EVENTS

Discover the art of weaving through three-hour workshops at the Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre [NiMAC], in collaboration with the Cyprus Handicraft Service. Guided by weaving instructor Katerina Efstratiou, participants will experiment with table looms, learning fundamental weaving patterns and techniques. Dates: Saturday, 5 and 12 April 2025 Time: 10:30 – 13:30 Location: NiMAC Open to...Read More

Εducational workshops for children 4 – 7 years old Saturday, March 15, 2025 and Saturday, April 12, 2025 15:30 – 17:00 @ NiMAC Design and implementation: Elena Panagiotou (museum educator) Participation fee: 10 euros Reservations and information: 22797400 The educational workshop “Forms in Motion” is inspired by the exhibition “Repetitive Acts”. Through playful activities focusing...Read More

Wednesday, 5 March 2025, 18:00 Reservation required: 22797400 The tour will be in English Image: Joanna Louca, Orographies, 2024 (detail)Read More

Εducational workshop for children 4 – 7 years old Saturday, February 22, 2025, 10:30 – 12:00 @ NiMAC Design and implementation: Elena Panagiotou (museum educator) Participation fee: 10 euros Reservations and information: 22797400 The educational workshop Forms in Motion is inspired by the exhibition Repetitive Acts. Through playful activities focusing on repetitive movement, children are...Read More

Saturday, February 1, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. @ NiMAC On the aura of the art book and what moves us through the weaves of words and images. Participating in the discussion: Elena Parpa, Christis Κonnaris, Maria Hadjipavlou, Gabriel Koureas, Natalie Yiaxi and Loizos Olympios. The Place I Am Not is a publication of the Freud Museum London,...Read More

Εducational workshop for children 4 – 7 years old Saturday, January 25, 2025, 10:30 – 12:00 @ NiMAC Design and implementation: Elena Panagiotou (museum educator) Participation fee: 10 euros Reservations and information: 22797400 The educational workshop “Forms in Motion” is inspired by the exhibition “Repetitive Acts”. Through playful activities focusing on repetitive movement, children are...Read More

Guided tour of the exhibition by the curator Dr. Elena Stylianou Wednesday, 22 January 2025, 18:00 Reservation required: 22797400 The tour will be in GreekRead More

13 and 14 December 2024, 19:00 @ NiMAC Free entrance Reservation is required: 99349669 Research / choreography: Maria Kamberi Music composition: Demetris Yiasemides Dancers: Panayiota Nikolaou, Andria Constantinou Musicians: Evelina Andreou, Andrea Ellina Production: Selas Dance Company Sponsor: Deputy Ministry of Culture Collaborator: NiMACRead More

Join us at NiMAC on Saturday, 9 November 2024 at 18:00, for the Closing Ceremony of ‘nono, bad timing!’, a performance devised by Evita Ioannou. With the participation of Loukia Pieridou.Read More

Thursday 31 October 2024, 18:30 – 20:00 A/S/L: Queer Entanglements with guest speaker Gervaise Savvias Join us at NiMAC on Thursday 31 October for a perfomance lecture that draws on Savvias’ piece ‘Intimate Reflections on SESSIONS’ (Shado Mag, 2024), exploring recent notions of queer communality and chance encounters in the context of Cyprus, desirability politics,...Read More

Tuesday 29 October and Wednesday 30 October 2024, 18.30 – 20.00 Institutional Critique: Archive of Feelings with resident archivist Gabriel Koureas Join us at NiMAC on Tuesday and Wednesday for two discussions focusing on the possibilities, intricacies and power of queer archives and queer institutional critique in Cyprus. Tuesday 29 October: Ibrahim Ince, Stavros Karayianni,...Read More

Duration: 30 October – 9 November 2024 In the framework of the 7th International Conference on Photography and Theory (ICPT2024), the International Association of Photography and Theory (IAPT) and the Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation (NiMAC) are organising the photobook presentation titled Bound Traces. Bound Traces is the first part of...Read More

