Asimis Alexiou is an interdisciplinary artist, based in Athens. He is working with a wide range of media including performance, video and installation. His academic background in performing arts has shaped his practice which focuses on human relationships and interactive modes of communication.
In his performances, he creates surreal images and activate installations, exploring the social, political and philosophical notions of power, social injustice and biopolitics.
He investigates the possibilities of direct interaction with the audience, seeking to give control over to spectators, without any prescribed outcome. He creates spaces aiming to activate all the senses, including taste, touch and smell while implicating the spectators directly in the concerns of the work, so that their experiences are both visceral and intellectual. He tries to challenge his assumptions, to examine ideas through different lenses, to test his limits, to explore new realities and to take risks in a context that is framed and contained within real life.
He is a member of Disorder Live Art, a London-based collective dedicated to the research and production of performance art.
Asimis Alexiou C.V
EDUCATION
Panteion University, GR, Department of Communication, Media and Culture ( PhD-in progress )
Royal College of Art, UK, MA in Contemporary Art Practice-Performance, 2020
Athens School of Fine Arts, GR, Bachelor (Honours) Degree in Fine Arts, 2017
Beaux-Arts de Paris l’Ecole Nationale Superieure, FR (Erasmus scholarship), 2015
Athens Conservatory Drama School, GR Diploma in Acting
SELECTED EXHIBTIONS- PERFORMANCES
When Art Meets Psychoanalysis, Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2024
London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London, 2022
Merci pour les roses, merci pour les epines, Galerie Joseph, Παρίσι 2021
Οne Μinute Sculpture, Online exhibition, Tate Modern, London, 2020
Disorders Vol.3, Ugly Duck, London, 2020
Szerpentin Film Festival, Parallel Art Foundation, Budapest 2019
Disorder Live Art, Art Sudio 9294, London 2019
Rencotres Internationales Paris/Berlin, New Cinema and Contemporary Art,
Centre Popidou-Forum des Images, Paris 2019
Remain, Gateway Studio, Royal College of Art, London 2019
From the hero to antihero, European Cultural Centre of Delphi, Delphi, 2017
Hubs of Nature, Metamatic:taf, Athens, 2016
Performance festival Excentricites, Isba-BeauxArts, Besancon, 2016
Salut, la planete!, Galerie Gauche & Droite, Paris, 2016
Good Luck, Palais of Beaux-Arts de Paris, 2015
One Night, National Theatre of Greece , 2015
Rirkrit Tiravaninja “ Demonstrations Drawings ”,(participated as performer),
Louvre Museum, 2015
Children Today, Central Offices of the UN,Geneva, 2015
Toy…stories , Foundation of the Hellenic World, Athens, 2014
Fenetre sur rue Athenes/Rouen , Lyon, 2014
AWARDS – SCHOLARSHIPS
– An awarded Art Scholarship from Levrhulme Trust for the studies in Royal College of Art
– A Scholarship from NEON Organisation for the studies in Royal College of Art
– An Honorary Distinction from UNICEF for the video-performance “Don’t eat, speak” and participation of the project in the international campaign of Unicef in 2015 on children’s rights
– A scholarship of the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation for the studies in Athens School of Fine Arts