Markellos Kolofotias is a visual artist based in Athens. He holds an MFA from the Athens School of Fine Arts and a Diploma from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the School of Visual and Applied Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. As a postgraduate student, he attended classes at the San Carlos Faculty of Fine Arts of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia in Spain, on an Erasmus scholarship awarded by the State Scholarships Foundation in Greece. His artistic practice unravels as a continuous dialogue with the ₒ-ᵒ “scheme”, the principal and unique source from which his works emanate. Through this dialectic, he explores the encounter of the artist with the artwork, as well as the relation and interactions developing between them. His work has been presented in group exhibitions (If you were food, what food would you be?, Communitism, Athens; Stasis in Practice, 7th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art and MOMus – Museum of Alex Mylona; Beyond all Confines, Flu Gallery (Belgrade); Kodra Fresh: Mind the Gap, Action Field Kodra, Thessaloniki; Inspire 2013, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, etc.) and has been distinguished at the 8th Biennale of Fine Arts Students in Greece. Ηe has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).