Dimitris Ntokos

Greek. Born in 1984 in Athens, Greece.

Dimitris Ntokos was introduced in the Greek art scene as a street artist deeply influenced by the symbols of ancient Egypt, firstly with the motif of the scarab and then at a later stage with the hieroglyphs that take over his compositions. His art can be found in Athens, where it adorns a basketball court in Kifissia or some local businesses’ shutters, as well as abroad, on the walls of abandoned buildings in Berlin, Belgium, and Italy. The artist works mainly with acrylics and oils in bright colors. It is striking that most symbols are not repeated on the surface he has chosen to work on, be it a canvas, a car, a wall, or a mirror. One symbol follows the other, therefore unfolding a mysterious papyrus, a cryptic letter, and a coded diary, the symbols of which are interpreted through the eyes of each viewer.

The peculiarity of Ntoko’s new series is that each ideogram is isolated in the square composition of the canvas. Those who have been following Ntokos since the beginning of his career experience a shift of focus from the story to the letter. In this new series, the viewers are invited to look thoroughly at each letter’s form and the details of the original “texts.” They find themselves observing the very beginning of Dimitris Ntokos’ linguistic labyrinth. With the works placed next to each other, in horizontal but also vertical arrangements, the space of Al-Tiba9 functions as a “Tabula Rasa,” where the artist’s new collection unfolds on the walls, mapping a new viewing path/text line for the “reader” of his works. Through his new exhibition, the artist turns our gaze to the “beginning” of his characteristic artistic identity and reveals that each of the symbols is a letter and that its alphabet consists of 26 letters. Each representation hides a letter from the Latin alphabet without expressing a note or a syllable. Whether each represents a whole concept, retelling a story, remains an open question.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

• ‘Signs’, Al-Tiba9 Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

2023

• ‘Various Pieces’, The Virgin Mojito Art Gallery, Athens, Greece

2021

• ‘Alphabet’, The Blender Gallery, Athens, Greece

• ‘Are you the Artistic Type?’, The Bold Type Hotel, Patras, Greece

• ‘Mystical Rhythms’, Skoufa Gallery, Mykonos, Greece

2019

• ’Re-Born’ (khpr), Giuseppe Veniero Gallery, Palermo, Italy

• ‘This is a True Story’, Concept Gallery, Spetses, Greece

2018

• ‘Artist’s Diaries’, Isnotgallery, Old Nicosia, Cyprus

2017

• ‘Metamorphosis’, The Blender Gallery, Athens, Greece

2016

• ‘K8’, Art Point, Athens, Greece

2012

• 2 ‘Post Nature’, Hoxton, Athens, Greece

ART FAIRS

2025

• UVNT Art Fair, Al-Tiba9 Gallery, Madrid, Spain

2022

• Art Athina, The Blender Gallery, Athens, Greece

2021

• Art Athina, The Blender Gallery, Athens, Greece

2017

• Art Athina, The Blender Gallery, Athens, Greece