Irini Karayannopoulou is a world known impostor, poses as a physician and sells great quantities of her elixir of youth; in the mid eighties she was imprisoned for a share in the affaire of the Diamond Necklace. Afterwards, she had a vision in which she was told to sing of the Creation. Professor of Economics in Stockholm she is an expert of currency problems and attended the International Conference at Geneva in 1922.  She captured Babylon, united the Medes and Persians and made Susa her capital. Irini Karayannopoulou took spiritual charge of the leper settlement at Honolulu in 1873. Queen from birth, she is the opponent of Lincoln in the question of the extension of slavery and writes a great deal; many volumes of her writings have been published. As well as, she compiled The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland which was one of the sources for Shakespeare.
After a period of study in Paris she became a doctor but five years later gave up the profession to become an artist; among her many, beautiful works are The Eros  Fountain in Piccadily, the Kiss of Victory and the statue of the Indian Ocean. Personal name of the central figure of  Christianity, she was born in the stable of an inn.  She strengthened the authority of Rome, saved the city from Attila, founded the Isaurian dynasty and discovered polonium and radium; for this she was awarded a Nobel prize. Chief assistant at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, captain of the G.E.R steamer Brussels, she succeeded in ramming a German submarine and the following year was captured by a man –like anthropoid ape. She was offered a malodorous flower with green petals by the Prince of Portugal who was the husband of Catherine, a Roman Catholic. Her vengeful disposition at the bestowal of the golden apple upon Aphrodite caused her to side with the Greeks against the Trojans. She later discovered the planet Uranus and was made astronomer to George III for whom she compiled a star catalogue. After an Arctic voyage and the first crossing of Greenland she attempted -unsuccessfully- to reach the North Pole. However, she rose to fame and a series of spectacular victories made her the idol of France. She destroyed Prussian opposition at the battles of Austerlitz and Jena and returned to Athens followed by a painter whose output was enormous. 600 paintings, 2000 drawings and 300 etchings. These include landscape work and portrait studies of which the studies of old age are noteworthy. The symbol of Khepe-Ra, a creative form of the sun-god, she was made in many materials such as precious stones, glazed faience, gold and, rarely, amber or ivory..

Irini Karayannopoulou is an artist whose work comprises painting, collage, drawings, editions and moving image. She is the editor of JANUS Femzine, the co-founder of artist duo Extra-Conjugale and the co-pilot of Twin Automat films. She lives in Athens, Greece.

Solo Projects

2024 Luna, Clubhouse Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey

2024 Art Residency with Istanbul’74, Istanbul, Turkey

2023 Midi Minuit Fantastique, Lendroit Editions, Rennes, France

2023 JANUS #3 launch, Keresbino, Hydra, Greece

2023 Aphrodisiac Intelligence, Polana Institute, Hydra, Greece

2023 Light Snacks and Heavy Make-up, with Hippolyte Hentgen, Antonopoulou Gallery, Athens, Greece

2023 JANUS #2 launch, Hyper Hypo Project Space, Athens, Greece

2022 Life on Venus, Polana Institute, Warsaw, Poland

2021 Hotberg, Antonopoulou Gallery, Athens, Greece

2021 Sleeping Odyssey, Polana Institute, Puro Hotel, Warsaw, Poland

2021 Elixsir, Una boccata d’arte, Polcenigo, Italy

2020 Mode International, Salon de Normandy, Rare Books Paris, Paris, France
2019 The Woman Who Gave Birth To Herself, Aetopoulos, Athens, Greece

