Nikos Arvanitis (b. 1979, Athens, GR) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, A and at the MFA course “Public Art and new artistic Strategies” at the Bauhaus University of Weimar, DE with scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD and the A. S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. He received the first prize on the ZeitGenosse Schiller competition for public art (Weimar, 2005), he was nominated for the “5th DESTE Prize” of the DESTE Foundation (Athens, 2007) and he received the 2nd Prize of the Spyropoulos Foundation Award (Athens, 2009). In 2014 he was Artist in Residence at the Atelierhaus Salzamt in Linz. Arvanitis co-founded the artist-duo Barking Dogs United with Naomi Tereza Salmon (2005) and has maintained a long-standing musical collaboration with Hans Joachim Roedelius (Cluster/Kluster, Harmonia).

Nikos Arvanitis’ artistic and research work focuses on the social and political dimensions of sound, image and objects, on the structures and potential uses of public space, as well as on the anthropocentric approach to nature. Central to his practice is the exploration of the contradictions of human agency, the power structures it produces and the relationship between idealization and reality. He uses a wide range media – from installations, sound, painting and drawing, to public interventions, video, music and radio productions – to subvert institutional narratives and entrenched perceptions. His methodology includes fieldwork, interviews, archival study and found footage.

His work has been shown in numerous solo and group shows in Greece and abroad, including: cross section archive, Athens (2025), ΕΜΣΤ National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2025), MoMus – Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (2025), Kunstraum Memphis, Linz (2023), State of Concept, Athens (2022, 2020), a.antonopoulou.art gallery, Athens (2019, 2011, 2008), Bâtiment d’Art Contemporain Le Commun, Geneva (2015), Galleria Artcore, Bari (2013), Institute of Contemporary Greek Art, Athens (2013), Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade (2011), BWA Wroclaw Galeria Awangarda, Wroclaw (2011), 2nd Les Ateliers de Rennes – Biennial d’Art Contemporain, Rennes (2010), Locust Projects, Miami (2010), Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo (2010), Halle 14, Leipzig (2010), 2nd Athens Biennial (2009), ACC Galerie, Weimar (2008), Deste Foundation Centre For Contemporary Art, Athens (2007).

Government Gazette issue announcing the appointment: ΦΕΚ 4108/Γ/30.10.2025