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Kyriaki Costa is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher whose practice explores art as a form of anthropological inquiry. Her work interweaves sociology, mythology, and history with ecological and climate-related concerns. Collaborating with a diverse range of practitioners—including artisans and technology specialists—she creates artworks and installations that often take the form of participatory environments. Through these immersive settings, she stages social and political interventions that critically engage with specific contexts and surroundings.

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Costa’s work has been widely exhibited both nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions and is held in private and public art collections. She has received numerous awards, including Biennale prizes.

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Since 2015, she has curated and published the ongoing participatory publishing project Delivering Views – Delivering Texts with the NGO Phaneromenis 70.
🔗Phaneromenis 70 – Delivering Views

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Selected Exhibitions & Projects

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2024

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  • Repetitive Acts: The Power of Weaving and Textile in Contemporary Art
    NiMAC – Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre
    Curator: Dr. Elena Stylianou
    Duration: Dec 2024 – May 2025

  • Diaspora: Delivering Views – Delivering Texts 33
    Curators/Editors: Kyriaki Costa, Dr. Monika Asimenou, Evagoras Vanezis

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2023

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  • Seeing Through Melancholia: The Replenishment of Loss
    With Stephanos Stephanides
    Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios Mansion, Nicosia
    Curators: Dr. Alev Adil, Dr. Gabriel Koureas
    Production: Catherine Louis Nikita

  • Closer to a Sustained Caress: Contemporary Readings of Printmaking
    Hambis Printmaking Museum
    Curators: Evagoras Vanezis, Nicola Mitropoulou

  • Akamantis, Head & Hand
    Archaeological Museum of Marion-Arsinoe & Anassa, Polis Chrysochous
    Curators: Monika Asimenou, Evagoras Vanezis, Christina Lambrou

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2022

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  • Head and Hand / Foun[d]ain
    New European Bauhaus Festival, Nicosia
    Participatory tour and open dialogue on commons, fountains, and water
    Speakers: Nikos Akritidis, Dr. Christina Lambrou, Antigoni Michael, Stavroula Michael, Melina Philippou

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2021

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  • Head & Hand / Καιρός
    Residency in Tinos, Greece – solo exhibition at Tripotamos
    Curator: Sofia Eliza Bouratsis
    Support: Tinos Cultural Foundation, European Cultural Foundation, Kultur | lx, i-Portunus, Cyprus Ministry of Culture

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2020

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  • Burnt Waters: A Response to Carlos Fuentes
    Online residency
    Funded by: British Arts Council, Energy Systems, Well Projects, Cyprus Ministry of Culture

  • Temporal Inconsistencies
    Solo exhibition at KunstRaumGoethe, Cyprus

  • The Event of a Thread: Global Narratives in Textiles
    Group exhibition curated by Susanne Weiß & Inka Gressel (ifa)

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2019

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  • Innovative Flow Solutions (Head and Hand Series)
    Solo exhibition & book launch at Phytorio, Nicosia
    Support: Cyprus Ministry of Culture, Goethe Institute, C. Roushas Trading & Development

  • Workshop: Hand and Head Walking (You are welcome to bring your own dog along too)
    Led by Sofia Eliza Bouratsi
    Support: Nicosia Municipality

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2018

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  • Portraits: Aura of Life and Death
    Evagoras Lanitis Center, Limassol
    Curator: Dr. Efi Kyprianidou

  • Ar(t)chaeology / Ichnos (Head and Hand Series)
    NiMAC – Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre
    Curators: Elena Stylianou, Yiannis Toumazis, Artemis Eleftheriadou

  • Cyprus Contemporary Art Exhibition
    European Central Bank, Frankfurt
    Curator: Britta Von Campenhausen

  • Venice Biennale (Architecture Pavilion – Cyprus)
    Included in "Presence in Absence"

  • Handmade Rocno Delo
    Estonia, Group Exhibition
    Curators: Marika Vicari, Jernej Forbici

  • IAPT Photobook: Photographies and Conflict
    Contribution: “It’s Water – Taps and Sources of Nicosia”

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2017

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  • Phoinikas – Terra Mediterranea: In Action
    NiMAC
    Curator: Yiannis Toumazis

  • The Venus Paradox
    A. G. Leventis Gallery
    Work: “As the Rock Wears Out”

  • Transcending Time
    Athens, Supported by NEON Organization

  • Livres d’Artistes: Book Art in Cyprus since the 1960s
    Zampelas Art Museum, Nicosia
    Curator: Marina Christodoulidou

  • So Close Yet So Far Away
    Petah Tikva Museum of Art, Israel
    Curator: Yiannis Toumazis

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2016

  • Diaspora – I Must Have Swallowed the Dust
    Solo exhibition at Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam
    Curators: Jelle Bouwhuis, Iris Pissarides

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2015

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  • It’s Water: Taps and Sources of Nicosia
    Solo exhibition & book launch at Phytorio, Nicosia

  • Conference: Salamis of Cyprus
    Presentation of “Eternal Time”
    Organizer: University of Cyprus

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2014–2011

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  • Other Indications, NiMAC (2014)

  • Threads, Museum of Modern Art Arnhem, Netherlands (2014)

  • United States of Europe, touring group show (2011–2014)

  • The History of Cyprus – illustrated book & solo exhibition, Leventis Museum (2013)

  • Utopia, Pattichis Collection, Group show (2012)

  • Terra Mediterranea – In Crisis, NiMAC (2012)

  • Envision Cyprus – Memories Alive, Brussels (2012)

  • The Location of Culture, Walk of Truth, The Hague (2011)

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2010–2005

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  • Kypriaka Design Competition (2010) – 2 winning entries

  • This is My Country and it is Unexpectedly Beautiful
    Solo exhibition at Leventis Museum, Nicosia (2010)
    Curator: Loukia Hadjigavriel

  • Presence in Absence, PAD Prize winner (2009)

  • MADATAC II, New Media Art Festival, Spain (2009)

  • Yfanseis – Weavings – Dokuma, 1st Prize (2008)

  • Venice Biennale – Gravy Planet, Parallel Program (2005)

  • Saint Etienne Biennale, Public’s Prize (2006)

  • Cairo Biennale, Cyprus Pavilion – Best Pavilion Award (2006)

  • Leaps of Faith, International art project on the Green Line, Nicosia (2005)

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