Satijn Panyigay makes photographic work that invites its viewer to slow down. She is fascinated by the psyche of the human being, but mostly photographs vacant spaces that are briefly not fulfilling their function. Such as the empty exhibition rooms of museums and their depots, without visitors or art. Panyigay takes her analogue photographs during solitary, meditative explorations of the temporarily abandoned places. She aims to convey the stillness she finds there, and invites you to look with undivided attention. Small details and subtle colours seem to appear, as well as some room for contemplation. Her strict but poetic work, in absence of any direct human narratives, is surprisingly humane – it addresses the feelings of its observer.  

Satijn Panyigay (b. 1988 in Nijmegen, Netherlands) studied photography at the Utrecht School of Art, where she continues to live and work. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions in the Netherlands, including Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam); Fotomuseum Den Haag; Museum Tot Zover (Amsterdam); Villa Mondriaan (Winterswijk). Her works are in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museum Tot Zover, Museum Van Bommel Van Dam and Museum W., among others, as well as in numerous private collections.

Exhibitions

2023
Inland, Galerie-Peter-Sillem, Frankfurt (DE), solo show.

2022
MINIM.AL, Longing for Donald Judd, Museum iCOON, Hoek Van Holland (NL), group show.
Unseen Photo Fair, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam (NL), group show.
Gaze into space, Museum W, Weert (NL), solo show.
Art Rotterdam, art fair, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam (NL), group show. Twilight Zone (The Kröller-Müller Museum), Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam (NL), solo show.

2021
Twilight Zone/Soft Solace, Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, solo show.
Art Rotterdam, art fair, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, group show.

2020
Twilight Zone (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen), Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, solo show.
In Search of the Miraculous, Project space on the inside, Amsterdam, group show. Home/Hope, Art centre Zinder, Tiel, solo show.
Explorations of Time and Space, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, group show. HAUTE Photographie, art fair, Rotterdam, Galerie Wilms.

2019
PAN Amsterdam, art fair, Amsterdam, Galerie Caroline O’Breen/Galerie Wilms. (Living) room, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, solo show.
The last pet, Museum Tot Zover Amsterdam, group show.
Satijn Panyigay and Yves Beaumont, Galerie Wilms, Venlo, duo show.

2018 
Art The Hague, art fair, Galerie Wilms.
10 years of collecting - about dead stuff, Museum Tot
Zover Amsterdam, group show.
The Artist Mind, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, group show.

2017 
Photography and Form, Fotomuseum Den Haag, group show.
Young and Promising, Museum Villa Mondriaan, Winterswijk, group show.
Suspension of Disbelief, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, solo show. Amsterdam ART FAIR, Galerie Caroline O’Breen (formerly known as Seelevel Gallery).
Art Rotterdam, We Like Art!, Seelevel Gallery.

2016
PAN art fair, Seelevel Gallery, Amsterdam.
UNSEEN Photo Fair, Seelevel Gallery, Amsterdam.
Grace and Ruin, Seelevel Gallery, Amsterdam.

2015 
Amsterdamseen, Kunsthal Citroën, Amsterdam, group show.

2014 
Wenn wir dich nicht sehen, siehst du uns auch nicht, Huize Frankendael, private collection of Reyn van der Lugt, group show.

2012 
UNSEEN Photo Fair, van Krimpen Gallery, Amsterdam.
Preview, Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie (ACF), Amsterdam, group show. Telling Stories.., Akkuh, Hengelo, group show.
Paradise|wasteland, van Krimpen Gallery, Amsterdam, solo show.
Art Rotterdam, van Krimpen Gallery.

2011
Afterlife, Museum Tot Zover Amsterdam, group show.
Geen gezichten, van Krimpen Gallery, van Krimpen Gallery, Amsterdam, group show.
Contest of Meaning, Kunstliefde, Utrecht, group show.
Talents 2010 Revisited, Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie (ACF), Amsterdam, group show.
My First Art Collection, Centrum Beeldende Kunst (CBK), Rotterdam, group show.
Art Amsterdam, van Krimpen Gallery.
Art Rotterdam, van Krimpen Gallery.

Collections:

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, NL
Museum Tot Zover, NL
Museum Van Bommel Van Dam, NL
Museum W, NL
KPMG
Reyn van der Lugt
Sgabello Collection
BlueKnowledge Art Collection
Lakeside Collection
Various private collections