Thursday 24 October 2024, 18:30 – 20:00 TRASH YOUR GENDER with resident archivist Logan Bellew Join us at NiMAC this Thursday for a presentation focusing on photography, Cyprus, HIV, and an archive assembled over the past ten years of Trash Your Gender parties – political laboratories for experimentation with gender. The presentation will be in...Read More

In collaboration with the exhibition ‘Queer as German Folk’, presented at Goethe-Institut Cyprus in Nicosia (until 26/10), we are happy to be hosting Birgit Bosold, a member of the board of the Schwules Museum Berlin (SMU) since 2006. Her political socialization in the radical lesbian-feminist activism of the 1980s was a valuable resource in the...Read More

Saturday 12 October 2024, 18:30 – 19:30 Join us this Saturday for a presentation focusing on methodologies of collecting queer stories at the intersections of memory, identity, and public history. Koufteros shares fragments from his work and personal collection, inviting a collective engagement with queer histories.Read More

Saturday 12 October 2024, 16:30 – 18:00 Join us this Saturday for a discussion on the role of queer printed material as archives of different voices and experiences. Loizos Olympios’ contribution to “nono, bad timing!” offers a space to think about what is present and absent in archives, and how queer histories challenge traditional ideas...Read More

The 5th edition of the Cyprus LGBTQIA+ Film Festival will be held 20-29 September 2024 at Nicosia Municipal Arts Center, Associated with the Pierides Foundation [NiMAC]. Queer Wave returns for its 5th year with 10 days, 20 screenings and over 50 Cyprus premieres of shorts and feature films. Many of the films in this year’s...Read More

We are inviting you to our kid’s end-of-the-year art exhibition Saturday, 8 June 2024, at 18:30. The works are from Nimac’s educational program art and theater workshops. Don’t miss this opportunity to see the creative work of our young artists! 🎨🎭Read More

In 1978, eager to explore the world beyond Europe, I set off for Guyana where I lived for six years. When I arrived I had little knowledge of this former British sugar colony on the northeast coast of South America. Its legacy as a country is founded on the African slave trade and subsequently “coolie”...Read More

Staging Playtimes A location drawing workshop for children   Sunday 2 June, 9:00am-12:00pm @ Athalassa Park  Age: 7-12 Educator: Simone Philippou * Limited availability ** The workshop is free of charge  Reservations: 22797400  Participants will be guided into a drawing exercise to document impressions from Athalassa Park which will be the guiding inspiration for this year's Cyprus...Read More

Στο πλαίσιο των εκπαιδευτικών προγραμμάτων, για παιδιά από 7 μέχρι 10 ετών, της έκθεσης “Φανερώματα: Όψεις του αλλόκοσμου στη ζωγραφική και το σχέδιο” οι μικροί μας φίλοι και φίλες θα εξερευνήσουν το κίνημα του σουρεαλισμού και θα δημιουργήσουν ατομικά και συλλογικά έργα τέχνης. Μέγιστος αριθμός παιδιών 10. Κράτηση απαραίτητη! Εκπαιδευτικα Προγράμματα Σάββατο: 27 Απριλίου |...Read More

   Panagiotis Mina     Saturday 27 April |19:30  AV performance *  pseudaemonia. A familiar exorkism Short description ψευδαιμόνια ψευδαιμόνια ψευδαιμόνια ψευδαιμόνια ψευδαιμόνια ψευδαιμόνια ψευδαιμόνια ψευδαιμόνια ευδαιμόνια ψευδαιμόνι ψευδαμόνιαευδαιμόνιαψευδαιμόνευδαιμυδαιμόνιαευδαιευδαιμόνιυδαιμόνιαδαιμόνιιμόνιυδαιμόνια ψευδαόνψεαιμόνευδαιμόνια Short Bio Panagiotis Mina (b. 1982, BA Communication Culture and Media) is interested in the concept of noise and interruption within cultural norms. He has been...Read More

Wednesday 10 April 2024 Talk | English | 18:00 This talk will explore the life and work of the British artist, writer and occultist Ithell Colquhoun (1906–88) and the encounters and experiences that shaped her artistic practice – from her involvement with the British Surrealist group and interaction with key figures and artists further afield to...Read More

