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Thanasis Deligiannis
Θανάσης Δεληγιάννης
Background information
Born (1983-07-29) July 29, 1983 (age 41)
Larisa, Greece
Years active2001-present
Websitethanasisdeligiannis.com

Thanasis Deligiannis (Greek: Θανάσης Δεληγιάννης; born 1983) is a Greek transdisciplinary artist, composer and director based in Amsterdam. His work spans various mediums and aesthetics, blending installation and performance, acoustic and electronic music, new technologies, and elements of folk culture.

Early life and education

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Thanasis Deligiannis was born in Larissa, Greece. He studied composition and music theatre at the Department of Music Science and Art at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, with Dimitris Terzakis, Giorgos Kyriakakis, and Sofia Karakantza. In 2007 he moved to the Netherlands in 2007 to pursue his Master's degree in composition with Wim Henderickx at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, part of the Amsterdam University of the Arts.[1] Since 2010, Deligiannis has been based in Amsterdam, working as an artist and educator both in the Netherlands and internationally.[2]

Career

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In 2013 Deligiannis co-founded I/O, a company focused on creating interdisciplinary art projects.

Since 2010 he has been collaborating with director and archeologist Efthimis Theou. Together they have been creating performances that intersect theatre and archeology, such as their work The Meal a site-specific performance staged at the Neolithic site of Koutroulou Magoula in Greece. The work involved ritualistic food preparation, dialogue, and live sound, engaging with archaeological temporality and performance as shared practice. It was later adapted for exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) in Athens and has been referenced in academic studies on performance archaeology.[3]

was featured in the exhibition Afresh, A New Generation Of Greek Artists, organised by EMΣT in 2013, and later presented at the Mediterranea 17 Young Artists Biennale, hosted at Milan in 2015.[4]

In 2016 and 2017, Deligiannis served as the artistic coordinator of the music-theatre research platform RE-FUSE.[5][6] Since 2018 he has been teaching at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where he focuses on transdisciplinarity and composition.[7]

From 2016 to 2017, he served as artistic coordinator of RE-FUSE, a research platform for experimental music theatre supported by the Greek National Opera and Gaudeamus. He has also collaborated with Tanztheater Wuppertal – Pina Bausch under director Dimitris Papaioannou, and served as assistant to Heiner Goebbels at the Manchester International Festival.

In 2017–2018 Deligiannis collaborated with Tanztheater Wuppertal – Pina Bausch Company and the choreographer and visual artist Dimitris Papaioannou,[8] and served as an assistant to Heiner Goebbels at Manchester International Festival.[9] In has also been an artist-in-residence at the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2012,[10] at Gaudeamus from 2017 to 2019 through the Nieuwe Makers program supported by the Performing Arts Fund NL,[11] and at the Muziekgebouw Productiehuis in 2024.[12]

Deligiannis has been a featured artist at Venice Biennale 2024, presenting the collective interdisciplinary work Xirómero/Dryland at the Greek Pavilion (April-November 2024). The work, conceived by Deligiannis and Yannis Michalopoulos, was created along with the artists Elia Kalogianni, Yorgos Kyvernitis, Kostas Chaikalis and Fotis Sagonas.[13][14] The large-scale installation combined video, sound, water, and a motorized agricultural machine inside the Greek Pavilion. Xirómero/Dryland has received critical acclaim, with e-flux describing it as "destabilizing any division between reality and its representations."[15]

He has received commissions from institutions including Gaudeamus, Muziekgebouw (Amsterdam), Onassis Stegi, and Musica (Strasbourg), and held residencies among others with the New York Foundation for the Arts (2012), Gaudeamus (2017–2019), and Muziekgebouw (2024).[16][17]

Selected works

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  • Xirómero/Dryland: An immersive installation presented at the Greek Pavilion during the 60th Venice Art Biennale in 2024, combining agricultural machinery, sound, video, and light to explore rural landscapes and cultural narratives. In 2024, Deligiannis co-conceived Xirómero/Dryland with dramaturg Yannis Michalopoulos, which was presented as the national representation of Greece at the 60th Venice Art Biennale. The large-scale installation combined video, sound, water, and a motorized agricultural machine inside the Greek Pavilion. e-flux Criticism described it as “destabilizing any division between reality and its representations.”
  • ENA ENA: A hallucinatory, dreamlike recreation of a Greek nightclub from the 1980s, developed during his residency at Gaudeamus and performed at the Gaudeamus Festival in 2022. In 2022, Deligiannis created ENA ENA for Onassis Stegi in Athens, a piece blending live klarina music with electronic textures and spatial rituals. The work reflected his ongoing exploration of folk culture and immersive environments.
  • Margaroni Residency: A research project initiated with playwright Yannis Michalopoulos, focusing on the musical culture of the Greek periphery and its evolution, combining multimedia materials such as video, interviews, photographs, and field recordings.
  • In 2018, his performance piece re- premiered at Gaudeamus Muziekweek and TodaysArt Festival. The Wire described it as “a real festival highlight,” noting its playful and surreal transformation of a cabaret space into a site of fragmented theatricality.
  • The Meal a site-specific performance staged at the Neolithic site of Koutroulou Magoula in Greece. The work involved ritualistic food preparation, dialogue, and live sound, engaging with archaeological temporality and performance as shared practice. It was later adapted for exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) in Athens and has been referenced in academic studies on performance archaeology.[3]

