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.
CVBorn in 1968 in Sofia, Bulgaria
Resides and works in Athens, GreeceEDUCATION2004: BFA, Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece
1994: MSc in Radiation Physics, University College of London, England
1992: BSc in Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, GreeceSOLO EXHIBITIONS2022, Flowers of Good, StoArt Korai, Athens, GR
2022, 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
2012, Wandering, Art Room Ermoupolis, Syros Island, GR
2011, Automn Symphony, Enigma Gallery, Kifissia, GR
2010, Traces of Nature , Bonicos Gallery, Athens, GR
2010, Motivos Naturales, Galeria Amador De Los Rios, Madrid, ES
2006, Shadows and Colours, Hilton Athens Hotel, Galaxy Bar, Athens, GR
2006, Energy Flow, Titanium Yiayiannos Gallery, Athens, GRGROUP EXHIBITIONS2025, Memories and Colors, Depicting the Greek Landscape, Gallery Artheque, Le Cassis Café, Attica City Link, Athens, GR
2025, Blue, Art Place K. Petalidis, Athens, GR
2024, Artists Festive 2024, Gallery Kapsioti, Piraeus, GR
2024, From Dawn to Myrtle and to the present day, the clothes tell the story, The Victoria Karelias Collection, Kalamata, GR
2024, Dialectics with Minoan Art, Eleni Methodiou, Unesco, Parnassos Literary Society, Athens, GR
2024, 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
2022, Personal utopia, Heraklion Museum of Fine Arts , Heraklion Crete, GR
2022, 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
2019, Artists Festive 2019, Gallery Kapsioti, Piraeus, GR
2019, 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
2018, Artists Festive 2018, GalleryKapsioti, Piraeus, GR
2018, Summer Breeze, Golf of Glyfada, Athens, GR
2018, The Art of being Myself, DepôtGallery, Athens, GR
2018, Uplifting, Kallitehnorama of Glyfada, Municipal Art Gallery of Piraeus, GR
2018, Venus, Municipal Art Gallery of Glyfada, old Town Hall, Athens, GR
2018, Horsebridge Open Exhibition 2018, Somerset Maugham Gallery, Whitstable, Kent, England, U.K.
2017, Artists Festive 2017, Gallery Kapsioti, Piraeus, GR
2017, Auction of Contemporary Greek Art, Galerie Lefakis, Athens, GR
2017, Colour and Contrast, Somerset Maugham Gallery, Whitstable, Kent, England, U.K.
2017, Think of me, Restart Contemporary Art Platform, Aqua Gallery, Art Hotel, Pyrgos Santorini, GR
2017, Summer 17, Depôt Gallery, Athens, GR
2017, 80+1 años de ausencia/ Lorca, Depôt Gallery, Athens, GR
2017, Necessity, Weedschat, Platanos Parking, Kiffisia, GR
2017, Cities of fantasy and reality, Malou Art Gallery, Athens, GR
2016 Methexis, Curator K. Vafeiadis, Depôt Gallery, Athens, GR
2016, Artists Festive 2016, Gallery Kapsioti, Piraeus, GR
2016, Indep2016, Curator Emy Varouxaki, Image Gallery, Athens, GR
2016, Fairy Tales at SIA NY Gallery, Galerie Bruno Massa, New York, USA
2015, Hope, Enigma Gallery, Kifissia, GR
2015, Artists Festive 2016, GalleryKapsioti, Piraeus, GR
2015, Once Upon a Time in Kansai! Galerie Bruno Massa + Shibatacho Gallery, Shibatacho, Osaka, JP
2015, Myrtis, Megaron-the Athens Concert Hall, Athens, GR
2015, Galerie Boehner seit 1995, Galerie Boehner, Mannheim, GER
2014, Artists Festive 2014, Gallery Kapsioti, Piraeus, GR
2014, Evergreen Shades, Art Zone 42 Gallery, Athens, GR
2014, Porto Kea Suites, S.A Gallery, Kea Island, GR
2014, Tio Ilar 7, Elgeka, Athens, GR
2014, Art goes to…Islands, Papagalos Hydra & Dreamideamashine, Hydra Island, GR
2014, En Tehnos, curator K. Petalides, Euonymos Ecological Library, Athens, GR
2014, Aftermath – they were, they are, they will, Galerie Bruno Massa & Atlantic Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA
2014, World Art Vision, Studio Abba, Centro Cultural la Vaguada, Madrid, ES
2014, Hiver’14, Swiss Art Space, Lausanne, CH
2013, Tropical Earth, Art Zone 42 Gallery, Athens, GR
2013, Tio Ilar 6, Elgeka, Athens, GR
2013, KLM Data, Art Prisma Gallery, Piraeus,GR
2012, Creative encounters, Gallery tou Notou, Glyfada, GR
2012, Myrtis, Archeological Museum of Delphi, Delphi, GR
2012, Dialogue of colours, Poseidon of Paros, Golden Beach, Paros Island. GR
2012, Tio Ilar 5, Elgeka, Athens, GR
2012, Starting Point, Art Zone 42 Gallery, Athens, GR
2011, Dream &Think Positive, SG Gallery Athens & Enigma Gallery, Kifissia, GR
2011, About winds, Nature and water, Curator Athena Schina, Art Prisma Gallery, Piraeus, GR
2011, Natura, Curator Athena Schina, Eugenidis Foundation, Athens, GR
2011, Tio Ilar 4, Elgeka, Athens, GR
2011, Myrtis, Archeological Museum of Thessalaoniki, Thessaloniki, GR
2010, Christmas Bazar 2010, Βonicos Gallery, Athens, GR
2010, Myrtis, Magna Gallery, Athens, GR
2010, Art 10, Art10 Gallery, Athens, GR
2010, 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
2006, Summer climbing, Titanium Yiayiannos Gallery, Athens, GR
2004, Strictly permitted- Artistic approach of Cinema, Curator Yannis Psychopaidis, Byzantine Museum, Athens, GR
2004, Marathon around the world, Titanium Yiayiannos Gallery, Athens, GR2004, Strictly permitted- Artistic approach of Cinema, Curator Yannis Psychopaidis, Patra Cinema Club, Patra, GRART FAIRS2026, 9th Art Thessaloniki, Art Place Greece, Thessaloniki, GR
2025, Art Athina25: Epsilon Art Gallery, Athens, GR
2017, Art Expo Malaysia Plus :Galerie Bruno Massa, Kuala Lumpur, MY
2017, Art Fair Tokyo: Galerie Bruno Massa, Tokyo, JP
2016, Aqua Art Miami: Galerie Bruno Massa, Miami, USA
2016, Art Busan: Galerie Bruno Massa, Busan, KR
2016, Art Fair Tokyo: Galerie Bruno Massa, Tokyo, JP
2015, Affordable Art Fair Hamburg: Galerie Bruno Masa, Hamburg, GER
2015, Art Osaka 2015: Galerie Bruno Massa , Osaka, JP
2015, Art Athina 2015: Blue, Art Zone 42 Gallery, Athens, GR
2015, Select Fair NYC: Galerie Bruno Massa, New York, USA
2014, Affordable Art Fair Hamburg: Galerie Bruno Massa, Hamburg, GER
2014,Toronto Art Expo: Galerie Bruno Massa, Toronto, CA
2013, Art en Capital: Salon des Artistes Independants, Grand Palais, Paris, FR
2013, Art Athina 2013: Eden Interrupted, Art Zone 42, Athens, GRCOLLECTIONSWells 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, GRAWARDS2013, 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