Yorgos Agrotes: Instability as Method
Yorgos Agrotes
Born: 1997 in Famagusta, Cyprus
Nationality: Greek
Based in: Athens, Greece
Medium: Sculpture, installation, mixed media and performance
Website: yorgosagrotes.com
Instagram: @yorgosagrotes
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Where pressure does not resolve but accumulates:
There is no clean surface in Yorgos Agrotes’ work. Oil spreads across scanner plastic, pigment pools on canvas paper, metal vibrates under tension. Nothing settles. What appears as painting is already in the process of shifting into object, into sound, into residue.
His landscapes are not depictions but accumulations. Emotions, memory, and material collide without seeking harmony. Yellow and green recur not as aesthetic preference but as disturbance. They carry contamination, decay, and vitality at once. The image does not stabilize the gaze. It holds it in discomfort.
Yorgos Agrotes user_vamp0067 , 2026 - Resin, plastic, silicone, metallic chopstick, tire-ups, screws 22.5 × 24 × 12 cm Image courtesy of the artist.Yorgos Agrotes The Scarecrow , 2025 Foam, iron, wood, kompoloi stones, aluminium and magnets Various dimensions Photo: Spyros Charalampous - Image courtesy of the artist.
Agrotes’ practice extends beyond the canvas into hybrid instruments and spatial installations. In the recent exhibition Massage Platz at Shower, Seoul, he presented works alongside a sound performance titled Child’s Play , using self-built instruments that oscillate between noise and structure. These objects refuse classification. They are neither fully musical nor fully sculptural. They function through tension.
Yorgos Agrotes - Performance - Photo Joseph Lee
Across media, his method remains consistent: he does not remove pressure to produce relief. He sustains it long enough for another state to emerge. Relaxation, in this logic, is not a return to balance but a threshold reached through friction.
Material is never neutral in his work. It resists, stains, vibrates, leaks. And it is precisely within that resistance that form appears.
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Notable Artworks and Exhibition Views
Yorgos Agrotes Afentiko Affection , 2025 Foam, oil paint glowing in the dark, 3D printed negative head 26 × 26 × 3.5 cm Image courtesy of the artist.Yorgos Agrotes “Bat Bat Bad” 2025 Red Soil, Artificial Fossil, Metal and Mixed Media 9x23x7cm Photography: @spyr.char - Spyros Charalampous
Yorgos Agrotes : (left) Corrupted Draft , 2026 Oil and pigments on canvas paper 23 × 20 cm (right) “Aftermath” 2025 Oil on Plywood Panel, (Wall Construction) 30x40cm - Photo: Spyros Charalampous
Yorgos Agrotes: Installation view of “Massage Platz” at SHOWER, Seoul Curated by Haram Kang****-**** Photography: Joseph Lee Courtesy of the artist and SHOWER Yorgos Agrotes (Detail) “Scanner Pressure”, 2025 Oil on plastic scanner 48 x 55 x 4 cm - Installation view of “Massage Platz” at SHOWER, Seoul Curated by Haram Kang - Photography: Joseph Lee Courtesy of the artist and SHOWERYorgos Agrotes: “Monocabino” 80x30x30cm 2025 Fibreglass, resin, plastic, foam - Photo: Irene Soukou
Yorgos Agrotes : “Spounta” 2025 Foam, redsoil, oil paint 9x5x5cm Photo: Irene Soukou (right)
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