artist, Crash!Boom!Bau! Festival

Nikos Arvanitis, born 1979 in Athens/ GR, studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna/ A, at the Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens/ GR (Erasmus scholarship) and at the MFA course "Public Art and new artistic Strategies" at the Bauhaus University of Weimar/ DE with scholarships from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and the A. S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. He won the first prize on the "ZeitGenosse Schiller" Competition for public art, Weimar 2005, and was nominated for the „5th DESTE Prize“ of the Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece, 2007. His Artistic work consists of big format drawings, Videos, and installations, combined with Sound/Music as well as public interventions. His Work has been exhibited in Austria, Greece, Iceland, Germany, and Belgium. Since 2005 he is a member of the artist Duo "Barking Dogs United".

Barking Dogs United

Barking Dogs United is an Artist Duo founded by Nikos Arvanitis and Naomi Tereza Salmon in 2005.
Barking dogs don’t bite. Like with the proverbial dogs, it’s not the individual dog’s fault that he can’t bite when he’s barking, but the fault of the species, his development. It is art that can only symbolically bark and not politically bite.
Barking Dogs United do not embrace mass culture in order to modernize high culture, and do not embrace high culture in order to separate them selves from mass culture, but rather create solidarity with useless hedonistic individual components that promise neither product value nor increased prominence. Barking Dogs United bark, since in art, there is no reason to bite.