Satijn Panyigay (b. 1988 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands) lives and works in Utrecht (NL). She has participated in exhibitions at, amongst others, Fotomuseum Den Haag, Museum Tot Zover (Amsterdam), Villa Mondriaan (Winterswijk), and art fairs such as Art Rotterdam, Art Amsterdam, Unseen Photo Fair and Amsterdam Art Fair. Her first solo exhibition was Paradise|wasteland at Van Krimpen Gallery (Amsterdam) in 2012. In 2019 she presented the project (Living) room and in 2020 her third solo show Twilight Zone (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen), both at Galerie Caroline O’Breen (Amsterdam).
Satijn Panyigay is a half Dutch, half Hungarian photographer. She makes work that invites its viewer to slow down. In strict but poetic analog color images she’s suggesting presence in seemingly empty spaces. Her work, in absence of any direct human narratives, is surprisingly humane – she addresses the feelings of its observer.
Her series Twilight Zone (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen) (2020) is part of a larger project in which Satijn Panyigay is capturing the character of the empty exhibition spaces of leading Dutch museums that display contemporary art by photographing between the shows. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam) has recently closed its doors for a long-term, large-scale renovation. Satijn Panyigay was allowed to take her time to capture the uncovered museum’s essence at a very special moment – a twilight zone between the museum’s closure and the start of the rebuilding, a state that no one sees. She also recently photographed the museum's brand new depot, just before the art collection was housed there. This resulted in the series Liminal Land (Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen) (2021).
Working with uninhabited grounds, Panyigay searches for presence in a seeming emptiness. The previous series (Living) room (2019) shows the living room of a young art collector and his girlfriend, destroyed by a fire. With the charcoal walls and the details on them, Panyigay constructed new spaces in her photography in which the eye easily loses orientation. It resonates with the feeling that the house owner had when he woke up in the middle of the night because of the heat and got fully disoriented by smoke. Panic and oppression, but also detached from life and reality. In this series, Panyigay reflects on loss, the transience of time and resilience after impactful events.
The melancholic photo series Behind Death’s Door (2011) shows the houses of recently deceased people of whom the relatives chose a specialised company to clear out their homes. Panyigay went along several times to investigate death more. The photos are hermetic, there is no contact with the outside world, which results in an oppressive atmosphere of loneliness and nostalgia. This also applies to her photo series, Melankólia (2016-ongoing). For this project, she went searching for her roots in the country her father originates from, Hungary.
Satijn Panyigay is a half Dutch, half Hungarian photographer. She makes work that invites its viewer to slow down. In strict but poetic analog color images she’s suggesting presence in seemingly empty spaces. Her work, in absence of any direct human narratives, is surprisingly humane – she addresses the feelings of its observer.
Her series Twilight Zone (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen) (2020) is part of a larger project in which Satijn Panyigay is capturing the character of the empty exhibition spaces of leading Dutch museums that display contemporary art by photographing between the shows. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam) has recently closed its doors for a long-term, large-scale renovation. Satijn Panyigay was allowed to take her time to capture the uncovered museum’s essence at a very special moment – a twilight zone between the museum’s closure and the start of the rebuilding, a state that no one sees. She also recently photographed the museum's brand new depot, just before the art collection was housed there. This resulted in the series Liminal Land (Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen) (2021).
Working with uninhabited grounds, Panyigay searches for presence in a seeming emptiness. The previous series (Living) room (2019) shows the living room of a young art collector and his girlfriend, destroyed by a fire. With the charcoal walls and the details on them, Panyigay constructed new spaces in her photography in which the eye easily loses orientation. It resonates with the feeling that the house owner had when he woke up in the middle of the night because of the heat and got fully disoriented by smoke. Panic and oppression, but also detached from life and reality. In this series, Panyigay reflects on loss, the transience of time and resilience after impactful events.
