About
Klitsa Antoniou

Klitsa Antoniou, a multidisciplinary artist has exhibited in major museums and art galleries worldwide. She has been an artist-in-residence in many countries and participated in numerous workshops and seminars. In 2019 she represented Malta at Venice Biennale with the multimedia installation Atlantropa-X. Her exhibited work had received extensive coverage and was ranked in the top 6 of the Biennale participations by numerous magazines and journals.

Education

2008-2014

Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus
Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts,
Doctorate of Theory and History of Art

Dissertation title:
Contemporary Cypriot Art: Loss, Trauma, Affect
and the Material that Passes into Sensation

2000-2004

New York University, New York, U.S.A.,
Doctorate Program in Art and Art Professions
Studio Art and Environmental Art

1995-1996

New York University, New York, U.S.A.,
Doctorate Program in Art and Art Professions
Studio Art and Environmental Art

1991-1993

Pratt Institute, New York,
Master of Fine Arts
Distinction
Sculpture Department
Fulbright Scholarship, Amideast Educational Program

1989

Central St. Martins School of Art and Design, London,
The London Institute,
Scholarship for Educational trip to Spain

1988-1991

Central St. Martins School of Art and Design, London,
The London Institute,
Painting Department
Bachelor of Fine Arts

1987-1988

Wimbledon School of Art, London,
Foundation,
Cyprus Government Scholarship

Personal Statement

Though one may interpret my work as a personal elegy, as it contains a recurrent range of issues, such as memory, the process of recollection and the awareness of an ever returning practice of allowing the present to formulate and re-address the past, lately I am engaged in a more philosophical level in subverting rationalist distinctions between the real space and the space constructed, the oscillating slippage between reality and reminiscence and issues of belonging, possessing and property. I investigate the parameters of division, aspects of separation and the tackling of loss and devotion, issues usually brought forward wherever boundaries of any kind are enforced or refuted. Through the performative nature of my work, I am re-enacting dislocation, and recreating the experience of transportability of space and memory. I am presenting the viewer with a performative ritual where memory can be reclaimed.
Dealing with issues of loss, trauma and dislocation, the possibility of representation in my works could be inscribed within a Lyotardian metaphor of impossibility – where no aesthetic object will ever be right or appropriate to the historic trauma that it takes as its grounding subject. I am faced with a history directed towards the immemorial, to that which cannot either be remembered (represented) or forgotten (erased), a history which evokes the figures that ‘haunt’ the claims of historical representation – ‘haunt’, in the sense that they are neither present to me nor absent from me. As is evidenced in my projects, the awareness of this collapse of representation, or impossibility, does not lessen the call to try to commemorate, to strive to do the impossible. Thus my works can be viewed as yet-to-be-completed, as resisting the intention for wholeness, conclusion and resolution, and instead sustaining it as a desire. My art is therefore a realm that opens up the world, unfolding it towards that which we are unable to represent. The cause of the violence, the fragmented (or fractured) sensory experience, and the unpredictable and persistent temporality of trauma and memory in my art, are invisible but present – they constitute a force which makes its presence known. Suffering from a burden of historical belatedness, I attempt the impossible in striving to bear witnesses to the loss and suffering experienced not only through a past loss, but rather to something at once more general and more devastating: namely to the loss inscribed in the movement of temporality itself. There is an intense awareness of a traumatic past, but also an expectant openness, a void waiting to be filled by worlds yet to be born, worlds that could be equally doubtful, painful, insecure and uncertain.

Solo Exhibitions

2023

No Man Is-Land
Sicilia Fondazione
Palazzo Branciforte
Curated by Afrodite Economidou
Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Education Cyprus and the Cyprus Consulate in Palermo
Palermo, Sicily, Italy

2023

Hydor_is_Land
I land. Cyprus.
Solo Exhibition, part of the Biennale of Contemporary Art of the Mediterranean Islands
Curator and Project Manager-Elena Posokhova
Marlands Project Creative Europe Program
Theatro Polis/Nimac, Nicosia, Cyprus

2022

Making Waves
Curated by Lindqvist Henrik
Porvoo Art Hall
Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Education Cyprus
and the Embassy of Cyprus in Helsinki
Porvoo, Finland

2019

Atlantropa_X
De Skyddssökande
Public Intervention/Two Solo Exhibitions in the frame of De skyddssökande Performance (Ικέτιδες)
Ostgotateatern Theatre, Norrkoping, Östergötland, Sweden
Curated by Klara Nordmark and Konstantin Economou
Organized by Norrkoping Air, affiliated with
Linkoping university and the Museum of Forgetting, Sweden
Supported by the Cultural Services of the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture
Norrköping, Sweden

