Bio
Marinos Tsagkarakis is a Netherlands-based fine-art photographer. He was born (1984) and raised on the island of Crete. After a Bachelor in Economic and Political Sciences (BEconSc), a Master of Business Administration (MBA), and a Master in Management Information Systems (MIS), he decided to continue his studies in Contemporary Photography and Visual Arts. He studied contemporary photography at the “Stereosis School of Photography (SSP)”. Since 2014, he has been a member of the collective “Depression Era” that inhabits the urban and social landscape of the economic crisis in his home country.
His work has been exhibited in numerous international festivals, including Mois De La Photo (Paris), Jeju Biennale (South Korea), Unseen (Amsterdam), Fotofilmic (L.A & Vancouver), Athens Photo Festival (Athens), Photo: Israel (Tel Aviv), and several art spaces across Europe, and the USA. He has been featured in world-renowned media like Der Spiegel, L’Oeil de la Photographie, Collector Daily, Vogue, Der Greif, and Urbanautica Institute.
In 2017, it was published his first (sold-out) monograph, “Paradise Inn”, by Void. Part of his artwork belongs to international private and public collections. He is represented by the Milan-based art gallery “OPR Gallery”.
Solo/Duo Exhibitions
2018 | Summer Inn Paradise Revisited | Elika Gallery | Athens, GR
2017 | Summer Inn Paradise | Municipal Gallery of Agios Nikolaos | Crete, GR
2015 | Paradise Inn | Solo Exhibition | TABYA Gallery | Thessaloniki, GR
Selected Collective Exhibitions
2023 | Past and Present : “Contextualise” | Der Greif | Pinakothek der Moderne | Munich, DE
2023 | Photobiennale 2023 I Poetics, Materialities, Performances| MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art | Thessaloniki, GR
2023 | Limassol Photography Festival I Greece is Ordinary II: Triptychs | 6×6 Center for Photography | Limassol, CY
2022 | Matia Mou Festival | La Maison de Quartier Madeleine Champ de Mars | Nantes, FR
2022 | Landscape Stories | MOMus – Thessaloniki Museum of Photography | Thessaloniki, GR
2022 | Public Domain | MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art | Thessaloniki, GR
2022 | Greece is Ordinary | Athens Photo Festival 2022 | Benaki Museum | Athens, GR
2022 | Photometria International Photography Festival | Municipal Gallery of Ioannina | Ioannina, GR
2022 | Small Odysseys | Old Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki | Thessaloniki, GR
2021 | Small Odysseys | Albert van Abbehuis | Eindhoven, NL
2021 | Zapping The Archive | Insight Foto Festival | Varese, IT
2020 | LOWLANDS | OPR Gallery | Milan, IT
2020 | Observations in the Ordinary | Subjectively Objective Gallery | Detroid, US
2020 | Zapping The Archive | Getxo Photo | Getxo, SP
2020 | Mediterranean Flux | Cultural center of Metropolis of Naxos | Naxos, GR
2019 | Anatomy of Political Melancholy | Art Space Pythagorion | Schwarz Foundation | Samos, GR
2019 | Dong Gang International Photo Festival | Dong Gang, KR
2019 | Athens Photo Festival – Main Program | Benaki Museum | Athens, GR
2019 | Odesa Photo Days Festival 2019 | Passage Gallery | Odesa, UA
2019 | Depression Era | Slought Foundation | Philadelphia, US
2019 | Between the Visual & the Literary | Benaki Museum | Athens, GR
2019 | Municipal Art Gallery Collection | Casa Bianca | Thessaloniki, GR
2018 | Art Stays – Contemporary Art Festival | Ptuj, SI
2018 | Fantasy – Between Reality and Imagination | PHOTO IS:RAEL | Tel Aviv, IL
2018 | CO-OP | Unseen Photo Festival | Amsterdam, NL
2018 | Mo[t]us Operandi | Manifesta 12 | Palermo, IT
2018 | Mōmentum | Comodo64 | Turin, IT
2017 | Jeju Biennale 2017 | Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art | Jeju, KR
2017 | Depression Era | Culturescapes | Basel, CH
2017 | aMORE Festival | Museum of the Poreč Territory | Poreč, HR
2017 | ECO ART Project | Pafos 2017: European Capital of Culture | Pafos, CY
2017 | Make Yourselves at Home | Public Space Campaign | Athens, GR
2016 | Aristotelous Project II | Kalfayan Galleries | Thessaloniki, GR
2016 | New Face of Film | BSU’s Visual Arts Center | Idaho, US
2016 | Athens Photo Festival – Main Program | Benaki Museum | Athens, GR
2016 | Alien Territory | Medphoto Festival | Forteza Castle | Rethymno, GR
2016 | Artist in residence | Vovousa Festival | Vovousa, GR
2016 | Depression Era | Athens Biennale 2015-17 | Bageion | Athens, GR
2015 | Depression Era | 5th Biennale of Contemporary Art | Thessaloniki, GR
2015 | Focus Photography Festival | Mumbai, IN
2015 | Depression Era | Naked City Project | Cartiera latina di Roma | Rome, IT
2014 | Fotofilmic 14′ | Dnj Gallery | Los Angeles, US
2014 | Depression Era | Benaki Museum | Athens, GR
2014 | Depression Era | Le Mois de la Photo | Paris, FR
2014 | Depression Era | European Month of Photography | Budapest, HU
2014 | Fotofilmic 14′ | Back Gallery Project | Vancouver, CA
2014 | Depression Era| Fotoistanbul 2014 | Istanbul, TR
2014 | Non-Places of Transition | Museo de Bogotá | Bogotá, CO
2014 | Constructed Landscapes | Galeria Qahili | Pristina, XK
2014 | Non-Places of Transition | M. Cacoyannis Foundation | Athens, GR
2014 | Non-Places of Transition | Naoussa International Film Festival | Naoussa, GR
2014 | Imagine the City | Mount Athos Center | Thessaloniki, GR
Selected Publications
2022 | Catalogue of the “Landscape Stories” Exhibition
2022 | Catalogue of the “Athens Photo Festival 2022”
2022 | Season Catalogue 2022/23 | Berlin State Opera House
2021 | Catalogue of the “Small Odysseys” Exhibition
2020 | Observations in the Ordinary | Subjectively Objective
2019 | Urbanautica Institute Awards | Urbanautica Institute
2019 | Surreal Estate | Casual Science x Float
2019 | Catalogue of the “Athens Photo Festival 2019”
2017 | Paradise Inn Photobook | Void Publications
2017 | Catalogue of the “Jeju Biennale 2017”
2017 | My Place, No Place Zine | Void Publications
2017 | Catalogue of the “Summer Inn Paradise” Exhibition
2016 | Center: A stroll in the city | University Studio Press
2016 | Catalogue of “Athens Photo Festival 2016”
2015 | Catalogue of the “5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art”
2015 | Publication of “Eagles Palace Artists in Residence 2015”
2014 | Catalogue of the “Depression Era” Exhibition
2014 | Catalogue of the “Fotofilmic 14 Contemporary Film Photography Exhibition
Residencies
2016 | Vovousa Festival Residency | Vovousa, Greece
2015 | Artists in Residence Program II | Eagles Palace Hotel / Chalkidiki, Greece
Education
2012-2016 | Contemporary photography & Visual Arts – Stereosis School of Photography
2008-2010 | Master in Management Information Systems (MIS) – UoM
2006-2008 | Master of Business Administration (MBA) – UoM
2001-2005 | Bachelor in Economic & Political Sciences (BEconSc)– Aristotle University of Thessaloniki