ELENI BAGAKI

Born 1979 in Crete, Greece
Lives and works in Athens

Solo Exhibitions

2025 Kind Of Stillness, CHAUFFEUR Sydney, Australia

2024 What bodies want to do, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens 

2023 Something like a poem, a nude and flowers in a vase, EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

2022 She left, She left again, She left once more, Ag. Rokkos, Chania

2021 Falling into whispers and kisses, CHAUFFEUR, Sydney, Australia
2021 Reclining Artist, the Artist is reclining, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens

2018–19 The importance of reading, writing, and exfoliating, Palette Terre, Paris

2017 A book, a film, and a soundtrack, Radio Athenes, Athens

2016 Economy Class, Signal Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden 

2015 Now you see me, oh now you don’t, NEW STUDIO, London
2015 Crack, Crack, Pop, Pop...oh what a relief it is!, Radio Athènes, Athens 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 Apotropaia, Cynefin, Athens
2025 Hyperhidrosis: Sweating Together, Bath House of the Winds, Athens

2024 GROUP THERAPY, Collections in Dialogue – Art Collection Telekom / Prague City Gallery, Stone Bell House, Prague - CZ

2023 PHENOMENA EVOKING THEOSIS, Galerie Zeller Van Almsick, Vienna, AT
2023 ENCORE, Νew Greek Painting, Athens Municipal Art Gallery, Athens - GR

2022 This Current Between Us, Steam-Electric Power Station, Athens - GR
2022 Moods & Memories, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens - GR
2022 Sheltered Gardens, PCAI in collaboration with J. & A. N. Diomedes Botanic Garden, Athens - GR
2022 Ιdeas and Solutions for Υour Home / F.A.R. Part III, 3137, Athens - GR
2022 Directed by Desire, RongWrong, Amsterdam - NL
2022 Bread and Digestifs, Callirrhoë, Athens - GR

2021 PTSD, AMP, Athens
2021 Off Season, 9th Syros International Film Festival, Syros - GR
2021 Prizing Eccentring Talents, curated by Angelo Plessas and George Bekirakis, P.E.T. projects, Athens - GR
2019 Sisterhood, curated by Angelo Plessas, Koraï, Nicosia – CY

2018 Be water again, curated by Panos Giannikopoulos, Koraï, Nicosia – CY
2018 A imensa preguiça, Sancovsky Gallery, Sao Paulo – BR
2018 Seeping upwards, rupturing the surface, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Ontario – CA

2017 Vilniaus kontekstai, invited by Valentinas Klimašauskas, Vilnius – LT
2017 Millennial Feminisms, L’Inconnue Gallery, Montreal – CA

2016 The Equilibrists, Benaki Museum, DESTE Foundation and NEW MUSEUM, Athens – GR 

2015 Sleaze, Set the Controls for Heart of the Sun, SEIZE project, Leeds – UK
2015 Aeropagus Königin, Parallel Vienna, Vienna – AU
2015 The Office, POP Montreal, Montreal – CA

2014 You Are Here, Kingsgate gallery supported by Camden Arts Center, London
2014 I Meet Together, I agree, VITRINE, London

2013 Lustlands, Family Business, New York

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Art Collection Telecom, Bonn

Art Collection ΔΕΗ, Athens 

Awards/Grants/Fellowships

2020–21 Artworks Fellowship, Niarchos Foundation, Athens – GR
2018 Exhibition Grant, NEON Organization for Culture and Development, Athens – GR
2018 Artist Grant, Pivô, Sao Paulo – BR
2017 Outset Grant, Outset Contemporary Art Fund – GR
2007 ISIS Arts Awards, Newcastle-upon-Tyne – UK
2007 Celeste Art Prize, London – UK

Art Residencies

2024 LUMA Foundation, Arles, France
2020 Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen
2019 Fogo Island Arts’ Residency, Fogo Island
2018–19 Iaspis, Stockholm
2018 Pivo, Sao Paulo
2017 Kantor Foundation, Krakow
2014 VITRINE, London

Books & Publications

Butter and Cracker, published by miss dialectic & DOLCE, 2022
She left. She left again. She left once more., published as part of the homonymous exhibition, 2022
How I met Murakami’s cat, Pivô Magazine, Issue 01, 77-78, 2019
Look for love and find a log instead, 2017, published by Tadeusz Kantor Foundation and Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Krakow, Poland
No script, 2017, published part of the exhibition A book, a film, and a soundtrack at Radio Athens