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'''Manos Saklas'''(b. 1998, Athens) is an artist whose practice unfolds across visual art and electro-acoustic music, examining the entanglements of sound, materiality, and technological mediation. Rooted in his studies at the Xenakis CMRC in Athens and EMS Stockholm, Saklas engages with cultural artifacts, and methodologies drawn from fields as diverse as conceptual art, ancient greek mythology, modernist compositional developments, psychoacoustics, and warfare technologies—an approach that underscores their latent sociopolitical resonances. Since 2020, he has been actively hosting discussions and artists talks bringing together visual artists, philosophers, composers, and art theorists.
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'''Manos Saklas''' (b. 1998, Athens) is an artist and a curator working across contemporary art, radio production and electro-acoustic music. His practice engages with cultural artifacts and compositional methodologies drawn from fields as diverse as conceptual art, electroacoustic music, greek mythology, acoustic ecology, and weather-sensing technologies—underscoring their sociopolitical resonances.
  
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In solo exhibition contexts, he often creates listening spaces that evoke a sense of introspection, combining rigorous methodologies with poetic sensibilities. Far from merely interpreting auditory nuances, his visual works feed into the audible part and are somewhat sonorous themselves. They do not only challenge sensory hierarchies; but intensify the listening experience itself, often taking place at the thresholds of perception, where cognitive processes are being modulated, heard and felt.
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Saklas work has been featured internationally in a wide range of settings, including galleries and museums, cultural and academic institutions, concert halls and music festivals, films and fashion archives, radio and public spaces. His recent exhibitions include: Kairos: Listening to the Weather (2026), Polyrhythmia in Paper (2026), Chronopoetics (2025), Articulations of Chaos (2024). Since 2020, he has been the artistic director, moderator and producer of the monthly radio show Otoliths in Flux as part of Onassis Cultural Center’s Stegi Radio. He studied visual art at Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (KHiO) Kunstakademiet, Royal Institute of Art (Mejan), and Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) along with sound studies and electro-acoustic music at Xenakis KSYME-CMRC and EMS Elektronmusikstudion.
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Saklas' practice seeks to catch a glimpse of the unseen, not to exhaust and actualize it, like science, or purely conceptualize it, like philosophy, but by employing aesthetics to embrace oscillations, flows, noises and atmospheres as incubators of possibility. [https://strumandiodine.com/artist/manos-saklas/]
 
  
 
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* [https://detach.live/podcasts/otoliths-in-flux Otoliths in Flux], radio show on stegi.radio
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* [https://kaput-mag.com/stories_en/manos-saklas-im-not-sure-if-i-am-interested-in-music-journalism/ Interview 2024]
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* [https://kaput-mag.com/stories_en/manos-saklas-im-not-sure-if-i-am-interested-in-music-journalism/ Interview], 2024
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* [https://stegi.radio/podcasts/otoliths-in-flux/ Otoliths in Flux]
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* [https://vektorathens.org/exhibition-imagine-you-wake-up-and-there-is-no-internet/ Selected Participations]
 
* [https://instagram.com/manos_saklas/ Instagram]
 
* [https://instagram.com/manos_saklas/ Instagram]
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* [[Mastodon::https://mastodon.social/@manossaklas|Mastodon]]
 
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[[Series: Contemporary Art, Electroacoustic Composition, Radio art, Sound Studies]]
 
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Latest revision as of 15:00, 21 December 2025

Manos Saklas (b. 1998, Athens) is an artist and a curator working across contemporary art, radio production and electro-acoustic music. His practice engages with cultural artifacts and compositional methodologies drawn from fields as diverse as conceptual art, electroacoustic music, greek mythology, acoustic ecology, and weather-sensing technologies—underscoring their sociopolitical resonances.

Saklas work has been featured internationally in a wide range of settings, including galleries and museums, cultural and academic institutions, concert halls and music festivals, films and fashion archives, radio and public spaces. His recent exhibitions include: Kairos: Listening to the Weather (2026), Polyrhythmia in Paper (2026), Chronopoetics (2025), Articulations of Chaos (2024). Since 2020, he has been the artistic director, moderator and producer of the monthly radio show Otoliths in Flux as part of Onassis Cultural Center’s Stegi Radio. He studied visual art at Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (KHiO) Kunstakademiet, Royal Institute of Art (Mejan), and Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) along with sound studies and electro-acoustic music at Xenakis KSYME-CMRC and EMS Elektronmusikstudion.

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