Artist in Residence, Stockholm, 2 June–25 August 2025

Konstantinos Giortis is a visual artist based in Athens, Greece. His paintings and drawings range in scale, from intimate to large-scale dimensions, producing dense networks which merge reality and fiction. His imagery feature hallucinogenic spectral figures, pop culture references in an electric palette. The compositions are characterized by densely layered structures and a focus on detail, reflecting an interest in visual complexity and narrative.

Konstantinos Giotis

During his IASPIS residency, he will explore and deepen his previous work by critically reassessing his views on painting’s agency, materiality, figuration, and abstraction. By studying historical collections and spending time with significant works of painting, such as the works of Hilma af Klint and the distinctive colour palette of textile designs at the National Museum of Stockholm, he will gain insights that he hopes to filter into his practice and inspire new creative directions. This period of research and experimentation will contribute in the development of new works, which will be included in an upcoming solo exhibition in Athens at the end of 2025.

Konstantinos Giotis (b.1988) lives and works in Athens. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (MFA Painting, 2015) and Fine Arts at the University of Ioannina (BA, 2013).

Recent solo presentations include: Everything’s fine, Eins Gallery (Limassol, 2024); Offshoots, Hot Wheels (Athens, 2024); I forgot your name, One Minute Space (Athens, 2023) curated by Florent Frizet; and at the Cycladic Café Art Project, Museum of Cycladic Art (Athens, 2022) curated by Atalanti Martinou and Aphrodite Gonou. His work has also been included in group exhibitions including: Igni, a proposal by Florent Frizet, gb agency (Paris, 2023); This Current Between Us, curated by Panos Giannikopoulos & Georgia Liapi, PPC Historic Steam Electric Station of Neo Faliro (Athens, 2022); There is Nothing Inevitable About Time, curated by Maria-Thalia Carras, Tavros (Athens, 2022); and Beyond Nostalgia Hijack, CAN Christina Androulidaki Gallery (Athens, 2021). In 2020, he was awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS.