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VIMA 2025 EDITION
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The inaugural edition of VIMA Art Fair took place from 15–18 May 2025 at The Warehouse by IT Quarter in Limassol, Cyprus.
Over the course of four days, VIMA welcomed more than 4,000 visitors. 27 galleries from over 20 countries showcased works by more than 100 artists.
The Posterity of the Sun exhibition, led by Paris-based curator Ludovic Delalande, anchored the fair’s conceptual focus. Alongside it, VIMA presented Public and Parallel Programmes, featuring over 40 events across Limassol and Nicosia—including panel talks, performances, and public guided tours.
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Vima was a thrilling experience for the island and visiting collectors, curators and art lovers alike, both for the edgy location in a former wine warehouse by the sea and for the high quality of artwork
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Already a massive success with visitors, VIMA has set the stage for what may become an extremely exciting and vibrant part of the Mediterranean art scene.
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VIMA sought to form meaningful connections between the growing
local art ecosystems in Cyprus and its neighbouring countries, acting as
both a geographical and cultural
bridge between East and West.
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GALLERIES
ALPHA C.K. ART GALLERY
Nicosia
Art Seen by Maria Stathi
Nicosia
The Breeder
Athens
Callirrhoë
Athens
Diatopos Art Centre
Athens
Dürst Britt & Mayhew
The Hague
The Edit Gallery
Limassol
eins
Limassol
Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery
Athens
Fragment
New York
ΓΚΑΡΑΖ (garage) art space
Nicosia
Galerie Tanit Beirut
Munich
Hot Wheels
London/Athens
JOEY RAMONE
Rotterdam
Kalfayan Galleries
Athens/Thessaloniki
korai project space
Nicosia
Marfa'
Beirut
NIKA Project Space Dubai
Paris
pop/off/art
Baku
Stand in Line
Nicosia
Sylvia Kouvali
London/Piraues
Takeover
Beirut
the Office Gallery
Nicosia
The Third Line
Dubai
Thousand Julys
Nicosia
Tiwani Contemporary
London/Lagos
Window Project
Tbilisi
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The posterity of the sun
Curatorial project
by Ludovic Delalande
VIMA Art Fair’s Curatorial Project was a site-specific outdoor exhibition curated by Paris-based Ludovic Delalande. The exhibition brought together artists from the Eastern Mediterranean region in a dialogue that reflects diverse perspectives shaped by place
and shared histories. Seventeen artistic voices were in dialogue outside the fair’s main hall, amidst the remnants of the former industrial site on the Limassol shoreline in Cyprus, an island often referred to as the Mediterranean’s cultural crossroads.
Participants included sixteen artists — Majd Abdel Hamid, Monia Ben Hamouda, Younes Ben Slimane, Valentinos Charalambous, Jennifer Douzenel, Haris Epaminonda, Simone Fattal, Lito Kattou, Kyriakos Kyriakides, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Nefeli Papadimouli, Vasilis Papageorgiou, Adrian Pepe, Panos Profitis, Leontios Toumpouris, and Maria Toumazou — in addition to writer Karim Kattan, whose work for the exhibition was created during a residency in Nicosia, Cyprus.
The Posterity of the Sun supported by Natalia Kaygorodova, exhibition partners: Pylon Centre Art & Culture, Point Centre for Contemporary Art
Production of the exhibition ARTNOW agency, scenographic and architectural design ANBAU atelier, visual and design communication Manos Tzavolakis
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PANEL TALKS
at VIMA
Curated by Nadine Khalil: Dubai-based independent art critic and curator from Lebanon.
For VIMA’s inaugural edition, the talks series explored what it means to speak from a region — not as a fixed geography, but from a perspective that unsettles the binaries of east-west, south-north. We were asking: what does it mean to build creative practices and policies that look sideways across the sea rather than upward to dominant global centers?
The programme foregrounded voices that operate in-between - creative agents whose practices has been shaped by the tensions and solidarities of neighboring worlds.
All panel talks are available for listening at VIMA’s Youtube channel.
Nadine Khalil, Dubai-based independent art critic and curator from Lebanon and curator of panel talks at VIMA 2025.
Photo by Daria Makurina
Public vs Private: Mediterraneanism and Collecting for the Future panel. Eleni Koukou (Curator and advisor for ΕΜΣΤ | National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens), Marwan T. Assaf (Collector, curator and researcher from Lebanon), and Tamara Chalabi (Co-founder & artistic director, Ruya Foundation, ITERARTE, commissioner of Iraqi National Pavilion 2013-9), moderator Nadine Khalil
Photo by Daria Makurina
“As someone who has focused on emergent practices from the region for a long time, particularly those that perform place, the fair’s ethos of proximity prompted me to center on practices of care, collection, and collaboration that shape the Mediterranean as a living, interconnected space.”
Nadine Khalil
Market Roundtable: On Situating Local Ecosystems on the Global Stage panel. Olympia Tzortzi (Founder & Director, Callirrhoë), Sylvia Kouvali (Founder & Director, Sylvia Kouvali), Joumana Asseily (Founder & Owner, Marfa’ Projects), and Maria Varnava (Founder & Director, Tiwani Contemporary). Moderated by Nadine Khalil.
Photo by Daria Makurina
Cyprus Focus: Art Foundations, Non-Profits, and Artist-Run Spaces panel. Katerina Savvides (Founder, MeMeraki Artist Residency), Evagoras Vanezis (Co-Founder of Sic. Contemporary Culture, Board President – Phytorio), Maria Efstathiou (General Director, the CVAR Museum). Moderated by Evagoria Dapola ( Curator, researcher and writer (ATH/CY).
Photo by Daria Makurina
Public PROGRAMME
Alongside the panel talks, VIMA presented a dynamic public programme. As part of The Posterity of the Sun exhibition, Leontios Toumpouris’s narrated essay Skipping time, performed daily by Edward Madanat, and Nefeli Papadimouli’s immersive performance Dream Coat explored themes of memory, exposure, and ephemeral communities. Slavs and Tatars collective presented their lecture-performance Transliterative Tease, investigating language, identity, and resistance through the politics of script. The programme offered audiences diverse points of engagement with the exhibition and also included free guided tours in English and Greek throughout all public days of the fair.
Skipping Time by Leontios Toumpouris’s, performed by Edward Madanat (Part of The Posterity of the Sun Exhibition)
Photo by Daria Makurina
Transliterative Tease, lecture-performance by Slavs and Tatars
Photo by German Moiseev
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Public guided tours
Photo by German Moiseev
Dream Coat by Nefeli Papadimouli (Part of The Posterity of the Sun exhibition)
Photo by Daria Makurina
parallel PROGRAMME
VIMA’s parallel programme took place across two cities, Nicosia and Limassol, activating a wide network of exhibitions, performances, lectures, and open studios. Participating institutions and venues included Korai Project Space, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, The Office Gallery, Parthenon 11, NiMAC, ArtSeen, Spazio Altro, The Edit Gallery, MeMeraki Artist Residency, Pylon Art & Culture, NeMe Arts Centre, The Gallery 45, and the neighbouring PSI Foundation.
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EXHIBITION: Parthenon 11
11 Parthenon
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Newcomers Performance and Exhibition - Organised by Pylon Art & Culture
Photo by Mirka Koutsouri
The Posterity of the Sun Partners
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