Get to know the artists of XV Florence Biennale (Fortezza da Basso, Firenze 18-26 October 2025)
Giannis Palatzidis
Giannis Palatzidis, born in 1983, is an artist, living and working in Thessaloniki, Greece.
He studied Balcan Studies at Auth and then succeded at Fine & Applied Arts of School of Fine Arts. He is the Head Art Teacher of Kristiboni art school educational programs. He has curated and participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions, book illustrations, theatre performance set designs, art workshops and industrial design projects.
His collaborations includes: “Suppartive students” group exhibition, New York Design Center powered by Hellenic Relief Foundation; Nitra Gallery - Athens solo & group exhibitions, including Art Thessaloniki 2022 & Art Athina 2020; “Why cinema now?” 50 years Anniversary - Thessaloniki International Film Festival; Villa Kapandji – MIET (National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation), Thessaloniki; Head Art Teacher of educational programs, YMCA Thessaloniki; Street Art Projects, Teloglion Foundation, Thessaloniki; “Trash Art Festival”, Bios Athens; “Emmanouil Panselinos - Mikres exegerseis” Thessaloniki International Fair, Helexpo; “2nd Painting Lab: AUTh Faculty of Fine Arts” Museum of Contemporary Art, Florina.
Get to know the artists of XV Florence Biennale (Fortezza da Basso, Firenze 18-26 October 2025)
Christos Kraniotis
Chris Kraniotis is an artist who has lived and worked in Thessaloniki since 2001.
He studied Social Religion at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Photography at the Stereosis School of Photography and has obtained a master’s degree in Administration of Cultural Heritage at Hellenic Open University.
Since 2010 he is the co-founder of the art school Kristiboni. In 2018 he was selected from Athens School of Fine Arts Residency (Tsepelovo Greece), for the project “Postcards from Home”. Ιn 2022 he self published “Without Foundations”, a photobook which has been exhibited at the Athens Art Book Fair 2023, Bratislava Off Festival (Off libris 2023), at the First & Second Pinakotheke PhotoBook Fairs and at the Athens Zine Bibliotheke. He has held four solo exhibitions and his work has been exhibited in several group exhibitions in cultural spaces and galleries in Greece and abroad (Kunst Depot Venice, Wisedog Modular Design Area, Tabya multi-space, Helios art space, Refugee Museum etc.).
His work “Medium distance” was selected for the 15th Edition of the Photography Festival in Capri, from the Fondazione di Capri exhibited at the Museo Certosa di San Giacomo, curated by Dennis Curti (September-October 2023).