EVROVIZION focuses on less visible and marginalised geopolitical and cultural spaces, in particular in southeastern and eastern Europe. These are so-called “semi-peripheries'' and “places of diversity” that often play only a minor role in many international theoretical discourses and exhibition practices. In close cooperation with regional protagonists and each local art scene, new artistic projects...Read More

The Nicosia Open Up Festival – A festival open to all is a multi-dimensional arts festival that features an art exhibition, performances, an open discussion, lectures–performances, video-installations, multifaceted art activities, music, screenings, a street party, culinary events and workshops. The four- day events of the festival begin on Thursday, 19 October 2023, with the opening...Read More

This year, get ready to dive into a wondrous world with the 1st Kids Summer Camp at the Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre – NiMAC, for children aged 7 – 12 years old! Right in the heart of Nicosia, NiMAC’s Summer Camp entitled “A “A magical city” is designed specifically to bring imagination to life, to...Read More

28 April 2023, at 18:30 at the commons room in the exhibition we can only begin to notice at NiMAC [τα θεωρητικά κείμενα είναι στα αγγλικά] The Book Club by George Rallis comes to the commons room of we can only begin to notice for three sessions, investigating and challenging the gazes through which we read the world. The third and...Read More

26/04 Wednesday , at 5:00 at NiMAC A Roundtable Discussion with Sophie Cavoulacos, Associate Curator of Film at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), on the occasion of the show we can only begin to notice and Cyprus Film Days International Festival 2023. Sophie Cavoulacos and participant artists of  we can only begin to notice discuss themes around...Read More

21 April 2023, at 17:30 at the commons room in the exhibition we can only begin to notice at NiMAC [τα θεωρητικά κείμενα είναι στα αγγλικά] The Book Club by George Rallis comes to the commons room of we can only begin to notice for three sessions, investigating and challenging the gazes through which we read the world. This second...Read More

Parallel Screening and discussion with the audience THE BUTLER by Anna Kannava (ENG with GR subtitles) Discussion moderated by Queer Wave’s director, Diego Armando Aparicio. 12 April 2023 20:30, Theatro Polis OPAP Free admissions THE BUTLER (Australia, 1997, 58’) Writer/Director: Anna Kannava Producer: John Cruthers Cinematographer: Firooz Malekzadeh Editor: James Manche Anna Kannava’s great autobiographical...Read More

Film workshop 12 April 2023 10:30-20:30, NiMAC Info and registration: info@nimac.org.cy  Participation fee: 15 euro Max number of participants is 8 people – registration is essential This workshop will introduce participants to the unique possibilities the Bolex 16mm film camera affords, such as in-camera editing and multiple exposures. There will be a demonstration of how...Read More

11 April 2023, at 18:30 at the commons room in the exhibition we can only begin to notice at NiMAC [τα θεωρητικά κείμενα είναι στα αγγλικά] The Book Club by George Rallis comes to the commons room of we can only begin to notice for three sessions, investigating and challenging the gazes through which we read...Read More

Artist in Residence NiMAC – Amy Stephens (b. 1981 London) Join us for a talk with the artist Saturday 26 November 2022 at 10:00am Old Powerhouse, NiMAC Garden Tempon street, 1016 Nicosia Underpinned by geology and travel, Stephens assemblages consist of imagery, wood, fabric and found objects that offer a personal response to the immediate...Read More

Saturday 25 June 2022 at 18:00  NiMAC, Reading Room Within the framework of Project Room #7 NiMAC [Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation] presents an artist’ talk. Hasan Aksaygın meets with Serkan Karas for a discussion on their works and the parallels connecting these: the factual research and the fictional narratives created...Read More

NiMAC Educational Centre for Children exhibition, at Theatro Polis OPAP > Opening: Saturday 25 June 2022 at 18:00 > Theatrical Play: “3… 2… 1… the journey begins!” (in greek) Saturday 25 June 2022 at 19:30, Theatro Polis OPAP and Monday 27 June 2022 at 19:30, Eleftheria Square Opening hours: Saturday 25 June: 18:00 Sunday: Closed...Read More

