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, Tzamouranis has developed a distinctive visual language shaped by personal memory, spirituality and human vulnerability.

Solo Exhibitions (Selection)

• 2013 – Retrospective, Frissiras Museum, Athens
  

• 2012 – Melancholia, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Germany
  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

• 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)

• 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