Kostas Bassanos was born in Greece. He studied Sculpture at Accademia Clementina in Bologna (Italy) and MA Sculpture at Winchester School of Art (GB). He holds a PhD from University of Southampton (GB) and he teaches Sculpture at The School of Fine Arts of the University of Ioannina (GR). He lives and works in Athens.

Kostas Bassanos artistic practice explore the various narratives that inform our experience of space within a conceptual and poetic framework that language suggests. In his text-based work, mainly related to concepts such as territory, landscape and habitat he revises words and materials by marking their sculptural qualities and their spatial context whitin a socio-political perspective, underpinned by a shift from content-specific to site-specific.

His work has been shown extensively in Greece and abroad in solo and group shows.

Personal Webpage: http://www.bassanos.gr