Bio
Stratis Tavlaridis was born in 1990 in Thessaloniki, Greece and graduated from the School of Visual and Applied Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Stratis is an artist who makes perforated paper installations. All his work consists of handmade papers of a few grams, which he cuts with a surgical scalpel. Through the papercut technique he paints by removing geometric and abstract
patterns related to collective memory. The paper allows him to express the delicacy, movement and sensitivity characteristic of his artworks. He creates hybrids of materials that have lost their utility, trying to direct the viewer's gaze to something simple.
Today he lives and works in Athens.
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Education
2013
Visual Arts in the Fine Arts School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,Department of Visual and Applied Arts.
2007
Graphic Design and Applied Arts, Technical Professional Education in Thessaloniki.
Art Residency
2024
G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation, Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece.
2023
"Looking at the same water" Izmir Biennal, Mediterranean, Izmir, Turkey.
Workshop
2022
“Perforated paper" Creative activity workshop for adults at PIOP Historical Archive on the occasion of international Museum day the Piraeus Group Cultural Foundation, Athens, Greece.
2024
G. & A Mamidakis
Foundation Art Prize, Agios Nikolaos, Crete,
Greece.
2012
Third Award at the Festival of Fine and Applied Arts
"GO TOWARD" ARSIS Social Support of Youth, Alexandroupolis, Greece.
2012
Participation in the Visual Artscontest Peristeras Monastery and the University of Ioannina in the showroom of Kale, Ioannina, Greece.
2010
4th place in the pan-European competition of HULDA FESTIVAL, Istanbul, Turkey.
2007
Award in the global student competition 13th International Art Exhibition (My Environment) at Hyvinkaa, Finland.
2005
Award in the nationwide student competitio DEDALOS, Patras, Greece.
2005
Award in the nationwide student competition DEDALOS, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Solo Exhibitions
2023
“Paper love“,
Perrakis Paper, Athens, Greece.
2022
“Come Out“,
Stratis Tavlaridis Studio, Athens, Greece.
2017
"Aptes opes“
Two person exhibition with Virginia Mastrogiannaki,
Lola Nikolaou gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2016
"Just / art“
Project, Kassandrinos Law office, Athens,
Greece.
2014
"Perforated weavingsnof cohabitation", Booze Cooperativa, Athens,Greece.
2013
"Tomb-womb", Alatza Imaret,Thessaloniki, Greece.
2008
"Summer selections" Vlassis Art gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Bienalle
2024
Looking at the same water" Izmir Biennal Mediterranean, Izmir, Turkey.
2011
"Symbiosis" 15th Biennale de la Mediterranée, warehouse 15 at the port, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2011
"Symbiosis" 15th Biennale de la Mediterranée, Hotel Ariston, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Art Fair
2023
"Tom of Finland Art & Culture Fail 2023", The Queer Archive Gallery, London, UK.
2021
"Rome International Art Fair 2021" Alide Gallery, Rome, Italy
2015
"London Art Fair" Modern British and Contemporary Art, Tint Gallery, London, UK.
2014
“Art Athina" International Contemporary Art Fair, Tint Gallery, Athina, Greece.
Group Exhibitions
2024
“CREAID” Art & Design, Arts Centre at Parko Eleftherias, Athens, Greece
2023
"Let every river envy our mouths", MOMus - Experimental Center for the Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2020
"Rooms 2020", Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece.
2017
Devotion", Hestia Art Residency & Exhibitions Bureau, Belgrade, Serbia.
2018
"Text me paper fashion", ATOPOS CVC, Helenic Centre, London, Uk.
2018
Don’t judge a cover by its artist", Metamatic the art foundation, Athens, Greece.
2019
"Paper to Cut", Ochra Blue, Limnos, Greece.
2017
"See if you can fit it on the paper" Ufap Gallery, Athens, Greece.
2017
"Box art" at Lola Nikolaou gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2017
"And the Work of Our Hands",The ArtWall / Fresh Hotel, Athens, Greece.
2016
"Homage to Nikos Alexiou", CAN gallery, Athens,Greece.
2016
"Mind the gap", Action Field Kodra, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2015
"Walking the live VI " Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne, German.
2014
"1 ... + 3" at Lola Nikolaou Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
2014
“Graduation show" AUTH Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art MMCA, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2014
"Thessaloniki of the Painters - Thessaloniki of the Poets", Zappeion School, Istanbul, Turkey.
2014
"Denim Art Campaign" H&M, Athens, Greece.
2014
“uP" at the venue, Metamatic the art foundation, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2014
"uP" at the venue, Metamatic the art foundation, Athens, Greece.
2013
"Out of Paper", TinT Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2013
A Walk on the Moon", Casa Bianca, Municipal Art Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2012
"ANAKATA IV" Present Art" at the former camp PavlouMela, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2012
"Fine", TinT Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2012
"Inspire" Visual Arts Festival for Young Artists at Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art MMCA, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2011
"ANAKATA III" Present Art" at the former camp Pavlou Mela, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2011
"In Art", Zina Athanassiadou gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2011
UNBLOCK ART vol. 1 Festival in multiplex space BLOCK 33, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2011
Group exhibition of Fines Arts School in the Gallery PAPATZIKOU, Veroia, Greece.
2010
Group exhibition of Fines Arts School for UNESCO’s conference in University of Macedonia ( PA.MAK.), Thessaloniki, Greece.
2010
HULDA FESTIVAL" Artscist exhibition. Group exhibition of the award winners, Istanbul, Turkey.
2010
Group exhibition in Gallery “ Artists’ Propositions”, Veroia, Greece.