Discography

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Publications

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  • Anna Ioanna - Entefktirio, Poetry Magazine (Entefktirio vol. 86, 2009)[21]
  • The Meal - Afresh A New Generation of Greek Artists, Exhibition Catalogue (ΕΜΣΤ, 2013)[22]
  • Theatre / Archaeology | Efthimis Theou - Various works in collaboration with and by Efthimis Theou (ΕΜΣΤ, 2020)[23][24]
  • BESTIARIO: a theater/archaeology performance at the Prehistoric settlement of Gournia, Crete - E. Theou, T. Metaxa, T. Deligiannis & D. Mylona (Kentro, 2023)[25][26]
  • Panel discussions and interviews / Disembordering the Musical Field, Paul Craenen & Michiel Schuijer - Shifting Boundaries, Situating Contemporary Music Practices (November Music, 2023)[27][28]

References

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  1. ^ "Deligiannis, Thanasis | "Hellenic Music Archive"". hellenicmusicarchive.gr. Retrieved 28 February 2025.
  2. ^ "Thanasis Deligiannis". New Music Now. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
  3. ^ a b Roling, Laura (9 March 2016). "Opera Forward Festival - Involving Compositions" (PDF). Opera Forward Festival Magazine. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
  4. ^ "Koutroulou Magoula – GRID". Retrieved 1 March 2025.
  5. ^ "Music Theater Research Platform RE-FUSE - Greek National Opera". www.nationalopera.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 22 February 2025.
  6. ^ "RE-FUSE music theatre research platform". www.music-theatre.com. Retrieved 31 October 2024.
  7. ^ "Composition". Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  8. ^ "Since she". www.pina-bausch.de. Retrieved 31 October 2024.
  9. ^ "Everything that happened and would happen". www.artangel.org.uk. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  10. ^ "NYFA's First International Composers Exchange". ISSUE Project Room. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
  11. ^ "Thanasis Deligiannis". Gaudeamus. Retrieved 31 October 2024.
  12. ^ "Muziekgebouw". www.muziekgebouw.nl. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
  13. ^ "Xirómero/Dryland | EMST". Retrieved 1 March 2025.
  14. ^ La Biennale (15 April 2024). "Biennale Arte 2024 | Greece". La Biennale di Venezia. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
  15. ^ ""Foreigners Everywhere" - Criticism". e-flux. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
  16. ^ "Onassis AiR Thanasis Deligiannis and Yannis Michalopoulos Fellowship". www.onassis.org. Retrieved 31 October 2024.
  17. ^ "«Ξηρόμερο»: Από τα πανηγύρια της Αιτωλοακαρνανίας στην Μπιενάλε της Βενετίας | LiFO". www.lifo.gr (in Greek). 31 October 2023. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
  18. ^ "Kaja Draksler - The Lives Of Many Others". www.cleanfeed-records.com.
  19. ^ "Not a Single Road". Seldom Sene. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
  20. ^ Admin (13 April 2021). "Sterre Konijn - EEN". www.7mntn.com.
  21. ^ ΕΝΤΕΥΚΤΗΡΙΟ ΤΕΥΧΟΣ 86 - ΙΟΥΛΙΟΣ ΣΕΠΤΕΜΒΡΙΟΣ 2009 [Entefktirio magazine issue 86 - July-September 2009] (in Greek).
  22. ^ "Afresh A New Generation of Greek Artists". EMSTeShop. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
  23. ^ "Theatre / Archaeology | Efthimis Theou". EMSTeShop. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
  24. ^ Theou, Efthimis. "GRIDS - A theatre/archaeology space". www.performance-archaeology.com.
  25. ^ Theou, Efthimis; Mylona, Dimitra; Deligiannis, Thanasis (1 January 2023). "BESTIARIO: a theater/archaeology performance at the Prehistoric settlement of Gournia, Crete". KENTRO: The Newsletter Fo the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete, Vol. 26.
  26. ^ "Kentro: The Newsletter of the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete - INSTAP Study Center for East Crete". 12 June 2020. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
  27. ^ Music, November. "Shifting Boundaries 2023". November Music (in Dutch). Retrieved 9 November 2024.
  28. ^ Shifting Boundaries - Situating Contemporary Music Practices (PDF). November Music. 2023.
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