Auteur/autrice : Sofia

  • Misha Goro/ Vivian van Blerk, Paxos works

    Misha Goro/ Vivian van Blerk, Paxos works

    Friends of Paxos and Chris Boïcos Fine Arts have been organizing Greek and international artists’ residencies in Paxos since 2013. Misha Goro from Chicago and the South African photographer and sculptor Vivian van Blerk, based in Paris, have visited Paxos on numerous occasions. They have created over the years multiple series of paintings and photographs…

  • 6exi Contemporary Ceramics in Paxos!

    6exi Contemporary Ceramics in Paxos!

    6exi Contemporary Ceramics gallery (Thessaloniki) Chris Boïcos Fine Arts (Paxos, Greece) and Friends of Paxos are collaborating this coming summer on a joint exhibition of international ceramics to be held at the Old School of Loggos, Paxos from 12 July to 14 September 2025. 6exi had been showcasing Greek and international ceramic creators in Thessaloniki…

  • Nikola Sarić « Seen from Above »

    Nikola Sarić « Seen from Above »

    Yiorgos Tzaneris and Genesis Gallery with Chris Boïcos and Chris Boïcos Fine Arts present in Athens the first major solo show of the Serbian artist Nikola Sarić. The exhibition is curated by PhD art historian and exhibition curator Katerina Koskina in collaboration with the nοn-profit Cultural Association Polites (ΑΜΚΕ ΠΟΛΙΤΕΣ). Nikola Sarić was born in…

  • Irish Wings Athens!

    Irish Wings Athens!

    Following their presentation at St Carthage Cathedral in Lismore, Ireland in May-June 2024, then at the Old School in Loggos, Paxos, Greece in July 2024 and at the at the Courthouse Arts Centre in Tinahely, Ireland in August 2024, eight prominent Irish ceramicists – Isobel Egan, Sinead Fagan, Jane Jermyn, Ann McBride, Marcus O’Mahony, Eileen…

  • 40 Years of Paxos Photography

    40 Years of Paxos Photography
  • In Memoriam: Vivian van Blerk

    In Memoriam: Vivian van Blerk

    Gareth Vivian van Blerk was born in Cape Town, South Africa on 12 March 1971. After graduating from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town in 1995 he travelled widely before settling down in France in 1997. In Paris he befriended and began his collaboration with future gallery directors Chris…

  • Fired Up ! A Celebration of Irish & Greek Ceramics in Paxos!

    Fired Up ! A Celebration of Irish & Greek Ceramics in Paxos!

    « Fired Up ! A Celebration of Irish & Greek Ceramics » – moving now to Paxos! Opening Reception in the presence of the artists: Friday 5 July, 7:30 – 10:30 pm, Old Schoolhouse, Loggos, Paxos Following their presentation at St Carthage Cathedral in Lismore, Ireland in May-June 2024, eight prominent Irish ceramicists – Isobel Egan, Sinéad…

  • Landscapes & Myths II

    Landscapes & Myths II

    Many of the artists in this exhibition live or have worked on the island of Paxos. Each in his own style an sensibility has responded to the beautiful nature and luminocity of the island. Some focus more on its villages, olive groves and seascapes, while others se in the present traces of the past. Reality…

  • Personal exhibitions

    2015 Return to the city: Athens, Genesis Gallery, Kolonaki, Athens, Greece. 2014 A Journey to Paxos, Municipal Art Gallery, Loggos, Paxos, Greece. 2012 Kifisia – The Drawings, Tsihritzi Foundation for the Visual Arts, Kifisia, Greece. 2011 Sketches of Aegina, Museum of the History of Folk Art, Aegina, Greece. Athens, the Small Drawings, Genesis gallery, Athens,…

  • Education

    BA in the History of Art and Philosophy, University of Lund, Sweden. Printmaking under William Hayter at the Atelier 17 in Paris, France.