Pavlos Habidis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1957. He was reborn in Lund, Sweden, in 1976, where he graduated from Lund University with a B.A. in Philosophy and History of Art. While studying he also attended courses in different engraving techniques. His very first exhibitions featured Chinese ink drawings; he also worked for the daily press as a cartoonist.

From 1981 to 1984 he traveled around Europe extensively, and for extended periods he lived in what was then West Berlin, where the everyday life and dynamic artistic climate had a crucial influence on both his aesthetics and his general artistic orientation.

Since 1985 he has dedicated himself to painting and lives exclusively from his art. Up until 2001 he led a “nomadic” life and lived – while creating and exhibiting his works — in Tokyo, Geneva, Paris, and Brussels. At the same time, he created covers for literary works and had his drawings published in political and literary reviews, as well as in strip cartoons in Germany, Greece and France. Since 2001 he has lived in Athens and Brussels. Several exhibitions of his paintings have also been held in Athens, Thessaloniki, Berlin, Bologna, Copenhagen, and Stockholm. His works can be found in private collections, cultural foundations, and museums.

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Solo exhibitions

 

2025     "In the parts of the Acropolis" , Electra Art Space, Athens,                         Greece

2024     "Daydreaming in Kea", One & Only, KEA, Greece

2023     "Sguardo greco", Museo Archeologico Regionale "Pietro                           Griffo" di Agrigento, Sicily, Italy

2022     "Dodici Capre", La Macchina Fissa, Mantova, Italy

2020     "Drifting Destinations", Genesis Gallery, Athens, Greece 

2020     "Bruxelles ,regards volés" , Institut Francais d'Athènes , Athens

2019     "Corfu!", Chris Boicos Fine Arts, Paxos, Greece 

2018-19 "Spring in the Valley", Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Atene,                       Athens , Greece   

2018     "Spring in the Valley",  Fondazione Francesco Messina, Milano 

2018     "GOATS", Genesis Gallery, Athens, Greece 

2016     "Spring in the Valley", Villa Aurea, Valle dei Templi, Sicily, Italy
2016     "Memmories from the Present", Gallery Eirmos, Thessaloniki,                  Greece
2015     "Return To Athens, The Glorious City", Genesis Gallery,                             Athens, Greece 
2014     "A Journey To Paxos", Chris Boicos Fine Arts, Paxos, Greece 
2013     "The Clark Lawrence Collection", Casa del Mantegna, Mantova,

              Italy
2013     "Passages", Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boicos (BOB), Paris, France
2012     "Kifisia Sketches", Tsihritzi Foundation for the Visual Arts,                         Athens, Greece 
2011     "Sketches of Aegina", Museum for History and Folk Art,                             Aegina, Greece
2011     "Athenian Small", Genesis Gallery, Athens, Greece
2011     "The Scrapbook of Preveza", Spartiotis Art Space, Preveza,                      Greece
2010     "Une Balade a Bruxelles", Espace Periple, Bruxelles, Belgium
2010      IANOS, Athens, Greece
2009      T. Kambani Gallery, Athens, Greece
2008      Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boicos (BOB), Paris, France
2007      TAGG, Athens, Greece
2006      Leon Keuninckx, Grand Rechain, Belgium
2006      Castello Galeazza, Bologna, Italy
2005      Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boicos (BOB), Paris, France
2005      ZM Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
2005      To Milo Art Galley, Athens, Greece
2004      Espace Périple, Brussels, Belgium
2004      Presentation of the “Carnet de voyage: Athens” with 116                         watercolor drawings by Pavlos Habidis. Published by Louis                     Vuitton (Paris)
2002      Palazzo Montefano, Bologna, Italy
2002      Art Center X, Larissa, Greece
2000      Gallerie Beckel Odille Boicos (BOB), Paris, France
2000      ZM Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
1999      Titanium Gallery, Athens, Greece
1998      Galerie C. Colas & P. Odille, Paris, France
1998      Palazzo Montefano, Bologna, Italy
1995      Paratiritis Art Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
1994      Stalke Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
1993      Nishiazabu Asacloth Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1991      Nishiazabu Asacloth Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1990      Seibu Ikebukuro Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1990      Nishiazabu Asacloth Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1989      Bistborno Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
1987      Hydrohoos Gallery, Athens, Greece
1979      Galleri Clemens, Lund, Sweden