The melancholic photo series Behind Death’s Door (2011) shows the houses of recently deceased people of whom the relatives chose a specialised company to clear out their homes. Panyigay went along several times to investigate death more. The photos are hermetic, there is no contact with the outside world, which results in an oppressive atmosphere of loneliness and nostalgia. This also applies to her photo series, Melankólia (2016-ongoing). For this project, she went searching for her roots in the country her father originates from, Hungary.
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GAZE INTO SPACE | Museum W, Weert | 2022
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From "Klerkx buys art" on Gallery Viewer
Satijn Panyigay, a true master in celebrating everyday objects and situations. The simplicity and nostalgia that burst from the photos are irresistible. I don't want to miss a detail. In Satijn's work, I recognize the sensitivity to the beauty or the peculiarity of a particular moment, such as a sunbeam on a towel hanging to dry or a twig dying on a bed.
Manuela Klerkx
Light and Dark Charcoal Drawings
So incredibly happy to have these hanging on my walls and waking up to and going to bed with these images. To me they're a sort of memento mori. The photographs were taken at the home of a collector that had experienced a fire in his house. The thick smoke blackened the walls and the art on the walls. Thankfully the house did not burn down... The light work is actually a negative of the original image. Both compositions show the same corner from another angle, creating very different works altogether. Yin and yang, black and white, life and death.
Wietse Coppes
From 'Sven's Pick' on Galleryviewer
We saw Satijn's work early on and fell in love with it. I bought a piece of work from her as an alternative engagement ring for my wife. We own several photos and artist books from Satijn, because she is one of the best photographers in the Netherlands.
Sven Schlijper-Karssenberg:
From: ‘Introspection in turbulent times’
Dutch photographer Satijn Panyigay teaches us to embrace melancholy and depression and to see the beauty of it. She photographed houses where a beloved pet has recently died, but also houses where a violent fire has just raged or other (often impersonal) spaces that radiate loneliness and sadness. Yet, these spaces tend to have an intense architectural beauty, which can have an almost abstract feel.
Flor Linckens
From 'Sam's pick' on Galleryviewer
Satijn Panyigay and Bastiaan Woudt are my favourite photographers!
Sam van Rooij
‘Between figurative and abstract'
Satijn Panyigay understands the art of expressing real emotions such as loneliness and fear, anticipation and resignation through an abstract play of light and dark. A light shining in a corner, a white spot on a wall, a doorway. It isn’t so much what you see, but it is the way it is presented through a specific use of light and dark that triggers the sensation of tension or stillness. The Afterglow series is a good example of a series of - almost - abstract photos in which the emptiness seems to emphasize the absence of people. Some places are reminiscent of a parking garage or a basement, but the abstraction almost invariably beats the figuration, the same way the atmosphere overrides the plot.
Melle Daamen
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In museum collection:
Museum van Bommel van Dam
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
Museum Tot Zover
Gemeentemuseum Weert
Market position
Satijn Panyigay (b. 1988, the Netherlands) is a Dutch-Hungarian photographer. She graduated in Photography at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht in 2010. Since then she showed her work in numerous exhibitions in a.o. Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, Fotomuseum The Hague, Museum Tot Zover (Amsterdam), Villa Mondriaan (Winterswijk) and presentations at art fairs such as Art Rotterdam, Unseen Photo Fair, PAN Amsterdam, Amsterdam Art Fair.
Panyigay’s work is part of such collections as Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museum Tot Zover, Museum Van Bommel Van Dam, Gemeentemuseum Weert, KPMG; Reyn van der Lugt, Sgabello Collection, BlueKnowledge Art Collection and others. Currently, the work of Satijn Panyigay from her series Twilight Zone (2020) and Soft Solace (2021) are on view at the depot of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
Panyigay’s work is part of such collections as Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museum Tot Zover, Museum Van Bommel Van Dam, Gemeentemuseum Weert, KPMG; Reyn van der Lugt, Sgabello Collection, BlueKnowledge Art Collection and others. Currently, the work of Satijn Panyigay from her series Twilight Zone (2020) and Soft Solace (2021) are on view at the depot of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
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Stellatara Satijn Töhötöm Panyigay
Born in 1988, Nijmegen, NL | Lives and works in Utrecht, NL
Education
Bachelor of Design Photography | Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht | 2006-2010
Exhibitions/fairs
2022
MINIM.AL, Longing for Donald Judd | Museum iCOON | Hoek van Holland (NL) (upcoming)
Unseen Photo Fair, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, group show.
