sculptor: BABIS VEKRIS

 

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2009


State Museum of Contemporary Arts,
Thessaloniki, Greece


TECHNO  RITUALS
By ELECTR0S
GUEST ARTIST FOR BIENNALE 2 JUNE 18, 2009 - AUGUST 30, 2009
Catalog printed by Donald Kuspit

                                                                                    
 

Click here:   Excerpts from Techno Rituals Museum Catalog

 

2008
 
   

         

              

2007

 

The Butler Institute of American Art,
Youngstown, Ohio

 

 

 
2004


State Museum of Contemporary Art,
Thessalonika, Greece

'European Contemporary Art -The Art of Balkan Countries'

 Curated by Irina Subotic and Miltiadis Papanikolaou
 Catalog printed with text written by Irina Subotic and Miltiadis Papanikolaou

 

2000


 Egon Schiele Art Centrum,
 Krumlov, Czech Republic
'Time Timeless-Conceptual  Thoughts'
 
Curated by Gerwald Sonnberger, catalog printed with text
written by Gerwald Sonnbeeger.
  
    

2000

        
 MAVA Renault, s.a., Public Sculpture commissioned by MAVA and the
 Municipality of Nea Filadelphia  and YPEHODE at the
 National Road (8th kilometer),   Athens,Greece

'The Twisted Obelisk'
 

2000

  
 
Hunterdon Museum of Art,
Clinton, New Jersey

       
'Millennial Synergy, Sci+Art+Tech'

  Curated by Kristen Accola,
                                          Catalog printed with text written by Kristen Accola.
  Sponsored by The Merck Company Foundation and Lucent Technologies,
  New Jersey State Council  of the Arts and Partner Agency of  Endowment for the Arts,
The Geraldine R Dodge Foundation

    REVIEWS :
     “Broadening Horizons” Robert Makin, Courier News, February 29,
     “When Artists Meet Scientists” Dan Bischoff,
    The StarLedger, March 3, 2000  
 "Electros Millennial Synergy” Michele Mercadal, Sculpture Magazina, March 2001

 

1999

 
Museum Moderner Kunst
Passau, Germany 

 
  'The Kinetic Spectrum'

  Curated by Gerwald Sonnberger

                                         REVIEWS:  
           “Piep-Tone und blinkende Lichterketten” Helmut Wagner, Landshuter   
       Zeitung/Straubinger 
   Tagblatt, August 6, 1999
  “Mixed-media Skulpturen” Ariane Freier, Passauer Neue Presse, July 31, 1999
 “Wir sind Teil der industriellen Ruvolution” Angelika Mayer und Stefan Rammer, 
 Passauer August 4,1999
“Die spannende Kunst der Hightech-Gesellschaft”   Edith Rabenstein,  Passaue Neue Presse,     
 September 13, 1999. Das innenleben eines computers als Kunst. By Karin Otto,
  January 16-1993, Frankfurter stadtbote.

 

1999

                  
    Carrefour Plaza, Maroussi,
 Athens, Greece,

 Public Sculpture commission
 
'Luminous'
 

1998

                     
   
Osaka Triennial, 9th Int’l Contemporary Art Competition 
  
'Midome' 
 Representing USA Osaka, Japan
 

1998

                    
 
Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington State
 
Installation
 
'Technofiction' 
    Curated by Brian Wallace and Richard Humphrey
  Technofiction  by Leon F. Becca, essay for the exhibition
     REVIEWS:
  “The Art of the Future” by Catherine Dorsey, Portfolio Weekly,
 October 7, 1997
   “Exhibit is Frightening and Fun,” by Teresa Annas, The Virginian-Pilot, 
 "Touch,” by Jonathan Berry, Soundings,
 October 15, 1997
 

1997

 
ACP Galerie,
 Salzburg, Austria
  
   
'Electros,  Hyperfiction'
  Organized by Peter Schuengel
 

1997


  Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

 
'Electros at the Project Room'
 

1997

 
 GAZI Art Center, Athens, Greece 
 
 
'Electros'
 Catalog printed with text written by Donald Kuspit and Maria Kakavoulia
  Organized by the Organization of the Municipality of Athens
    Curated by Katerina Koskina
1996                            
  Sponsored by Alpha Credit Bank of Greece

