Art Seen is pleased to announce On Dissonance and Proximity, Panayiotis Andreou’s first solo exhibition in a gallery setting, opening on Friday, 20 November 2026.

Drawing upon the intimate language of domestic interiors, Andreou approaches the home as a fluid archive of memory and personal experience. Familiar objects, light and decorative patterns become points of departure for subtle transformations, revealing the delicate tensions between intimacy and distance, recognition and estrangement.

Through shifts in material, form and movement, the artist invites us to reconsider our relationship with the objects and spaces that quietly inhabit our everyday lives, where the familiar can take on an unexpected presence.

Short Bio

Panayiotis Andreou (b. 1997) is a visual artist based in Nicosia, Cyprus. He holds a BA in Painting and an MA in Sculpture from the Accademia di Belle Arti “Pietro Vannucci” in Perugia, Italy, where he was awarded a scholarship during his undergraduate studies. His work has been presented in solo exhibitions including The Dreams Factory (Daliko Enterprises Ltd, Nicosia, 2023); Translate Like a Knife (Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary, Trevi, 2022; and FOS (Spazio Ulisse, Chiusi, 2019).

Selected group exhibitions include Syndromes of Synthetic Never (Upper Ankyle, Athens, 2026), curated by Evagoria Dapola; DECENNIAL: A Creative Legacy (Art Seen Contemporary, Nicosia, 2025), curated by Maria Stathi; On Geological Strata and the Reconstruction of Landscapes (Municipal Art Gallery of Thessaloniki, 2025), curated by Evagoras Vanezis with an auxiliary contribution by Thalia Stefanidou; Sonic Entanglements: Phenomenologies of Sound (Koraï, Nicosia, 2025), curated by Evagoria Dapola; La Sottile Linea d’Umbria (Villa Colle del Cardinale, Perugia, 2024), organised by Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria; Land[e]scapes (Art Seen Contemporary, Nicosia, 2024), curated by Maria Stathi; Closer to a Sustained Caress: Contemporary Reading of Printmaking (Hambis Municipal Museum of Printmaking, Nicosia, 2023), co-curated by Evagoras Vanezis and Nicola Mitropoulou; Seeking Roots (NiMAC, Nicosia, 2021), curated by Ioulita Toumazi; Libro d’Artista (Palazzo Trinci, Foligno, 2021 and 2019); and Premio Nazionale delle Arti (Pinacoteca Albertina, Turin, 2019);, among others.

In 2026, Andreou was selected to participate in the In Praise of Shadows Summer Residency at the Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre (NiMAC). In 2023, he participated in the Contemporary Festival residency in Donori, Sardinia, Italy, directed by Maurizio Coccia.

In 2022, he received the First Prize in Engraving at the Telemachos Kanthos Fine Arts Competition. In 2020, he was previously awarded the Second Prize in Engraving at the same competition. His works are included in the collection of the State Gallery of Contemporary Art in Cyprus and in private collections in Greece and Italy.

Alongside his artistic practice, Andreou is actively engaged in the fields of scenography and education. He is also involved in museum-based educational programmes and public workshops.

For more information, please contact: Maria Stathi, Founder & Director, Art Seen

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