About Me
Theodor (Doc) Yemenis - Portrait of a Creative Explorer
Traveler · Visual Artist · Philosopher of Space & Memory
About
Theodor (Doc) Yemenis is a visual artist, theorist, digital humanist, and filmmaker based in Hamburg, Germany. Originally from Greece, his creative work moves across disciplines and geographies, weaving together philosophy, technology, travel, and aesthetic research.
His current focus is the development of SYNAPSIS – a manifestation engine for creative and financial autonomy. This evolving system bridges mental architectures and lived realities through film, writing, visual coding, generative processes, and philosophical inquiry.
Through experimental media, visual fieldwork, and digital knowledge systems, Theodor constructs poetic frameworks that respond to the complexity of contemporary life. His projects are not simply artistic products, but conceptual environments – unfolding constellations of identity, history, and transformation.
Über mich
Theodor (Doc) Yemenis ist visueller Künstler, Theoretiker, Digital Humanist und Filmemacher mit Sitz in Hamburg. Ursprünglich aus Griechenland stammend, verbindet er in seiner Arbeit Philosophie, Technologie, Reisen und ästhetische Forschung zu transdisziplinären Erzählformen.
Im Zentrum seiner aktuellen Arbeit steht SYNAPSIS – ein System zur kreativen und finanziellen Selbstermächtigung. Es verknüpft mentale Architekturen mit gelebter Realität – durch Film, Schreiben, visuelle Codierung, generative Medien und philosophische Reflexion.
Seine Projekte sind keine klassischen Kunstprodukte, sondern konzeptuelle Räume – poetische Systeme im Wandel, die Identität, Geschichte und Transformation erfahrbar machen.
Domains of Work / Konstellationen von Praxis und Theorie
- Experimental & philosophical filmmaking
- Hybrid storytelling: memory, place & projection
- Urban exploration, psychogeography & cultural fieldnotes
- Generative art, visual coding & analog/digital fusion
- Critical theory, aesthetics & media philosophy
- Creative system design & artistic workflows (SYNAPSIS)
- Teaching, curating & creative transformation coaching
- Personal knowledge management (Obsidian, AI tools, PKM)
Invitation to Participate
This is not a portfolio. It's a living system.
I invite you to enter the creative flow – as reader, viewer, thinker, collaborator, or simply as a resonant presence.
Let’s map a space together where ideas develop, creativity becomes structure, and transformation begins in dialogue.
TOPOS ATELIER (read more ... )
TOPOS ATELIER ( artist space ) - VINTAGE/ANALOG CAMERAS
Featured Projects
2023 - 2025
🌀 THE IMAGE OF THE PATH - A filmic philosophical project exploring journey, image, and identity as pathways of transformation.
🎞️ ENDLESS LOOP - Fragmented film essays exploring the enigma of inspiration
🧭 DAS BILD DES WEGES (THE IMAGE OF THE PATH) - An experimental film series where physical and mental journeys transform into acts of self-discovery and artistic creation.
🖼️ THE ORIGINS OF IMAGES - YouTube series on memory, place & personal mythology
🚶♂️☁️THE PHILOSOPHICAL FLANEUR - A wandering philosopher's filmic diary where urban landscapes spark meditations on art, memory, and the creative process.
📽️ LIFE REEL – Monthly cinematic diary of creative moments & transformation
Impressum und Datenschutz
Group exhibitions & Art Fairs
2022
DIE GOLDENE SCHNITTE II ( read more ... )
2021
18.12 - 19.12.2021 - LAST Minute FRISE 21 in FRISE GALLERY.
26.04. - 09.05.2021 - "DER IKONOGRAPH" - WESTWERK GALLERY (POP UP WINDOW)
2020
04.09 - 18.09.2020 - "CHORA" ( a photographic investigation of the concept of SPACE ) - Galerie nachtspeicher23, Lindenstr. 23, 20099 Hamburg.
23.01 - 02.02.2020 - "ART OFF HAMBURG - Second Sight" - 2. Gemeinschaftsausstellung der freien Hamburger Kunstorte. WESTWERK.
15.01. - 08.02.2020 - "Gruppenasusstellung - Die Welt ist ein Hund auf dem Rücken liegend". In Wendland.Elbe Scheel-Plessen-Str. 19, 22765 Hamburg Altona.
