Painting exhibition by Anastasia Gkinaki at Patmion

This August, the Patmion Cultural Center in Skala, Patmos, will host a new exhibition of paintings by Anastasia Gkinaki, an artist who is steadily and consistently charting her own artistic course.

Ginaki’s painting is an experience that is difficult to describe in words, because it is based not only on the image, but also on emotion, sensation, and inner movement. As she matures artistically, her expression becomes increasingly clear and meaningful, as if she filters the world through a sensitivity that deepens with time. Her works do not realistically depict landscapes or moments, but their deeper essence. What one sees is the impression that a landscape, an experience, an emotional state has left on the artist. And she generously invites us to discover it with her, to enter the secret gardens of her creation.

Nothing is solid, yet her works have a certain robustness. There is a fluidity, almost liquid, that makes them seem as if they are constantly in motion. It is as if the painter has captured, through her unique gaze, life itself as it takes shape. The colors, worked with skill and boldness, flow across the canvas as if they had just been born. Looking at a work from different angles, different images appear, new interpretations, as if each work hides countless stories.
Bodies, landscapes, depths, trees emerge not as faithful representations, but as pulses of life, expressed with clarity and a distinctive, diffuse eroticism. Her visual world is sometimes reminiscent of the frescoes of the islands and the murals of Pompeii, and at other times flirts with the absolute liberation of form.

Greek light, the sea, nature, travel, and even colors themselves become the absolute protagonists, pulsating on the canvas, extolling the energy that permeates everything and its impact on the natural environment and on humans. These works speak of joy. Not a simple, superficial joy, but that deep, existential sense of fulfillment that springs from life itself.

Anastasia Gkinaki was born in Athens and studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts, graduating with honors. She has presented four solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. In 2017, she presented three of her works at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants at the Grand Palais in Paris, while in 2018 she participated in a solo exhibition at Galerie Anixis in Switzerland and was named Visual Artist of the Year by Beaute magazine. Her works are in private collections in Greece, Germany, and Switzerland. She currently lives and works in Athens.

The exhibition opens on Friday, August 15, at 7:30 p.m. and will run until August 24, 2025.