 REVIEWS:
  “Critical Notes and Reviews”  Sania Papa, ARTI, November 1997
 “Art and Technology, Ta Nea”  by Hari Kabouridis, May 28, 1997
   “Technology and Beaty”  by Nikos Xydakis, Kathimerini, June 15,
  "Art and Entertainment”  by Mary Sinanidis, Athens News, May 1997
 

1996


Hofmann-La Roche, Ltd.
Public Sculpture
 
commission awarded for the  Centennial Anniversary
 'The Proportions of the Human Body'
 
(new version), Kaiseraugst, Basel, Switzerland
 

 

  
185 Varick Corporation, New York City 
 Sculpture commissioned,
   'The Binary Inc.'
 

1995

Nagoya city science museum
ARTEC ’95, International Biennale ,
 Nagoya, Japan Installation 

 
'The Binary Era'
 

1994


 U.S. Post Office, Canal Street Branch, NYC
 Sculpture commissioned, 
 'Anti-Oedipus'
 

1993

Junge Kunst Museum, Frankfurt (O), Germany   
 'The Binary Era'

 Curated by Dr. B. Rieger-Jaehner ; organized by Angelika Jansen
 Innenleben eines Computers als Kunst?” by Karin Otto, Frankfurter Stadtbote,
  Jan. 16/17/1993
 “The Discovery of Debugging”  by Brian Hayes, The Sciences, July/August 1993

1992

       Jansen-Perez Gallery, San Antonio, TX and Los Angeles, CA  
  'The Digital Series'

Organized by Angelika Jansen
 Catalog printed with text written by Donald Kuspit
 REVIEWS:
 “High-tech Spiritual Art Themes”  by Marcia Goren Weser, San Antonio 1992
 “The Digital Series”  by Dan R. Goddard, San Antonio Express News,1992
 "Images"  by Olga Victoria Karra, The New York Magazine, 1992
 

1991


Museo del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico  

    
'The Digital Series'
  Curated by Paloma Porraz and Montserrat Gali Boadella,
  Catalog printed with text written by Montserrat Gali Boadella REVIEWS:
 “The Digital Man en el Museo del Chopo”  by Victor Manuel Gasca, Critique,
   March 1,1991                                            
  “Electros Exposiciones en el Museo del Chopo”  Gazeta Uman, June 17,1991
 

1990

 

 

  William Paterson Museum, Wayne, NJ  
 
'The Silicon Season'

 Curated by Nancy Einreinhofer, catalog printed with text written by Nancy Einreinhofer

   REVIEWS:
   “Electros featured in Exhibit” by Carole Rafferty, The Beacon, February 5,1990
 “Silicon Paintings show positive and negative effects of technology”  by Eileen Watkins,
The Sunday Star Ledger, February 18,1990

 

1988-89

Completed research on how new architecture is integrated as
sculpture and functions with technology.

1988

  
 
Osaka Triennial, 9th Int’l Contemporary Art Competition 
  
'Midome' 
  Representing USA Osaka, JapanCatalog printed with text written
by Kimura Shigenobu Kwok, Kian Chow,
Nakahara Yusuke, Nakatsuka  Hiroyok, Rottenberg Anda, Yaguchi Kunio.
 

1988


   “Downtown Tonite”  Manhattan Cable, a 20-minute program
 

1987

Research studies in the United States and Europe
How New Technologies function with electronic application in art.

1986


Rosenberg and Kaufman Fine Arts, New York
 
 
'Cosmotopia'
 Catalog printed with text written by Judd Tully
 

1984


 Kara Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  
'Pro Utopia'

  REVIEW:
  “More Primitive Power” by Will Grant, Artspeak, February 16,
 

1982  


 New York Univercity, 80 Washington Square East Gallery New York  
   
'The Nuclear Age'
  REVIEW:
   “New York from Downtown” by Theodore F Wolff,The Christian Science Monitor
 

1979

 Arrived in New York City from Athens, Greece

                      

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