Kleomenis Kostopoulos is a visual artist (painter) that has many personal and group exhibitions, as well as art creations in museums, and Greek and foreign collections. His vision is to spread and promote the contemporary Greek art. Returning to his hometown Patras, after 20 years of artistic experimenting and researching, he created and continues -as an artistic director-, the International Arts Festival of Patras-RE-Culture. He is involved in issues of cultural policies, forms of development and progress and promotion of contemporary art, including matters of creative accessibility of socially vulnerable groups and cultural – artistic – educational projects for children.