2019

Venice Art Biennale 2019
Maleth Heaven Port: Heterotopias of Evocation,
Atlantropa-X
Malta National Pavilion, Arsenale
(With Trevor Borg and Vince Briffa)
Supported by Malta Arts Council
Venice, Italy

2015

This Silence has a Sound ... it is the Sound of a Horizon,
The Collection Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Curated by Krista Mikkola

2012

Parallelotopias, National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, Thessaloniki.
Curated by Gabriel Koureas

2011

The Persistence of the Image, Artos Foundation, Nicosia.
Curated by Gabriel Koureas

2010

Tall Tales: Lovely Landmarks, Exhibit Gallery, Golden Lane Estate,
Barbican, London, United Kingdom

2010

Tall Tales: Lovely Landmarks, Is not Gallery,
Nicosia, Cyprus

2007

Recent Acquisitions, Pierides Museum, Larnaka, Cyprus.
Curated by Marina Bryonidou

2007

All this is Mine, Diatopos Center of Contemporary Art,
Nicosia, Cyprus

2006

Frames of the Elusive, Stoa Gallery,
Cultural Center of East Helsinki, Finland

2005

Atlantropa: Episodes of Domestic Nature, Eastlink Gallery,
Shanghai, China

2004

Atlantropa: Stories of Dystopia,
Chinese European Art Centre, Xiamen, China
Curated by Ineke Gudmansson

2004

Mare Nostrum: Visions of a Mermaid,
Diatopos Center of Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus

2002

Traces of Memory, Diatopos Center of Contemporary Art,
Nicosia, Cyprus

1999

In the Horizon of the Game with the Other,
The Monagri Foundation, Monagri, Cyprus

1999

Syntinhano, Lobby Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus

1997

Discourse with the self, Diaspro Art Center, Nicosia, Cyprus

1994

The Song of the Nine Muses, Diaspro Art Center, Nicosia, Cyprus

1993

Higgins Hall Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA

International Group Exhibitions

2022

Under_Mining
Curated by Gabriel Koureas, George Lazoglou and Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio
In the frame of Cultural Decentralization Programme of the Cultural Services of the Deputy Ministry of Culture, Republic of Cyprus
Kalavasos Mining Area
Cyprus

2022

Audio Visual Arts Festival
Ionios Parliament
Ionian University - Department of Audio and Visual Arts
Curated by Aggelos Floros and Sophia Paschou
Corfu, Kerkira, Greece

2021

Visual Intrusion
Biennale of the Art Colony Galichnik,
The National Gallery of the Republic of North Macedonia, Mala Stanica
Curated by Ana Frangovska
Republic of North Macedonia

2021

The Long Walk
Site Specific Installation,
Walking as a Question | International Walking Encounters
Organized by Visual March to Prespa,
Fine and Applied Arts of the School of Fine Arts of the University of Western Macedonia (EETF/UOWM), and by Made of Walking (VI)
Greece

2021

Antisomata
Platforms Project
Representing The Museum of Forgetting Sweden
Nikos Kassanlis Exhibition Space
Athens School of Fine Arts
Curated by Artemis Potamianou
Greece

2021

The Coffee: Another Distance
The Municipality of Limassol and the Municipal Arts Centre - Papadakis Warehouses
in collaboration with BPRarts Cultural Management
Curated by Catherine Louis Nikita, Art Historian and Director of BPRarts
Cultural Management and texts by Aspasia Papadima.
Cyprus

2020

We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still too close to us
An Art Intervention by the Fine Arts Department
at Forest Park Hotel, Platres, Cyprus.
Curated and Organized by Klitsa Antoniou and Cut Contemporary Fine Arts Lab
Cyprus

2020

The Right to Silence?
International Group Exhibition
Curated by Sozita Goudouna (invited curator)
& Thalia Vrachopoulos (Jonh Jay Faculty)
Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, Jonh Jay, New York
New York, USA

2020

Theorimata 2
On History
Inauguration of the Greek National Museum of Contemporary Art
Organized by Αica Hellas
Organizational & curatorial committee: Emmanuel Mavrommatis, Bia Papadopoulou, Artemis Potamianou, Faye Tzanetoulakou, Kostas Christopoulos and AICA members Charis Kanellopoulou and Niki Papaspyrou for AICA Hellas
Museum of Contemporary Art Athens,
Greece

