Miltos Manetas
conceptual artist, b. 1964.
Miltos Manetas is a Greek-born painter, conceptual artist, and theorist whose work explores the representation and aesthetics of the information society. Manetas is the Founder of NEEN (the first art movement of the 21st century), a pioneer of art-after-videogames (Machinima) and an instigator of postinternet and NFT. In 2009, he was invited by the Venice Biennial to create its first Internet Pavilion. In 2014, Following an invitation from the Swiss Institute in Rome, Manetas introduced the concept of Ñewpressionism, which he continued to develop on social media using techniques of “Overeality” and “Metascreen”.
Manetas used documenta 14 to reinforce his concept of MedioSud, presenting his NeoUmile approach at MACRO in Rome. In 2018, the MAXXI realized Manetas’s “Internet Paintings” through a three-month performative exhibition. According to Lev Manovich, Manetas’s art can be situated within a well-established tradition of modern painting (representing modern people in their particular modern settings). While, for Nicolas Bourriaud, Manetas’s work belongs to the domain of relational aesthetics and post-production.
From Painter of Machines | Miltos Manetas, May 2026
