Panos Giannikopoulos
01.—07.10.2025
→ Bucharest
Panos Giannikopoulos is a curator and art historian with extensive experience in exhibition-making, public programming, and institutional development. For more than a decade, he has developed projects that interweave artistic research, archival inquiry, and curatorial experimentation, while fostering collaborations across institutions and cultural contexts. Through his curatorial practice, he has worked across photography, video, performance and other time-based media, large-scale installations, painting, public sculpture, and interdisciplinary projects.
In 2024, he curated the Pavilion of Greece at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia with Xirómero/Dryland. Other major projects include A Rave Down Below (2023–2024, 2023 Eleusis Cultural Capital), This Current Between Us (2022–2023, PPC Historic Steam Electric Station of Neo Faliro), and Mediterranea 19 Young Artists Biennale (2021).
He has collaborated with institutions such as the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, the Athens Epidaurus Festival, Annex M at the Athens Concert Hall, GAMeC, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, AMA House and the Athens Biennale, as well as numerous contemporary art galleries in Greece and abroad.
Since 2018, Giannikopoulos has served as Curator at ARTWORKS in Athens, where he has coordinated international residency programs, research frameworks, and cultural initiatives that support both Greek and international artists. His work focuses on commissioning new projects, building institutional partnerships, and cultivating dialogues between artistic production and public engagement. He is also the founder and director of Wild Reeds, a platform dedicated to commissioning new productions in off-site terrains.
His writings have been published in exhibition catalogues, journals, and institutional publications, and he has presented research at international conferences. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Thessaly. In 2016, he was Curatorial Fellow at the Schwarz Foundation, and in 2021 he received the Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi per l’Arte – EnterPrize Curatorial Award.