b. 1988 | based in Athens, Greece
BIOGRAPHY
Theo Triantafyllidis builds performative systems where natural and synthetic intelligences rehearse their coexistence. Working with games, live simulations, performances, and installations, he creates volatile arrangements presented as darkly playful procedural worlds. His work uses the logic of play and simulation to approach phenomena too vast to narrate: ecological collapse, social entanglement and networked desire, turning them into experiences that can be felt rather than verbally explained.
At the center of the practice is the body: primal, sexual, comedic, and often overwhelmed. Triantafyllidis explores the uneasy fit between our ancient instincts and the accelerating systems we inhabit, exposing the eternal absurdity of that mismatch. His characters: human, animal, monster, or machine, balance between control and surrender, humor and dread, intimacy or spectacle. The outcome is a continuously evolving ecosystem of works that is searching for a tender, hormonal core inside an overstimulated world.
He holds an MFA from UCLA, Design Media Arts and a Diploma of Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens. He has shown work in museums, including the Whitney Museum in New York, Centre Pompidou in Metz, Buk-SEMA in Seoul, House of electronic Arts in Basel, Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Sapieha Palace in Vilnius and NRW Forum in Dusseldorf and galleries such as Meredith Rosen Gallery, The Breeder and Nagel Draxler. He was part of the 2021 Athens Biennale: Eclipse, Berliner Festspiele 2021, Sundance New Frontier 2020 and Hyper Pavilion in the 2017 Venice Biennale.