Visual Artist, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Expanded Media and Forms  

Dr. Kostis Stafylakis is a visual artist and art theorist with a PhD in Political Science from the Department of Political Sciences and History at Panteion University, Athens. He graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts and he also holds an MA in Art Theory and an MA in Continental Philosophy from the University of Essex. His works often take the form of navigation through the online and physical space of fringe social groups. His published essays and curatorials delve into the relation between the “mimetic”, the “political”, society, and contemporary selfhood from the post-war to post-internet condition. He has taught Research-based Art, art theory, Visual Communication, and contemporary art at the Athens School of Fine Arts and the University of Patras. He has been a post-doc researcher at ASFA and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He took part in the Future Art Education program by Lab12/ASFA. He has taught at the post-graduate program of the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Western Macedonia, and at the post-graduate program “Art and Public Sphere” of the Department of Fine and Applied Arts and the School of Political Sciences of Aristotle University. He was co-curator of the 6th Athens Biennale ANTI, the 4th Athens Biennale AGORA, Weasel Dance at Goethe-Institut Athen, Twisting C(r)ash at the Batiment d’Art Contemporain, Geneva and more. He has curated various shows, such as “The Suspension of Litanies”, “Fuyuhiko Takata” at ViZ Laboratory for Visual Culture, and “A politics of lies” at Circuits & Currents (2016). He has been the founding Artistic Director of ViZ Laboratory for Visual Culture (2019-2020). His most recent solo show was Chloroquine Juggalo at KEIV Athens (2021) and his most recent two-person show was Readiness: Civil War at Panke Gallery, Berlin (2022). His artistic activity, solo or in duet with artist Vana Kostayola or other artists, includes participations at Prepper Paradise, Bureau Europa (2022), Bless’ed Curse by soloshow.online (2021), Toxicfest at Tick Tack Antwerpen (2021), Toxicfest at the bsmnt gallery, Leipzig (2021), Toxicfest at Video Cypher, Hong Kong (2021), Toxicfest at Mock Jungle, Bologna (2021), Oblique Field (Twitch event by Gossamer Fog, London, 2021), Enter: New Commissions by Onassis Foundation (2020), Kultursymposium Weimar (2019), the “Festival of Democracy” of Geneva (2017), Neue Ravensburger Kunstverein (2017), Waiting for the Barbarians by Athens Biennale (2017), “Omonoia” 5th Athens Biennale (2016), Enjoy your State of Emergency at NGBK, Berlin (2015), 1st NSK Biennial of Folk Art (2014), Hell as Pavillion at Palais de Tokyo (2013), Truth is Concrete by Steirischer Herbst, Graz (2012), Monodrome 3rd Athens Biennale (2011), Media Impact at the 4th Moscow Biennial (2011). He has edited various volumes and journals such as the Greek Anthology “The Political in Contemporary Art” (EKKREMES, 2008), with Yannis Stavrakakis. In 2006, he founded KavecS, with Artist Vana Kostayola an artistic experiment on the mimetic re-processing of social reality.   

Email: kstafylakis@asfa.gr