Kosmas Nikolaou: Artist in exchange in the context of "ULYSSES: European Odyssey”

The work of Kosmas Nikolaou is based on the operation of architecture, memory, narrative, and non-verbal communication. He often works with archives, personal stories, verbal archaeology, and the immaterial dimensions of sound and voice. He is triggered by the public space and the public sphere. He examines the history of cities and how personal experiences and narrations are existing and interact within the city space. He is interested in manipulating display techniques inside the white cube and turning them into institutional critique discourse. He tends to consider law as a contemporary form of magic, as a way in which empowered spoken words are able to influence the real world and everyday life. He is interested in how the use of speech can create institutions that allow societies and people to improve the way they coexist, collaborate, and communicate. He would like to set a discussion about what is going on inside the exhibition space, who has the right to speak, for whom is that space created, and how it is connected with society. With his practice, he is pursuing a new and peculiar way of witnessing, a way of recording and documentation that gives prominence to his personal fiction and representations of the everyday world.

Kosmas Nikolaou is an Onassis AiR Fellow for 2023/24 within the framework of the Ulysses European project, that is co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.