Pantelis Sabaliotis

In 1969, at the age of 14, Pantelis Sabaliotis works as an apprentice for icon painting in churches, trying his hand at techniques handed down from antiquity such as tempera, gold leaf processing, fresco painting and encaustic painting. He graduated when he was only 16 years old and already clashed with his clients on his first commission. His idiosyncratic interpretations…

[caption id="attachment_1413" align="alignleft" width="393"] © Bosc[/caption] Pantelis Sabaliotis will open the doors to his very first exhibition outside of Greece in Zurich, Swiss, in 1979. In September 1980, he presents the series "Immigrated Caryatids", in Cordes-sur-Ciel, southern France. A place that represents an important milestone in his artistic development. Not only for his early work, but also for his latter,…

For the first time in his artistic life, Pantelis Sabaliotis finally settled down for a longer period of time starting 1988, after years of traveling. However, not on Naxos, he chose to stay on the Greek artist-island Hydra off the Peloponnese (1988–93). When Sabaliotis was not painting what he was feeling, he was reading. He felt particularly close to ancient…

The first years in Berlin are intense. The search for a studio is interrupted by frequent trips to Greece, a second home is built in the home village of Agiopigi. Finally, through the BBK (Bund Berliner Künstler, an association for artists in Berlin), the artist can move into a large room - a studio building with a freight elevator at…

At the beginning of 2006, Sabaliotis moved into a new, larger studio: the UCW studio building in Berlin-Wilmersdorf - his last workplace. Two large interconnected rooms in the former health department, converted by the BBK, will be used for evening courses as well as the preparation of his upcoming exhibitions. "Metaplaseis" ("transformations") is what he calls his penultimate series, in…