Zafos Xagoraris’ (Athens, 1963) artwork includes drawings, outdoor sound installations and reconstructions focusing on details of historical events. Xagoraris has participated in exhibitions such as the 58th Venice Biennale (“Mr Stigl”, curated by Katerina Tselou, 2019), documenta14 (Athens and Kassel, 2017), the 4th Athens Biennale (2013), the 1st Thessaloniki Biennale (2007), or the 27th São Paulo Biennale (2006). He was one of the curators of the 2nd Athens Biennale (2009) and the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale (2004). He has also presented a series of solo exhibitions, including “Sound Drawings”, Zoumboulakis Gallery (2014). The outdoor installations “The Performance” (curated by Katerina Gregou, NEON City Project) and “Tilted Classroom” (curated by Polyna Kosmadaki, Benaki Museum) were presented in Athens in 2016 and 2015, respectively. At the same time, with the participation of school students and the Onassis Education program, he has organized educational workshops (“Dismantling Devices”, 2017-19).
Xagoraris participated in the online art project “Che Fare?” (curated by Cecilia Casorati, Zerynthia, 2020), and in the group exhibition and on-site workshop “Denunciation!” (with Katerina Stefanidaki, ACC Gallery, Weimar, 2021). Together with the installation “Tilted Classroom” he presented a series of actions in Berlin (Freiraum in der Box, 2021-22), while he took part in the group exhibition “This current between us” (curated by Panos Giannikopoulos and Georgia Liapi, Neo Faliro, 2022-23).
Zafos Xagoraris holds a Master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Onassis Foundation scholarship), while his PhD thesis at the School of Architecture of the NTUA refers to the construction of miracles by Hero of Alexandria.
He is a professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts and was a guest professor at the Universities of Patras, Sassari and Freie Universität Berlin. He has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York (Fulbright Foundation Fellowship, 2004) and a visiting artist at the University of Michigan (Stamps School, Witt Artist in Residence, 2018). He has presented his work at many institutions and universities including the Art Institute of Chicago, the School of Visual Arts in NYC, the FHNW in Basel, IUAV in Venice, De Apel and Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the KhK in Kassel, the TU in Berlin, the Academy of Fine Arts of Munich, and others.