Art Seen is delighted to participate at VIMA: the first international contemporary art fair in Cyprus will debut in Limassol from 16-18 May 2025, preview 15th of May.

Art Seen is pleased to present new works by four visionary women artists—Marina Genadieva (GR), Amy Stephens (UK), Vicky Pericleous (CY), and Vassia Adamou Vanezi (CY)—to shape a compelling narrative about contemporary Cyprus. Through diverse mediums, including drawing, sculpture, concrete poetry, and ceramics, the works critically engage with the island’s socio-political realities, cultural conventions, and the Buffer Zone’s contested space. These thought-provoking pieces challenge perceptions, celebrate the interplay of identity and landscape, and inspire fresh conversations about time, place, and belonging. A polyphony of voices converges to reimagine the Cypriot experience through innovative artistic lenses.

We look forward to seeing you at VIMA Art Fair | BOOTH B7
at The Warehouse by IT Quarter, Limassol

FRI 16.05                      15:00 – 21:00
SAT 17.05                      15:00 –20:00
SUN 18.05                    12:00 –19:00

Marina Genadieva

Marina Genadieva is a visual artist who lives and works between Athens and Nicosia. She studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (2010–2016) and continued her studies in the school’s Postgraduate Programme in Visual Arts (2020–2022). In 2014, she attended the Kunstuniversität Linz in Austria with an Erasmus scholarship. Her work Aerial Passages was selected by UNFICYP and presented at the historic Ledra Palace Hotel in Nicosia in March 2024, as part of the events commemorating sixty years of the United Nations’ presence in Cyprus. Her work has been presented in two solo exhibitions: at Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens (2024) and at Art Seen Gallery, Nicosia (2023), under the auspices of the Embassy of Greece in Cyprus. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Greece and abroad, including: The Silent Language of Plants, Hellenic American Union, Athens (2025); A Cabinet of Curiosities, MOMus – Alex Mylona Museum (2025); Casts of an Island, PSI Foundation, Limassol (2024); Art Knows No Borders, Ministry of Migration and Asylum (2021); The Performance Shop, Athens and Epidaurus Festival (2018); Dipoles, Athens Municipal Gallery (2015); 7th Biennale of Fine Arts Students of Greece, Theocharakis Foundation (2014); and the international exhibition International Painting Annual 4, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA (2014).

Vicky Pericleous
Vicky Pericleous is a visual artist and assistant professor at Cyprus University of Technology,Department of Fine Arts. She has studied at Manchester Metropolitan University, Wimbledon School of Art, London, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Her work has shown in exhibitions at various international venues including Espace Commines, Paris,Hasselblad Foundation in Gothenburg, Zahoor Ul Akhlaq Gallery of the National College of Arts, Lahore, Multiplied Art Fair, Christie’s, London as well as in various private galleries abroad. She has also exhibited in Evagoras Lanitis Centre, Limassol, and NiMAC –Municipal Art Centre, Omikron Gallery, Art Seen, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, amongst others, all in Nicosia. Pericleous exhibited in Monodrome, the 3rd Athens Biennale, and at Sanat Limani, as part of the European Capital of Culture Istanbul 2010. She has initiated and participated in the international visual-research project “Uncovered: Nicosia International Airport,” 2010-13. She has been an active member of the Noise of Coincidence Art Group, an international art group / platform that has organised several exhibitions, actions, happenings and talks in Cyprus and abroad. Her work has been published and presented in many acclaimed books, art catalogues and press, including book publications by the Valand Academy of the Gothenburg University in collaboration with the Hasselblad Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden, 2022 and The University of Columbia Press, Sept. 2019.

Amy Stephens

2008, MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London | 2006, Postgraduate Diploma (Distinction) Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London | 2001-2005, BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Reading

Selected solo exhibitions Permanence of Space, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, Austria (2024); Persistence of Land, Bo Lee and Workman Gallery, Bruton, UK, (2023); Nature knows only colours, Art Seen Maria Stathi, Nicosia, Cyprus (2021); fig-futures, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK (2018); Land | Reland [Portland], Upfor Gallery, Portland, Oregon, US (2018); fig2, 35/50, ICA Studio, London, curated by Fato? Üstek (2015).

Selected group exhibitions Lovington Sculpture Meadow, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London (2025); Frieze Sculpture 2023, The Regent’s Park, London (2023); If Not Now, When? Generations of Women in Sculpture in Britain, 1960 – 2022, Saatchi Gallery, London and The Hepworth Wakefield Gallery, UK (2023); New Things, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK (2023); I miss the land but does the land miss me? Art Seen Maria Stathi, Nicosia, Cyprus (2022); Psychotropics, New Art Centre, Roche Court, curated by Iwona Blazwick OBE (2020); Synergia, Museo Federico Silva, Mexico (2019).

Awards include Mtec Bursary, Frieze Sculpture (2023); The Henry Moore Foundation Research and Travel Grant, UK (2022); NiMAC, Artists' Residency, Nicosia, Cyprus (2022); UV estudios, Artists’ Residency, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2016); Villa Lena, Artists' Residency, Italy (2015); Triangle Award to Muscat, Oman with Gasworks Gallery (2013); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Artists' Residency, Dublin, Ireland (2011).

Vassia A.Vanezi

Vassia A.Vanezi is a Greek Cypriot visual artist who lives and works between Athens and Nicosia. Her education includes interdisciplinary studies such as Art in the School of Fine Arts in Athens, Political Theory in Pantion University, Weaving and Music in Scalkotas Conservatory.

She exhibits regularly in Greece and Cyprus. She had 11 solo shows and participated in many group shows among others at Documenta 14 in Athens, Signal #6 in Brussels ,Benaki Museum, Nautical Museum, Museum of Modern Greek Culture, National Historical Museum, Ethnological Museum of Thrace. She explores themes of time, language, loss, displacement, history, community and the human condition. She also investigates social contracts, personal and collective memory, the ephemeral character of human existence and activity. In her artistic practice she engages with social observation, political commentary and explores how these fields interrelate with one another and collide in the human condition. She creates drawings, installations, poetic gestures, sculptural objects, soundscapes and sound structures, linguistic installations, woven structures. Her artworks are included in public and private collections in Greece ,Cyprus, Europe and USA.

For more information, please contact: Maria Stathi, Founder & Director, Art Seen
+357 22006624 | maria@art-seen.org | www.art-seen.org