2020

Platforms Project
Uncanny
Representing The Museum of Forgetting Sweden
Nikos Kassanlis Exhibition Space Athens School of Fine Arts
Curated by Artemis Potamianou
Athens

2019

100% Risk, 100% Trust: Towards A New Visual Performance
Art Athina 2019: International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens
Live@Art Athina
Zapeion Mansion, Greece
Curated by Sozita Goudouna

2019

Experimental Storytelling,
Norrköping City Museum
In the Frame of Orphaned Images Exhibition
Organized by Norrkoping Air, affiliated with
Linkoping university and the Museum of Forgetting,
Sweden

2019

Iasis
Tilt Platforms 2019, Lab2Art,
Beau Rivage
Curated by Katerina Gkoutziouli, Takis Zerdevas and Makis Faros,
Loutraki, Greece

2019

Platforms Project
As long as the Wound Fits the Arrow
Representing The Museum of Forgetting Sweden
Nikos Kassanlis Exhibition Space
Athens School of Fine Arts
Curated by Artemis Potamianou

2018

Biennale of Western Balkans
Weaving Europe-Weaving Balkans
Mekeio Institute, Ioannina
Ioannina, Greece

2018

Die Kunst ist ein Ausweg bei sexuellen Problemen
Sigmund Freud Dream Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Curated by Megaklis Rogakos and Ioannis Arxontakis

2018

10 artists in the Light of Caravaggio
Larnaca Municipal Gallery
Curated by Stratis Pantazis
Larnaca, Cyprus

2018

Platforms Project
Representing The Museum of Forgetting Sweden
And then the Light was shed on us and Got us to the Shore
Exhibition Space Athens School of Fine Arts
Curated by Artemis Potamianou
Athens

2018

(met)afourisms
Fondazzjoni Kreattività -Spazju Kreattiv
Between the Lines
Atlantropa Series
St James Cavalier, Valletta, Malta
Curated by Niki Young and Irene Biolchini

2018

Portraits: Aura of Life and Death
Lanitis Foundation Cyprus
Curated by Efi Kyprianidou

2017

Is this the Time for Art?
Modern Art Museum Orebro Konstall, Sweden
Atlantropa Series: But the Sea Kept Turning Blank Pages Looking for History
Curated by Erik Berggren

2017

Vallasdaden 2017, Linkoping, Sweden
Organized by Norrkoping Air, Affiliated with Linkoping university
Curated by Costa Economou

2017

Tilt Platforms 2017, Lab2Art
Beau Rivage, Loutraki, Greece
Curated by Katerina Gkoutziouli, Takis Zerdevas and Makis Faros

2017

Fusion
Museum of Nanjing University of the Art, China
Organized by Hafnia Foundation

2017

Platforms Project 2017, Athens
The Museum of Forgetting
Curated by Artemis Potamianou

2017

Il Diritto Al Futuro, 100° anniversario della Rivoluzione d'Ottobre del 1917
The Museum of the Arts of the 20th and 21st Century
St Petersburg, Russia
Curated by Marina Jigarhanjan

2017

Supermarket Stockholm Independent Art Fair
Museum of Forgetting
Svarta Huset, Stockholm

2017

Big Mosaic
Pafos European Cultural Capital, Hani, Pafos
Curated by Charalambos Margaritis

2017

arTwins Residency Program
Pafos European Cultural Capital
A Collaborative project with Elektro Moon Vision, from Poland and Hungary

2017

so close yet so far away…
Museum of Contemporary Art, Petach Tikva, Israel
Curated by Yiannis Toumazis

2016

Mykonos Multimedia Festival
Mykonos, Greece
Migration Section
Curated and Organized by Avgi Atmatzidou

2016

Facts don’t Speak for themselves - Art on Migration and Borders
The Museum of Forgetting, Skånes konstförening, Malmö, Sweden
Curated by Erik Berggren with input from Kosta Economou

2016

Art Athina, The Museum of Forgetting, Palaio Faliro Greece
Atlantropa Series: But the Sea Kept Turning Blank Pages Looking for History

2016

Ars Aevi Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina
Curated by Ibrahim Spahich

2016

Soul, Sarajevo Historical Museum,
Sarajevo Winter Festival, Bosnia Herzegovina
Curated by Ibrahim Spahich

2015

Is this the Time for Art? Migration, Politics of Borders and Art
The Museum of Forgetting, Norrköping, Sweden
Curated by Erik Berggren with input from Kosta Economou
With support by The Swedish Arts Council, Region Östergötland
and Fastighets AB L E Lundberg

2015

2001/51/EC - Embodied Crossings - Now Boarding
Ongoing project/performance
Collaboration with the Museum of Forgetting, Sweden

