The work of Giorgos Kontis (b.1981 Athens) focuses on abstract painting and on its function as an image. Giorgos studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts, at the Academy of Visual Arts (AdBK) in Munich and at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). He holds an MFA from the St.Joost School of Art & Design in Breda (the Netherlands) and recently completed his practice-based PhD in Painting, at the Royal College of Art in London, on the notion of authenticity. He lives and works in Berlin and Athens. Recent shows include: Mother Tongue, Crux Galerie Athens (solo, curated by Katerina Nikou); fAN Archive, Vienna Art Foundation, Parallel Vienna 2018, Vienna (Exhibition concept/design by Herwig Müller); The Materiality of the Painterly Event, City of Athens Arts Centre (curated by Denys Zacharopoulos); Close, Closer, Fading, Lychee One Gallery, London (curated by Jonathan Miles); Project 1 // On Authorship, Space-Projects, Amsterdam (curated by Maud Oonk); Neither Innocent Nor Guilty, Daily Lazy Projects, Athens (curated by Giorgos Kontis); Bow Open, Ian Kiaer’s studio (solo project), London; O, Kunstbuero, Vienna (with Just Quist); The Same Sky, Lepsien Art Foundation, Düsseldorf. Talks include: Cultural Identity, Europe & Authenticity, Royal College of Art in London, with Gilane Tawadros and Luc Tuymans; Rijksakademie Open Studios, with Camiel van Winkel (Amsterdam); Authenticity in the Act of Painting symposium, De Pont Museum Tilburg (the Netherlands); TECHNE: Memory and Perception conference, Rich Mix (London). He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021).