Markopoulos has been working in the field of installation-art for several years. As with his paintings, his installations can consist of small objects as well as a room-sized environment. His enormous out-door installations have gained the attention of an international art-public.
The huge “Sling”, created for the 1st International Biennale of Austria 2002, was awarded the second prize. This oversized sling was constructed around a house, thus seeming to propel it to a faraway time and place at any minute. In Berlin, Markopoulos participated at several public installations and exhibitions. The glowing natural sized latex-horses fastened to the façade of the Italian Embassy in 1998 were just as popular as his works from the cycle “The Binding”. In 1996 he bound a house which was about to be demolished down to the earth with several hundred meters of pink cord. A work concerned with time and space, movement and immobility, progress and tradition as well as past, present and future.
Another Markopoulos-work gained the attention of the artworld in Berlin. The installation “Anthropos” from the psychological project-series “Living Pictures” (installations with people) showed a living human being inside a cage of the Berlin Zoo. Here the artist conveys the feelings of the different human relations within the society of a big city, where the so-called next man sometimes appears to be more of a strange and possibly fear invoking animal.
Markopoulos has participated in major Exhibitions and 11 Biennials. The crowning was the official Participation in the Venice Biennale 2017.
The Studio is specialized in Landmarks, – Art in construction- Artistic Design, large scale installations and public sculpture. Markopoulos Studio has also worked for a number of prestigious Real estate companies, Art Collections, Cultural institutes, privet investors, and Governments.
Markopoulos Studio create Art architecture in large scale installations, with the aim of several benefits. Markopoulos Studio believe that in order to deal with today’s challenges, Art architecture can profitably move into a field that has been largely unexplored. Markopoulos Studio create Art architecture by mixing conventional ingredients such as aesthetic enjoyment, living, leisure, working, parking and shopping.
Markopoulos Studio find the freedom to change the surface of our planet, to better fit contemporary life forms. Through careful analysis of various parameters from local culture and climate, everchanging patters of contemporary life, to the ebbs and flows of the global economy, we believe in the idea of burning ambitious-designs.Instrumental value relates to the ability our constructions to educate, create jobs, increase real estate value, build citizens, increase tourism, and encourage new businesses.
Markopoulos Studio Art constructions are indicators to be an excellent economic development tool for the cities, governments and real estate developers.
The Art constructions and Art Installations provide to the city a better quality of life and allows branding themselves as creative and cultured in order to promote tourism.