Nakis Panayotidis

Nakis Panayotidis

Nakis Panayotidis (Greek* Νάκης Παναγιωτίδης, born 1947, Athens) is a Greek installation and conceptual artist.

Panayotidis began studying Architecture in the Polytechnic University of Turin in 1966, and in 1967 he moved to Rome, where he would attend film classes to the Fine Arts School. The next year he returned to the Architecture school of Torino, where he then got in touch with artists of the Arte Povera movement, who exhibited their work in the Christine Stein Gallery. His first works, since 1974, which were characterized by the critique as minimal constructive, quickly put him in the panorama and exhibition spaces of modern art. In 1971 he met Agnès Häussler, whom he married in 1973 and in 1975 their daughter Anastasia Artemis was born, mother of Melina and Nestor.

In 1977, he worked at the Centro internazionale di sperimentazioni artistiche in Boissano with other artists such as Maurizio Mocchetti, Marisa and Mario Merz. He soon leaves behind him his minimal work and from 1980 he moves to different directions and begins to experiment with various materials such as stones, neon lights, iron, tar etc.

In 1988 he created his first large-scale photo and light installations, which he continues, among other things, until today. The photos are taken in abandoned factories and quarries and indicate clear socio-political references.

Panayotidis always continues to experiment, avoiding repetition, and he considers himself as “a stranger wherever he is”.

He lives and works in Bern, Switzerland.

Exhibition (solo) selection

1979: Centro Internazionale di Sperimentazioni artistiche, Boissano 1989: Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens 1994: Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens 1994: Kunstmuseum Bern 1996: Rethymnon Center for Contemporary Art, Rethymno / Crete 1996: Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Wichtrach / Bern (catalog 1997) 1999: Gallery Henze & Ketterer, Wichtrach / Bern 2000: Uchronos - Utopos, Kunsthalle Erfurt 2001: Beyond architectural visions, Hess Collection at Vinopolis, London 2003: Palazzo Ducale, Museo d’Arte moderna, Genova 2003: Galerie Henze & Katterer, Wichtrach / Bern 2003: Galleria Tornabuoni Arte, Florence 2005: Ladro di Luce, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki 2006: MIRA, SEA Symposium Escultura, Alicante 2006: Galleria Tornabuoni Arte, Milan 2006: Centro d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia, La Spezia 2007: no limits, no distances, la lune en parachute. Center d'art contemporain, Épinal 2007: Galleria Tornabuoni Arte, Venice 2008: Lightmemory, Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Wichtrach / Bern 2010: Ivresse rêvée, Gallery Tornabuoni Arte, Paris 2012: Nakis Panayotidis, Galleria Civica d’Arte, Modena 2014: Nakis Panayotidis - Seeing the Invisible, Kunstmuseum Bern 2015: Nakis Panayotidis - Guardando l'invisibile, MACRO, Museo d’arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome 2017: Steinmann Foundation Art at the Tower, Schloss Wyl, Schlosswil/Bern 2017: Hess Collection Museum, Napa (CA) USA

Exhibition (group) selection

1970: Il nero e Il bianco, Piemonte culturale 1977: Support Surface, Centro internazionale di Sperimentazioni artistiche, Boissano 1982: Paris Biennale, Paris 1982: Alexandria Biennale, Alexandria 1988: Scultura da camera, DECA Foundation Athens 1988: Il raggio duro del sole, Palazzo dei Leoni, Messina 1988: Scultura da camera, Fischer Gallery, Los Angeles 1989: Artists of 5 continents, Centre d’arte contemporain, Genève 1989: Scultura da camera, Kunstverein Berlin, Berlin 1990: Hellenikon, City Gallery, New York 1990: D.A.N.A.E, Pouilly , Paris 1992: Kunsthalle Bern, Bern 1998: Nomen est Omen, Kunsthalle Steyr 1998: Hess Collection, Forum d’Art contemporain, Luxembourg 2000: Art work, Whitechapel, London 2003: In faccia al mondo, Museo d’arte contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova 2004: Trait d’ Unione, CAMeC, Centro d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, La Spezia 2004: Medesign, Forme di mediterraneo, Palazzo della Borsa, Genova 2004: Quatre aspects de l’art contemporain grec, Gallérie du conseil général, Aix en Provence 2006: XII Biennale Internazionale di Scultura, Carrara 2007: Numerica, Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena 2011: Der Klang des Sudens- un viaggio attraverso suoni, parole, musica, Museo d’arte Contemporanea, Genova 2015: Au rendez-vous des amis, Fondazione Burri, Palazzo Vitelli, Città di Castello

Catalog Select

1979, R. Arnold, catalogo, Centro internazionale di sperimentazioni artistiche, Boissano 1980, R. Arnold, catalogue, Gallerie, M-L Jeanneret, Genève 1982, G. Manigrasso, catalogo, galleria Numerosette, Napoli. 1986, Adelina v Fürstenberg, catalogue, Gallerie des Bastions, Genève. 1987, Acidino Quesada, catalogo, studio G.Caruso, Torino. 1988, Egi Volterrani, catalogue, Gallerie Patrick Roy, Lausanne. 1989, H.Ch v Tavel, catalog, Ileana Tounta gallery, Athens. 1993, Demosthenes Davvetas, Katalog, Galerie Rigassi, Bern. 1994, H.Ch von Tavel, Viana Conti, Buch-Katalog, Benteli Verlag, Kunstmuseum Bern 1996, N. Panayotidis, Aphorisms Catalog, Contemporary Art Center, Rethymnon, Crete. 1997, Wolfgang Henze, Katalog, Gallerie Henze & Ketterer, Bern. 2000, Kai Uwe Schierz, Katalog, Kunsthalle Erfurt. 2001, Léonard Cuenoud, Hess Collection, London. 2003, Bruno Corà, Viana Conti, catalogo edizioni Electa, Palazzo Ducale, museo d’art moderna, Genova. 2003, Wolfgang Henze, Katalog, Gallerie Henze & Ketterer, Bern. 2003, Bruno Corà, catalogo edizioni Forma, galleria Tornabuoni, Firenze. 2005, Bruno Corà, Denis Zacharopoulos, Viana Conti, Kai Uwe Schiertz, Buch-Katalog Benteli Verlag, States Museum of contemporary arts, CAMeC centro d’arte moderna e contemporanea, La Spezia. 2007, Dimitris Coromilas, Pablo Rico, catalogo edizioni Gli-Ori, galleria Giacomo Guidi, Roma. 2008, Bruno Corà, Katalog, Gallerie Henze & Ketterer, Bern. 2010; Bruno Corà, catalogo edizioni Forma, Gallerie Tornabuoni, Paris. 2012, Matthias Frehner, Marco Pierini, catalogo, Sylvana editoriale, Galleria Civica, Modena.

Filmography:

Nakis Panayotidis “Are you talking to me?”/ Arkadin production, 2014 - A film of Thierry Spitzer; Duration 30’

Nakis Panayotidis

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