Athanasios Argianas (born 1976 in Athens) is a Greek and British artist whose interdisciplinary practice incorporates sculpture, painting, text, performance and often music or sound, and concerns itself with metaphorical or translated representations of aural experiences.
Argianas started studying music while in high school following fugue and composition with Yannis Ioannides in his Conservatoire in Athens, before starting painting at the University Of Thessaloniki, to interrupt it and continue his studies in London culminating in an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College. In between, he spent a year as guest student at Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, under
Jannis Kounellis.
His work has been exhibited at institutions such as Camden Art Centre, Tate Britain, Hayward Gallery Touring, the Barbican and the Serpentine Gallery Pavillion in London, Fondazione Prada, Venice, CRAC Alsace, Kunsthalle Wien, Fridericianum, Kassel, GAM Milan, the Pulitzer St. Louis USA, Arnolfini Bristol, among others. It was also featured at the 30th Sao Paulo Biennial, the 13th PERFORMA biennial New York, the 2nd Athens Biennial and the 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale, and is on display in the permanent collection of EMST National Museum Of Contemporary Art, Athens.
