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


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

PROGRAMME
The programme is updated regularly. Stay tuned for the latest schedule and participant announcements.
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.
Table Stage
16 MAY
19:00
TYPE OF EVENT
TYPE OF EVENT
TYPE OF EVENT
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.
Main Stage
15 MAY
19:00
TYPE OF EVENT
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.
Main Stage
15 MAY
17:30
TYPE OF EVENT
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.
Main Stage
16 MAY
20:00
TYPE OF EVENT
TYPE OF EVENT
TYPE OF EVENT
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.
Main Stage
16 MAY
22:00
TYPE OF EVENT
TYPE OF EVENT
TYPE OF EVENT
Sessions: Dancefloor
Carla Lover is invited to play with the brief “all music is dance music”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Main Stage
17 MAY
17:30
TYPE OF EVENT
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.
Main Stage
16 MAY
21:30
TYPE OF EVENT
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.
Main Stage
15 MAY
21:15
TYPE OF EVENT
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.
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.
The Waves Crashing Exhibition
CURATORIAL
PROJECT
KOSTAS
STASINOPOULOS


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.

KOSTAS STASINOPOULOS
Curator, Live Programmes Serpentine (UK)

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
PATRONS
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to our patrons:
PAVEL
SHINKARENKO
NATALIA
KAYGORODOVA
ABOUT
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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