The collector who makes Greek art known to the world

Sotiris Felios is a lawyer and collector of works of art with more than a thousand works by Greek artists. Greek art, through his collections, has traveled the world and has been admired by Greek and foreign art lovers.

He was born in 1951, in Tripoli, having zero contact

with art. He attended one of the best schools in the country, the Pedagogical Academy, university level, which gave him the

background to complete high school and move to Law University in Athens.

He chose this school because, as he says, “I think we all carry a sense of justice to a greater or lesser degree.” The lawyer, for Sotiris Felios, is a defender, he enters half a step in front of the citizen and says: “I am here”. Although he had not done this analysis then, he ended up connecting it to there. He did not see Law as a profession, perhaps because he knew there was money in his family, or perhaps because he considered it a social elevator to leave Tripoli, he admits.

Arriving in Athens in 1969, he became one of the 42 law students who had appealed to the Court of First Instance in ’72, and applied for an administration appointment to hold free elections at the university. In February ’73, he was arrested, expelled from Law School and enlisted. After the Metapolitism, he returned to the university, finished his studies quickly and left for Paris.

Art entered his life through a Fine-Arts girl who he was then going out with. “She started taking me to the gallery after gallery, so my eyes started working,” he’s said.

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