Nicolas Kozakis
![](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/525/original/1.Lost_island_2021.jpg?auto=format&fit=crop&crop=faces&q=60&dpr=1&w=576)
Lost Island
Nicolas Kozakis is a painter and sculptor with a special interest in architecture and public space. His work consists of installations as well as videos and photography that question – through the contradictory combination of materials, symbols, images and words – the conflicts of our existence. Interested in topics such as consumerism and memory, Kozakis's work sets out to trigger increased vigilance of our visual and conceptual perception, which he hopes allows for a reassessment of our relationship to the world. Nicolas Kozakis and Raoul Vaneigem Since 2012, the two have been collaborating on a series of films where the contemplative flow of black and white video footage by artist Nicolas Kozakis is overlaid with texts by philosopher and writer Raoul Vaneigem, together forming a plea, at once poetic and political, to pause and rethink the world away from its present impasses. The striking imagery originates in stunning but also mundane landscapes in Greece, while the texts talk about the impasses and challenges humanity is now facing from the effects of aggressive capitalism and rising economic and social inequality to environmental issues and existential concerns relating to contemporary anxieties. Together, the films reveal the need to circumvent the limitations of our frenetic everyday lives by slowing down and rediscovering the more humane constellation of being together.
![Lost Island](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/525/original/1.Lost_island_2021.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![The hermitage cave](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/526/original/2.Hermitage_cave.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Hermitage](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/527/original/3.Hermitage.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Mount Olympus](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/528/original/4.Mount_Olympus__.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Hermitage Road](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/529/original/5.Hermitage_road.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Trek](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/530/original/6.Trek.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Great Lavra](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/531/original/7.Great_Lavra.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Pixel mosaic](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/532/original/8.Pixel_Mosaic.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Refuge nomade](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/533/original/9.Refuge_nomade.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Lamborghini Aventador 0125 Azzurro Thetys + Lamborghini Gallardo 0095 Celeste Phoebe](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/534/original/10.Lamborghini.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![11.Rolls Royce Phantom WR31 Darkest Tungstene + Rolls Royce Phantom 9406 Black Diamond](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/535/original/11.Rolls_Royce.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Star Galaxy](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/552/original/24.Star_Galaxy.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![The cosmogonic trunk](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/558/original/29.a.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![The cosmogonic trunk](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/559/original/29.b.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![The cosmogonic trunk](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/560/original/29.c.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Porsche 25H Libelltuerkis Met](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/549/original/21.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Blue Transfiguration](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/551/original/23.Blue_tanfiguration_.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Lamborghini Verde Miura](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/553/original/25.Lamborghini_Verde_Miura_154513_40_2x29_7x3_5cm.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Reliquary](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/554/original/26a.Reliquary.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Byzantine mosaic](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/555/original/26b.Byzantine_mosaic__60_x_50_cm__Mosaic_on_wood_-_2022__.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Rolls Royce Wraith 9012 - Andalusian White](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/556/original/27.Rolls_Royce_Wraith_9012_-_Andalusian_White.jpeg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Rolls Royce 9560012 Black Sapphire](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/557/original/28.Rolls_Royce_9560012_Black_Sapphire__Car_paint_on_wood__8_x_220_x_10_5_cm_–_2021____.jpeg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Installation view 2020](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/538/original/13.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Installation view 2020](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/542/original/16.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Installation view 2020](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/545/original/18.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Installation view 2020](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/546/original/19.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Installation view 2020](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/537/original/12.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Installation view 2020](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/539/original/14.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Installation view 2020](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/540/original/15.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Installation view 2020](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/543/original/17.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Aston Martin Vanquish 5149 Skyfall Siver 1, Rolls Royce Phantom VI 9517 Black Kirsch, Lamborghini Huracan LY5Q Blu Caelum -](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/547/original/19a.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Sahara Noir](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/548/original/20-Sahara_Noir.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Gold Icon](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/564/original/33.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Gold Icon](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/563/original/32.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Nomadic refuge. Desire everything, expects nothing](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/561/original/30a.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Face](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/562/original/31.Face_2018_1gold-leaves-and-stone-from-beach-at-mount-Atos_15x23x7cm.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Live](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/569/original/39.a.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Chapel](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/567/original/37._Chapel.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Gold nugget](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/607/original/30a.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Gold nugget](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/608/original/unnamed.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Moutain and cube](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/566/original/36.Mountain_and_cube.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Plateia](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/565/original/34.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Selfie](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/568/original/38.Selfie_-_plexiglass_-_57x48_cm__-_2018.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
![Nomadic refuge. Desire everything, expects nothing](https://kunstenpunt-datagids-data.imgix.net/uploaded_files/files/000/025/606/original/30.jpg?q=60&auto=format&h=300)
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