Art Athina 2025
Alexander Lee Page and Kostis Velonis
September 18th - September 22nd 2025
Alexander Lee Page and Kostis Velonis
September 18th - September 22nd 2025
For its first participation in Art Athina, the gallery is proud to announce a duo presentation with paintings by NY-based artist Alexander Lee Page and sculptures by Greek artist Kostis Velonis.
Alexander Lee Page's series of paintings depict the main themes that recur in his work: teapots, towers, still lifes.
Kostis Velonis sculptures, part of his series Solar Assembly, symbolically represent planets orbiting around an absent sun and dialogue with the works of Lee Page.
Kostis Velonis, born in 1968 in Athens, Greece, lives and works in Athens.
He holds an MRes in Humanities and Cultural Studies from the London Consortium (Birkbeck College, ICA, AA, Tate). He studied Fine Arts and Aesthetics at Paris 8 University (D.E.A.) and received his PhD from the School of Architecture of the N.T.U.A. (National Technical University of Athens).
Kostis Velonis is currently an Associate Professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts. He has participated in numerous international exhibitions and residencies.
The sculptures, paintings, and installations of Kostis Velonis explore the comic and awkward condition of the object as subject, evoking allegorical narratives, everyday scenes, or mythological intrigues. Throughout his work, the focus is on the moral implications of failure and clumsiness triggered by daydreaming and by the reality that disrupts it. This reading unfolds through a systematic vocabulary of forms and materials that refer to modernity, via architectural typologies such as the structures of ancient Greek theatre (stage, tiers, orchestra), the politics of the podium, the avant-garde propaganda pavilions, and the sub-politics of domesticity.
His work has been presented in museums and institutions such as the EMST – National Museum of Contemporary Art (Athens, 2025 and 2010), DESTE Foundation Project Space (Hydra, 2020), Kunsthalle Osnabrück (Osnabrück, 2019), Cranbrook Art Museum (Michigan, 2019), Onassis Festival / Public Theater (Astor Place, New York, 2019), Museum of Contemporary Art – Belvedere 21 (Vienna, 2018), Unlimited – Art Basel / Kalfayan Galleries (Basel, 2018), Documenta 14 (Kassel, 2017), NEON City Project (Athens, 2017), Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea (Milan, 2015), Lothringer13 – Städtische Kunsthalle München (Munich, 2015), Whitechapel Gallery (London, 2015), Kunsthalle Athena (Athens, 2014), Palais des Beaux-Arts – BOZAR (Brussels, 2014), Museo Tamayo (Mexico City, 2014), MUMA (Melbourne, 2014), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2013), MAK Center for Art and Architecture – Schindler House (Los Angeles, 2012), Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam, 2011), Cultural Center of Mechelen (Mechelen, 2011), Signal Center for Contemporary Art (Malmö, 2011), Kunstverein Hamburg (Hamburg, 2009), among other venues.
Alexander Lee Page's series of paintings depict the main themes that recur in his work: teapots, towers, still lifes.
Kostis Velonis sculptures, part of his series Solar Assembly, symbolically represent planets orbiting around an absent sun and dialogue with the works of Lee Page.
Alexander Lee Page
(—b. 1990, Denver, USA)
Alexander Lee Page lives and works in New York City. He works in painting, drawing, and sculpture. His first solo exhibition was held at Galerie Timonier in New York City at the beginning of 2024. Since, he has exhibited in France, Denmark and Belgium.
“There are early memories of drawing that stand out, such as an elementary teacher drawing on the dry-erase board. This teacher would draw umbrellas more than other objects. The way he drew the ribs making each section one by one was fascinating. There was no way he didn’t enjoy drawing that object. In that same year or year prior, a classmate’s Mother — convinced by her three sons and others — to draw characters from the Donkey Kong video game. I was lucky enough to receive the blowfish. This is something that I have never forgotten.”
Kostis Velonis
(—b. 1968, Athens, Greece)
(—b. 1968, Athens, Greece)
Kostis Velonis, born in 1968 in Athens, Greece, lives and works in Athens.
He holds an MRes in Humanities and Cultural Studies from the London Consortium (Birkbeck College, ICA, AA, Tate). He studied Fine Arts and Aesthetics at Paris 8 University (D.E.A.) and received his PhD from the School of Architecture of the N.T.U.A. (National Technical University of Athens).
Kostis Velonis is currently an Associate Professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts. He has participated in numerous international exhibitions and residencies.
The sculptures, paintings, and installations of Kostis Velonis explore the comic and awkward condition of the object as subject, evoking allegorical narratives, everyday scenes, or mythological intrigues. Throughout his work, the focus is on the moral implications of failure and clumsiness triggered by daydreaming and by the reality that disrupts it. This reading unfolds through a systematic vocabulary of forms and materials that refer to modernity, via architectural typologies such as the structures of ancient Greek theatre (stage, tiers, orchestra), the politics of the podium, the avant-garde propaganda pavilions, and the sub-politics of domesticity.
His work has been presented in museums and institutions such as the EMST – National Museum of Contemporary Art (Athens, 2025 and 2010), DESTE Foundation Project Space (Hydra, 2020), Kunsthalle Osnabrück (Osnabrück, 2019), Cranbrook Art Museum (Michigan, 2019), Onassis Festival / Public Theater (Astor Place, New York, 2019), Museum of Contemporary Art – Belvedere 21 (Vienna, 2018), Unlimited – Art Basel / Kalfayan Galleries (Basel, 2018), Documenta 14 (Kassel, 2017), NEON City Project (Athens, 2017), Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea (Milan, 2015), Lothringer13 – Städtische Kunsthalle München (Munich, 2015), Whitechapel Gallery (London, 2015), Kunsthalle Athena (Athens, 2014), Palais des Beaux-Arts – BOZAR (Brussels, 2014), Museo Tamayo (Mexico City, 2014), MUMA (Melbourne, 2014), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2013), MAK Center for Art and Architecture – Schindler House (Los Angeles, 2012), Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam, 2011), Cultural Center of Mechelen (Mechelen, 2011), Signal Center for Contemporary Art (Malmö, 2011), Kunstverein Hamburg (Hamburg, 2009), among other venues.