STEFANOS LEVIDIS

Visual arts

STEFANOS LEVIDIS

Stefanos Levidis is a researcher and visual practitioner. He is a project coordinator at the research agency Forensic Architecture, where he oversees the agency’s work on borders and migration. His PhD dissertation, submitted at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University, and titled Border Natures. The Environment as Weapon at the Edges of Greece, interrogates the entanglement of border defence strategies with the natural environment at the external borders of the EU, with a focus on the Greek case. He also holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s in Architecture from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, as well as a Master’s in Advanced Architecture from the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. As a member of Forensic Architecture he was part of the team nominated for the Turner Prize in 2018, and has lectured and exhibited internationally. His own spatial and visual practice has also been presented and published internationally, and his investigative research has been submitted to courts in support of human rights cases. He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021).

Ghost Habitats-Traps, 2021

Ghost Habitats-Traps, 2021

Ghost Habitats-Traps, 2021

Ghost Habitats-Traps, 2021

Report on the 2018 Agathonissi Shipwrec,2019

Report on the 2018 Agathonissi Shipwrec,2019

Inner Space: Siberia, 2016-2019

Inner Space: Siberia, 2016-2019

Displaced Witness, 2017

Displaced Witness, 2017