Government Gazette issue announcing the appointment:ΦΕΚ 1715/Γ/01.10.2019

Giorgos Alexandridis was born in Thessaloniki in 1980.

He studied marble sculpture at the Preparatory and Vocational School of Fine Arts of Panormos, Tinos (1998–2001), and Sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts (2003–2013).

From January 2002 until September 2019 he worked on the restoration projects of the Acropolis of Athens and at the Ephorate of Antiquities of the City of Athens.

Since October 2019 he has been serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts specialising in “Ceramics as expressive research, form, and medium in the visual arts.”

His artistic work explores issues such as social inequality, social exclusion, migration, living conditions, violence, war, social discrimination, systems of power, and more.

He has held one solo exhibition and has participated in over 20 group exhibitions, including:

• the 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art (2017),

• “The Memory of the Revolution – Contemporary Greek Artists”, at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (2018),

• and “Democracy – Contemporary Visual Arts Exhibition”, also at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (2018).