Aris Kalaizis (1966)

Aris Kalaizis

Aris Kalaizis is a German artist of Greek origin. He studied painting at the Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts.

Aris Kalaizis gained international recognition after taking part in the 2010 Venice Biennale (Mostra Internazionale di Architettura) and in the 4th Triennale in Guangzhou, China in 2011.

Calaisis creates his works by assembling elaborate spatial compositions and constructing large-scale scenes on the site of an imaginary action. In the process, he takes a series of preparatory photographs from which the final work is constructed. The scenes in his paintings, which often have a surrealistic impression, are developed from ideas that Kalaisis develops in the manner of a screenplay. The result of this step-by-step creative process are pictorial works that embody desired images of the inner world in line and colour.