2015

At Kolossi and at the Castles
Kolossi Castle, Limassol
Curated by Nadia Anaxagorou

2015

Art Athina, The Collection Gallery, Palaio Faliro, Greece
Atlantropa Series: But the Sea Kept Turning Blank Pages Looking for History

2015

IKB International Klein’s Blue, Ist Volos Summer Exhibition
Old Volos Nursing Home, Volos Greece
Curated by Chrysa Drantaki

2014

I am a Woman
Casoria Contemporary Art Museum Napoli, Italy
Curated by Antonio Manfredi

2013

Site Specific in the frame of Imagine the City
Old Railway Station, Kozani, Greece
Curated by Marina Makris

2013

Cyprus DIY
Is not Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus

2012

Through the Roadblocks
Co-organised by NeMe, the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts (Art History and Theory Research Lab) of the Cyprus University of Technology, and the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture
Exhibition at Lanitis Foundation Limassol
Curated by Antonis Danos and Helene Black

2012

Terra Mediterranean in Crisis
Municipal Cultural Center, Nicosia, Cyprus
Curated by Yiannis Toumazis

2012

International Exhibition– Sculpture and Object
Bratislava, Slovakia
Curated by Tonia Loizou

2012

Mapping Cyprus Contemporary Views
BOZAR EXPO, Brussels, Belgium
Curated by Andri Michael

2012

Tempus Arti Triennial Exhibition
Landen, Belgium
Curated by Tim Cleuren

2012

Arrivals Departures, in the frame of the Cyprus Presidency of the European Union
Installation at Larnaca International Airport
Curated by Marina Vryonidou

2011

The Location of Culture
An International Exhibition with Artists from Cyprus, Greece
The Netherlands and Turkey Pulchri Studio, Hague, The Netherlands
Curated by Pavlina Paraskevaidou

2011

OCC one (Original Certified Copy one)
Tint Gallery, Thessaloniki
Curated by Eleni Riga

2011

Roaming Images, The Persistence of the Image
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, in the framework of the 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art
Curated by Iara Boubnova and Sotirios Bahtetzis

2011

Rolling Snowball/2'
Wonderland Lotte Square, Quanzhou, China
Curated by Ineke Gudmundsson

2011

Artists in Print
Is not Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
Curated by Maria Efstathiou

2011

Rolling Snowball/1'
Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China
Curated by Ineke Gudmundsson and Krista Mikkola

2011

The Persistence of the Image
Artos Foundation, Nicosia
Curated by Gabriel Koureas

2010

Chypre 2010, L’art au present
Espace Commines, Paris, France
Curated by Andri Michael and Yiannis Toumazis

2010

Looking Awry
Evagoras Lanitis Center, Limassol, Cyprus
Curated by Antonis Danos

2010

50 years of Artistic Creation-1974 – Landmark in Politics and Art
Famagusta Gate
Curated by Marina Schiza

2010

Exterritory Project
Initiated and curated by Ruti Sela and Maayan Amir, took place in the Mediterranean Sea, June 17-21, 2010
Cyprus participation curated by Klitsa Antoniou

2010

Beijing Biennale 2010
"Environmental Concern and Human Existence"
China

2010

The Little Land Fish, İstanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture
Istanbul Antrepo exhibition venue, Turkey
Curated by Zeynep Yasa Yaman and Antonis Danos

2010

Braking Walls- Building Networks
Macedonian Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece
Curated by Iara Boubnova, Christos Savvidis, Thalea Stefanidou

2009

Optica International Video Art Festival, Madrid, Spain Dialogue
Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China

2009

Ideodromio, Video Installations
Limassol, Cyprus
Curated by Adonis Florides

2009

Personal- Political Exhibition
Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece
Curated by Areti Leopoulou and Theodore Markoglou

2009

Tempus Arti Triennial Exhibition
Brussels, Belgium
Curated by Jan Hoet

2009

Project Launch, Exhibit Gallery,
Golden Lane Estate,
An Exhibition of the winners of Golden Lane Competition
London, UK

2008

OPEN 2008, 11th International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations
Lido, Venice, Italy
Curated by Paolo De Grantis

2008

Action Field Kodra
Annual Visual Arts Festival at the Former Military Barracks KODRA
Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, Greece
Curated by Art Box

2008

Perimeno Nea Sou
Gounaropoulos Museum, Athens, Greece
Curated by Andri Michael

2008

International Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland

2008

Umedalen Skulptur
Galleri Sandström Andersson, Umea, Sweden

2008

3rd International Beijing Biennale, China

2007

Contemporary Art Museum
The Nicosia Municipal Art Center associated with The Pierides Foundation, Cyprus

