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15-17 may 2026

PREVIEW 14TH MAY 2026

VIMA Art Fair returns with 150 artists, 30 galleries, and participants from over 20 countries, alongside a dynamic programme of more than 25 events, including performances, film screenings, talks, and music events.

EXHIBITORS

ALPHA C.K. ART GALLERY

Nicosia

ART SEEN BY MARIA STATHI

Nicosia

CAN CHRISTINA ANDROULIDAKI GALLERY

Athens

CITRONNE GALLERY

Athens/Poros

CUT ART GALLERY

Riga

DIATOPOS ART CENTRE

Nicosia

THE EDIT GALLERY

Limassol

EINS

Limassol

ELENI KORONEOU GALLERY

Athens

FRAGMENT

New York

THE GALLERY 45

Limassol

GALLERY ISABELLE

Dubai

ΓΚΑΡΑΖ ART SPACE

Nicosia

GREEN ART GALLERY

Dubai

JOEY RAMONE

Rotterdam

KALFAYAN GALLERIES

Athens/Thessaloniki

KORAÏ PROJECT SPACE

Nicosia

MORFI GALLERY

Limassol

NIKA PROJECT SPACE

Dubai/Paris

ÖKTEM AYKUT

Istanbul

STAND IN LINE - ART SPACE

Nicosia

SYLVIA KOUVALI

London/Piraeus

TAKEOVER

Beirut

THE THIRD LINE

Dubai

WINDOW PROJECT

Tblisi

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EXHIBITORS

ALPHA C.K. ART GALLERY

Nicosia

ART SEEN BY MARIA STATHI

Nicosia

CAN CHRISTINA ANDROULIDAKI GALLERY

Athens

CITRONNE GALLERY

Athens/Poros

CUT ART GALLERY

Riga

DIATOPOS ART CENTRE

Nicosia

THE EDIT GALLERY

Limassol

EINS

Limassol

ELENI KORONEOU GALLERY

Athens

FRAGMENT

New York

THE GALLERY 45

Limassol

GALLERY ISABELLE

Dubai

ΓΚΑΡΑΖ ART SPACE

Nicosia

GREEN ART GALLERY

Dubai

JOEY RAMONE

Rotterdam

KALFAYAN GALLERIES

Athens/Thessaloniki

KORAÏ PROJECT SPACE

Nicosia

MORFI GALLERY

Limassol

NIKA PROJECT SPACE

Dubai/Paris

ÖKTEM AYKUT

Istanbul

STAND IN LINE - ART SPACE

Nicosia

SYLVIA KOUVALI

London/Piraeus

TAKEOVER

Beirut

THE THIRD LINE

Dubai

WINDOW PROJECT

Tblisi

PROGRAMME

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PROGRAMME

The programme is updated regularly. Stay tuned for the latest schedule and participant announcements.

ALL DAYS
15 MAY
16 MAY
17 MAY
ALL TYPES
FILM PROGRAMME
TAKEOVER
PANEL TALK
PERFORMANCE
DJ SET

Date

Time

Event

Location

16 MAY

16:30

TYPE OF EVENT

TYPE OF EVENT

TYPE OF EVENT

Korai project space: Andreas Mallouris, Queer Refugees Gardening

Queer refugees gardening sessions are initiated by Andreas Mallouris and hosted at korai project space. 

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Table Stage

16 MAY

19:00

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Koullou Makka Collective: In Our Bubble(s)

In Our Bubble(s) is a one-hour interactive performance by Koullou|Makka Collective. A small “island” of bubble wrap fills the space, where performers move extremely slowly to avoid bursting it. 

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Main Stage

15 MAY

19:00

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TYPE OF EVENT

TYPE OF EVENT

Maria Hadjimichael: Waves of Enclosures

Viewing The Waves Crashing through the lens of political ecology and economy, this stage takeover explores "waves of enclosures"—the systematic privatization and commodification of communal resources.

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Main Stage

15 MAY

17:30

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TYPE OF EVENT

TYPE OF EVENT

Celadon Center for Arts & Ecologies: Notes on Publishing

Emerging from ongoing conversations at Celadon Center for Arts & Ecologies on art and writing, this event traces the beginnings of a publication, while also reflecting on publishing practices.

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Main Stage

16 MAY

20:00

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Dancehouse Lemesos: Ioli Kaskani, Falling for (you)

falling for (you) is a performance that becomes a condition where the fall is allowed to happen. Letting the body to be consumed by the fall, to play with the fall. The fall that is already there, that has always been there.

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Main Stage

16 MAY

22:00

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TYPE OF EVENT

TYPE OF EVENT

Sessions: Dancefloor

Carla Lover is invited to play with the brief “all music is dance music”.

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Main Stage

16 MAY

15:00

TYPE OF EVENT

TYPE OF EVENT

TYPE OF EVENT

Film Programme

Moving away from traditional narrative, the film programme functions as a series of rhythmic interventions that transform the screen into a shoreline, inviting audiences into a suspended space of political attunement where explorations of memory and lived experience meet artist film.

