collection (Busca, Italy), the Onassis Collection (Athens), the Arte Contemporáneo Alkar Collection (ACC, Bilbao), and the Fondazione Fiera Milano Collection. In 2023, Papageorgiou was an artist-in-residence at LUMA Arles. In 2019, he received the 3Package Deal grant (2019‒20) from AFK in Amsterdam, and in 2018, he participated in the inaugural Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Program, ARTWORKS. Papageorgiou is the co-founder of Enterprise Projects, an artist- and curator-run initiative and project space that has been operating in Athens since September 2015.