Satijn Panyigay (b. 1988, Nijmegen) is a Dutch-Hungarian photographer, living and working in Utrecht, The Netherlands and part time in Berlin, Germany.

Satijn Panyigay creates photographic work that slows down life’s pace. Focused on the human psyche, she captures spaces temporarily abandoned from their function — empty museums and their depots, new homes, buildings under renovation, and out-of-hours offices and industrial areas. These scenes, devoid of people, often resemble paintings or models, partly due to her analog approach and muted color palette. A closer look reveals subtle traces of real life presence. Panyigay’s architectural abstractions, absent of direct human narratives, are surprisingly humane – they address the feelings of their observer.

Satijn Panyigay’s work has been featured in exhibitions at a.o. Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam); Centre D’art Contemporain de Meymac (FR), Escher in het Paleis (Den Haag), Fotomuseum Den Haag, Verwey Museum Haarlem, Museum Tot Zover (Amsterdam); Villa Mondriaan (Winterswijk), Museum W, Museum iCoon, BlueKnowledge Art Collection’s art space, and presentations at art fairs as Art Rotterdam, Unseen Photo Fair, PAN Amsterdam, Amsterdam Art Fair. Panyigay’s artist book VOID is published by Hartmann Books (Germany) in 2023.

Her work is part of such collections as Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museum Tot Zover, Museum Van Bommel Van Dam, Museum W., DZ Bank, TU Delft, Schiphol, KPMG, BlueKnowledge Art Collection, Lakeside Collection, Reyn van der Lugt, Sgabello Collection and a growing number of private collections.