# Kiriakos Tompolidis

URL: https://vielmetter.com/biography/wrklst-kiriakos-tompolidis-24064-2/

1997 Born in Essen, Germany  Currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany   2024 Diploma in Fine Arts at the University of Arts, Berlin, Germany 2018 Freie Universität Berlin and University of Arts, Berlin, Germany 2016 University Duisburg-Essen Germany, Essen Folkwang, Germany

**Selected Solo Exhibitions**

  2026 "The Quiet Hour," Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (forthcoming) 2025 "Your Tears Will Dry," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2024 "Kiriakos Tompolidis: The More It Hurts, the Less It Shows," Galerie Judin, Berlin, Germany 2023 "Kiriakos Tompolidis: God Loves You (But Not as Much to Save You)," Labor, Mexico City, Mexico  "Kiriakos Tompolidis: Don’t Forget to Live," Miettinen Collection, Berlin, Germany  "Kiriakos Tompolidis: I know that I know Nothing," The Cabin, Los Angeles, CA

**Selected Group Exhibitions**

  2025 "Icons, Archetypes, and Portraits," North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND  "14th Taipei Biennial: Whispers on the Horizon," Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan 2024 "GEGEN DEN STRICH," Schloss Sacrow, Potsdam, Germany  "New Works by Lavaughan Jenkins, Mario Joyce, Raffi Kalenderian, Kiriakos Tompolidis," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2023 Group Show, Green Family Foundation, Dallas, TX  "We Are A Way For The Cosmos To Know Itself," Bode Gallery, Berlin, Germany  "SIRANI," Gallery Judin, Berlin, Germany 2022 "Garten of Performance," Fünfter Löffel, Berlin, Germany 2021 "Ein Sommer in Neukladow," curated by Miriam-Esther Owesle, Ghotische Haus, Germany 2020 "Die letzte Blaue," benzinLAB, Germany 2019 "Kunstspur Essen," Open Studios, Essen, Germany  C.A.R. Contemporary Art Ruhr Innovative Art, Essen, Germany

**Bibliography**

  2025 Rathe, Adam. "Is Wallpaper the Art World’s Next Big Thing?," Town and Country Magazine, July 28 ([Link](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/style/home-decor/a65488335/artist-wallpaper-trend-2025/))  Porterfield, Carlie. "Independent art fair adjusts as market slows," The Art Newspaper, May 9 ([Link](https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/08/independent-art-fair-adjusts-as-market-slows)) 2023 Plotnikova, Valentina. "In Conversation With Kiriakos Tompolidis | Episode 24," Bode Gallery ([Link](https://bode.gallery/blog/55-in-conversation-with-kiriakos-tompolidis-episode-24/))  Labor Staff. "KIRIAKOS TOMPOLIDIS: GOD LOVES YOU (BUT NOT AS MUCH TO SAVE YOU)," Onda MX, October  Mutual Art Staff. "Kiriakos Tompolidis: Don’t Forget to Live," MutualArt, September 02  Werther, Wilhelm. "Kiriakos Tompolidis," Woz Die Wochenzeitung, May  Sutton, Benjamin. "’Just relax. You don’t have to have everything’: Danny First shares advice for new collectors and his fantasy of sitting for Lucian Freud," The Art Newspaper, February 16

**Public Collections**

   North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND