Thanasis Deligiannis is a Dutch-based transdisciplinary artist, composer and director, born in Greece in 1983. He grew up in a family of traditional musicians, dancers and farmers, moving to Amsterdam in 2007. He has been a featured artist at Venice Art Biennale 2024, together with an artistic team that presented the work Xirómero/Dryland at the Greek Pavilion.

Thanasis has been collaborating with music ensembles, theatre companies and cultural institutions across Europe, as well as North America and Asia. He has been artist-in-residence in various institutions, such as the Onassis Culture & Onassis AiR, Gaudeamus (with the support of the Performing Arts Fund NL - Nieuwe makers), the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Muziekgebouw Productiehuis in Amsterdam. He has collaborated with the Tanztheater Wuppertal – Pina Bausch Company as a member of Dimitris Papaioannou’s creative team, and he has been assistant to Heiner Goebbels at Manchester International Festival.

He has been the artistic coordinator of the music-theatre research platform RE-FUSE, an initiative of the Greek National Opera in collaboration with Gaudeamus, assistant artistic director for the Nieuw Ensemble and artistic coordinator of the intercultural music platform Atlas Lab. Since 2018 Thanasis has been teaching at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam of the Amsterdam University for the Arts, giving as well workshops to educational institutions in the Netherlands and the rest of Europe.

In 2013 he co-founded the Amsterdam-based company I/O, collaborating with a core team of artists who have a strong drive in creating crossover performances with a focus on sound. Their projects bring together new technologies and the interaction among different disciplines, while exploring hybrid artistic forms and redefining the dialogue between the artwork and its audience.