Dimitris Tzamouranis (b. 1967, Kalamata, Greece; lives in Berlin) is a contemporary figurative painter whose work merges masterful classical technique with psychologically charged, highly contemporary narratives. Working on large-scale canvases, wooden polyptychs or small copper plates, he draws on art-historical traditions while addressing social, political, and existential questions of the present. His paintings oscillate between realism and the uncanny: illumination, cinematic shadow, symbolic gestures and dreamlike ruptures create a tension between seen reality and inner worlds. Trained in Thessaloniki and later at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), Tzamouranis has developed a distinctive visual language shaped by personal memory, spirituality and human vulnerability.

Since 1990, he has held more than thirty solo exhibitions in galleries and museums across Europe (Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Spain, Poland, Turkey, and the Czech Republic). In 2013, a major retrospective of his work was presented at the Frissiras Museum in Athens and at Kunsthalle Osnabrück. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions and international art events, including documenta 14 in Kassel in 2017. His works are represented in significant public and private collections in Germany and abroad. He has lived and worked in Berlin since 1990.

Solo Exhibitions (Selection)

2025 - Playground, Galerie Monica Ruppert, Frankfurt am Main
2025 - Land(e)scapes, Lola Nikolaou Gallery, Thessaloniki

2024 - No one is righteous by his own will, Philological Association Parnassos, Athens

2023 - Times, Woods Art Institute, Museum of Modern Art, Wentorf bei Hamburg

2022 - The wing beat of a butterfly, Skoufa Gallery, Athens

2020 - New Paintings, Zina Athanassiadou Gallery, Thessaloniki

2018 - Garden of Youth, Stiftung Tumult, Toruń, Poland

2017 - Mare Nostrum, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin

2014 - Melancholia Altar, Zone Contemporaine, Bern
2014 - Tarot, Galerie Haas, Zurich

2013 - Retrospective, Frissiras Museum, Athens

2012 - Melancholia, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Germany

2008 - Scarscapes, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (MMCA), Thessaloniki

2007 - Supraficciones, Fundació "la Caixa", Lleida, Catalonia

1999 - Rent a Dream, BM-Suma Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul

Group Exhibitions (Selection)

2025 - You cannot say goodbye to a Myth, Woods Art Institute, Wentorf
2025 - In full Bloom, Alter Kiosk, Berlin
2025 - A cabinet of curiosities, MOMus-Museum Alex Mylonas, Athens

2024 - Embrace Empathy, Vorres Museum, Athens
2024 - Edvard Munch - Contemporary Interpretations, Galerie Holthoff, Hamburg
2024 - Biennale Aqua, Bazes, France

2023 - Heads, Neues Museum Freiburg
2023 - Homo Ludens, Woods Art Institute, Wentorf
2023 - The Human Condition, Skoufa Gallery, Athens

2022 - 8th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, State Museum of Contemporary Art
2022 - Thalassa, Shanghai Museum, China

2017 - documenta 14, Kassel

2014 - Painting III (2000-2015), Frissiras Museum, Athens
2014 - Existenzielle Bildwelten, Sammlung Reinking, Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen

2012 - Still Lifes from the SØR Rusche Collection, Museum Abtei Liesborn

2011 - Polyglossia, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens

2010 - Lebenslust und Totentanz, Olbricht Collection, Kunsthalle Krems

2008 - Collection Rik Reinking, Kunst Centret Silkeborg Bad, Denmark

2007 - Malkunst 2, Schloss Plüschow and Fondazione Mudima, Milan

2004 - In the Gorges of the Balkans, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel

2002 - 4th Cetinje Biennial, Montenegro

1997 - Contemporary Art Center, Thessaloniki - Cultural Capital of Europe