The Region of Crete and the Chania Cultural Centre invite you on Thursday, 27 November 2025, at 20:00, to the solo exhibition of Dr. Stavros Panagiotakis, titled “Amerotos Nostos”, held at the Chania Cultural Centre. 

An exhibition that was first presented in summer 2025 at the historic Frangokastello Castle in Sfakia, now comes to Chania, enriched and expanded, featuring works of painting, sculpture, and installations. Through these 37 works, the exhibition showcases the artist’s journey up to today.

Stavros Panagiotakis, through this major solo exhibition, traces a personal path across his native Crete, drawing inspiration from the light and landscape of the Mediterranean.

“It is a retrospective of his personal homeland, but also of his visual artistic path. And if, according to Roland Barthes, our true homeland is our childhood, then this exhibition is a journey that extends from the past into the future, with a common conceptual thread of art and expression through painting and sculpture. From Frangokastello to Chania, a route tied to colours, memories, people, textures, and tactile experiences that shape his personal narrative,” writes Efi Michalarou (Art Critic & Exhibition Curator) in the exhibition catalogue.

The artist reconstructs familiar and known images, and through his own evolving visual language—shifting from abstraction to representation, from hyperrealism to dream and fiction—he creates a personal universe where faces, figures, elements of nature, and oversized everyday objects (mainly in his most recent works) coexist. These objects are imbued with almost mythical properties.

His work carries a palpable sense of nostalgia, one that, though reminiscent of Odysseus, seems to start and end in an Ithaca that is always present, tangible and realistic—a spiritual homeland that never strays.
"At the distant edge of the world—simultaneously the centre and beginning of my own time—there, at the dawn of the Mediterranean’s eternal vastness, I longed for many years to present a few of the visual works I created, which are ultimately a biography of life," as the artist himself states.

📍 Chania Cultural Centre: 70 G. Papandreou, Chania 73134
📞 Tel.: 2821 344401
🕒 Opening hours: Monday to Saturday, 10:00–14:00 & 18:00–21:00
🎟 Free Admission

🗓 Exhibition Duration: 27 November – 27 December 2025