Gaze into space, Museum W, Weert, solo show.
Art Rotterdam, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, group show.
Twilight Zone (The Kröller-Müller Museum), Galerie Caroline O’Breen Amsterdam, solo show.
2021
Twilight Zone/Soft Solace, Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, November 2021- January 2022, solo show.
Art Rotterdam, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, group show.
2020
Twilight Zone (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen), Gallery 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, Gallery Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, group show.
HAUTE Photographie, Art fair, Rotterdam, Gallery Wilms.
2019
PAN Amsterdam, Art fair, Amsterdam, Gallery Caroline O’Breen/Gallery Wilms.
(Living) room, Gallery Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, solo show.
The last pet, Museum Tot Zover Amsterdam, group show.
Satijn Panyigay and Yves Beaumont, Gallery Wilms, Venlo, duo show.
2018
Art The Hague, Art fair, Gallery Wilms.
10 years of collecting - about dead stuff, Museum Tot Zover Amsterdam, group show.
The Artist Mind, Gallery 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, Gallery Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, solo show.
Amsterdam ART FAIR, Gallery 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.
2010
The Photo Academy Award nominees, Fotomuseum Den Haag, group show.
PHOTO OFF Paris, van Krimpen Gallery, Paris
Graduates Photography 2010, Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie (ACF), Amsterdam, group show.
Publications/press
2020
Palet Magazine, interview
Grote Nederlandse Kunstkalender (Big Dutch Art Calender)
2019
Volkskrant, Dutch newspaper, article by Merel Bem
Het Parool, Dutch newspaper, article by Kees Keijer
’Ik ruik hem nog steeds’ (I still smell him), photo book in collaboration with Museum Tot Zover
Grote Nederlandse Kunstkalender (Big Dutch Art Calender)
2018
Ontroerend Goed, book about buying art by Manuela Klerkx and Oscar van Gelderen
Het Parool, Dutch newspaper, article
2017
NRC and NRC.next, Dutch newspapers, ‘My favorite’ by art historian Nathalie Maciesza.
Het Parool, Dutch newspaper, article about Tot Zover buying ‘Behind Death’s Door’.
ARTLAND online magazine, interview ‘Writing with light’.
2016
UNSEEN Photo Fair Magazine – interview by Celia Graham-Dixon.
2012
UNSEEN Photo Fair Magazine.
2011
Museum Tot Zover, Catalogue of the exhibition ‘Afterlife’
Kunstliefde, Catalogue of the group exhibition ‘Contest of Meaning’
GUP magazine, The Women Issue #29, section Bookmarks.
2010
DigiFoto Pro Special Edition, catalogue of The Photo Academy Award 2010.
NL030, selected HKU Photography graduates.
Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, Catalogue of Photography class of 2010.
House publications
2018
Zwarte Kijkers #03, special edition box with a year subscription of limited prints.
2017
Zwarte Kijkers #02, special edition box with a year subscription of limited prints.
Artist book Behind Death’s Door, second edition, edition: 21.
2016
Zwarte Kijkers #01, special edition box with a year subscription of limited prints.
Artist book Behind Death’s Door, first edition, edition: 21.
Artist book Trees, edition: 60.
2011
Meisjesverdriet, leporello booklet, with 7 photos about love sickness, edition: 21.
2009
Shades of Grey, book about grief, edition: 1.
