Athanasios Kanakis (b. 1983, Athens) lives and works in Paris. He is a graduate of the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics of the School of Engineering, University of Patras and holds postgraduate degrees from the University of the Arts Bremen (HfK, 2010, in digital media) and from Berlin University of the Arts (UdK 2013). He has been selected to participate in a number of international residency programs, among others: AiR – Artist in Residence Niederoesterreich in Krems, Austria (2019/2020); AiR Est-Nord-Est, Residence d’Artistes Saint-Jean-Port-Joli in Québec, Canada (2015); AiR DordtYart Center for Contemporary Art in Dordrecht, the Netherlands (2014). He has also been a fellow of the Pépinières Εuropéennes pour Jeunes Αrtistes foundation (2015). In November 2020, he joined the artist-run space W-Atelier in Paris. In his artistic vocabulary, he uses a variety of media such as installations, sculptures, collages, photography and digital media. Taking space as his starting point, he explores notions of place and memory as well as the relationship between the familiar and the uncanny and identifies traces of lived experiences which urge us to redefine our relationship with our surroundings. He has exhibited his work in galleries and institutions such as iMAL Art Center for Digital Cultures & Technology in Brussels, DordtYart Center for Contemporary Art in Dordrecht, Grace artist-run space in Athens, OpenBach and 6B galleries in Paris, and at Wall-Saal gallery, housed at the central library of Bremen. His installation State of Emergency has been selected to participate in 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture. He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).