Filippos Tsitsopoulos

Filippos Tsitsopoulos, a multidisciplinary artist with Greek roots, moves in the fields of painting, digital art, video theatre and installation, and conceives his work as a constant reflection on the limits of theatre, literature and the arts. 

Active since 1990, Tsitsopoulos uses extraordinary and elaborately constructed masks as a form of protection, disguise, identity, isolation, alienation, and human resilience. His work involves an exploration of authentic identity versus performed identity. He is interested in the fragmented and often polarised identities that we assume and how to bring together the interiorised authentic self and the exterior constructed self. His goal is to examine socially-constructed patterns of behaviour, create situations in which the participants break or transcend the internal feedback loops that control their own actions, and address the power structures that we inhabit and perpetrate.

His installations and artistic theatrical performances have been exhibited in important contemporary art institutions and places, such as The Serpentine Gallery, where he presented “Kage - Where K for Kott” in the gallery premises with the support of Hans Ulrich Obrist, as well as FACT Liverpool, Bluecoat, Frieze Art Fair (London), Alte Nationalgalerie (Berlin), twice in the Tate Modern, Toynbee Studios/Artsadmin, CGAC in Santiago de Compostela and Chelsea Theatre (London) among others. In 2017, his project “Is Art Lonely?” was exhibited in the Wallace Collection (London) and then also in Ostend, Belgium, as part of “The Raft” exhibition curated by Jan Fabre and Joanna De Vos. 

He studied at the Higher School of Fine Arts of Thessaloniki, Aristotle University, and completed a PhD in Madrid at Complutense University (1996). He currently lives and works in London.