Awards
Nominated for the Photo Academy Award 2010
Collections
Museum Tot Zover, NL
Museum Van Bommel Van Dam, NL
Gemeentemuseum Weert, NL
KPMG
DZ BANK, DE
Reyn van der Lugt
Sgabello Collection
BlueKnowledge Art Collection
Various private collections
Born in 1988, Nijmegen, NL | Lives and works in Utrecht, NL
Education
Bachelor of Design Photography | Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht | 2006-2010
Exhibitions/fairs
2022
MINIM.AL, Longing for Donald Judd | Museum iCOON | Hoek van Holland (NL) (upcoming)
Unseen Photo Fair, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, group show.
Gaze into space, Museum W, Weert, solo show.
Art Rotterdam, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, group show.
Twilight Zone (The Kröller-Müller Museum), Galerie Caroline O’Breen Amsterdam, solo show.
2021
Twilight Zone/Soft Solace, Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, November 2021- January 2022, solo show.
Art Rotterdam, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, group show.
2020
Twilight Zone (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen), Gallery 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, Gallery Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, group show.
HAUTE Photographie, Art fair, Rotterdam, Gallery Wilms.
2019
PAN Amsterdam, Art fair, Amsterdam, Gallery Caroline O’Breen/Gallery Wilms.
(Living) room, Gallery Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, solo show.
The last pet, Museum Tot Zover Amsterdam, group show.
Satijn Panyigay and Yves Beaumont, Gallery Wilms, Venlo, duo show.
2018
Art The Hague, Art fair, Gallery Wilms.
10 years of collecting - about dead stuff, Museum Tot Zover Amsterdam, group show.
The Artist Mind, Gallery 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, Gallery Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, solo show.
Amsterdam ART FAIR, Gallery 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.
2010
The Photo Academy Award nominees, Fotomuseum Den Haag, group show.
PHOTO OFF Paris, van Krimpen Gallery, Paris
Graduates Photography 2010, Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie (ACF), Amsterdam, group show.
Publications/press
2020
Palet Magazine, interview
Grote Nederlandse Kunstkalender (Big Dutch Art Calender)
2019
Volkskrant, Dutch newspaper, article by Merel Bem
Het Parool, Dutch newspaper, article by Kees Keijer
’Ik ruik hem nog steeds’ (I still smell him), photo book in collaboration with Museum Tot Zover
Grote Nederlandse Kunstkalender (Big Dutch Art Calender)
2018
Ontroerend Goed, book about buying art by Manuela Klerkx and Oscar van Gelderen
Het Parool, Dutch newspaper, article
2017
NRC and NRC.next, Dutch newspapers, ‘My favorite’ by art historian Nathalie Maciesza.
Het Parool, Dutch newspaper, article about Tot Zover buying ‘Behind Death’s Door’.
ARTLAND online magazine, interview ‘Writing with light’.
2016
UNSEEN Photo Fair Magazine – interview by Celia Graham-Dixon.
2012
UNSEEN Photo Fair Magazine.
2011
Museum Tot Zover, Catalogue of the exhibition ‘Afterlife’
Kunstliefde, Catalogue of the group exhibition ‘Contest of Meaning’
GUP magazine, The Women Issue #29, section Bookmarks.
2010
DigiFoto Pro Special Edition, catalogue of The Photo Academy Award 2010.
NL030, selected HKU Photography graduates.
Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, Catalogue of Photography class of 2010.
House publications
2018
Zwarte Kijkers #03, special edition box with a year subscription of limited prints.
2017
Zwarte Kijkers #02, special edition box with a year subscription of limited prints.
Artist book Behind Death’s Door, second edition, edition: 21.
2016
Zwarte Kijkers #01, special edition box with a year subscription of limited prints.
Artist book Behind Death’s Door, first edition, edition: 21.
Artist book Trees, edition: 60.
2011
Meisjesverdriet, leporello booklet, with 7 photos about love sickness, edition: 21.
2009
Shades of Grey, book about grief, edition: 1.
Awards
Nominated for the Photo Academy Award 2010
Collections
Museum Tot Zover, NL
Museum Van Bommel Van Dam, NL
Gemeentemuseum Weert, NL
KPMG
DZ BANK, DE
Reyn van der Lugt
Sgabello Collection
BlueKnowledge Art Collection
Various private collections
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