Konstantinos Papantonis is a visual artist and director based in Athens. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts in the studio of Nikos Navridis, specialising in photography under Panos Kokkinia and Nikolaos Arvanitis, and in 3D animation at AKTO. He currently serves as Creative Director at AiWonderLab — an R&D company working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and creative technology.
Installation sits at the core of his practice. He treats it as a layered field of experience, narration, performativity, and memory — working with everyday materials and objects charged with meaning. Detail, decay, and materiality are central to his visual language. His work explores how social structures shape the body, how identity is inscribed into space, and how the past — personal or collective — resurfaces as fragment and trace.
In 2025, he directed the AI short film A Trip to Sargasso Sea, selected across 13 international festivals: AI Venice Awards (Finalist), Bali International AI Film Festival, AI Film Festival Japan, 17th Seoul International Extreme-Short Image & Film Festival, Brussels Short Film Festival, Bogotá Short Film Festival, NewFilmmakers New York, Miami Art Tech Summit, and others. Upcoming: AI Film Awards Cannes 2026, Seoul International AI Film Festival.
His podcast The Empire of One Square Meter was presented at TIF 66 in Thessaloniki. His theatrical work Port Saint 5:35 was staged at the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus; Port Saint 5:36 was presented in London at the Et Cetera Festival and The Puppet Bar Theater. As scenographer, he collaborated with Euripides Laskaridis on Osmosis Lapis Lazuli (2024).
His visual work has appeared on the covers of Greek Erotic Epigram (Oxford University Press, 2024), Excavating (CRC Press, 2023), and the newspaper TO VIMA (Alter Ego Media, 2021–22). It has been exhibited at the Piraeus Municipal Gallery, the Athens Photo Festival (Benaki Museum, 2022, Official Selection), the Yannis Tsarouchis Foundation, and the Eleusis programme (Mystery 69). In 2023, he was named best photographer by the international publication ForPhotographersOnly.
He has participated in residencies including the Engaged Scenography programme by Goethe-Institut (2024), Eco Art in Yerevan, Armenia (2022), and AnimArt in Hydra (2022). In 2025, he was selected among the emerging creators of the Experimental Stage of the National Theatre of Greece. Alongside his artistic practice, he has worked on film and commercial productions through Filmiki and Faliro House — for Vodafone, Stoiximan, Piraeus Bank, Alfa, Breitling, Protergia, and Vikos.
