Visual Artist, Professor ASFA, Director of studio11asfa 

Vassilis Vlastaras born at Athens in 1963 and grow up at Argos GR.  

In his visual practice, Vlastaras creates large-scale site-specific installations by experimenting with various media in painting, drawing, photography, video, artist books, real time video and sound performances and computer interactive installations. By producing various artwork, he examines the relationship between artwork and urban space, the notion of the ephemeral and the interrelation between spatial movement, material and sound, often mixing different media, actions, sound poetry, writings and several elements of a heterogeneous and scalable objects. In his work, where interactivity and multimedia are vital he is continually investigating the relationships between the appetite for life and the frenzy of death, the personal and social implications of loss, oblivion, history, memory and the subsequent acts of remembrance/memorialisation. Vlastaras is teaching in Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) from 1999.  

As a director of studies in studio11asfa, he likes to provide an open and supportive environment for engagement with the process of art making at the highest level, attracting an activate community of students. He encourages and supports his students, to realise and strengthen their creative potential through experimentation, dialogue and fine art making in all its forms by working alongside each other in an open studio environment creating a crossover between all artistic areas. Vassilis Vlastaras was the co-founder of ΠLATFORMES (2002-2008), a collective of art professionals ranking from visual artists to art theorists, musicians and filmmakers in Athens. Between 2006 and 2010 he was the main coordinator of Utopia Project, an annual summer residency program for artists in collaboration with experienced International artists, theorists and political scientists. Utopia Workshops were hosted by ASFA  in the annex of ASFA in Rethymno, Crete, where Vlastaras performed a series of lectures and seminars about each year’s utopia’s subject. From 2013 he has been a founder and artistic director of asfaBBQ an international meeting for practitioners, theorists, students and audiences of time-based arts. From 2019 he is a co-founder of ViZ Laboratory for Visual Culture an always-evolving institution for the experimentation with the limits between artistic production, the public sphere, the experience of the city and contemporary art education. 

Email: vvlastaras@asfa.gr