Government Gazette issue announcing the appointment: ΦΕΚ 1748/Γ/07.07.2023

Yiannis Skaltsas was born in Crimmitschau, Germany. He is a visual artist and Professor of Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA). He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts and pursued supplementary studies at the School of Visual Arts in New York and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich. He has held solo exhibitions and participated in more than 80 group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. 

He teaches and coordinates the module “3D Technologies in the Documentation and Restoration of Artworks” in the Lifelong Learning Programme of the Department of Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art at the University of West Attica. He served as ASFA’s project coordinator for the implementation of the STAY IN TOUCH programme and is a member of ARTICON, the Research Laboratory for Advanced Interdisciplinary Applications in the Conservation and Promotion of Visual Artworks and Archival Materials at the School of Fine Arts of the former TEI of Athens. He also served as supervising professor for the implementation of the project Survival Kit 2014–2016, a collaboration between the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and ASFA, carried out under the DAAD programme Cooperation with Greek Institutions of Higher Education 2014–2016. As part of this initiative, the Circuits and Currents Project Space of ASFA was established and remains active to this day.

Yiannis Skaltsas lives and works in Athens.

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