TOUBOURRA

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Art:

2015: Berklee College, Boston, online electronic music composition studies

2014: MET Film School, London, film postgraduate studies

2008: Fine Arts Degree (master equivalent and state certified 5year studies), Athens school of Fine Arts

Humanities:

2002: Master in Sociology-“Minorities and Social Exclusion”, Panteion University Of Political and Social Studies

2000: Bachelor in Social Anthropology, Panteion University Of Political and Social Studies

 

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Selected International Design Distinctions for ElMago, my art design alter ego:

2024

Nominated for Earthshot Prize

2021

Dezeen Awards - longlisted for emerging design studio of the year

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 ART

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 SOLO 

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2024

"88", audiovisual installation, MOMus, Thessaloniki

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2023

"The Hearth / a 5h Element" , audiovisual installation, Pheno, Thessaloniki

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2021

Offerings to mother Earth

In situ (in nature situated) sculptural installation, Crete

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2017

I died so many times that I became Immortal

Elika Gallery, Athens

 

2015

Verve in Waves

a series of land art installations at aegean coastal areas

 

2014

-Cement-cultural management lessons/YOUTH ELIXIR 4ALL

/ site specific underwater installation, Naxos island, Ag.Prokopios bay

-Wiener Art Foundation / Kunstraum am Schauplatz, Vienna: “Non Locality Principle”

 

2013

- Strange & Familiar: Pontoporos Gallery, Paros

 

2012

-The Excalibur, solo audiovisual installation, Lust Xmas Party, Lust magazine office, The Callas (http://thecallas.com)

-Controlled Explosion / true Romance unmonumental no5 : 

audiovisual installation, solo exhibition, collaboration with Panagiotis Samsarelos, Dynamo Project Space, Thessaloniki

 

2011

-WRONG SEASON site specific installation, collaboration with Panagiotis Samsarelos, Velika beach, Greece.

 

2010

-A garden of Eden: UNMONUMENTAL edition no3: audiovisual installation/visual performance: The Monument 

Six Dogs Project Space Athens

- unmonumental no 2: Urban Exotica visual installation + audiovisual performance feat. Free Piece of Tape& Tassos Stamou, 

Openshowstudio, Athens

-the Death of an Emotional Replicant, installation/performance, 

The Vitrina Project, Openshowstudio, Athens

 

GROUP

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2023

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"From Earth to Thermissia", Velvet Gardens, Peloponnese

 

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live" Callirhoe, Athens

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2021

"All you white witches" Magic Bezesteni, Thessaloniki

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2019

-"Think like a moutnain" NEON, Samothrace

"OC-BC" State of Concept, Athens

 

2018

-Daily Lazy Project Space Athens

Missing Links

-CASK Gallery Larissa

“4th Chapter”

 

2017

-"Present" DaDaDa Academy Group Show@IFAC Athens

-"I started thinking with my heart and I feel smarter than ever" Openshowstudio, Athens

-Asthenia 5 zine@Grace Hotel, Athens

 

2016

-Asthenia Lab @Curcuits and Currents

-Athens Performance Biennale

-Athens Biennale: OMONOIA

-"Kάτι το πολύ ωραίον" / "Something of Exquisite Beauty" 

Elika Gallery, Athens

-"You're so horny and romantic, I wanna fall in Love" 

Snehta Residency, Athens

 

 2015

-Luminus Flux, Syros Art Institute, Campus Novel

 

 2014

-PARALLEL VIENNA 

-Milkshake-agency project space, Geneve: “Public Domain”

-"Dayz of Glory" Openshowstudio

 

 2013

-PLUG IN - CONTEMPORARY ISTANBUL 2013

-ART VERONA: Mass independent Fractionation, group exhibition

-CAN gallery: Chills and Thrills, group exhibition, Athens

-REMAP 4 :Homo Universalis, Athens

-ART ATHINA : Dadada Restaurant, DADADA Academy

 

 2012

-THE NEWSPAPER SHOW, group exhibition, the Breeder gallery, Athens

 

 2011

-OCC, group exhibition, TinT gallery, Thessaloniki,/ Cyprus, Limessol

-XYZ outlet 10: Stelios Karamanolis & Toula Ploumi: The Collection Group exhibition

-TAF foundation: Undisclosed Recipients, group exhibition

 

 2010

-Vitrina Project:The Group Show, Οpenshowstudio

-Diares of Fire: Kakogiannis Foundation

 

 2009

-The Open Mind of Leykadios Hern: American College of Greece

-Abstraction: American College of Greece

-Urban: Skouze 3, Athens

 

 

 

FILMS / SCREENINGS

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2018: Immortals - Aphrodite Music Awards SEMIFINALIST

2017:The Pirate Boy- Toronto Short Film Festival

2017: The Pirate Boy -BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VIDEO at Τhe Monkey Bread Tree Awards, an IMDb event. Best Experimental Short Film in Switzerland International Film Festival. Official selection Toronto Short Film Festival 2018

2016: LA Underground Film Forum ( "A WAY TO GET BY")

2016: Indy Hype, Sydney ("I Only Talk To Strangers") 

2011: Festival Miden, international video art festival, Kalamata(free documentary “Samples Returns”)

2008: International short film Festival of Naoussa (free documentary “man on the moon”)

2006: International Documentary Festival of Thessaloniki (free documentary “ragoutsaria”)

2006: “digital freaks install da noise” video art festival, Athens ,Gazi

 

 MUSIC

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2023: "a 5th Element" collector's edition as an art object/part of the installation series

2018: "Immortals" EP, ToPikap Records

"Selana" Greek female electronic musicians compilation, Nutty Wombat Records

 

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LECTURES

 

2020

Synesthesia and electromagnetic waves -

Art as frequency

University of Suffolk , UK

2013

-Re-enchantment of the art and the 2nd sex 

in the frame of an Art and Gender lectures series University of Applied Arts, Vienna, 

-The fetishism of the imported in the Greek art market and its consequences on the local art scene/ Art Athina 2013, Athens

2012

-Self organization as self determination/ Moni Lazariston, state contemporary art Museum

 

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