I work and cultivate, in parallel, various projects giving an autonomous path to each one, although they often cross and feed each other. I observe around me as an embedded member of our society, listening to its pulse and not cut off from it. I re-create and distort visual identities by searching for their limits, often in a playful way as released Homo Ludens.
I constantly let my unconscious to leave its traces freely. I follow my obsessions, I approach them creatively, I develop my visual language on long-term explorations. The main themes of my work are multilingualism and difficulty in communication, the pros and cons of fragmentation, as well as the common field between the dipole of semantic chaos and classification. The main aim of my work is to have a dialogue with the viewer on the established rules that define our reality and put questions on them.

CV

Name: Theodoros Fragkos
Artistic Name: Tefra90
Birth Date: 13.06.1990
Born in Ioannina, Greece
Living and Working between Athens / Berlin.

STUDIES
University of Derby (2008-2011) - Bachelor of Arts Honours in Graphic Design
Athens School of Fine Arts (2014-2019) (Painting-Printmaking)
Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee (2017) (Visual Communication-Printmaking)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Art Residency Galerija Siva
& έκθεση Ici Na Izlet - Galerija Siva, Zagreb, Croatia (2018)
Autopsie Polyglot - Au Topsi Pohl, Berlin, Germany (2019)
GAGOI POLYGLOT On Paper - Butikken Art, Cpenhagen, Denmark (2019)

PARTICIPATION IN ART-BOOK FAIRS
AND GROUP ART EXHIBITIONS
Athens Zine Fest (2012, 2013, 2016, 2017)
Riga Zine Fest (2018)
Copenhagen Zine Fest (2018)
Berlin Zine Fest (2018)
Copenhagen Zine Fest (2019)
Feet First Art-Book Fair - Brussels, Belgium (2019)
Missread Art-Book Fair - HKW, Berlin, Germany (2019)

On Walls Exhibition(2016) - Grace Athens, Athens, Greece
KHB Weissensee Rundgang (2017), Berlin, Germany
Steaming Realities Streaming Exhibition(2018) - Grace Athens, Athens, Greece
XiloPrint 2019 Brazil - Museu Casa da Xilogravura - Campos do Jordao, Sao Paolo, Brazil
HIT Artistic Relief Printing Exhibition (2019) - Haugesund Museum of Fine Art - Haugesund, Norway
Contemporary Greek Printmaking in Japan (2019) - Metropolitan Museum of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Greek Printmaking in Japan (2019) - Washi-no-Sato, Saitama, Japan
Stille Post Exhibition - Ausland, Berlin, Germany (JAnuary 2020)
Shortlisted Internationaler Lucas-Cranach Preis 2019-2020 (postponed exhibition), Cronach, Germany

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Artworks are showcased in public spaces in Europe, Mexico, Lebanon
Co-founding member of the Graffiti Art-Collectives AΝΟOSE(2009) andTITA (2016)
Active in the Graffiti scene since 2002

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Recent Printed Editions / Remote solo Exhibitions:
RINN ZINE (2017), ΣΚΟΥΠΑTEFRA(2017), Ακαθησία(2018), GAGOI POLYGLOT(2019), Airlines On Paper(2019)
Published work on international printed editions:
Buffantgarde (2018), KonsensBerlin2018, KonsensBerlin2019, BeuysOnSale mini-series: TEFRA90 - Kiefer On Dirtbike(2018), Cargocolor04 (2017), GuideZine04 (2019), Amphibia World Zine No3 (2019)

WORKING EXPERIENCE
Graphic Design Freelancer & Illustrator (2012 - 2017)
Senior Photo Editor for Kathimerini daily newspaper (2014-2016)
Founder of EditionsFloodplain.
Freelance Painter & Printmaker (2016 - ...)
Illustrator for the Finnish Magazine Psykologi.

CONTACT
e-mail: fragkosthodoris@hotmail.com
Instagram: @tefra90
Phone Number: +30 694 090 5541
www.tefra90.com