Vangelis Vlahos Βαγγέλης Βλάχος

Vangelis Vlahos was born in 1971 in Athens, Greece where he lives and works. Vlahos engages with the recent history of Greece, endeavoring to de-center official narratives and open up potential new ones. His constructed and found archives include material from the press, state archives or the internet, being conceived as fragmental items of the past, which are reconnected in a new context.

In his early work he was interested in the ways in which architecture and urban surroundings reflected historical processes in ideologies and national politics. In the same context his more recent projects take the form of collections of found images building up a network of references and relations in order to test the possibility of a more subjective way of seeing and understanding different events and conceptions of the past and the present outside the official narratives.

His projects have been included in: On to what end?, Camera Austria, Graz (2015); The Fall, Rodeo gallery, Istanbul (2015); On the moment of change there is always a new threshold of imagination, Artspace, Auckland (2014); Gesture, Kunstverein Stuttgart (2014); Europe / South East. Recorded Memories, The Museum of Photography Braunschweig (2013); Current Pasts, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2012); The End of Money, Witte de With, Rotterdam (2011); MONODROME, 3rd Athens Biennale (2011); To the Arts, Citizens!, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (2010); tanzimat, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna (2010); 11^th Istanbul Biennial (2009); After Architecture, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona (2009); ISLANDS+GHETTOS, NGBK & Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin (2009); Monument to transformation, City Gallery Prague, Prague (2009); Selective Knowledge, ITYS, Institute for Contemporary Art and Thought, Athens (2008); A Number of Worlds Resembling Our Own, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam (2007); 27th Sao Paulo Biennale (2006); Behind Closed Doors, Dundee Centre for Contemporary Arts, Dundee (2005); Manifesta 5, San Sebastian (2004), and the 3rd Berlin Biennial (2004).