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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

NiMAC’s show directs our gaze toward the moving image. "we can only begin to notice" presents a curated selection of  non-fiction films by ten female creators from Cyprus and the Cypriot diaspora. With filmworks by: Maria Anastassiou, Marianna Christofides, Anna Kannava, Maria Loizidou, Keti Papadema, Danae Stylianou, Maria Toumazou, Rahme Veziroglu, Marina Xenofontos, Natalie YiaxiRead More

7 May - 23 July 2022 | The exhibition One Hundred Fifty Eight Attempts for Revision comprises of four volumes: the three-volume project Propaedeutics on Memorial Structures (2018-2020) which investigates the social, political and cultural condition of memorials and monuments in Cyprus and We Never Had Winners (2021).Read More

7 May - 23 July 2022 | Sensing is believing, believing is seeing is a series of photographic works which utilise remote sensing techniques, namely photogrammetry and LiDAR scanning.Read More

7 May - 23 July 2022 | The exhibition, Frenk Bey, Fortress and the Thing, deals with the history of colonial Cyprus via a fictional narrative.Read More

16 April - 25 May 2022 | Despo Frederickou’s new work, entitled "Roman Years. The Journey Continues", is inspired by the history of Cyprus – the Roman era.Read More

2 March - 24 April 2021 | The exhibition brings together eighteen artists, born in the 1990’s, who delve into the concept of identity formation.Read More

11 June – 1 August 2020 | An Exhibition On Borders. NiMAC [The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation] and Goethe-Institut Cyprus organise and present the exhibition Getting Across at NiMAC.Read More

29 November 2019 - 29 February 2020 | On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of NiMAC, the project seeks to showcase the plurality of practices among Cypriot contemporary artists, and will unfold via two platforms: an exhibition and a forum.Read More

15 October - 6 November 2019 | NiMAC [The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation] is celebrating this year twenty-five years of continuous creative presence in the cultural life of Cyprus.An audio-visual recollection of the NiMAC’s long history through its archives.Read More

10 - 31 May 2019 | An exhibition by Toula Liasi dedicated to the missing persons in Cyprus.Read More

7 March - 20 July 2019 | NiMAC [The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation] and the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus organise and present the first survey exhibition of Cypriot designer Michael Anastassiades.Read More

19 October 2018 – 12 January 2019 | NiMAC [The Nicosia Municipal Art Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation] and IAPT [International Association of Photography and Theory present the exhibition Ar[t]chaeology.Read More

19 October 2018 – 12 January 2019 | Between 2013 and 2017, artists associated with the University of Plymouth, UK, responded to Cyprus through residencies at NiMAC.Read More

20 May - 28 July 2018 | The Drone Vision: Warfare, Surveillance and Protest project addresses questions of visibility and verticality intrinsic to the operations of drone technology and its meanings for artistic and political praxis.Read More

20 – 26 April 2018 | The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation presents Andreas (Andis) Ioannides’ painting "Earth Times" as well as his poetic composition "Stateless Sleep" published by Rodakio.Read More

17 February – 14 April 2018 | In The Presence of Absence, or the Catastrophe Theory artists from Albania, Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus, along with a British artist of Turkish Cypriot origins, present videos, photographs, and installations that convey the poetic power of the particular in our understanding of the universal.Read More

12 December – 23 December 2017 | The exhibition presents a series of new pulp paintings by Christodoulos Panayiotou, in which the artist replaces common paper pulp with pulp made from discarded Euro banknotes, of all denominations.Read More

8 – 30 December 2017 | The Alien Trail exhibition forms an integral part of a wider project created by Nicolas Iordanou to raise public awareness about refugees and migrants living in Cyprus and to promote their integration into society.Read More

7 April – 25 November 2017 | Pafos2017, European Capital of Culture presents in Nicosia and in Pafos Terra Mediterranea: In Action, a project that includes a major contemporary art exhibition, an international conference and a series of parallel actions with the participation of a great number of artists from Cyprus and abroad.Read More

12 January – 11 March 2017 | NiMAC in collaboration with the Petah Tikva Museum of Art, Israel organise and present the exhibition So Close Yet So Far Away | Contemporary Artists from Cyprus.Read More

17 September – 20 November 2016 | An exhibition about the liquid continent. HALLE 14 – Centre for Contemporary Art in cooperation with NiMAC present a group exhibition of more than 20 artists, coming from different countries like Greece, Israel, Egypt and Cyprus.Read More

27 May 2016 – 28 January 2017 | NiMAC (Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation) and the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture organise and present the major retrospective exhibition Glyn Hughes 1931-2014.Read More

15 January – 12 March 2016 | Contemporary Photographic Practices at NiMAC. The programme aims at presenting the work and research of contemporary photographers from Cyprus and abroad.Read More

04 November 2015 – 12 March 2016 | NiMAC [Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation] organises and presents the exhibition Black Atolles by Tom Dale.Read More

17 June – 25 July 2015 |Read More

3 – 13 June 2015 | NiMAC [Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation] in collaboration with Accept-LGBT Cyprus organises and presents the photo exhibition “Correction” with works by the Greek trans activist Paola Revenioti.Read More

28 November 2014 – 21 February 2015 | The exhibition features works by twenty-three artists from eleven countries in Southeastern Europe, who address various aspects of collective memory, places of memory, different cultures of memory, as well as the role of image in these processes.Read More

26 September – 08 November 2014 | The project features visual works, performances, public discussions, interventions and other events selected through an Open Call, next to a number of preselected works.Read More

30 November 2013 – 30 April 2014 | Various methods and alternative approaches are adopted with an aim of renegotiating and re-examining the procedures of curating art exhibitions.Read More

04 July 2012 – 31 July 2013 | The exhibition aims at detecting, investigating and presenting contemporary artists’ reflections on today’s universal landscape of economic, political, religious, social, but also deeply existential crisis of identity.Read More

30 October – 8 December 1996 |Read More

14 September – 13 October 1996 |Read More

14 September – 13 October 1996 | This exhibition is a journey in Cypriot Byzantine art through photographic material of the wall painting of the Assinou church.Read More

10 July – 4 August 1996 | The exhibition starts from palaeontological finds and fish remains continues Archaic and Medieval ceramics and ends with the most recent expression of art creation in Greece and Cyprus.Read More

29 May – 30 June 1996 |Read More

20 March – 12 May 1996 |Read More

19 January – 10 March 1996 |Read More

7 December 1995 – 7 January 1996 | Seventy six engravings made by well-known British artists are presented in this exhibition from the unique collections of the British Council in London.Read More

13 October – 26 November 1995 |Read More

13 September – 8 October 1995 | The exhibition European Environment of Hope of the Greek artist Pavlos, is organized within the framework of the European Cultural Month 1995.Read More

19 June – 23 July 1995 |Read More

8 May – 11 June 1995 |Read More

22 March – 28 April 1995 | Photograph pictures by nine American artists which reflect the experimentation and exploration of the means and its use beyond the limits of traditional photography.Read More

23 January – 5 March 1995 | The large size posters of the HELLAFFI collection are presented in “Painting in Cinema”.Read More

21 September – 27 November 1994 | The exhibition presents the work of some of the most established Greek and Cypriot artists of the postwar era.Read More

03 June – 31 July 1994 | The exhibition covers the whole spectrum of Fassianos' artistic creation from the early '50's.Read More

19 April – 22 May 1994 | Fire and earth, water and air, are transformed in clay from Stone Age revealing thus the first human attempts to serve art.Read More

14 January – 31 March 1994 | The opening of the exhibition “The Tree, Source of Inspiration - Cause for Creation” marks the beginning of the Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre.Read More