Andreas Lolis
Backyard

The Breeder is pleased to present Backyard, a special project by Andreas Lolis, consisting of recent hand carved marble works. Over the past two decades, Lolis has developed a distinctive sculptural language through the transformation of marble, one of the most enduring materials in art history, into familiar, fragile forms associated with everyday life. His works meticulously reimagine cardboard, polystyrene, wood, fabric and other ordinary materials, often bearing traces of use, wear and passage. The paradox between the permanence and historical associations of marble and the transient nature of the objects it imitates creates a tension that lies at the core of his practice, while his painstaking hand-carving stands in deliberate contrast to the mass-produced materials he evokes.

Lolis’s sculptures emerge from an engagement with memory, absence and the traces of lived experience, while deliberately moving beyond the personal to speak to more universal forms of vulnerability and remembrance. Everyday objects and gestures, those connected to labour, rest, loss, care and routine, are transformed into quiet memorials, honoring ordinary moments. Through their apparent fragility and suspended sense of time, these works reimagine monumentality not as a celebration of the heroic, but as an act of attention to the overlooked and provisional, giving enduring form to the traces people leave behind in the world and within one another.

“Balance in the backyard comes when we stop hiding the mess and start accepting it. This mess is not a weakness; it is a sign of life and effort.”

-Andreas Lolis, 2026

Andreas Lolis (1970) lives and works in Athens, Greece. He is a graduate of the Athens

School of Fine Arts (2002) and finished his Master degree in the Carrara Academy of Fine Arts (2007). He taught at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts (2016-2018). Selected shows include: “Unlimited”, Art Basel 2026 curated by Ruba Katrib, “Accidental Monuments” solo exhibition at The Breeder, Athens 2025, ”My Dreams Were Dashed Against Your Walls”, by DEO Projects, curated by Akis Kokkinos, Vessa, Chios; “Behind the theatre”, a production of Eleusis 2023 European Capital of Culture and Aeschylia Festival 2021, curated by Christoforos Marinos, Michail Marmarinos and Zoi Moutsokou; “May you live in interesting times”, 58th Venice Biennial curated by Ralf Rugoff; “Prosaic origins”, curated by Nayia Yiakoumaki, as part of NEON’s CITY PROJECT 2018; “Andidoron”, The EMST Collection; Friedericianum, Kassel; documenta 14, curated by Katerina Koskina; The Garden Sees, curated by Anna Kafetsi, Athens Concert Hall; Thessaloniki Biennial 2017 curated by Syrago Tsiara; The Body, the Soul, The Place, National Art Museum of China, 7th Bejing Biennial of Contemporary Art; 13th Biennale de Lyon “La Vie Moderne” curated by Ralph Rugoff; Yoko Ono Lumiere De L’Aube” at Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, “Hell As Pavillion” curated by Nadia Argyropoulou, Palais de Tokyo, Paris and “Monodrome” the 3rd Athens Biennial curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Xenia Kalpaktsoglou and Poka Yio.