Konstantinos Papantonis — visual artist and director, Athens.
Selected works, 2020–2026
About
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 Kokkinias 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 including AI Venice Awards (Finalist), Brussels Short Film Festival, Bogotá Short Film Festival, NewFilmmakers New York, AI Film Festival Japan, and Miami Art Tech Summit. His installation This Looks More Real Than It Did Yesterday opened at the Athens School of Fine Arts Degree Show 2026.
Selected exhibitions
Yannis Tsarouchis Foundation, 2023Piraeus Art Gallery, 2024
Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, 2022
Eleusis 2023 — European Capital of Culture
Athens School of Fine Arts — Degree Show, 2026
Residencies & awards
Experimental Stage, National Theatre of Greece, 2025Engaged Scenography, Goethe-Institut, 2024
ForPhotographersOnly — Photographer of the Year, 2023
Eco Art, Yerevan, 2022
AnimArt, Hydra, 2022
Contact
For exhibitions, commissions, and press —
write directly.