Callirrhoë is happy to present a solo presentation by the artist Vasilis Papageorgiou. Papageorgiou investigates through his new series of bronze sculptures Scarps the geology of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea by molding a series of lithified sedimentary rocks. The artist considers this act the first step in a broader project that explores how the built environment, shapes and transforms the natural landscape. As a result of the real estate overdevelopment on islands, alluvial deposits like bricks and concrete merge with natural limestones. Together they are forming a new landscape, reshaped by the sun, the sea, the salt and the wind. Papageorgiou produced at Koufonisi island a series of molds as an act of preservation. The molds function as negative spaces, forms to be filled, reconsidered in terms of materiality and understood as tools for reimagining history. Through this process, materials begin to unify, losing their sense of extrinsicness.

Vasilis Papageorgiou (b. 1991) is an artist living and working in Athens. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts, Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam and received his MFA from LUCA School of Arts in Brussels.

Papageorgiou has presented his work in various solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. In 2026, he presented his solo exhibition Grounding at Callirrhoë, Athens, Greece while his site-specific work TO RIVER, commissioned by Una Boccata d’ Arte, was exhibited in Tredozio, Italy. Ιn 2024 he presented his first institutional solo exhibition at the Salzburger Kunstverein in Austria. In 2023, he was a resident at LUMA Arles and in 2022 he was awarded the Matteo Viglietta Award in Turin, Italy. His work is part of various collections such as the Onassis Foundation Collection and the Collezione La Gaia. He will participate in the 6th Autostrada Biennale in Kosovo curated by Lucia Pietroiusti in 2027. Papageorgiou is currently an artist in residence at Gasworks London.