SHORT CV

Nikos Exarchos was born and raised in Athens. He is a graduate of the Athens School of Fine Arts, holding degrees in Painting and Sculpture. He was awarded a scholarship by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague and is currently a PhD candidate at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

His work has been showcased in numerous exhibitions in Greece and abroad, receiving distinctions in art competitions. He has also participated as a keynote speaker in international conferences, seminars, and educational sessions, with a particular focus on the pedagogical value of visual arts.

The core of his artistic practice revolves around the deconstruction of the two-dimensional image and its “algebraic” re-composition into a new form that transforms into three-dimensional space. This process is the result of recomposing its fragmented parts.

The interplay among these fragments generates an environment of interaction. His works acquire multiple visual interpretations, with variability characterising their form. The concept of time becomes part of the viewer’s interactive experience—both intellectual and sensory—during the process of engaging with the work in space.
The reception of images by the human brain is transformed into multiple visual stimuli.

References to tradition and Greek culture emerge through a contemporary artistic lens. In his visual practice, Nikos Exarchos comments on the illusory nature of art and proposes new ways of perceiving the image, rejecting traditional modes of representation. He draws inspiration from Cubism, particularly in the deconstruction of formal integrity, as well as from the dominance of image in contemporary culture – a notion famously defined by Andy Warhol on his own terms.

Since 2012, he has been collaborating with the Athens School of Fine Arts, and since 2019, he has been teaching in the Sculpture division.

Selected Activities and Projects

• 2022–present: Coordinator of the educational programme “The Child, the City and the Monuments”, in collaboration with the Technopolis of the City of Athens.

• 2022–2025: Participant in ASFA’s artistic intervention at the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE).

• 2021–2022: Contributor to the ASFA publication in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture titled “Six Artistic Interventions by the Athens School of Fine Arts in Public Institutions”, offering photographic material from his personal archive and participating in the editorial process.

• 2021–2022: Project manager of the educational programme “Experiential S.T.E.A.M. Programme” at the Central Service of the Ministry of Education, in collaboration with the Directorate of Educational Technology and Innovation.

• 2020–2023: Contributor to the ASFA project “Art Knows No Borders” at the Ministry of Migration and Asylum.

• 2017–2018: Responsible for the implementation of the educational programme “Paideia Technas Katergazetai”, a collaboration between the Ministry of Education and ASFA.

• 2018: “Out of the Arts” – Artistic photography direction of the artworks for a film documenting the exhibition intervention at the Ministry of Finance, Korai 4.

• 2018: “30 Years of the Cultural Cohesion of the European Union” – Curated the artistic photography of works for a documentary film presenting the exhibition.

• 2017: Conducted an experiential visual arts workshop for the event celebrating World Book Day 2017, hosted at ASFA, with guest speaker author Eugene Trivizas and Minister of Culture Lydia Koniordou.

• 2012–2014: Facilitator of the educational programme “Art School”, a collaboration between the Ministry of Education and ASFA, held at the Ministry’s Central Services.

Detailed CV