BIO
Peny Manavi’s paintings explore biodiversity in relation to the fertility, development and dominance of living organisms in natural environments. With bright colors and expressionistic gestures, her work draws from plants and insects, marine life and wild flora and fauna.
She received a BSc in Physics from the University of Athens (1992) and her MSc in Radiation Physics from the University of London (1994). She received her BFA from the Athens School of Fine Arts (2004).
Her twelve solo exhibitions include venues such as Titanium-Yiayiannos Gallery (Athens), StoArt Korai Art Space (Athens), Galeria Amador de Los Rios (Madrid) and Espace Christianne Peugeot (Paris).
She has participated in more than eighty group shows in Greece and abroad. She has exhibited work at art fairs such as Select Fair NYC, Aqua Art Miami, Toronto Art Expo, Art Fair Tokyo, Art Osaka, Art Busan, Art Expo Malaysia, Affordable Art Fair Hamburg and Art Athina (Greece).
She was awarded the 2013 Fédération Nationale de la Culture Française toile d'or de l'année prize at the Salon des Indépendents at Art en Capital in Paris.
Her work is held in Greece and throughout the world including the Wells Fargo Corporate Art Resources (USA) and the collection of National Insurance Company of Greece.
She lives and works in Athens.
CV
Born in 1968 in Sofia, Bulgaria
Resides and works in Athens, Greece
EDUCATION2004 BFA, Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece1994 MSc in Radiation Physics, University College of London, England1992 BSc in Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, GreeceSOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Flowers of Good, StoArt Korai, Athens, GR
Flora Mirabilis, Art Appel Gallery, Athens, GR
2018 Dance me, Depôt Gallery & Espace Christiane Peugeot, Paris, FR
2016 Animals and Reptiles , Art Space Melanithros, Athens, GR
2012 The obvious and the unseen, ArtZone 42 Gallery, Athens, GR
Wandering, Art Room Ermoupolis, Syros Island, GR
2011 Automn Symphony, Enigma Gallery, Kifissia, GR
2010 Traces of Nature , Bonicos Gallery, Athens, GR
Nature’s Patterns, Fleming Art Gallery, Thessaloniki, GR
Motivos Naturales, Galeria Amador De Los Rios, Madrid, ES
2006 Shadows and Colours, Hilton Athens Hotel, Galaxy Bar, Athens, GR
Energy Flow, Titanium Yiayiannos Gallery, Athens, GR
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Memories and Colors, Depicting the Greek Landscape, Gallery Artheque, Le Cassis Café, Attica City Link, Athens, GR
Blue, Art Place K. Petalidis, Athens, GR
2024 Artists Festive 2024, Gallery Kapsioti, Piraeus, GR
From Dawn to Myrtle and to the present day, the clothes tell the story, The Victoria Karelias Collection, Kalamata, GR
Dialectics with Minoan Art, Eleni Methodiou, Unesco, Parnassos Literary Society, Athens, GR
Art & Design, CREAID, Arts Center of the municipality of Athens, Athens, GR
2023 Artists Festive 2023, Gallery Kapsioti, Piraeus, GR
2022 10 Artists celebrate the sea, Gallery Kapsioti, Piraeus, GR
Personal utopia, Heraklion Museum of Fine Arts , Heraklion Crete, GR
Myrtis face to face with the past, Archeological Museum of Aegina, Aegina, GR
2021 Month of Art in the War Museum- sculptors and painters in artistic dialogue with Myrtis, War Museum, Athens, GR
2020 Sammlung & Galerie Boehner Gemeinschaftsausstellung, Galerie Boehner, Mannheim, GER
2019 2020..with a mood for celebration, Art Appel Gallery, Athens, GR
Artists Festive 2019, Gallery Kapsioti, Piraeus, GR
Hellenic Painting, Galerie Lefakis, Hilton Cyprus, Lefkosia, CY
2018 Three generations of painting, engraving, 2nd cycle, Cacoyannis Foundation, (Ch. & S. Moschandreou Gallery Collection),
Athens, GR
Artists Festive 2018, GalleryKapsioti, Piraeus, GR
Summer Breeze, Golf of Glyfada, Athens, GR
The Art of being Myself, DepôtGallery, Athens, GR
Uplifting, Kallitehnorama of Glyfada, Municipal Art Gallery of Piraeus, GR
Venus, Municipal Art Gallery of Glyfada, old Town Hall, Athens, GR
Horsebridge Open Exhibition 2018, Somerset Maugham Gallery, Whitstable, Kent, England, U.K.
2017 Artists Festive 2017, Gallery Kapsioti, Piraeus, GR
Auction of Contemporary Greek Art, Galerie Lefakis, Athens, GR
Colour and Contrast, Somerset Maugham Gallery, Whitstable, Kent, England, U.K.
