Michalis Toumanidis

Michalis Toumanidis was born in Kavala, Greece in 1984. He spent his childhood years in Athens and Volos. He has never stopped painting and loving pictures. He studied at the VAKALO college of Athens specializing in graphic design. Since 2013 he has been living and working in Kavala, running a small creative office in the center of the city. He likes to experiment with hand made print techniques and to blurring the borders of applied and fine arts.

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Bildakt

“Bildakt” duo consists of Maria Tsiroukidou and Kosta Gourtzis.

Maria Tsiroukidou was born in Kozani. She studied painting at the Department of Fine and Applied Arts of the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and completed the Postgraduate Program “Audiovisual Arts in the Digital Age” at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University. She has been living and working in Thessaloniki for the last few years, while she is currently exhibiting her work regularly in Greece and abroad.

Kostas Gourtzis was born in Kavala. He studied painting at the Department of Fine and Applied Arts of the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and completed the Master of Visual Arts at the School of Fine Arts in Athens. He lives and works in Thessaloniki. Since 2019 he teaches at the First Painting Studio of the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Kois Mansion – Kois Optics

Kois Mansion – Kois Optics. Built in 1860, the Mansion, residence of Kois family, is located in the heart of Hermoupolis, the capital town of Syros Island. Expressing the classicism prevailing in the architecture of Europe at the time, is adorned with an imposing pediment, which occupies the entire facade. Decorated with an elaborate marble staircase in the interior and beautiful frescoes, the mansion is famous for its ceiling fresco, representing eight of the gods of ancient Greeks – Zeus, Hermes, Themis, Apollo, Dimitra, Athena and four leading features of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottomans back in the 1821; Rigas Feraios, Georgios Karaiskakis, Theodoros Kolokotronis and Constantine Kanaris. The fresco is completed by a frieze painting, crowned with a brim which leads to an ornamentation typical of the Ionic order.

Konstantinos Fidanis

Konstantinos Fidanis is an architect engineer born and raised in Greece. Practicing balance between art & engineering, he seeks inspiration in kallos, textures, light, shapes & interesting realities. His portfolio includes design projects with Vogue Greece, Bombay Sapphire, Moet Chandon Champagne, Russian Standard Vodka, Daios Cove Luxury Resort, Hermina Athens and various publications. He’s co-founder of a new company along with his partner, a design and concept studio launching soon, KREO.

Robin Savas Savvidis

Robin Savas Savvidis was born in 1978. Professional training at Atelier Uwe van Afferden with focus on typography, color design, illustration, packaging design, and editorial design. Informed by Uwe van Afferden’s works in interior design and handling of materials. Freelancer with focus on corporate design, packaging design, illustration, campaigns, and online media from 2004 to 2010. Art director and senior art director for online media and digital applications at babiel from 2010 to 2013. During this time, babiel received the German Design Award, the Red Dot Communication Design Award, and the IF Communication Design Award, among others. Co-founder and managing partner of award winning design studio elmo+savvidis since 2014.

Secret Designer

Because MANTILITY strongly believes in the strength and potential of anonymous artists. This collection includes unique artworks from designers who wish to remain anonymous, essentially freeing the buyer from the bias of artists’ recognition and defining their work value on individual subjective appreciation.

Some artists will be revealed after the scarf has been purchased (in the concept card inside the scarf box) while others will not.

Manos Mpatzolis

Born in Kavala, Greece. He has studied graphics, painting and sculpture since early age. He has worked as a graphic designer, cameraman and has participated in art workshops, drama therapy, theatre and direction. In 2013, he launched his website http://www.poprenaissance.net, which he operates as an online gallery. In 2014, he collaborated for the first time with a team of artists and craftsmen in Santorini Island. He has also taken part in the Industrial exhibition which took place in Santorini Art Factory, along with 26 other artists. A piece of his work has been added in the American magazine Homme Essential via etsy.com. He has also participated in Raw Fusion Fashion Show in Mankato Minnesota and in Crowd Omnibus Tour in Kavala. He recently fulfilled his own personal artwork exhibition, under the title Case Blue, which was presented in Kavala and Crete. In 2017, he created a lighthouse from recycled material, as a participant of TEDxKavala. In 2018, he fullfiled the URBANUDE shortfilm project in Berlin, which was one of the finalist films in Argo Film Festival. In 2019, he launched Blind Project in Studio Bleu, Paris, in cooperation with Lamproductionsparis. He also participated in Ricochet(s) festival in Clermont-fd, France with Phoenix exhibition and the BLIND & SENSES, Bedroom Experience. Ιn 2021 Αwarded in the art competition of foundation of the hellenic world. Ιn the period 2021-2023 he has taken part in group art exhibitions held in various cities of Greece.

Stratos Kalafatis

Stratos Kalafatis is a photographer. He was born in Kavala in 1966. He lives in Thessaloniki, where he and Lia Nalbantidou have created studiotessera, a photography platform. The following works of his are available from Agra publications: Archetypal Images(1999), Omonoia 2000 – A journey to the heart of Athens, with texts by Philippos Philippou (2000), Journal 1998-2002 (2004), Athos / The colours of faith (2014). He is represented by the Bernier / Eliades gallery.

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Kuki

Eleni Koukkidou, aka Kuki, was born in Thessaloniki and studied Multimedia Graphic Design. She participated in drawing and graffiti groups in school years. After studies, she started working as a freelancer designer. Then, she created her own design studio in Thessaloniki’s downtown. She had worked with worldwide businesses, organizations, liberal professions, organizers of events etc. Her inspiration? The combination of black chocolate with espresso!

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Sigma Gamma

Graphic designer, illustrator, visual artist. Greek, born in 1987, he had his first contact with visual arts, caricature specifically, when he was still very young and in a short period of time he managed to develop his painting skills (self-taught).

Studied in Akto graphic design school and through his familiarization with the modern technology he chose to focus on the use of digitizer as his main working tool.

Started his career as a designer for an advertising company but it didn’t take long to surrender to his love for street, pop and psychedelic influences. Through the combination of the mediums, the aesthetics and the agenda he worked on (well known domestic alternative djs/producers, plus plenty of album artworks) he ended up in a characteristic personal style which became the identifier of his pieces (100% handmade material). Lately he expanded his activity in the fields of video editing and illustration in clips of domestic artists and Vjing.