2019 The Witching Hour, O Showroom, Athens, Greece

2018 Monaco (Extra-Conjugale, Twin Automat) Luis Leu, Karlsruhe, Germany*

2018 Xoanon (Extra-Conjugale, Twin Automat) Six d.o.g.s Project Space, Athens, Greece*

2017 Fantasio (with Twin Automat) My Playce, Athens, Greece

2016 YOU AM I, Epifanios Haute Couture, Athens, Greece

2016 YOU AM I, Laureen Thomas Gallery, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France*

2015 YOU AM I, Septième Etage, Geneva, Switzerland

2014 Informal Gardens, Palagkas Temporary, London UK*

2013 ZOO.OOO (Extra-Conjugale) Six d.o.g.s Project Space, Athens, Greece*

2013 Teeter-Totter, Zino Project (Extra-Conjugale), Athens, Greece

2013 Immaterial, Holy Room, Athens, Greece

2012 Perdant Magnifique, Bob Design Gallery, Paris, France

2012 LUST headquarters, Athens, Greece

2012 Slings (Extra-Conjugale) LUST headquarters, Athens, Greece

2011 LUX, Chez Claire une Dame, Athens, Greece

2011 Terra Nostra, (Extra-Conjugale) Gray Gallery, Skopelos, Greece

2010 Immaterial, Lola Nikolaou gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece*

2009 Hinterland, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece

2008 Gray gallery, Skopelos, Greece

2007 Gems, Gray gallery, Skopelos, Greece

2006 Negociating Gravity, Vitamin Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy*

2005 The Hanging Garden Experience, Lola Nikolaou gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece

2004 Unlimited Contemporary, Athens, Greece

2003 Lola Nikolaou gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece*

2001 Institut Francais de Thessalonique, Greece*

2000 Kamara 2000, Egnatia Odos, Thessaloniki, Greece*

1999 Zefxis gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece*

1998 Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Karlsruhe, Germany*

1998 Pascale Cottard-Olsson gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

1997 Galerie de St Paul en Cornillon, France

Group Projects

2024

Damien Deroubaix and Guests, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg

The House of Shila launch, Mona Athens

2023

Ecstasy, film project with Paulina Olowska, Visual Persuations, Fondazione Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy

Tableaux : Painting as Stage, Lea Bridge Library, London, UK

Utopia, Hydra Book Club, Hydra, Greece

Intersections, A.Antonopoulou Gallery, Athens, Greece

Art Athina, A.Antonopoulou Gallery, Athens, Greece

2022

Sheltered Gardens, PCAI, Diomedes Botanic Garden, Athens, Greece

Cocktail Hotell Astronaut, Mona Athens, Greece

Fantasio (Twin Automat), Café des Images, Artothèque de Caen, France

Showcase, Bravo Bravo Editions, Dancehouse, Lefkosia, Cyprus

Art Athina, A.Antonopoulou Gallery, Athens, Greece

The Sound of Colors, live animation, TV Control Center, Athens, Greece

2021

She Classicita, Museum of the University of Warsaw, Polana Institute, Poland

Au dessus du soleil, a.mano studio, Biarritz, France

The right to breathe, Undercurrent, New York USA

2020

Lipiu, A-Dash, Athens, Greece

A.O – B.C. An audiovisual diary, State of Concept, Athens, Greece

Counting approximately 1.5 m, A. Antonopoulou Gallery, Athens, Greece

Silent Spring, O Showroom, Athens, Greece

5th Razem Pamoja Foundation, Contemporary Art Auction, Warsaw, Poland

2019

Overview Effect: Encountering the Cosmos, MOMus Museums, Thessaloniki, Greece

Playing Ground, Automatic Transmission, Athens, Greece

Paint, also known as blood, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland

City in Pieces, Okto, Critical Institute for Art and Politics, Athens, Greece

Never below zero, Snehta Residency, Athens, Greece

2018

I used to be funny but now I am dead, CAN Christina Androulidaki Gallery, Athens, Greece

Rag to Rich, Deree – The American College of Greece

Don’t judge a cover by its artist, TAF Foundation, Athens, Greece

The diary of a seamstress, a.antonopoulou gallery, Athens, Greece

The Collection of Christian Schmid, FoKiaNou artspace, Athens, Greece

Of Death and Other Demons, (Twin Automat), CAN Gallery, Athens, Greece

2017

Odds and Ends, Galleryske, Bangalore, India

Conspiracy Boogie, (Twin Automat) CIRCUS 3000, Karlsruhe, Germany

Xoanon (Twin Automat) Galerientage Circus 3000, Karlsruhe, Germany

Xoanon (Twin Automat) FDCEP, Grand Action, Paris, France

Disco Fashion, GR80’s, Technopolis, Athens, Greece

2016

No Future, 1st Performance Biennale, Athens, Greece (Extra-Conjugale)

Asthenia, Romantso, Athens, Greece

Group show, Snehta Residency, Athens, Greece

2015

Les Soirées MACA, Athens, Greece

Kenophobia, CAN gallery, Athens, Greece

Boom Bang II, Northampton, UK

The Velvet Invention, (Extra-Conjugale), Romantso, Athens, Greece

2014

Kalyva, Romantso, Athens, Greece* (Extra-Conjugale)

