Vassilis Charalampidis

Vassilis Charalampidis, is a founding member of BIOS, a cultural organization for today's art, urban life and the creative industries. Since the foundation of BIOS in 2001 and until 2019, Vassilis Charalampidis as general manager and artistic director has been curating numerous events and performances about urban culture, cross media and various expressions of contemporary artistic creativity, leading bios in becoming recognised as the incubator of new artists in Greece. BIOS today has 3 venues across the historical centre of Athens. Bios is referenced by the Greek Ministry of culture in several reports as best practice. And has been showcased by the European Commission several times as an Innovative and sustainable business model. Additionally, as a graphic designer, he has received numerous Greek and European awards and distinctions. In 2003, he joins the Olympic Games opening ceremony’s creative team and he designs all of the graphics of the opening act. He is also a founding member and president of the board of the first European Creative Hubs Network, along with partners from all over Europe and over 300 members in 36 different countries. ECHN is a network that has been created to connect the creative professionals and empower the cultural and creative industries, as well as to shape equivalent strategies at a national and European level. Vassilis Charalampidis has also been keynote speaker at conferences and events that take place around Europe concerning culture, creativity and life in the city. He participated in the consultation on the shaping of the new European agenda for culture, as well as in various meetings on the process of creating new European Commission programs focusing on cultural and creative industries, innovation and social cohesion.
He is devoted to highlight the importance of culture and today s creative practice in shaping society and the modern way of life; to promote the interdisciplinarity and the unexpected intersection between art and science giving rise to new ways of thinking about our world and the ways we interact with it and creating accessibility platforms to the various forms of expression for all.