Yorgos Karailias
Photographer
Yorgos Karailias born in Athens in 1972 and has resided in Spain since 2010. He studied Modern History and has dedicated himself professionally to photography since 2000. He has worked as a photo-editor and freelance photographer for various agencies, publishers and journals. Since 2010 he’s also teaching Photography and Visual Arts and has participated in various cultural and educational projects.
His work explores new perspectives of social documentary photography and has been exhibited in Greece and Spain and presented at various international festivals (Athens Photo Festival, Cosmos Books Arles, Paris Photo, Fotografia Festival Internazionale di Roma, MedPhoto Festival). In 2010 he was awarded the second prize Cedefop Photomuseum Award in Thessaloniki Photobienale.
His first photobook EstrangeR was published by Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg in 2015.
Yorgos Karailias
Photographer
Yorgos Karailias born in Athens in 1972 and has resided in Spain since 2010. He studied Modern History and has dedicated himself professionally to photography since 2000. He has worked as a photo-editor and freelance photographer for various agencies, publishers and journals. Since 2010 he’s also teaching Photography and Visual Arts and has participated in various cultural and educational projects.
His work explores new perspectives of social documentary photography and has been exhibited in Greece and Spain and presented at various international festivals (Athens Photo Festival, Cosmos Books Arles, Paris Photo, Fotografia Festival Internazionale di Roma, MedPhoto Festival). In 2010 he was awarded the second prize Cedefop Photomuseum Award in Thessaloniki Photobienale.
His first photobook EstrangeR was published by Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg in 2015.
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Gerhard Richter | Overpainted PhotographsJan 19 – Feb 17, 2023With the exhibition Gerhard Richter | Overpainted Photographs, Sies + Höke presents 65 works dating from the years 1989 to 2018, illuminating this important part of Richter’s oeuvre. (more…)
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Flavio-ShiróA DocumentaryFlavio-Shiró is a cult artist, a painter’s painter. His work defies categorization or association with any artistic group or movement. For more than six decades, his work has simply been modern. (more…)
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Cy TwomblyIn the Studio / OngoingCy Twombly was a North American artist who spent much of his career in Italy. He was fascinated by the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. In his paintings he often referred to historical or mythological figures, or included fragments of classical poetry. (more…)
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Katharina FritschJun 18, 2022 – Mar 31, 2023The German sculptor Katharina Fritsch has made a significant contribution to visual art since the early 1980s. With distinctive cast forms painted in vivid colors, she has developed a specific sculptural lexicon encompassing a typology of everyday objects, animals, and humans, as well as installations (more…)
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The Anonymous ProjectThe CollectionAnonymous, this is not about any one person or a particular artist. This project is akin to finding fading pages from an anonymous diary and placing them in a time capsule for future generations. (more…)
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Frank Bowling’s AmericasOct 22, 2022 – Apr 9, 2023“Modernism belonged to me also.” So resolved British Guiana-born artist Frank Bowling in 1966, when he moved from London to New York City, impelled by ambition to make his mark on modern painting. (more…)
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Inflorescence / Ximena Garrido-LeccaPortikus / Nov 12, 2022 – Feb 12, 2023The Peruvian artist Ximena Garrido-Lecca is often known for her commitment to Peru’s history and its ancient mythology, other than for her study of the relationships between urban and rural areas and globalization. These elements can be found in Inflorescence, her latest work (more…)
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New Year / 2023Semantic Shift, Option DeleteOnce again we arrive at the turning of another year. 2022 was a year unsparing of tension and conflict, uncertainty, and the highs and lows of human struggle. (more…)
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Ryuichi SakamotoCOMPOSER / MUSICIANIf Ryuichi Sakamoto had been born in 16th century Italy, we’d know what to call him: a Renaissance Man. But since he was born in Japan in the mid-20th century, we have to string together words like composer, musician, producer, actor, and environmental activist. (more…)
