Education
Denys Zacharopoulos studied music in Athens and from 1970 in France literature, semantics and philosophy, followed by history and sociology of the arts and in literature.
historian art historian university professor
Denys Zacharopoulos studied music in Athens and from 1970 in France literature, semantics and philosophy, followed by history and sociology of the arts and in literature.
He works as Professor of Art History, author, and curator, amongst others at the 48th Biennale in Venice (Italy) and documenta IX in Kassel (Germany). He lived in France and became a French citizen. Since 2000, he has lived in Greece.
In 1975, Denys Zacharopoulos became program coordinator of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, England.
He then spent time in New York and taught as Professor in the Academies of Fine Arts in Geneva, Vienna, and Amsterdam. During this period he forged intensive personal contacts to many contemporary artists of his generation, in particular to James Welling, Matt Mullican, Ernst Caramelle, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Juan Munoz, Thomas Schütte and Reinhard Mucha.
Denys Zacharopouls" first major works centered on the Arte Povera movement. He curated a long series of exhibitions in major museums in Europe and the United States.
Since 2001, he has published extensively and curated intensively many exhibitions on the artistic production and the issue of Avantgarde in Greece in the second half of the 20th Century.
Director of the Domaine de Kerguehennec, in France (1992–1999) Company-Director with January Hoet of documenta IX in Kassel, Germany (1992) General inspector for contemporary art in the French Ministry for Culture (1999) Curator of the French Pavilion at the 48th Biennale in Venice (1999) Visiting Professor at the École Supérieure des Arts Visuels (ESAV) in Geneva (1985-1991) Professor at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1996–2005) Professor for art history and art theory at the Aegean University in Lesvos, Greece (2002-2010) Artistic director of the Macedonian Museums for Contemporary Art, Thessalonica (2006).