Think of me, Restart Contemporary Art Platform, Aqua Gallery, Art Hotel, Pyrgos Santorini, GR
Summer 17, Depôt Gallery, Athens, GR
80+1 años de ausencia/ Lorca, Depôt Gallery, Athens, GR
Necessity, Weedschat, Platanos Parking, Kiffisia, GR
Cities of fantasy and reality, Malou Art Gallery, Athens, GR
2016 Methexis, Curator K. Vafeiadis, Depôt Gallery, Athens, GR
Artists Festive 2016, Gallery Kapsioti, Piraeus, GR
Indep2016, Curator Emy Varouxaki, Image Gallery, Athens, GR
Fairy Tales at SIA NY Gallery, Galerie Bruno Massa, New York, USA
2015 Hope, Enigma Gallery, Kifissia, GR
Artists Festive 2016, GalleryKapsioti, Piraeus, GR
Once Upon a Time in Kansai! Galerie Bruno Massa + Shibatacho Gallery, Shibatacho, Osaka, JP
Myrtis, Megaron-the Athens Concert Hall, Athens, GR
Galerie Boehner seit 1995, Galerie Boehner, Mannheim, GER
2014 Artists Festive 2014, Gallery Kapsioti, Piraeus, GR
Evergreen Shades, Art Zone 42 Gallery, Athens, GR
Porto Kea Suites, S.A Gallery, Kea Island, GR
Tio Ilar 7, Elgeka, Athens, GR
Art goes to…Islands, Papagalos Hydra & Dreamideamashine, Hydra Island, GR
En Tehnos, curator K. Petalides, Euonymos Ecological Library, Athens, GR
Aftermath – they were, they are, they will, Galerie Bruno Massa & Atlantic Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA
World Art Vision, Studio Abba, Centro Cultural la Vaguada, Madrid, ES
Hiver’14, Swiss Art Space, Lausanne, CH
2013 Tropical Earth, Art Zone 42 Gallery, Athens, GR
Tio Ilar 6, Elgeka, Athens, GR
KLM Data, Art Prisma Gallery, Piraeus,GR
2012 Creative encounters, Gallery tou Notou, Glyfada, GR
Myrtis, Archeological Museum of Delphi, Delphi, GR
Dialogue of colours, Poseidon of Paros, Golden Beach, Paros Island. GR
Tio Ilar 5, Elgeka, Athens, GR
Starting Point, Art Zone 42 Gallery, Athens, GR
2011 Dream &Think Positive, SG Gallery Athens & Enigma Gallery, Kifissia, GR
About winds, Nature and water, Curator Athena Schina, Art Prisma Gallery, Piraeus, GR
Natura, Curator Athena Schina, Eugenidis Foundation, Athens, GR
Tio Ilar 4, Elgeka, Athens, GR
Myrtis, Archeological Museum of Thessalaoniki, Thessaloniki, GR
2010 Christmas Bazar 2010, Βonicos Gallery, Athens, GR
Myrtis, Magna Gallery, Athens, GR
Art 10, Art10 Gallery, Athens, GR
Metamorphoseis, S.A Gallery, Kea Island, GR
2009 Christmas Bazar 2009, ΒonicosGallery, Athens, GE
2006 Images- messages-edges, Pro Art Gallery, Cultural Center of Holargos, Athens, GR
Summer climbing, Titanium Yiayiannos Gallery, Athens, GR
2004 Strictly permitted- Artistic approach of Cinema, Curator Yannis Psychopaidis, Byzantine Museum, Athens, GR
Marathon around the world, Titanium Yiayiannos Gallery, Athens, GR
Strictly permitted- Artistic approach of Cinema, Curator Yannis Psychopaidis, Patra Cinema Club, Patra, GR
ART FAIRS
2025 Art Athina25: Epsilon Art Gallery, Athens, GR
2017 Art Expo Malaysia Plus :Galerie Bruno Massa, Kuala Lumpur, MY
Art Fair Tokyo: Galerie Bruno Massa, Tokyo, JP
2016 Aqua Art Miami: Galerie Bruno Massa, Miami, USA
Art Busan: Galerie Bruno Massa, Busan, KR
Art Fair Tokyo: Galerie Bruno Massa, Tokyo, JP
2015 Affordable Art Fair Hamburg: Galerie Bruno Masa, Hamburg, GER
Art Osaka 2015: Galerie Bruno Massa , Osaka, JP
Art Athina 2015: Blue, Art Zone 42 Gallery, Athens, GR
Select Fair NYC: Galerie Bruno Massa, New York, USA
2014 Affordable Art Fair Hamburg: Galerie Bruno Massa, Hamburg, GER
Toronto Art Expo: Galerie Bruno Massa, Toronto, CA
2013 Art en Capital: Salon des Artistes Independants, Grand Palais, Paris, FR
Art Athina 2013: Eden Interrupted, Art Zone 42, Athens, GR
COLLECTIONS
Wells Fargo Corporate Art Resources, Saint Louis, USA
National Insurance Company of Greece, Athens, GR
Syros Municipal Art Gallery, Syros Island, GR
Myrtis Collection, Athens, GR
Heraklion Museum of Fine Arts, Herakleon, Crete, GR
Ch. & S. Moschandreou Gallery Collection, Athens, GR
Hilton Athens Hotel Collection, Athens, GR
Kopelouzos Collection, Andros Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros Island, GR
AWARDS
2013 Federation Nationale de la Culture Française Toile d’Or de l’Année 2013 prize,
Salon des Artistes Indépendants, Art en Capital, Grand Palais, Paris, FR