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Guide · Artist-run & non-profit · Nicosia

Thkio Ppalies

Non-profit artist-run space for the production of work across contemporary practices, stating a focus on experimentation, critique and collaboration between artists, curators and writers. The name is a Cypriot expression meaning, roughly, chop chop.

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Checked on 2026-09-20, 32 days ago, against this source.

You will not find opening hours here, or what is on this week. Those change, and I would rather tell you nothing than tell you something wrong about someone else’s front door.

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Public arts centre · Nicosia

NiMAC: Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation

Contemporary art centre in the historical centre of Nicosia, housed in the renovated Old Powerhouse building. It describes itself as the oldest and largest contemporary art centre on the island, and was inaugurated on 14 January 1994; the building’s restoration received a Europa Nostra Award the same year.

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Artist-run & non-profit · Nicosia

Point Centre for Contemporary Art

Non-profit organisation supporting and promoting contemporary cultural production, sited between the old city of Nicosia and the modern commercial centre. It grew out of UNDO, a critical journal begun in 2007, and the UNDO Foundation that followed it.

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Artist-run & non-profit · Nicosia

Phytorio: Association of Visual Artists and Art Theorists

Association of visual artists and art theorists (Σύνδεσμος Εικαστικών Καλλιτεχνών και Θεωρητικών Τέχνης, φυτώριο), established in Nicosia in 2006 by five artists, initially as a professional association of visual artists. Since 2010 it has occupied the former plant nursery in the Municipal Garden, designed in 1969 by the architect Neoptolemos Michailidis, from which the association takes its name. It states aims covering the professional development of its members and the representation of visual artists on public committees.

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Kimonos Art Center

Fine arts organisation in Paphos, active since 2015, describing itself as the creative hub of the town. Its stated activities include workshops, residencies, screenings and an animation studio.

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Artist-run & non-profit · Lempa, Paphos

Cyprus College of Art

Artists’ studio space in the village of Lempa, describing itself as a space made by artists for artists, working in partnership with the Lempa Parish Council and associated with the painter Stass Paraskos. Despite the name it states plainly that it is not a teaching college, and says it has hosted visiting artists and art students since 1969.

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Artist-run & non-profit · Island-wide

Xarkis

Organisation founded in Cyprus in 2013, stating that it works to promote socio-ecological civic engagement through artistic expression and practices of knowledge sharing and co-creation, alongside artists, designers, curators and other cultural workers.

Their site · checked 2026-09-20