My work situates itself within the tension area produced by the categories ''fine'' and ''applied'' arts. What are the (culturally specific) criteria that determine when an object is going to be placed in the first or in the second category? How do class, gender, technique(s) and materials, size and exchange value, context of display and curatorial discourse affect such classifications?

Apostolos Ntelakos (b. 1973) has studied Visual Arts (BA, 2002–2006) in Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Applied Arts / Autonomous Design (BA, 2008-2010) at the Sandberg Institute also in Amsterdam. He has been awarded with the Prize for Best Graduation Show of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2006 and with the Prize for Best Group Presentation in DMY-Berlin Festival in 2009.

He has had five solo exhibitions and more than fifty group shows in The Netherlands, Germany, China and Greece. Most recent solo shows include ”geometry as caprice”, curated by Evita Tsokanta at a.antonopoulou.art in Athens (2018) and “do objects stay” curated by Alexandros Psychoulis, in Cask Gallery in Larissa (2016).

He has been teaching visual arts to kids between 6 and 12 years old for eight years and has run a design workshop for four years at the MA course Post-Industrial Design in the Architecture Department of the University of Thessaly. He has just completed an MA degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology in Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens.