Panos Balomenos

Panos Balomenos is an artist from Athens, Greece, living and working in Helsinki, Finland since 2003. Balomenos uses watercolor painting and performance to combine personal narratives, historical events, and fiction to explore subjects such as power relations, sexuality and politics. Balomenos’s watercolour pieces are often carried out as a series. Each painting contains several layers, stories, and references. Balomenos believes that in our contemporary world, where our lives and habits are scarily digitalized, painting is a unique tool left intact and suitable for engagement, social criticism and reflection.

Balomenos’s residency occurs in partnership with the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York and the Finnish Cultural Foundation.