Stαthis Roukαs is a Greek interdisciplinary artist and researcher whose practice spans live performance, video, photography, and language. His work explores the performativity of the human body within physical and social contexts. Born in Athens in 1991, Roukas studied Applied Arts and Interior Architecture before relocating to Berlin in 2015, where he currently lives and works.
Rooted in existential inquiry, Roukas’s artistic practice navigates themes of identity, belonging, societal expectation, trauma, desire, and transcendence. His evocative, uncanny works invite reflection on the complexities of the human condition and the relational dynamics between individuals, society, and the environment.
Roukas is known for immersive, often participatory performances that engage audiences physically, intellectually or emotionally. Frequently site-specific, these works foster introspection, dialogue, inclusion, and deeper connection.
Roukas’s work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, festivals, and off-spaces across Europe, Japan, Brazil, and Ethiopia. He works aside as embodiment photographer, sensual bodyworker and movement facilitator.
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Selected Exhibitions
2026 Calceolaria, Haus der Statistik, Berlin, DE
2026 Dreamlet, HilbertRaum Gallery, Berlin, DE
2026 The Audience, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE
2025 Sick Moves, Grüner Salon Volksbühne, Berlin, DE
2024 9th Timeline:BH Festival, Belo Horizonte, BR
2024 Death, NEW FEARS Gallery, Berlin, DE
2024 Manifesto of Memory, Paxos Biennale, Paxos Island, GR
2024 Digital Intimacies, BcmA Gallery, Berlin, DE
2024 37th Tokyo International ShortFilm Festival, Tokyo, JP
2023 6th The Wrong Biennale, Online
2023 GAST/SPIELE Ortstermin, Mitte Museum, Berlin, DE
2023 SoMe Festival, Bucharest, RO
2023 Work In Progress, GLOGAUAIR, Berlin, DE
2022 Adjure, Culterim Gallery, Berlin, DE
2022 4th Addis Video Art Festival, Addis Ababa, ETH
2022 Übern Berg, Localize Festival, Potsdam, DE
2021 Metamorphosis, Fotoklub Kollektiv, Berlin, DE
2021 Videofenster, Cologne, DE
2019 Slow Motion Disasters, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2017 PostFuture, Athens Digital Art Festival, Athens, GR
2016 12th Fonlad Digital Art Festival, Coimbra, PT