David Panos
Greek-born artist David Panos is perhaps best known for his artistic partnership with Anja Kirschner, with whom he has been collaborating on dense, conceptual projects, spanning multiple genres, since the mid-2000s. Using computer-generated imagery, video, and installation, the duo examines how various technologies—motion capture, currency, routinization, and others—change the ways in which we perceive the world, other people, popular culture, history, and literary tropes. The duo is particularly interested in the nature of performance, use of surrogates and actors, as well as narrative construction on the whole.
Panos’ recent body of work positions itself in an intersection between fleshy physicality, fetishism and metaphysics. It continues the formal and thematic engagement with the notion of ‘real abstraction’ and the theatrics of the commodity form begun in recent collaborative works like Ultimate Substance, which drew from philosophy, mathematics, and ritual. Filmed in and nearby Athens’s Numismatic Museum, as well as in the vicinity of an ancient Greek mining region, the video addressed themes relating to the passage of time, archeology, economy, and history.
Recent solo exhibitions by Panos (and in some cases Kirschner) include shows at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) in Berlin, Artists Space in New York, the Museo de …
Greek-born artist David Panos is perhaps best known for his artistic partnership with Anja Kirschner, with whom he has been collaborating on dense, conceptual projects, spanning multiple genres, since the mid-2000s. Using computer-generated imagery, video, and installation, the duo examines how various technologies—motion capture, currency, routinization, and others—change the ways in which we perceive the world, other people, popular culture, history, and literary tropes. The duo is particularly interested in the nature of performance, use of surrogates and actors, as well as narrative construction on the whole.
Panos’ recent body of work positions itself in an intersection between fleshy physicality, fetishism and metaphysics. It continues the formal and thematic engagement with the notion of ‘real abstraction’ and the theatrics of the commodity form begun in recent collaborative works like Ultimate Substance, which drew from philosophy, mathematics, and ritual. Filmed in and nearby Athens’s Numismatic Museum, as well as in the vicinity of an ancient Greek mining region, the video addressed themes relating to the passage of time, archeology, economy, and history.
Recent solo exhibitions by Panos (and in some cases Kirschner) include shows at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) in Berlin, Artists Space in New York, the Museo de Arte Contemporanea Vigo, Museu Maritim in Barcelona, Nassauischer Kunstverein in Wiesbaen, and Kunsthalle Oslo. Kirschner and Panos were included in a group exhibition at the Palais de Toyko and have received awards including the Jarman Award in 2011 and the FLAMIN Award in 2009. They have also released two LPs of experimental electronic music.
