About

Thanasis Deligiannis is a Dutch-based artist, born in Greece in 1983. He grew up in a family of traditional musicians, dancers and farmers, moving to Amsterdam in 2007. He is a featured artist at the Venice Art Biennale 2024, together with an artistic team that is presenting the work Ξηρόμερο / Dryland at the Greek Pavilion. Thanasis has been artist-in-residence at Onassis Air for 2022-2023, and at Gaudeamus for 2017-2019 with the support of the program Nieuwe Makers by the Performing Arts Fund NL. In 2018 he was assistant to Heiner Goebbels at the Manchester International Festival. In 2017-2018 he worked at the Tanztheater Wuppertal – Pina Bausch Company as a member of Dimitris Papaioannou’s creative team. For the years 2016 and 2017 he has been the artistic coordinator of the music-theatre research platform RE-FUSE, an initiative of the Greek National Opera in collaboration with Gaudeamus. In 2012 he was artist-in-residence at the New York Foundation for the Arts. Since 2018 Thanasis has been teaching at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and occasionally gives workshops to educational institutions in the Netherlands and the rest of Europe. He has worked as the assistant artistic director for the Nieuw Ensemble from 2011 till 2014 and as the artistic coordinator of the intercultural music platform Atlas Lab from 2011 till 2016. In 2013 he co-founded the Amsterdam-based company I/O focused on the creation of interdisciplinary projects. He has been active as an interdisciplinary artist, composer, sound designer and performer in Europe, Asia and North America.