Head and Hand – Foun[d]ain (2021-2022), by Kyriaki Costa – www.kyriakicosta.com  Tuesday 21 June 2022 18:30-21:00  In the framework of the Performing and Live Arts Residency Programme at Theatro Polis OPAP, NiMAC [Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation] presents the programme Head and Hand – Foun[d]ain by visual artist Kyriaki Costa. This...Read More

Α performance conceived and directed by Lia Haraki Somewhere between Paul’s ‘Twelve steps to thrive in times of crisis’ career coaching course and the pitching of the latest services and products produced especially to support humans during the almost irreversible ecological catastrophe, lies their opportunistic fuckedupdom. Are we still to function in a capitalist way...Read More

Just a bottle?  Theatro Polis OPAP, Nicosia 30 & 31 July 2021, at 20:00 Admissions: 7 euro Reservations: 96791187 / maria.efstathiou@nimac.org.cy  In the framework of the Residency Programme for Performing and Live Arts at Theatro Polis OPAP / NiMAC [Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation], Andreas Kentis and Claudia Bruno, assisted by...Read More

In the context of the Project Room programme, NiMAC [The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation] presents the exhibition The Day Begins at Night by artist Lefteris Tapas.Read More

Α devised performance by Sakari Laurila and Lia Haraki We take our fictional characters for a walk on the wild side of karaoke. Will any fantasies survive? A performance of karaoke scenes, where identity constructions, fantasies, expectations and a house guitarist, all try to survive until the end of the song. A colourful set of...Read More

The Municipality of Nicosia in collaboration with NiMAC [Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation], present the Nicosia Pop Up 2020, which is to be held between 25 February and 14 March 2021 at Theatro Polis OPAP. Taking into account the current epidemiological picture and the relevant protocols, the proposals selected this year...Read More

The exhibition “I’ve made you a palm tree” by PASHIAS is being presented within the fame work of the Nicosia Pop Up Festival 2020 By identifying the establishment of the palm-tree as a staple feature of Cyprus’ urban landscape and as an integral part of our cultural identity, the exhibition “I’ve made you a palm-tree”...Read More

Nicosia Pop Up Festival 2020 For one more year, the Municipality of Nicosia in collaboration with NiMAC [Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation], organizes and holds the Nicosia Pop Up Festival 2020 from 5 December 2020 until 3 January 2021. The festival will take place at the Theatro Polis–OPAP, at NiMAC [Nicosia...Read More

We were hoping for the TEH90 to be physical and to welcome and meet everyone, but the world is still in semi-lockdown. So we have to adapt and be creative! That is why we decided to run TEH90 both online and on-site. When: 10-11 December 2020 Venue: to be announced The theme of the meeting...Read More

Friday, 21 February 2020 at 19:00. Theatro Polis OPAPRead More

Thursday, 23 January 2020, 19:00 – 21:00 Theatro Polis OPAP. The talk will be given in EnglishRead More

Saturday, 14 December 2019, at 18:00 (in English). Theatro Polis OPAPRead More

Saturday, 30 November 2019, 16:00 (in Greek)Read More

Wednesday, 27 November 2019, 19:00. At NiMACRead More

Saturday, 16 November 2019, 11am. Theatro Polis OPAPRead More

30 October 2019 at 19:30 at NiMAC. Duration of event: 40 MinutesRead More

16 October at 19:00. Free Admission, at Theatro Polis OPAPRead More

Sunday, September 22, at 20:30. Theatro Polis OPAP. 180C by Nikolas Kassinos is in the frame of the BRIDGES residency programmeRead More

PASHIAS presents a study of the "line" as a creative and conceptual tool, through his live performance “Periphora”. Thursday 19 September 2019, 20:00 - 22:00Read More

Haraki’s new work is an audible experience including confessions made by the body that are not usually said and not commonly heard.Read More

On the occasion of the International Museum Day NiMAC organises a series of eventsRead More

