About
David Benforado (Athens, 1977)
Painting – Sculpture: BFA Brandeis University, 1995-1999.
International Program, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest 2004-2005.
He currently lives and works in Athens.
Selected Exhibitions (2014-2022)
Solo
2022: Cataclysms, Kourd Gallery, Athens
2021: De Terra e de Bentu, Una Boccata d’Arte, Fondazione Elpis, Sardinia
2018: Goats and the Abstract Truth, Kourd Gallery, Athens
2015: Part 3: Between Sound and Silence, Kourd Gallery, Athens
Part 2: Between Sound and Silence, Jewish Museum of Greece, Athens
2014: Part 1: Between Sound and Silence, Griechische Kulturstiftung, Berlin
Group
2021: A Grammar of Gestures, Kourd Gallery, Athens
2018: Poetry of Memory, Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Rethimnon, Crete
-Salon@Kourd, Kourd Gallery, Athens
2017: No Net Working, Galeria Huuto, Helsinki
2016: Kölner Liste, Artfein Gallery, Köln
Mechanics of Space, Nitra Gallery, Thessaloniki
Fragments of a Broken Season, Hilbert Raum, Berlin
2015: Light and Heavy, Hilbert Raum, Berlin
Kenophobia, CAN Gallery, Athens
Lange Nacht der Kultur, Internationales Sommeratelier Aschersleben, Germany
Residencies
2015: Internationales Sommeratelier Aschersleben, Germany
Project participations
2015 & 2016: KunstAutomat Projekt, Jewish Museum, Berlin
Performances
2021 Ney performance, Una Boccata d’Arte, Tratalias, Sardinia
2015 Ney performance, Kourd Gallery, Athens
2014 Ney performance, Griechische Kulturstiftung, Berlin
2014 Fukushima: The Aftermath, Painting & Music performance with Antonis Anissegos, The Story of Berlin
Publications
Jurriaan Benschop: Waarom een schilderij wekrkt, Van Oorschot, 2022
Cataclysms: David Benforado, published by Cube Art Editions, 2022
Una Boccata d’ Arte, Fondazione Elpis, catalogue, 2021
The Poetry of Memory, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete, 2019
Between Sound and Silence, catalogue, 2015
(photo: Sara Deidda)