Iris Touliatou (b. 1981, Athens, Greece) works across various disciplines that are necessary for each intervention. Examining infrastructures and function, attachment and desires, the public and private, she creates forms and shared experiences that comment on labor, affective economies, states of being and respond to the conditions of artistic production and institutional frames within which it exists. Through subtle redistributions of objects, systems, economies, human relationships and production processes, maintenance and repairs, her practice contours the structures of our contemporary condition. She lives and works in Athens, Greece.
Her solo exhibitions include: Before and after science, NEON, Athens (2024); Outfits, Peer, London (2023); low theory, fluent, Santander (2023); GIFT, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2023); mothers, Rodeo, London and Piraeus (2022); appendage, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (2022); Group exhibitions include: Key Operators, Kunstverein Munchen, Munich (2024); It would storm, Galerie Neu, Berlin (2024); Phenomenon, Anafi (2024); Intimate confession is a project, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Houston (2023); forms of the surrounding futures, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg (2023); This Current Between Us, PPC Historic Steam Electric Power Station of Neo Faliro, Piraeus (2022); SIREN (some poetics), Amant, New York (2022); Work and Leisure, Sala Impasti, Milan (2022); *ανάβασις*, Rodeo, Piraeus (2022); Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum Triennial, New York (2021); Eclipse AB 7 Athens Biennale (2021); Anti Structure, Deste Foundation, Athens (2021); Interval, Goethe Institut, Athens (2021); The way In, Haus N, Athens (2021); The Same River Twice*, New Museum / Deste Foundation, Benaki Museum, Athens (2019).
Iris Touliatou, EMOTIONAL INFINITY (THE SOUND OF THEM COMING BACK AMPLI-
FIED AND LOOPED), oscillating fans, duplicated house keys, pre owned keychains, string, ribbons, gift bows, wire, timers, multiplugs, outlets, dimensions variable, 2022. Installation view, anabasis*, Rodeo, Piraeus, 2022. Photo credits: Stathis Mamalakis. Image courtesy the artist and Rodeo, London / Piraeus.
Iris Touliatou, SCORE FOR HOLD TIME P.A., installation: Song Better Off Alone by Alice Deejay (1999) stretched to the exhibition duration, 17 relocated public address ceiling speakers, music arrangement by Eleni Poulou, dimension and duration variable, 2023. Installation view, Iris Touliatou, GIFT, Kunsthaller Basel, Basel, 2023. Photo credits: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. Image courtesy the artist and Rodeo, London / Piraeus.
Installation view of Iris Touliatou, untitled (oral) and
untitled (sweet and low), 2022, as part of appendage, 2022, Grazer Kunstverein. Courtesy of the artist and Grazer Kunstverein. Photo credits: kunst-dokumentation.com
Iris Touliatou, SCORE FOR COVERAGE, Simple Annual Life Insurance (391), policy number 01729973, graphic design by Typical. Organization for Standars & Order, 2023. Installation view, Iris Touliatou, GIFT, Kunsthaller Basel, Basel, 2023. Photo credits: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. Image courtesy the artist and Rodeo, London / Piraeus.