Arurkokk (Athanasios Kokkinos)

In his art practice he uses a variety of techniques and means of expression such as painting, printmaking, collage, mixed-media, digital and audiovisual media, in an attempt to map internal landscapes and depict the intersection of the internal voice with the external noise. His works are either presented within the context of art exhibitions, or are used as content for the creation of artists’ books/editions and prints, which he designs and self-publishes.

STUDIES

PhD candidate at the Department of Culture and Creative Media and Industries of the University of Thessaly, Greece (2024-today).

Integrated Master degree from the department of Fine Arts and Art Sciences, School of Fine Arts, University of Ioannina Greece (2020-2023).

Bachelor’s degree from the department of Economics, University of Ioannina, Greece (2008-2015).

Diploma of professional specialization, education and training of Culinary Art Technician-CHEF, through examinations of the H.O.P.P.E.P. Greece. (2014).

Certificate of Vocational Training (B.E.K.) as a graduate of the specialty: Culinary Art Technician from I.I.E.K. XYNI Thessaloniki, Greece. (2010-2012).


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Maggot crown. At Paprika_lab. Thessaloniki, Greece. (2026).

Malleable Memories. MEKEIO Foundation. Ioannina, Greece. (2023).

Ghosts on Paper archive. Ell almacén, arte bizarro. San Anton, Cuenca, Spain. (2023).

Pareidolic Palimpsests . At the Fine Arts Department of the UCLM University. Cuenca, Spain. (2023).

Thick Blood. At the cultural multipurpose space “Dim. Hatzis” (old slaughterhouses). Ioannina, Greece. (2022).

Weird Tired & Recycled. At the art space o.art.ath. Athens, Greece. (2020).

Colours go mute when you close your eyes. At The Shop Gallery Glebe, Sydney, Australia. (2019).

Portraits of Solitude. Pop-up exhibition at the Jam Bar. Bangkok, Thailand. (2018).


COLLABORATIVE (DUO) EXHIBITIONS

38°32′S 143°58′E. (Together with Mir.moir) at the Artist-in-Residence program, of the Lorne Community Connect. Lorne VIC, Australia. (2025).

Deities and Shadows. (Together with George Manos) at the exhibition space of Wisedog. Larissa, Greece. (2025).

Insight. (Together with Dimitris Batsis) at the Zosimaia Public Central Historical Library of Ioannina, Greece. (2025).

Counter-observation. (Together with the music group Diabolical Triole) at the Two thirds project space. Athens, Greece. (2021).

Book Launch: “Ghost-Print Shadow-Book” (Together with Tefra90) at ETCH INK art space of Athens Printmaking Center Pandolfini and Siaerli A.M.K.E. Greece. (2020).

Separation. (Together with Mir.moir) at Two thirds project space. Athens, Greece. (2020).

Perfectionism. Pop up show (together with the music group Diabolical Triole) at Chimeres.space. Athens, Greece.(2019).

Projections (with Mir.moir) in the toilets of the Lorne Theatre/Cinema, at Lorne VIC, Australia. (2019).


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026

Screenings in the city: A three-day festival of audiovisual artworks in public spaces. Volos.

Di-Au-logues. At the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.

The theme of weaving. At the Municipal Art Gallery of Ioannina.

If it will be better and more advantageous. At the Archaeological Museum of Ioannina.

2025

Drawing for justice. Altai free social space. Athens.

“I send you CPT Apple: Fine art conceptions of tradition in contemporary Greece.” At the Angeliki Hatzimichali Museum of Folk Art and Tradition of the Municipality of Athens.

“Algorithmic Interpretations of Epirus Silversmithing”: a bridge between tradition and modern design. At the Museum of Silversmithing and video projections at the Pyrcinella Mansion. Ioannina.

“Living Without Leaving” international art exhibition in Greece, Albania, Montenegro & Belgium, as part of the Interreg programmes & the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian region.

2024

“GOLFO” through the eyes of contemporary young creators. At the foyer of the conference center of the University of Patras, Greece.

Mat(t)er/nity. At the Γ.Α.Κ. Historical Archive of Epirus. Ioannina, Greece.

2023

Mail Art, international museum of electrography (MIDE). Tribute to Ibirico. Sala Acua, UCLM, Cuenca, Spain.

7th international 1 minute video art festival. Pedro Mercedes Cultural Centre. Cuenca, Spain.

For good. Folklore museum C. Yiannos. Thesprotiko, Greece.

Eternal Womb At the Ducal Temple of St. Mark’s – Heraklion Gallery, Crete, Greece.

Ever-changing skin transformations. At the Γ.Α.Κ. Historical Archive of Epirus. Ioannina, Greece.

2022

Eternal Womb at the Gallery of the Digenakis Winery, in Crete, Greece.

Xenakis 22. Conference & group exhibition in Nafplio, organized by: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Université Paris 8, EUR ArTeC, MUSIDANSE, Xenakis Friends Association, University of Peloponnese, Greece.

(Non)Visible Cities, in the multi-purpose hall, Its Kale (Castle), Ioannina, Greece.

