Bio

Leandros Ntolas (b. 1992, Greece) is an artist currently based in The Hague. He holds a BFA (Hons) in Sculpture from the Athens School of Fine Arts (2015) and an MMus in ArtScience from the ArtScience Interfaculty at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague (2018). Ntolas has been active in the field of public art, exhibiting works in both Greece and the Netherlands. In 2019, he was awarded the Stipend for Emerging Artists by the Mondrian Fund, and since then his work has been supported by organizations such as Stroom Den Haag, British Council Northern Ireland and Outset NL. Since 2019, he teaches as a guest lecturer at the ArtScience Interfaculty in The Hague.

As an extension of his artistic practice Ntolas recently founded AFTERNATURE productions, a creative studio focused on crafting unique experiences through the medium of video games.

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Description of practice

The artistic practice of Ntolas can be defined as multidisciplinary and pluralistic, in the sense that it doesn’t limit itself to one medium, direction or approach, but embraces the freedom to traverse a multitude of creative paths following its curiosity and intuition. The common thread of this free-roaming practice is a phenomenological and experimental approach combined with research into diverse fields ranging from the study of light, optics and perception, to architecture, history, philosophy, and metaphysics.

His work has taken various forms, including public art installations, drawings, sculptures, large-scale installations, and architectural models. Through these varied expressions, Ntolas aims to create multi-layered experiences that are visceral, embodied, and conceptual.

In his recent exploration of video games as a creative medium, he seeks to cross-pollinate between this emerging form and more established art forms such as contemporary art, literature, and film. His work investigates the potential outcomes and new possibilities that can arise from this merging of disciplines.