Wednesday, 15 May 2019. Reservation required: 22797400 (Mon-Fri 08:30–14:30)Read More

Saturday, 10:30-12:30. Reservation is required: 22797400 (08:30-14:30)Read More

Wednesday at 18:00. Reservation required: 22797400 (Mon-Fri 08:30-14:30)Read More

Tuesday, 16 April 2019, 19:00. Theatro Polis – OPAPRead More

Tuesday, 20 November 2017, 19:00-21:00, Theatro Polis OPAPRead More

Saturday, March 28 at @8:00 pm at NiMAC Arts Centre.Read More

Introduction to the exhibition and a guided tour: Every Saturday at 18:00Read More

Saturday 18th of April at 11:00 am in the NiMAC GardenRead More

INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY Saturday 18th of May, 18:00 am at NiMACRead More

Friday, 12 June 2015, 20:00 Staged reading of Evridiki Pericleous-Papadopoulou’s theatrical monologue, inspired by the life of artist Costas Stathis [1913-1987]Read More

Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at NiMAC Arts Centre.Read More

Opening: Tuesday, 23 June 2015, 18:00 @ ΝiMAC Duration: 23-27 June 2015 Opening hours: Tuesday-Saturday: 10:00-21:00Read More

Festival venue and opening hours The venue for the Pop-up Festival 2015 will be the City Plaza Shopping Mall on Makarios Avenue. Duration of festival: 13 November – 24 December 2015 Days…Read More

OPENING & PARTY 04 |11| 2015, 20:00 @NiMACRead More

OPEN CALL “so close yet so far away” | contemporary artists from Cyprus (October – November 2016, Petah Tikva Museum of Art, Israel) Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre – Associated with the Pierides Foundation [NiMAC] This Call invites artists who live anRead More

Contesting Interpretation / Contemporary Practice The problem of representation in Islamic milieus: historical/current contexts Presentation and Open Studio by Sylvat Aziz Saturday, April 9th 11.00-12.00: Presentation and Q&A 12.00-13.00: Open StudRead More

Open Studio with Sylvat Aziz Thursday, May 12th 2016 18.00-20.00- Open Studio at NiMAC’s Educational Centre for Children, in Tempon Street. Sylvat Aziz presents documents from her experience in Nicosia at the end of a two-month residency; mapping, phRead More

International museum day NiMAC, Saturday 21 May 2016Read More

HOME AND IDENTITY Curated by: Toula Liasi Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 19:30 Duration: 7 – 17 June 2016 Educational Centre for Children, Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre [NiMAC] Tempon Street, 1016 Nicosia, Tel: 22797400 Opening hours: Monday-Friday 10:00-15Read More

Performance: A Book of Small Things, 2016 Day: Saturday, May 27 Time: 12:00 – 20:00 Place: Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation [Palias Ilektrikis 19, 1016 Nicosia, T: 22797400, www.nimac.org.cy] Performers: Julia BRead More

Wednesday, 19 July 2017, 19:30 in the courtyard of NiMACRead More

FOR AN EXTENDED ACTIONISM International Conference Within the framework of Pafos 2017, European Capital of Culture, and the Terra Mediterranea: In Actionproject, the Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation organizes theRead More

Terra Mediterranea: In Action An exhibition of contemporary art, a conference and a series of parallel actions Lecture: Refraction of history: miracles and rituals Sofia Bempeza Wednesday, 18 October 2017, 19:00 at NiMAC Within the…Read More

Terra Mediterranea: In Action An exhibition of contemporary art, a conference and a series of parallel actions Performance: The Record Replay React Show – Re-sculpting Freedom (2014) Lia Haraki Saturday, 25 November 2017, 19:30, NiMAC Sound dαβγRead More

open call workshop NiMAC [Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation] organises Civilian Sensitivities, a full-day workshop that will be held on Wednesday, 26 September 2018. Israeli women artists Fatima Abu Roomi and ShirRead More

14 September – 13 October 1996 |Read More

29 May – 4 August 1996 |Read More