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Rialto Theatre

15 & 17 MAY

15:00

TYPE OF EVENT

TYPE OF EVENT

TYPE OF EVENT

Film Programme

Moving away from traditional narrative, the film programme functions as a series of rhythmic interventions that transform the screen into a shoreline, inviting audiences into a suspended space of political attunement where explorations of memory and lived experience meet artist film.

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Screening Room

15 MAY

22:00

TYPE OF EVENT

TYPE OF EVENT

TYPE OF EVENT

Jeph Vanger: Dj Set

Sound artist and DJ Jeph Vanger will be delivering a high-energy, rhythm-driven set fueled by his deep passion for low-end frequencies, seamlessly fusing genres like Baile Funk, Gqom, Grime, and Ballroom with sharp percussion and Middle Eastern influences.

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Main Stage

15 MAY

20:30

TYPE OF EVENT

TYPE OF EVENT

TYPE OF EVENT

acid reflex: LongShoreDrift

Acid Reflex (Lex Gregoriou) presents a sound performance that unfolds as a shifting coastline of rhythm and texture, where sound moves like sediment carried along the shore.

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Main Stage

17 MAY

17:30

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TYPE OF EVENT

TYPE OF EVENT

Nihal El Aasar: Last Wave

Nihal El Aasar closes The Waves Crashing with a music set rooted in Cairo’s underground and tracking the organic crossovers moving through the Middle East and North Africa.

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Main Stage

16 MAY

21:30

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TYPE OF EVENT

TYPE OF EVENT

Magnus Westwell: Caught

A choreographic and musical performance by Magnus Westwell that creates sonically layered ethereal environments in which the body moves through emotional states to the point of catharsis.

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Main Stage

15 MAY

21:15

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TYPE OF EVENT

TYPE OF EVENT

Lewis Walker: Racing Time

Racing Time is a gymnastics and dance performance by Lewis Walker that explores how time is experienced through a body in ongoing negotiation with gender. 

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Main Stage

ALL DAYS

THROUGHOUT

TYPE OF EVENT

TYPE OF EVENT

TYPE OF EVENT

Paky Vlassopoulou: To play in a foreign language (The Stranger III)

A series of performative actions orchestrated by Paky Vlassopoulou throughout the project by a group of people who rarely inhabit contemporary art exhibition spaces.

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The Waves Crashing Exhibition

CURATORIAL
PROJECT

KOSTAS
STASINOPOULOS

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Director of Exhibitions & Programmes at KYKLOS, and curator of the exhibition and live programme for the 2026 edition of VIMA Art Fair.

THE WAVES CRASHING

To begin a wave is to relinquish certainty: you may never hear it crash, never see where or how it breaks. To be able to receive a wave demands a profound reorientation of internal and external intentions and politics. The Waves Crashing takes the wave as a mode of relating, one that refuses linear progression, fixed address, or immediate resolution. Against dominant models of communication that privilege clarity, speed, and mastery, The Waves Crashing proposes delay, resonance, and return. To allow time for a wave to travel to reach a body, a place, a memory, or a future listener, is to also insist on a pause: a space for reflection that is increasingly disallowed within contemporary regimes of productivity, articulation and advancement. In this suspended time lies the possibility of adjustment, repair, recall, and reorientation: a space to inhabit and consider what has been thought, uttered, or enacted, and what might still be undone or reimagined. As a form of address, waves operate at the level of the unconscious and support imagination over rigidity and reason. Their rhythms invite drifting, dreaming, and attunement, while their persistence carries memory across far-away lands through bodies, time and discourse. They move between what is legible and what remains unspeakable; between what can be historicised and what can only be communed, felt, and shared. The artists and participants in The Waves Crashing invite us to become one with the waves, to embrace alternate modes of coming together and to anticipate that meaning, consequence, or impact from these moments may only become perceptible later, elsewhere, or otherwise.

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KOSTAS STASINOPOULOS

Curator, Live Programmes
Serpentine (UK)

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The curatorial programme of VIMA 2026 will unfold through an exhibition, film screenings, performance, talks and more, and will take the waves as its point of departure and inspiration.

EXHIBITION

With STELIOS KALLINIKOU, CHRYSANTHI KOUMIANAKI, CHRISTOS KYRIAKIDES, SERAPIS MARITIME, PAKY VLASSOPOULOU, and others.

DIMITRI
CHRISTAKIS

KRISTINA
GOLOPOGOSKAYA

VADIM
VODONOS

PARTNERS & 
PATRONS

PREMIUM PARTNERS

CURATORIAL PROJECT PARTNERS

NATALIA
KAYGORODOVA

CREATIVE LEARNING SUPPORTER

MUSEUM PARTNER

FILMS PARTNER

TV PARTNER

MOBILITY PARTNER

HOSPITALITY PARTNERS

PATRONS

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to our patrons:

PAVEL
SHINKARENKO

NATALIA
KAYGORODOVA

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15-17 may 2026

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VIMA Art Fair is an international contemporary art fair held in Limassol, Cyprus.

Focusing on showcasing contemporary art from Cyprus and its neighbouring countries from the Eastern Mediterranean, VIMA welcomes international galleries interested in engaging with Cyprus and the region.

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