for Costas Gavras' film Section spéciale. 1977: Participates in Documenta VI at Kassel, exhibiting an Espace Musical 1979: Performance with Charlemagne Palestine at the Musée Rath in Geneva. – Kölnischer Kunstverein, performance with Nam June Paik in Cologne inspired by Takis's Espace Musical. 1981: 3 totems – Espace Musical at the Forum of the Centre Georges Pompidou. 1983: Takis creates the music and the stage design for Sophocles' Electra directed by Michael Cacoyannis, in Epidaurus. 1984: Participates in the exhibition The Century of Kafka at the Centre Georges Pompidou. 1985: The Centre Georges Pompidou orders a Mur Magnétique for the entrance to the Galeries Contemporaines. – First prize at the Paris Biennale. 1986: "Parallel Erotic Line": a performance with Joelle Leandre (musician) and Martha Zioga (dancer) at the Musée Rath, in Geneva. 1987: The defense public authority grants Takis the use of the largest space that has ever been given to any artist in the history of Paris: 3,500 m2 (26,840 sq ft) for a forest of 76 Signaux, high. 1988: Wins the French Grand Prix for Sculpture. – Creates a signal for the Seoul Olympic park. – "Jocasta": performance and exhibition "Electra 88", in Stavros Mihalarias Art Center. Takis designs the costumes, composes the music, sets the scenery and directs the performance. 1990: Commissioned for Signaux lumineux for the Grande Arche de la Défense. – Takis's representative works at Galerie Xippas in Paris. – "Isidos Awakening": performance with Barbara Maurothalasiti. 1992: Transforms the Beauvais waterworks into a 65 m (211 feet) musical sculpture. 1993: Retrospective at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume. – Inauguration of K.E.T.E. in Athens. Five Aeolian Signals ornament UNESCO's garden. – The Minister of Greek Culture, Melina Mercouri, described them as "totems of the 21st century". – French Republic honors Takis with the special edition of a stamp depicting Takis' spiral. 1994: The Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume exhibition is shown at the School for Fine Arts in Athens. 1995: Takis is elected to represent Greece at the 46th Venice Biennale where he declares: "I am a citizen of the world" and "annuls" the Greek pavilion as a symbolic gesture of the annulment of frontiers in art; choosing to exhibit in the open space before the pavilion. 1999: The Attiko Metro authority commissions the creation of a work for the Syngrou–Fix station in Athens. 2000: The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) and