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Group exhibitions (selection)

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2021      Art Athina, Gallery Genesis, Athens, Greece

2019     "If Athens...", IANOS Art Space, Athens, Greece

2018     "Athens Hinterland", Mets Art Center, Athens, Greece

2018      Art Athina, International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens,                      Athens, Greece

2018     "Paradoxal Sleep", Genesis Gallery, Athens, Greece

2017     "Eros - Hero",  Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Centre, Athens,                          Greece  

2017     "Paxos - Landscape, Sea, Architecture", Chris Boicos Fine Arts,                Paxos, Greece

2017    "From Interwar Period to Modernism", Genesis Gallery,                            Athens, Greece
2016     "From the Interwar Years to Modernism : Little Scenarios for                  Athens", Gallery Genesis, Athens, Greece
2016     "The case of Capodistria", Vouleftikon, Nafplion, Greece
2016     "A jewel made in Greece", Art Space Aegina, Greece
2016    "The case of Capodistria", National Historical Museum,                            Old Parliament House, Athens, Greece
2014     "Pausanias", Museum for History and Folk Art, Aegina, Greece
2014     "Riders on the Storm", Genesis Gallery, Athens, Greece
2013     "Thesmoforia", The Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece
2013     "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden", Genesis Gallery,

              Athens, Greece
2013     "Cavafy" IANOS Art Space, Athens, Greece
2012     "Smyrna: 90 Post Cards", IANOS Art Space, Athens, Greece
2012     "To be... Hommage to William Shakespeare", IANOS Art Space,

               Athens, Greece
2012      "About Wine", Lemos Center, Athens, Greece
2012      Kaplanon Art Space, Athens, Greece
2010      "Tracing Istanbul", Technopolis, Athens, Greece
2010      "Tracing Istanbul", Istanbul, Turkey
2010      Brinies, Art on the Countryside, Porto Heli
2010      Ersi's Gallery, Athens, Greece
2009      Ersi's Gallery, Athens, Greece
2009      Gallerie Beckel Odille Boicos (BOB), Paris, France
2009      Galerie Chantal Bamberger, Strasbourg, France
2009      IANOS, Athens, Greece
2008      Gallerie Beckel Odille Boicos (BOB), Paris, France
2007      TAGG, Athens, Greece
2007      P 37 Gallery, Athens, Greece
2006      Gallerie Beckel Odille Boicos (BOB), Paris, France
2005      Leon Keuninckx, Grand Rechain, Belgium
2005      Art Center X, Larissa, Greece
2004      Gallerie Beckel Odille Boicos (BOB), Paris, France
2003      Yayannos Gallery, Mykonos, Greece
2003      Gallerie Beckel Odille Boicos (BOB), Paris, France
2003      Infopunt Europa Van de Provinti, Antwerpen, Belgium
2002      Bell Studio, Inc., Chicago, USA
2002      Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boicos, Paris, France
2002      Yayannos Gallery, Athens, Greece
2002      Art Center X, Larissa, Greece
2001      Gallerie Beckel Odille Boicos (BOB), Paris, France
1999      Gallerie Beckel Odille Boicos (BOB), Paris, France
1999      Stalke Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999      Leon Keuninckx, Grand Rechain, Belgium
1999      Galerie du Pont-Neuf, Brussels, Belgium
1999      European Parliament, Strassbourg, France
1998      Leon Keuninckx, Grand Rechain, Belgium
1997      Paratiritis Art Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
1997      Cornette-Pajarin Gallery, Paris, France
1996      Toft Gallery, Paris, France
1996      Stalke Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
1994      Swedish Art Association, Paris, France
1994      Greek Painters in Paris, Maison de l’Europe, Paris, France
1992      Swedish Art Association, Paris, France
1991      Nalepa Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1991      Tornvall Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
1991      SAGA, Gallery Zaar-Johansson, Paris, France
1990      Stalke Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
1989      Galerie Est, Paris, France
1978      Malmö Konsthall, Sweden