2021

14th Festival of Audiovisual Arts, by the Institute of Audiovisual Arts of the University’s Research Centre ‘TIMENOS’ of the Western Macedonia (IAVA) University. Greece.

Foreign Body. In the lobby of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the University of Athens. Greece.

The New New: an online tribute to the new generation of artists from art and audiovisual art schools in Greece. A project of the Video art miden festival. Greece.

2020

COMMUNITY AUCTION I. The Breeder gallery, Athens. Greece.

2019 & 2018

Group exhibition and auction of printmaking at the art space-workshop: Sunshine Print Artspace. Melbourne, Australia.

2016

Group exhibition at Public Toilets of Theatraki area in Ioannina, Greece.


ART BOOK FAIRS

BANGKOK ART BOOK FAIR 2025. At Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), Thailand.

ATHENS ART BOOK FAIR 2025. At stoa Tristrato, Athens, Greece.

Indiecon. Independent Publishing Festival 2025. At Gleishalle Oberhafen in Hamburg, Germany.

I Never Read Art Book Fair 2025. At cultural center Kaserne in Basel, Switzerland.

Fanzineist Vienna Art Book & Zine Fair 2025. At the studio house of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria.

Border_less ARTBOOK DAYS 2025. At the Yapı Kredi Culture Arts and Publishing (YKKSY). Istanbul, Turkey.

ATHENS ART BOOK FAIR 2024. At stoa Tristrato, Athens, Greece.

GHMP Art Book Fair 2024. At Troja Château, Prague, Czech Republic.

ATHENS ART BOOK FAIR 2023, at the Athens Conservatory.

NOSOTROS FERIANTES #9 GRAPHIC AND SOUND SELF-PUBLISHING FAIR. Pedro Mercedes Cultural Center. Cuenca, Spain. (2023).

ATHENS ART BOOK FAIR 2022, at the Athens Conservatory. Greece.

ATHENS ART BOOK FAIR 2021: THE LOCAL EDITION, at Kypseli Municipal Market.

Memphis Gardens Artist Market. Melbourne, Australia. (2017).


SELF-PUBLICATIONS 

Edits, designs and self-publishes series of limited edition prints and artists’ books. Published:

Αισθητική καταστροφής (2026), GRIMLAND (with C.Saliari, ΗΓΗ. 2025), Trys perdykules kathonte ke pinune tabako (with Opera di Bestia and Vikochico. 2024), Fight back (with ΗΓΗ. 2024), Ghosts on paper archive (2023- ongoing), All is permitted (2023), Found Paintings (2023), Mythoplastis (2023), Hybrid (2023), Mental hell (with Mir.moir. 2022), Athens photo diary 2019, 2020, 2021 (2022), Barking as we try (2022), Cryptomnesia (2022), Katara (2021), Weird Tired & Recycled (2020), “Ghost- Print Shadow Book” (with Tefra90. 2020), Grayscale (2020), 38°32′S 143°58′E (with Mir.moir. 2019), Diahorismos (with Mir.moir. 2018), Freedom machine (with Mir.moir. 2018), Developed (2018), Portraits of solitude (2016-2018).

 

ART RESIDENCIES 

CASA BL8D Residency. Florence, Italy. (2026).
Artist-in-Residence program. Lorne Community Connect. Lorne VIC, Australia. (2025).

 

TALKS/PRESENTATIONS/LECTURES/WORKSHOPS

“Intermedia spine: artists’ books/publications as objects between genres and fields”. Speech within the context of “Talk session 2: Paper alchemy” of BANGKOK ART BOOK FAIR 2025. At Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), Thailand (6/12/2025).

“Intermedia” and artistic research. Lecture at the Department of Culture and Creative Media and Industries of the University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece (19/11/2025).

He conducted (together with Dimitris Batsis) the educational activity “Anima”, in which students aged 8-10 interacted with an interactive artists’ book that produced sounds through touch by painting on the pages of the book, with the aim of creating a collaborative artwork. The activity took place at the Art Workshop of the Municipality of Ioannina, Greece (November 6, 2025).

He held a roundtable talk, entitled: “Intermedia spine: artists’ books/publications as objects between genres and fields”, at the roundtable space of Indiecon, Independent Publishing Festival. At Gleishalle Oberhafen in Hamburg, Germany (7/9/2025).

Coordinator of a workshop for the creation of an artists’ book entitled: “VOUNO”, which took place in 3 meetings during the spring semester of the academic year 2024-25, at the sculpture laboratory of the Department of Fine Arts and Art Sciences, School of Fine Arts, University of Ioannina, Greece. The workshop was attended by undergraduate and postgraduate students of the department. The edition was printed in 25 copies by the printing house of the University in June 2025.

Case study: interactive tactile-sound installation INSIGHT. Reinterpreting accessibility through sensory technology and creative design. Remote talk/presentation (together with Dimitris Batsis) within the context of the 21st Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece (3/4/2025).

Lecture entitled: (de)mystifying the marginal art, at the Department of Fine Arts and Art Sciences of the School of Fine Arts, University of Ioannina, Greece (6/6/2024).

Lecture on the subject of the artists’ book, at the Department of Fine Arts and Art Sciences, School of Fine Arts, University of Ioannina, Greece (21/3/2024).