Leonidas Karampinis

He is an Associate Professor in charge of the field of fine arts at the Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art Department of the University of West Attica. He studied Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art at the Technological Institute of Athens and Painting the School of Fine Arts, Athens, under the tutelage of Nikos Kessanlis. He holds a Master’s Degree “Architecture – Spatial Design”, an Interdepartmental Program of National technical University of Athens, under the thematic area of : “Space-Design – Culture”. In 1993 he attended the Painting Workshop of Robin Patze at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, under an Erasmus scholarship, whereas in 2000-01, after winning the first prize of BSP Gallery’s  Greek-German competition,  he attended the workshop of Professor D. Edvison at HDK , Berlin. He worked on important monuments and collections in Greece: Royal tombs of Vergina, Minoan Palace of Zakros, many monasteries of Mount Athos, Akrotiri of Thira and The Bank of Greece. He has twelve publications in scientific journals, conferences and workshops and a joint participation in the writing of the book entitled “Aspects of censorship in Greece”, published by NEFELI publications, in 2008. He has participated in three research projects and is the main member of the ARTICON Research Laboratory of UNIWA. Through the years of 2018-19 and 2020-21, he has been  the director of the department’s Art courses while he is the Academic leader responsible for the department’s traineeships and member of the Department and UNIWA ‘s committees. He has presented his work in eight solo exhibitions and several group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.

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