Adrianos Efthymiadis
Adrianos Efthymiadis, born in 1997, is an artist and researcher from Athens, Greece. He began his formal education at The Cooper Union’s Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in New York (2015-2017), before deciding to discontinue his studies and return to Greece to focus on the study of philosophy (phenomenology) and theology of the 20the century. He considers himself a "highly untrained clown of many disciplines, a jack of no trades."
Adrianos has also attended courses in the theory of clowning and miming under Avner The Eccentric, which has influenced his multidisciplinary approach to art and theory. He has primarily been working as an artist and lecturer, participating in both solo and group shows, including notable exhibitions such as the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale and Art Athina Virtual 2021. His academic involvement includes roles as a research assistant and guest lecturer at various institutions, including İstanbul’s Bilgi Üniversitesi, Politecnico di Torino, and the Latvian Academy of Music's conference on Artistic Research.
In 2021, Adrianos served as Associate Curator and Project Manager at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale’s CITYX Venice Italian Virtual Pavilion for Arts Letters & Numbers’ exhibition titled “SunShip: The Arc That Makes The Flood Possible.” He co-organized and managed over 80 online events, featuring participants such as NASA, CAFA, CUHK, AA, UNICEF’s Office of Innovation, The United Nations, The Exploratorium San Francisco, Terry Riley, Lawrence Weschler, Walter Murch, James Green, Bob Garfield, Tony Drazan, Alberto Perez Gomez, Michael Benson, Michael Harrison, Rhoda Rosen, Louise Pelletier, and Riva Lehrer.
In 2023 he co-curated ALN’s virtual pavilion at the CITYXCOMMS 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, titled "Archive; Infinite Fragile Double.”
Adrianos has contributed as an artistic consultant for Patricia Apergi’s The House of Trouble (by Aerites Dance Company), which premiered at Onassis Stegi in 2023. In 2023, he also worked as a curatorial assistant under Nadja Argyropoulou for her exhibition “Outraged by Pleasure.” The same year, he joined Patricia Apergi’s team as an associate artist and graphic designer for Apergi’s U(R)TOPIAS Academy of Choreography, a project under the aegis of Moving Europe program of Eleusis 2023 - European Capital of Culture.
Since 2023, Adrianos has been serving as the Design Director and Grant Manager for Arts Letters & Numbers, a non-profit organization in New York dedicated to creating a more equitable and responsive educational landscape for youth and adults, particularly in opioid-affected areas.
Looking ahead, Adrianos will participate in two group shows in 2024, has a solo show scheduled for 2025, and plans to publish two books of his lectures in 2025.
