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Bio

Panos Sklavenitis was born in Ithaca; he lives and works in Athens. He studied at the IEK DELTA - Art & Design (1996-1998, HND, graphic arts), the Athens School of Fine Arts (2006-2011, integrated master in painting) and the Artesis Academie of Fine Arts (2009) with an Erasmus scholarship. In his recent work Sklavenitis attempt to trace different categories and discourses of the carnivalesque and the practice of masquerading. His practice emerges out of field research and data collection, interviews and recordings but also by employing a trickster methodology to approach subjects, such as fraudulent and made-up stories or documents. The artistic results take shapes in various formats, such as design, texts, videos, mixed media installations,
performances and participatory actions.


Exhibitions
Recent solo projects include It’s me!, Stoa 42, Athens (2019), The miracle of the black leg, Zabriskie Point-espace d’art contemporain, Geneva (2013), The severed head of Dimitris Ameladiotis, To Pikap kato,Thessaloniki, EIGHT, Athens (2022), Taramata, participatory action, Chalandri (2024), Daysign: From the animal’s side - August in Athens, EMST (2022), Post Athens Daysign Workshop, Athens School of Fine Arts (2019).


Group exhibitions (selection):
6th Athens Biennale - ANTI, Athens (2018), Being as Communion, central exhibition of the 8th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (2023), Plásmata ΙΙ: Ioannina, by Onassis Stegi (2023), Outraged by pleasure, ‘Nobel’ Building, Athens (2023), Actopolis Festival Oberhausen - Building A New City, Oberhausen (2016), Actopolis Zagreb, Studentski centar, Zagreb (2017), Niches, Tor 40 Halle, Güterbahnhof Bremen (2022), Kultursymposium Weimar 2019 –Die Route wird neu berechnet, Weimar (with Most Mechanics Are Crooks) (2019), Weasel Dance | The mimetic in the post-digital predicament, Goethe-Institut Athen (2019), Le Moindre Geste – The Slightest Gesture, Galerie du Granit - Théâtre de Belfort scène nationale, Belfort (2019), Month of Performance Art Berlin, Netting the work, ZK/U Center for arts and Urbanistics (2015).


Residencies and awards
Onassis AiR, Art Residency, Athens, 2023, Gaststudio Tor 26, Art Residency, Bremen, 2022, ACTOPOLIS Sarajevo residency, 2016, ACTOPOLIS Oberhausen residency, 2016, “Visual Art Interventions in Public Urban Space - Painting on the Blind Facades of Buildings”, ASFA (2011).

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