Andreas Angelidakis is a Greek artist and architect based in Athens. Trained at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and Columbia University, he works across installation, sculpture, writing, publishing and exhibition-making. His projects often begin as digital models before becoming physical environments that visitors can enter, move through or rearrange. Ruins, the internet and the politics of architecture recur throughout his work. By treating buildings as carriers of memory and ideology, he examines how institutions, cities and images shape identity. Humour, speculative narratives and deliberately unstable forms allow him to move between historical evidence and fiction.
In 2026, Angelidakis represents Greece at the 61st Venice Biennale with Escape Room, on view from 9 May to 22 November. The immersive installation transforms the Greek Pavilion into a contemporary version of Plato’s cave. Padded architectural fragments, screens, mirrors and game-like clues connect the pavilion’s 1934 history with post-truth politics, nationalism and digital spectacle. Rather than presenting history as fixed, the work shows how narratives can be staged, repeated and commercialised until they appear true. Escape Room extends Angelidakis’s interest in the relationship between space, power and spectatorship, making the pavilion itself both the subject of the work and an environment that implicates its visitors.