Stefanos Tsivopoulos works primarily with film to articulate the role of collective memory and the subjective interpretation of history. His research into mass media, archival images, and found footage forms the basis for his works that often have poetic and allegoric undertones. Concurrent with the artist’s continued investigation into how collective memory is shaped by mediated reality, runs a fascination with the fine line between reality and its fictional reconstruction, as well as with the boundaries between the authentic and the scripted, the staged and the improvised.

Stefanos Tsivopoulos (born 1973, Prague) graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam in 2002, and received his Masters from Sandberg Institute Amsterdam in 2004. He participated in artist residencies at the Rijksakademie van beeldenden kunst Amsterdam, Platform Garanti Istanbul, and IASPIS Stockholm. Recent solo shows include Amnesialand, Heidelberg Kunstverrein, Germany; The Real The Story The Storyteller Smart Project Space Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and Lost Monument, Art Forum Berlin, Germany. Group shows include Manifesta 8 Murcia, Spain; Witte de With Rotterdam, the Netherlands; BFI Southbank London, UK; ACF New York, USA; Centre Pompidou Paris, France; Friedericianum Kunstverein Kassel, Germany; ev+a Biennial Limerick, Ireland; Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia; 1^st Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece; Centre Photographique d’Isle Paris, France; and Sammlung Essl Vienna, Austria.