Yorgos Petrou is an artist whose work follows the body through systems that attempt to contain it. Across film, sculpture, sound and language, the work traces pressure as force: compression, endurance, rupture and transformation. Entering structures such as medical labs, museums, operating theatres, homes and ancient amphitheatres, Petrou works within these systems, tracing how they organise bodies and materials, and what they reveal when pressure is applied from inside them.
Yorgos trained at the Royal College of Art and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK.
Contact: petrou.yorgos@gmail.com
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SELECTED PROJECTS
Nowhere my Heart is not Split (solo)
Takeover, Beirut, 2025
As Firmly Cemented Clam-shells Fall Apart in Autumn,
so I Must Take to the Road Again (solo)
Ekso, Paphos, Cyprus, 2024
My House is Burned but I Scatter my Blossoms
Roman Odeon Archaeological site, Paphos, Cyprus, 2024
Like Pots and Waves Break (screenings)
Cubitt, London . Art Athina . Egypt Centre Swansea
Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge . Beirut Art centre, 2023 - 2025
Porus - Bárbara H Weil Prize, Art for Change (group)
Curated by Aina Pomar
Studio Weil, Mallorca, Spain, 2024
Es Far Cultural, Menorca, Spain, 2024
Islands are Like Sponges (screening & public programme)
Egypt Centre, Swansea, UK, 2023
My Past is a Foreign Country (group)
Curated by Akis Kokkinos
DEO PROJECTS, Chios, Greece, 2023
Join the Docks, London, UK, 2021
Shout Festival, Birmingham . The Lowry, Manchester
Cambridge Junction . Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
Barbican Centre . Brighton Dome
Battersea Arts Centre, 2019 - 2020
Kupfer Project Space, London, UK, 2020
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OLDER PROJECTS
Doomed Companions, Unsubstantial Shades (group)
Curated by Akis Kokkinos
NEON Greece, 2022
Reset. Instructions to begin in a new present (group)
Curated by Aina Pomar
TACA, Palma, Mallorca, 2020
Kingsgate Project Space, London, UK, 2020
(This) precious stone set in the silver sea (group)
Curated by Aina Pomar
Copperfield London, London, UK, 2019
Curated by Tom Polo
ReadingRoom, Melbourne, Australia, 2019
Pivo Research, Artist in Residence
Pivô, São Paulo, Brasil, 2018
Curated by Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes & Benjamin Orlow
Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil, 2017
Insitu Space for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, 2015
Identalterity: But Still in One Piece (group)
Curated by Syrago Tsiara
5th Biennial of Thessaloniki, Greece, 2015
Bloomberg New Contemporaries (group)
ICA, London, UK, 2012
Modern Art Oxford Shorts Programme
Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK, 2011