Stαthis Roukαs is a Greek interdisciplinary artist. His work spans performance, video, installation, photography, and language, exploring the performativity of the human body within physical and social contexts. Born in Athens in 1991, Roukas trained in Applied Arts and Interior Architecture before relocating to Berlin, where he currently lives and works.
Roukas’s work explores themes of identity, belonging, societal expectations, desire, trauma, and transcendence. He creates evocative scenarios that encourage viewers to reflect on the complexities of the human condition. With a conceptual approach, he playfully challenges the boundaries of normativity and prompts a rethinking of reality.
His work often contrasts opposing ideas, portraying characters caught between reality and fantasy, creating dissonant, dreamlike scenes that blur the lines between the tangible and the imagined.
His art functions as both an aesthetic experience and a means of collective emotional release. He uses body language as a healing method. By activating the audience and engaging with the space (site-specific works) Roukas creates opportunities for introspection, dialogue and deeper connection. His use of diverse media engages the senses while provoking emotional and intellectual responses.
Roukas’s work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, festivals, and alternative spaces across Europe, Japan, Brazil and Ethiopia.
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Selected Exhibitions
2024 Group Screening, Timeline:BH Festival, Belo Horizonte, BR
2024 Solo Performance, Inact Festival, Strasbourg, FR
2024 Group Exhibition, Paxos Biennale, Paxos Island, GR
2024 Solo Performance, BcmA Gallery, Berlin, DE
2024 Tokyo International Short Film Festival, Tokyo, JP
2023 Group exhibition, The Wrong Biennale, Online
2023 Solo Screening, SoMe Festival, Bucharest, RO
2023 Solo Performance, Mitte Museum, Berlin, DE
2023 Group Screening, MATCA, Cluj-Napoca, RO
2023 Group Exhibition, P7 Gallery, Berlin, DE
2023 Group Exhibition, Open Nights Festival, Larisa, GR
2023 Solo Performance, GLOGAUAIR, Berlin, DE
2022 Group Performance, Culterim Gallery, Berlin, DE
2022 Group Exhibition, B23 Space, Berlin, DE
2022 Group Screening, Addis Video Art Festival, Addis Ababa, ETH
2022 Solo Performance, Localize Festival, Potsdam, DE
2021 Group Exhibition, Ortstermin, Berlin, DE
2021 Group Exhibition, Fotoklub Kollektiv, Berlin, DE
2021 Group Screening, Videofenster, Cologne, DE
2019 Group Screening, Wolf Kino, Berlin, DE
2019 Group Exhibition, LiTE-HAUS Galerie, Berlin, DE
2019 Group Performance, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE
2017 Group Screening, Athens Digital Art Festival, Athens, GR
2016 Group Exhibition, Alte Münze, Berlin, DE
2016 Group Exhibition, Flutgraben, Berlin, DE
2016 Group Screening, Fonlad Digital Art Festival, Coimbra, PT
2015 Group Exhibition, Zerstört/TrashEra, Berlin, DE
2014 Group Screening, Miden Festival, Kalamata, GR