VASKOS is an artistic duo by Vassilis Noulas and Kostas Tzimoulis. It started in Athens in 2014.
Vassilis Noulas is a visual artist and a theatre director based in Athens. He is a founding member and the main director of the theatre collective Nova Melancholía. In his work, he attempts to re-approach elements of the Greek and the European traditions of “melancholy”, hence gradually constructing his personal spiritual genealogy. He studied Drama at the University of Athens, Visual Arts at the ASFA and pursued postgraduate studies at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3. His work has been presented at the Athens Festival, the Onassis Stegi, the Santarcangelo Festival, the National Opera House, the Athens Biennale, as well as in squats, apartments and self-managed spaces. He is the author of five books of poetry and small prose. “The Lair”, first feature film, premiered at the Thessaloniki Festival 2019. In the recent years he has taken part in several bottom-up city movements: Mavili Collective, Theatre Embros Occupancy, Green Park Occupancy.
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Kostas Tzimoulis is a visual artist. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts and pursued postgraduate studies at the Westminster University, London and the Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem, in the Netherlands. He has presented six solo exhibitions: Recycled Spaces at the PCC, Belgrade in 2007, Useless Passages at the Artis Causa Gallery, Thessaloniki in 2008, Yucca at the Green Park occupation, Athens in 2015 and No Armature at Asklipiou 99, Athens in 2018, Predela at the EIGHT, a critical institute for arts and Politics, Athens 2020. Since 2014, he has been collaborating closely with the performance group Nova Melancholia. In 2016 together with Vassilis Noulas and Gigi Argyropoulou co-initiated and co-organized the DIY Performance Biennial: No Future, and in 2019 the EIGHT, a critical institute for arts and Politics.
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