Babis Venetopoulos
Born in Thessaloniki in 1973. Graduated from the Visual and Applied Arts Department of the School of Fine Arts of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, studio Yannis Fokas (1996 – 2002). He also studied Interior Design in I.I.E.K. Delta of Thessaloniki (1993-1995) and Art & Design in The South Manchester College (1992-1993). He is currently a postgraduate student in the “Digital Forms of Art” Program at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
Co-founder of Minotaur Digital Arts, a production company specialized in New Media Creations such as 3D Animation and Web Design. He is teacher in the Computer Graphics Department in Praxis School of Art, Thessaloniki from 2000.
Group Exhibitions
2005 Emergence–Realities, Medusa Art Gallery, Athens
2004 What is Threat Like, Municipality of Trikala, Batagianni Gallery, curator: Lina Tsikouta, Trikala
2004 Tsatsis Projects, Thessaloniki
2004 Athens by Art, Municipality of Athens, AICA Hellas, Athens
2004 Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Hiroshima/Japan
2004 ProTaseis-Action Field KODRA ‘04, Municipality of Kalamaria, ArtBox, Thessaloniki
2004 Rooms to Let, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
2004 Young Artists Explore Cinema, Cinema Museum of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki
2004 Young Artists Explore Cinema, Cinema Museum of Thessaloniki, Griechische Culturstiftung, Berlin
2003 Young Balkan Artists, Hellenic Culture Organisation, Cultural Olympiad, Thessaloniki
2003 Graduates 2001-2003, School of Fine Arts of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Macedonian
Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
2003 Action Field KODRA ‘03, Municipality of Kalamaria, TinT Gallery, Thessaloniki
2003 [R]-[R]-[F] Festival in InteractivA ‘03–Biennale for New Media Art, Museum of Contemporary Art
Merida Yucatan / Mexico, curator (Greek participation): Anna Hatziyannaki
2003 [R]-[R]-[F] Festival-Remembering–Repressing-Forgetting, New Media project in form of an online
festival by Wielfried Agricola de Cologne (www.newmediafest.org/rrf/), curator (Greek
participation): Anna Hatziyannaki
2003 11th Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Athens
2003 Sculpture you love, LAB Art Projects, Athens
2003 Northwest Passages, European program Culture 2000, Trikala
2002 AnimaMundi 2002 (3rd Prize for Best Portfolio), Sao Paolo / Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
2002 Action Field KODRA ‘02, Municipality of Kalamaria, TinT Gallery, Thessaloniki
2002 California Sun International Festival, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
2001 Small is beautiful, ?RTFORUM Gallery, Thessaloniki
2001 Studio: Y. Fokas, ?RTFORUM Gallery, Thessaloniki
Venetopoulos Babis participtes in
RRF v.1 curated by Anna Hatzianaki