In Conversation: Andrew Wilson with Dimitris Ioannou and Kostas Stasinopoulos

Andrew Wilson is an independent critic, historian and curator. He is editor and author of the catalogue raisonné of the oil paintings of Patrick Heron (forthcoming 2027) and previously was Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary British Art and Archives at Tate Britain (2006-2021) and before that Deputy Editor at Art Monthly (1998-2006). He has published and curated widely on many aspects of British and international art of the 20th century with a concentration on post-war modernist and countercultural currents, and is currently preparing a book on Gustav Metzger, drawing on his long association with the artist since the early 1980s. 

Dimitris Ioannou was born in 1976 in Athens where he lives and works. He studied Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1994-1999) and completed his postgraduate studies in Fine Arts (MFA with distinction) at Pratt Institute, New York (2000-2002) with a scholarship by the Onassis Foundation. In 2005 he participated in the artist in residency programme of USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway.  

He has presented his work in five solo exhibitions: Laying Dormant; basement storage space, 6dogs, Athens, Greece, 2016; CMYK series: The Collection, 1999-2013; Ileana Tounta Gallery, Athens, 2013; You got a good one! (The Bergen Mix), Volt, Bergen, Norway, 2008, You got a good one!, K44 exhibition space, Athens, 2008; CMYK series, RGB studio, Athens, 2005. 

He has also participated in several notable group exhibitions. The most recent ones include: Shinrin-yoku / Forest Bathing, PCAI, Diomedes Botanical Garden, Athens, 2024; Instituting or How is an archipelago formed?, Eight Athens, 2024; Outraged By Pleasure, Nobel building, Athens, 2023; Voyage Around My Room, ACG Gallery, Athens, 2019; Curved Arrows, Daily Lazy Projects, Kunstraum am Schauplatz, Vienna, 2019; The Collection as an Automaton, ACG gallery, Athens, 2019. 

Art projects and presentations of his work have been published in various publications. His work deals with the processes of collecting, the arbitrary meaning objects acquire in connection to the people that owned or collected them and the manner of displaying them as an art practice. Objects are discussed mainly as remnants, traces of immaterial processes, signifiers, carriers charged with subjective importance and/or memory triggering mechanisms.  

Since his father’s passing, he has been responsible for managing the Giorgos Ioannou Archive/Collection. He has curated exhibitions of his father’s work such as the Retrospective Exhibition at Casa Bianca in Thessaloniki in 2023 and has co-curated and consulted several exhibitions and publications on Giorgos Ioannou’s work since then. He is also an educator teaching Visual Arts at both secondary and undergraduate level since 2009. He is currently teaching at the IB DP of Pierce School and is an adjunct professor at Deree, The American College of Greece. 

Kostas Stasinopoulos is a curator and writer. He is Director of Exhibitions & Programmes at KYKLOS – Centre for Arts and Cultures. He was previously Curator, Live Programmes at Serpentine, London, looking after the institution’s interdisciplinary programme. He has also served as Associate Curator at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center and collaborated with the Whitechapel Gallery, White Cube, Frieze, Loop, Sadler’s Wells, VIMA Art Fair and the Athens Biennale, among others. Stasinopoulos received his PhD in History of Art from University of York (2016), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Onassis Foundation and NEON. He holds an MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art (2010), an MA in Cultural and Creative Industries from King’s College (2009) and a BSc in Biochemistry with Management from Imperial College London (2007). His research and writing have appeared in numerous symposia and international publications, and together with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine, he is the co-editor of 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth (Penguin, 2021).