> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Yorgos Agrotes: Instability as Method - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/yorgos-agrotes-instability-as-method/ - Published: 2026-03-09T06:00:30.000Z - Updated: 2026-03-09T06:00:29.000Z - Description: Artist in Focus: Yorgos Agrotes works with instability, friction and material resistance, turning pressure into structure rather than release. - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Artist in Focus **Yorgos Agrotes** **Born:** 1997 in Famagusta, Cyprus **Nationality:** Greek **Based in:** Athens, Greece **Medium:** Sculpture, installation, mixed media and performance **Website:** [yorgosagrotes.com](https://yorgosagrotes.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **Instagram:** [@yorgosagrotes](https://instagram.com/yorgosagrotes?ref=catapult-platform.art) --- Artist in Focus – Catapult – The New Munchies Art Club [Submit](https://www.catapult-platform.art/submit/) ## Where pressure does not resolve but accumulates: There is no clean surface in [**Yorgos Agrotes’ work**](https://www.instagram.com/yorgos.agrotes/?ref=catapult-platform.art). 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 sculpture user_vamp0067 (2026), hybrid insect-like object with translucent blue wings, skeletal legs and a metallic chopstick element mounted on a white wall.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/yorgos-agrotes--artist-in-focus.webp) ****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 sculpture The Scarecrow (2025), grey sculpted head mounted on wood and metal structure with visible wires and white eyes.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Yorgos-Agrotes--The-Scarecrow.webp) ****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. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/yorgos-agrotes--art-practice.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/yorgos-agrotes--artist.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/yorgos-agrotes--performance.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/yorgos-agrotes.webp) 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. [**Instagram Yorgos Agrotes**](https://www.instagram.com/yorgos.agrotes/?ref=catapult-platform.art) --- ## Notable Artworks and Exhibition Views ![Yorgos Agrotes artwork Afentiko Affection (2025), foam sculpture with oil paint glowing in the dark and a 3D printed negative head element, green illuminated surface](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/yorgos-agrotes--artwork.webp) ****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 wall-mounted sculpture shown in Degree Show installation view, small clay bat-like head attached to a green horizontal element on a white wall](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Yorgos-Agrotes---greek-emerging-artist.png) ****Yorgos Agrotes** “Bat Bat Bad” 2025 Red Soil, Artificial Fossil, Metal and Mixed Media 9x23x7cm Photography: @spyr.char - Spyros Charalampous ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/yorgos-agrotes--aftermath.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/yorgos-agrotes--art.png) ****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 ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/yorgos-agrotes-at-shower--exhibition-view.webp) ****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 of a painting, yellow grey almost greenish](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/yorgos-agrotes--detail-of-an-artowrk.webp) ****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 SHOWER ![Yorgos Agrotes, artist, car , sculpture on the floor](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/yorgos-agrotes--car-scultpure.webp) ****Yorgos Agrotes:** “Monocabino” 80x30x30cm 2025 Fibreglass, resin, plastic, foam - Photo: Irene Soukou ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/yorgos-agrotes--installation-view.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/yorgos-agrotes--exhibiton-view.webp) ****Yorgos Agrotes**: “Spounta” 2025 Foam, redsoil, oil paint 9x5x5cm Photo: Irene Soukou (right) --- ### Want your work featured and listed in our growing Archive? 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