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 ​
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Nowhere my Heart is not Split (solo)
Takeover, Beirut, 2025
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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
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Like Pots and Waves Break (screenings)
Cubitt, London . Art Athina . Egypt Centre Swansea
Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge . Beirut Art centre, 2023 - 2025
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Porus - Bárbara H Weil Prize, Art for Change (group)
Curated by Aina Pomar
Studio Weil, Mallorca, Spain, 2024
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Es Far Cultural, Menorca, Spain, 2024
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Islands are Like Sponges (screening & public programme)
Egypt Centre, Swansea, UK, 2023
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My Past is a Foreign Country (group)
Curated by Akis Kokkinos
DEO PROJECTS, Chios, Greece, 2023
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Join the Docks, London, UK, 2021
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UNFAMILIAR (solo)​
Shout Festival, Birmingham . The Lowry, Manchester
Cambridge Junction . Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
Barbican Centre . Brighton Dome
Battersea Arts Centre, 2019 - 2020
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Kupfer Project Space, London, UK, 2020
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OLDER PROJECTS
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Doomed Companions, Unsubstantial Shades (group)
Curated by Akis Kokkinos
NEON Greece, 2022
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Reset. Instructions to begin in a new present (group)
Curated by Aina Pomar
TACA, Palma, Mallorca, 2020​
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Kingsgate Project Space, London, UK, 2020​
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(This) precious stone set in the silver sea (group)
Curated by Aina Pomar
Copperfield London, London, UK, 2019
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Curated by Tom Polo
ReadingRoom, Melbourne, Australia, 2019​
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Pivo Research, Artist in Residence
Pivô, São Paulo, Brasil, 2018​​
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Curated by Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes & Benjamin Orlow
Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil, 2017
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Insitu Space for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, 2015
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Identalterity: But Still in One Piece (group)
Curated by Syrago Tsiara
5th Biennial of Thessaloniki, Greece, 2015
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Bloomberg New Contemporaries (group)
ICA, London, UK, 2012
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Modern Art Oxford Shorts Programme
Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK, 2011​​​
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