Dayz of Glory, Openshowstudio, Athens, Greece

Art Athina, Cube Art Editions, Athens, Greece

2013

An Urban Film Map, Remap 4, Athens, Greece

Smile at the Strange, VYCA, Athens, Greece

Expanding Foam and Intellectuals, ReMap 4, Athens, Greece,

The Anchor, Lustlands, Peloponnese, Greece

Lustlands, The NY Rematerialization, Family Business, New York, USA

Deja vecu, Anamesa, Athens, Greece.(Extra-Conjugale)

All three yellows, One year Lust, Frown Tails, Athens, Greece

The Transparency of sex, Old hospital of Amphissa, Greece

Last winter in summer, Circus 2000, Karlsruhe, Germany

2012

(ON)Accordance, Grand Union, Newcastle, UK

Improvisational Sound Performance with Sabu Toyozumi, Syros, Greece

128kbps Objects, Newcastle, UK

128kbps Objects, (Extra-Conjugale) Newcastle, UK

Immaterial, Common View, National Theater of Greece.

Lustlands, (Extra-Conjugale) Thermisia Argolidos, Greece

Videodrome, Camp, Athens, Greece

Boiling Point, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria

Zootrope, Camp, Athens, Greece

2011

Ghost, Embros theater, Athens, Greece

Epekeina, Municipal Gallery of Athens, Greece*

Art Athina, Cube Art Editions, Athens, Greece*

K.I.M.O.L.I.A, Athens, Greece.

BYOB Kunsthalle Athena, Athens, Greece.

Live performance with XYSM at the XYZ Outlet, Athens, Greece.

Animacall, Thessalonki, Greece

2010

Immaterial, Rencontres Internationales du film, Centre G. Pompidou, Paris, France.*

Mixed and Mastered, Centre for Visual Introspection, Bucharest, Romania*

Or-bits, Source Coding, Quare, London, UK

Evolution ID, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center Athens, Greece.

Money Factory, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

Holidays(?), Gray Gallery, Skopelos, Greece

Art Athina, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center/Cube Art Editions

Music Wise, Bios, Athens, Greece

2009
Personal-Political, 2nd Thessaloniki Biennial, Greece*
Beret from Monmartre, 2nd Athens Biennial Athens, Greece
Beret from Monmartre, Velvet Festival, Bios, Athens, Greece
Art Athina, Cube Art Editions, Athens, Greece
ReMap KM 2, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center,
Greece Summer Show, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Greece

2008
The Beautiful Ones, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, NJ, USA
Boys, Rencontres Internationales du film Paris/Berlin/Madrid (Centre Pompidou, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Reina Sofia)
The Final Show, Kafeneon, Athens, Greece

2007
PULSE Miami, Vitamin Contemporanea gallery, Miami, USA
ARTissima, Vitamin Contemporanea gallery, Torino, Italy
Balelatina, Vitamin Contemporanea gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Ophelia’s world, Argekunst Museum, Bolzano, Italy
Art Athina, H syghroni elliniki skini, Athens, Greece.
My Room, Rencontres Internationales du film, Paris/Berlin/Madrid
Unfair, Rooms, Athens, Greece
Part Time Punks, DESTE Foundation, Athens

2006
My Room, Rencontres Internationales du film Paris/Berlin/Madrid
ARTissima, Vitamin Contemporanea gallery, Torino
Turning Twelve, Athens, Greece.
My Room, Positive charges, Center of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki*

2005
The Collection, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art,Thessaloniki
Liste, Basel, Unlimited Contemporary gallery, Switzerland*
Art Athina, Lola Nikolaou gallery-Unlimited Contemporary gallery, Thessaloniki*

2004
Re:source, Art in General, New York, U.S.A
Liste, Basel, Unlimited Contemporary gallery, Switzerland*
Art Athina Unlimited Contemporary gallery, Athens, Greece*
Hellas Everyday, White Box gallery, New York, U.S.A*

2003
Variations in Balkan spaces, Thessaloniki, Greece*

2002
ArtFrankfurt, Neue Kunst gallery, Germany

2001
Artforum gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece ATOMA, Port of Thessaloniki, Greece

2000
Art Athina, ZM gallery, Greece*
7+7, Zefxis gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece

1999
Association On Dirait la Mer, Marseille, France
Mediterranean Art Festival, -ECUME- Alexandria, Egypt
Elaine Benson Gallery, New York, U.S.A

*for these exhibitions a catalogue has been produced