Yannis Ziogas

Yannis Ziogas was born in Thessaloniki (Greece). He is a professor in Painting at the Department of Fine and Applied Arts of the University of Western Macedonia. He studied Math (BS University of Athens) and received his Master's in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts (1991) in New York, and holds a Ph.D. from The University of the Aegean (2013); he has held twenty-five solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. In 2001, with the support of the J. F. Kostopoulos Foundation, he attended the International and Curatorial Program in New York. His work has been reviewed nationally and internationally (New York Times, Artnews, Sculpture, Giornale dell’ Arte). He is the author of several essays on art theory and of the books The Byzantine Malevich, Tarkovsky in Chalkis, Censorship in Visual Arts, The Diary of a ΠΔ 407/80.

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    The Poetics of the walking images

    , 31 August 2026

    Walking through places generates mental images we carry with us: glimpses of where we were and what we did. But can we be sure of that? Think of the image you carry of a place you’ve walked: its colours, how it unfolded, its texture, its sound. Always slipping, always being… Read more »