2019
13.12.19 - 10.01.20 - "Gruppenausstellung - Ausblick auf das Programm 2020". Galerie nachtspeicher23, Lindenstr. 23, 20099 Hamburg.
9. - 19. MAI - "Das Chaos lockt mich und reizt mich zum Gestalten". WESTWERK GALLERIE ( BAUHAUS100, HAMBURG ARCHITEKTURSOMMER 2019 )
9. - 21. FEB. - TOD UND VERDERBEN BUNKERHILLGalerie ( Vernissage am Samstag, den 9.2. um 18 Uhr im Bunker 5.Etage! Feldstraße 66 20359 Hamburg )
4.- 13. JAN. - Erste gemeinschaftliche Ausstellung der Initiative ART OFF Hamburg. Frappant Galerie Viktoria-Kaserne Zeiseweg 9, 22765Hamburg.
2018
WERKSHAU 2017/18 - 25. MAI. - 15. JUNI. 2018. ATELIERHAUS23, Am Veringhof 23A, 21107 Hamburg
2017
"xpon-goes X". 08.02-12.03.2017 xpon-art, repsoldstr. 45, 20097 hamburg.
2016
„Urban ruins“. 06.05.-19.05.2016 Decumanus Gallery in Krk, Croatia ( web-site: kreativnikrk.com ).
"überMACHT". 10.03-17.04, xpon-art gallery, im KuBaSta / repsoldstr 45 / 20097 hamburg, germany.
"palimpseste". 29.03.-11.04.2016, pop-up galerie, grindelallee 117, D-20146 hamburg, germany.
2015
"HEIMAT". 26. Sept. - 18. Okt. 2015. ATELIERHAUS23, Am Veringhof 23A, 21107 Hamburg
Personal exhibitions
2015
"RUINENLUST - Ästhetik des Verfalls/Poetik des Verschwindens". Kunstaustellung Sa. 4. - So. 19. Juli 2015. GALERIE23 - Am Veringhof 23, 21107 Hamburg
TRAVELS and STAYS AS PART OF MY CREATIVE PROCESS ( read more ... )
Travels are a substantial part of my creative process. I have spent a significant portion of my time traveling abroad. I use short or longer journeys as ways to extend my knowledge (study stays), to determine and test my resolutions, and to change and develop my vision. Travels have left deep traces in my personality and helped me to form my artistic path.
I conceive all places as potential temporary art studios - spaces of inspiration, work, creation, and transformation. This philosophy guides my travels and my creative practice.
Follow the link if you want to read the travel reports: TRAVELS and LOGS
- 2025 ATHENS / SIFNOS (GREECE)
- 2025 PORTO (PORTUGAL)
- 2024 ATHENS/RHODOS (GREECE)
- 2024 ATHENS/HYDRA (GREECE)
- 2024 DANZIG (POLAND)
- 2023 RHODOS (GREECE)
- 2023 BRUNSBERG (SWEDEN)
- 2023 COPENHAGEN
- 2023 KAPPELN
- 2023 WEIMAR
- 2023 RHODOS ( GREECE ), THESSALONIKI (GREECE)
- 2022 WEIMAR, DESSAU
- 2022 RHODOS ( GREECE )
- 2021 RHODOS ( GREECE )
- 2020 POTSDAM (GERMANY)
- 2020 BERLIN
- 2019 ATHENS, MYKONOS ( GREECE )
- 2018 BERLIN (GERMANY), RHODOS (GREECE)
- 2017 ATHENS, MONEMVASIA (GREECE)
- 2016 CYCLADES ( GREECE )
- 2015 LISBON (PORTUGAL)
- 2014 PRAGUE (Czech Republic)
- 2013 PARIS (FRANCE), KIEV (URCRAINE)
- 2011 CYCLADES (GREECE), WEST COAST OF ITALY
- 2010 CYPRUS, GREEK ISLANDS (CYCLADES, DODECANESE)
- 2009 CYCLADES (GREECE)
- 2008 MALLORCA (SPAIN), AMSTERDAM (HOLLAND)
- 2007 Isle of Wight (UK), Puhket (THAILAND)
- 2001- HAMBURG, GERMANY
- 1999-2001 ATHENS, GREECE
- 1994-1999 THESSALONIKI, GREECE
- 1985-1994 MUNICH, GERMANY
- 1980-1985 THESSALONIKI, GREECE