Exhibitions


  • Fotográfica Bogotá 2013

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    May 4th, 2013 to June 15th, 2013

    Between Worlds will be exhibited at  Fotográfica Bogotá 2013, Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, Bogota. The festival is presented by FOTOMUSEO and is reputedly the continent’s largest photo biennale, reaching an audience of some 80,000 people.


  • Stories from the Other Side

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    April 4th, 2013 to June 1st, 2013

    Polixeni Papapetrou shows The Ghillies and Between Worlds in the solo exhibition Stories from the Other Side at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York


  • Lunch with Olympia

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    September 20th, 2013 to November 21st, 2013

    Curated by Carol Armstrong and Robert Storr  the exhibition includes works from 1863 to the present that are based on or inspired by Manet’s two historic paintings. Highlights include Manet’s etching of “Olympia”. Works by Paul Cezanne, Raymond Duchamp Villon, Stephen Prina, Lyle Ashton Harris, Sally Man, and Polixeni Papapetrou, among others.


  • HAIR

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    September 3rd, 2013 to December 24th, 2013

    Hair grows everywhere on the human body except the palms of the hands, soles of the feet, eyelids, and lips. This exhibition will explore many ways in which hair is artistically represented, including cultural, anthropological, historical, and physical.


  • A Performative Paradox

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    May 24th, 2013 to July 14th, 2013

    polixi-installation-e-webIn this exhibition, selected by Professor Anne Marsh, a particular thread has been selected across Papapetrou’s practice—that of the performative—from her early documentary work through to her directorial work with her children from 2002 to the present. Papapetrou’s enduring interest, across all her work, is in how the other is represented and how the other performs in reinforcing our own identity.… Continued


  • A Curious Nature: the landscape as theatre in contemporary photography

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    November 24th, 2012 to February 10th, 2013

    Curated by Lisa Edwards, an exhibition of still and moving images in which the landscape — in its natural and urban forms, or as depicted in painted backdrops — is the setting for performative actions, often of a peculiar or absurdist nature.