Aggelos Panayiotidis was born in 1950 in Amphilohia (Greece), Aggelos Panayiotidis is a renowned sculptor whose practice focuses on metal, the result of over twenty years of research before presenting his first works in 1990. Since then, he has held 19 solo exhibitions and more than 130 group shows in Greece and abroad.
His most iconic work, the “Olive Tree – Athens’ Tree”, created in bronze and copper for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens (sponsored by Coca Cola), has become a symbol of peace and endurance. Standing 3.30 meters high with 5,000 bronze leaves, it is now permanently exhibited at Technopolis in Athens, while replicas can be found in prestigious institutions such as the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, the Beijing Olympic Committee, and the United Nations headquarters.
Honored by UNESCO for his artistic contribution to the Olympic Games, Panayiotidis places the olive tree at the heart of his artistic language, celebrating it as a universal symbol of peace, strength, and eternity.
His works are part of numerous private collections as well as major institutions including the National Bank of Greece, the Archaeological Museum of Nikopolis, the Museum of Cycladic Art, and the Coca Cola headquarters in Athens and Atlanta.
In 2019, he inaugurated his largest olive tree sculpture (3.50 meters high) at the new headquarters of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne.
Through his powerful and poetic sculptural vocabulary, Aggelos Panayiotidis embodies universal values, bridging nature, culture, and the Olympic spirit.

Filippos Panayiotidis was born in 1994 in Athens. He graduated from the History Department of the Ionian University with a master’s degree in History Education. He got to know metals alongside his father, Aggelos Panayiotidis. He was introduced to art early on by following him to exhibitions. He learned tree sculpting in his father’s workshop, and in 2019 he became a co-creator of the Lausanne tree at the new home of the International Olympic Committee. The pandemic period in 2020 had a creative impact on him, and he began a journey with new forms and ideas. His first participation in a group exhibition was at Art Space Gallery in Santorini for the year 2024, and after participating in Art Thessaloniki, he also took part in Art Athina in September 2024.
An important moment in his artistic journey was his contribution to the 144th IOC Session in Olympia, Greece (March 19–21). Marking the election of the 10th IOC President, the event honored guests with 300 olive tree sculptures, symbolizing peace, strength and the Olympic spirit.
Artworks of Aggelos and Filippos Panayiotidis are also exhibited in many art galleries and museums around Greece – in Athens, Mykonos , Paros, Santorini, Naxos , Corfu, Thessaloniki and more, in Cyprus and in the Netherlands.