biography

 

 

 

 

 

 

Babis Venetopoulos was born in 1973 in Thessaloniki, Greece

Studies
2003–        Postgraduate student in the «Digital Forms of Art» Program, Athens School of Fine Arts
1996–2003 Visual and Applied Arts Department of the School of Fine Arts of Aristotle University of
                Thessaloniki, studio Yannis Fokas
1993–1995 Interior Design, I.E.K. Delta of Thessaloniki
1992–1993 Art & Design National Diploma, The South Manchester College, England

Work Experience
2001-        Co-founder of Minotaur Digital Arts, Production Company specialized in New Media Creations,
                Audiovisual Productions and 3D Animation
2001–2003 Teacher in the Computer Graphics Department in Praxis School of Art
1999–2000 Worked for television production company, Animagic

Group Exhibitions
2005 Emergence–Realities, Medusa Art Gallery, Athens
2004 What is Threat Like, Municipality of Trikala, Batagianni Gallery, curator: Lina Tsikouta, Trikala
2004 Tsatsis Projects, Thessaloniki
2004 Athens by Art, Municipality of Athens, AICA Hellas, Athens
2004 Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Hiroshima/Japan
2004 ProTaseis-Action Field KODRA ‘04, Municipality of Kalamaria, ArtBox, Thessaloniki
2004 Rooms to Let, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
2004 Young Artists Explore Cinema, Cinema Museum of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki
2004 Young Artists Explore Cinema, Cinema Museum of Thessaloniki, Griechische Culturstiftung, Berlin
2003 Young Balkan Artists, Hellenic Culture Organisation, Cultural Olympiad, Thessaloniki
2003 Graduates 2001-2003, School of Fine Arts of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Macedonian
        Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
2003 Action Field KODRA ‘03, Municipality of Kalamaria, TinT Gallery, Thessaloniki
2003 [R]-[R]-[F] Festival in InteractivA ‘03–Biennale for New Media Art, Museum of Contemporary Art
        Merida Yucatan / Mexico, curator (Greek participation): Anna Hatziyannaki
2003 [R]-[R]-[F] Festival-Remembering–Repressing-Forgetting, New Media project in form of an online
        festival by Wielfried Agricola de Cologne (www.newmediafest.org/rrf/), curator (Greek
        participation): Anna Hatziyannaki
2003 11th Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Athens
2003 Sculpture you love, LAB Art Projects, Athens
2003 Northwest Passages, European program Culture 2000, Trikala
2002 AnimaMundi 2002 (3rd Prize for Best Portfolio), Sao Paolo / Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
2002 Action Field KODRA ‘02, Municipality of Kalamaria, TinT Gallery, Thessaloniki
2002 California Sun International Festival, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
2001 Small is beautiful, ΑRTFORUM Gallery, Thessaloniki
2001 Studio: Y. Fokas, ΑRTFORUM Gallery, Thessaloniki