THODORIS TRAMPAS
Visual arts
Thodoris Trampas is a young visual and performance artist whose work has been acclaimed in Greece and abroad. He was born in 1991 in Devonport, Australia, and he comes from the city of Serres. His first medium, painting, has led him to bodily expression through improvisation and also to installation, especially performance art. Ηe studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts, from where he graduated with distinction in 2015. He attended the postgraduate programme Education Sciences-Special Education of the University of Nicosia (offered jointly with the University of Patras) in the period 2016-18, under a scholarship from the University of Nicosia. He has collaborated with the Marina Abramovic Institute and the Organization for Culture and Development NEON in the context of the Long Durational Performance event, which took place at the Benaki Museum in Athens. The international association Biennale of Young Creators from Europe and the Mediterranean (BJCEM) and the General Secretariat for Lifelong Learning jointly chose his work to represent Greece during the LANDXSCAPES residency programme in Italy, as well as at the UKYA CITY TAKEOVER International Film Festival, held in February 2019 in Nottingham. He recently won two awards for the documentary Pangea: one for Best Medium-length Professional Documentary at the 8th On Art Film Festival in Poland; and one for Best Actor at the ORION International Film Festival in Australia. He lives and works in Athens. He teaches performance art, focusing particularly on the medium’s basic elements and mechanics. At the same time, he shows his work in various group exhibitions and festivals, both in Greece and abroad.