Born in 1955 in Eleftheroupolis, Greece, Christos Kalfas has been interested in print art since his adolescence. In the late ‘70s he moved to France and was accepted at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Saint-Etienne in 1978.
He likes to emphasize his origins in interviews, saying that “I arrived in France with a new perspective, a different culture and I was on another level than the art as it presented itself in France, which was… a little bit post-support-surface, a little bit conceptual, but in a French version: I think we all started to make figurative art because we were trying to create something new.”
Starting in 1981, he started to take part in various exhibitions and salons, mostly in Lyon, Saint-Etienne and Paris before starting to have shows in Europe and Greece in the ‘90s and more regularly after 2000.
Today, he lives and works in Paris.
Solo Exhibitions:
2011 Galerie d’Athènes, Athènes, (Greece)
2011 Gloria Gallery, Nicosie, Chypre
2010 Galerie Lola Nikolaou, Thessalonique, (Greece)
2008 Galerie Lola Nikolaou, Thessalonique, (Greece)
2008 Galerie Orpheos 20, Xanthi, (Greece),
2008 Galerie d’Athènes, Athènes, (Greece)
2007 Fondation Tsihritzi, Athènes, (Greece)
2007 Gloria Gallery, Nicosie, Chypre, (Greece)
2006 Galerie d’Athènes, Athènes, (Greece)
2005 Galerie Lola Nikolaou, Thessalonique, (Greece)
2003 Géo Gyselinck Galerie, Kortrijk, (Belgium)
2003 Galerie Lola Nikolaou, Thessalonique, (Greece)
2002 Galerie Lola Nikolaou, Thessalonique, (Greece)
2002 Tobacco Factory Gallery, Kavala, (Greece)
2000 Art Dealer, Saint-Etienne, (France)
2000 Galerie Lola Nicolaou, Thessalonique, (Greece)
1999 Foire de Milan, Galerie Lola Nikolaou, (Italy)
1998 Galerie Lola Nikolaou, Thessalonique, (Greece)
1997 Galerie d’Athènes, Athènes, (Greece)
1996 Centre culturel de Chaumont, Chapelle de Jésuites, Chaumond, (France)
1996 Galerie Lola Nikolaou, Thessalonique, (Greece)
1996 Galerie J.P. Prébet, Roanne, (France)
1995 Galerie Gastaud & Caillard, S.I.A.C. 95, Strasbourg, (France)
1995 Galerie P. Polar, Bruxelles, (Belgium)
1995 Galerie d’Athènes, Athènes, (Greece)
1994 Galerie Gastaud, Clermont-Ferrand, (France)
1994 Galerie P. Polar, Bruxelles, (Belgium)
1994 Galerie Gastaud & Caillard, Paris, (France)
1993 Espace TECNO, “Paris Fleuri”, Paris, (France)
1992 Galerie M.D.G., Neuchâtel, (Suizerland)
1992 Géo Gyselinck Galerie, Kortrijk, (Belgium)
1992 Galerie Gastaud et Caillard, Paris, (France)
1992 Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris, (France)
1991 Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, (France)
1991 Galerie Gastaud, Clermont-Ferrand, (France)
1991 Géo Gyselinck Galerie, Kortrijk, (Belgium)
1990 Géo Gyselinck Galerie, Kortrijk, (Belgium)
Group Exhibitions:
2010 Galerie Lola Nikolaou, Thessalonique, (Greece)
2010 Galerie d’Athènes, Athènes, (Greece)
2009 Art Athina, Galerie d’Athènes, Athènes, (Greece)
2005 Art Athina, Galerie Lola Nikolaou, Athènes, (Greece)
2004 Galerie Efimerides, Mikonos, (Greece)
2003 “30x40” Galerie d’Athènes, Athènes, (Greece)
1999 Art Athina, Galerie Lola Nikolaou,
1999 Athènes, (Greece)
1998 Art Athina, Galerie Lola Nikolaou, Athènes, (Greece)
1997 Galerie Gastaud & Caillard Foire de Courtrai, (Belgium)
1996 Hommage à P. Pantazis, Fondation E.Averoff, Metsovo, (Greece)
1996 Eventails d’artistes, Musée international de la chasse, Château de Gien, (France)
1996 Art Athènes, Galerie Pascal Polar, Athènes, (Greece)
1995 Eventails d’artistes contemporains,
1995 Espace Riquet, Béziers
1995 Art Athina 3 ‘95, Galerie P. Polar,
1995 Athènes, (Greece)
1995 Foire d’art jeune 30/40, Knokke-le-
1995 Zoute, Belgique
1995 Galerie P. Polar, Poltrona Frau, Paris, (France)
1994 FIAC, Galerie Patrice Trigano, Espace Eiffel, Paris, (France)
1994 FIAC, Galerie P. Polar, Espace Eiffel, Paris, (France)
1993 “41 artistes en prison”, Institut Français de Naples, (Italy)
1992 FIAC, Galerie Loft, Paris, (France)
1992 “41 artistes en prison”, ELAC, Lyon, (France)
1991 “Découvertes 91”, Grand Palais, Galerie Gastaud, Paris, (France)
1990 Casino-Kursaal d’Oostende, (Belgium)
1989 Galerie Gastaud, Clermont-Ferrand
1988 Galerie Krief, Paris, (France)
1988 S.A.GA., Galerie Krief, Paris, (France)
1987 S.A.G.A., Galerie Krief, Grand Palais, Paris, (France)
1987 Facultad de Bellas Artes, Madrid, (Spain)
1986 Galerie Krief, Paris, (France)
1986 Energie 80, Musée-Château, Annecy, (France)
1986 4ème Biennale de l’Estampe, Sarcelles, (France)
1986 Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, (France)
1985 Juxtapositions, M.C. de Grenoble, (France)
1985 Galerie Farideh Cado, Paris, (France)
1983 Salon d’automne, Lyon, (France)
1982 Figures Imposées, ELAC, Lyon, (France)
1981 Galerie Farideh Cado, Paris, (France)