2007

Body
Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Napoli, Italy
Curated by Antonio Manfredi

2007

Atlandis is Lost
Exhibition Gallery of Indira Gandi Center of the Arts, New Delhi, India
Curated by Artemis Eleftheriadou

2007

Supernova- Constellations
The Nicosia Municipal Art Center associated with The Pierides Foundation and the British Council, London
Curated by Yiannis Toumazis

2007

Memory, Installations exhibition and Projected Visions, Video Art
Centre wallon d'Art contemporain, La Chataigneraie, Liege, Belgium
Curated by Demetris Costantinides

2007

Il linguaggi del Mediterraneo, Associazione Culturale En Plein Air
Arte Contemporanea Pinerolo, Torino, Italy
Curated by Elena Pritivera

2007

International Biennial of Cuenca, Equador

2006

Boarders
Goyang Sculpture Park, South Korea
Curated by Jun Jinsup

2006

Playmaker
Diatopos Centre of Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus
Curated by Daphne Nikita

2006

Memory, Installations exhibition, Apollonia Venue and Projected Visions, Video Art
Palais du Rhin/Drac Alsace, Strasbourg, France
Curated by Demetris Costantinides

2006

Tempus Arti, Triennial Exhibition, Belgium
Curated by Derek Lamberts

2006

Zhenzhou Sculpture Exhibition, China

2006

Twenty-Five Cypriot Artists, Yenin Jamin, Thessaloniki, Greece

2005

Road/Route, PAAF International Exhibition, Pocheon, South Korea
Curated by Jun Jinsup

2005

Somatopia: Mapping Sites, Siting Bodies
Hellenic Center, London, UK
Curated by Antonis Danos

2005

Biennale of Jeollabuk-do, Joonggang-dong, South Korea
Curated by Jun Jinsup

2005

Accidental Meetings, Municipal Art Center, Nicosia, Cyprus
Curated by Yiannis Toumazis

2005

A View to the Mediterranean Sea, The Cyprus Case
Herzliya Artists' Residency, Israel
Curated by Ilan Wisgan

2005

Nord-Art 2005, KIC, Büdelsdorf, Germany

2005

Sculpture Object X- International Exhibition, Bratislava, Slovakia

2005

Lulea Sommar Biennial, Lulea, Sweden

2005

One Hundred Artists for a Museum
Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy

2005

20th LAC Salon de Printemps 2005
Luxexpo International Fair Hall, Luxembourg

2005

Unclaimed Luggage, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
Organized and Curated by Artrageous Group

2004

Hyperlinks, Lanitis Foundation Art Center, Limassol, Cyprus
Curated by Efi Strouza

2004

Terra Vita Xiamen
Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China
Curated by Ineke Gudmandson

2004

Nord-Art 2004, KIC, Büdelsdorf, Germany

2004

Nomadifesta
Kasteliotissa Exhibition Hall, Nicosia, Cyprus
Organized and Curated by Artrageous Group
Curated and Texts by Mersedes Kemp

2004

Italia Bella Italia Bruta, Burg-Sayn, Bendorf Rhein, Germany

2004

Young Cypriot Women Artists, Kerava Art Museum,
Kerava, Finland

2003

Sea and Music, Xiamen Sculpture Exhibition, Xiamen, China

2003

China International Transchina Video Festival, Beijing, China

2003

Fuzhou International Sculpture Exhibition, Fuzhou, China

2003

Senores Salon International de Arte, SIART, La Paz, Bolivia

2003

Kultursommer Rheinland-Pfalz
Burg-Sayn, Bendorf Rhein, Germany

2003

Synesthesia, multimedia performance and video
R.I.K. Theatre and Rialto Theatre, Limassol, Cyprus

2003

Biennale of Jeollabuk-d, Joonggang-dong, South Korea
Curated by Jun Jinsup

2003

The Languages of Gender
Spell Building, Nicosia, Cyprus
Curated By Antonis Danos

2002

OPEN 2002, 5th International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations
Lido, Venice, Italy
Curated by Pierre Restany

2002

Noi, French Cultural Center Naples
Palazzo di Cultura di Vaticano Morcone Museum, Morcone, Italy
Curated by Antonio Manfredi and Marco Menegutso

2002

Art and Time, Dongyang International Exhibition, Dongyang, China

2002

8th International Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt

2002

China Hebei International Sculpture Art Exhibition, Shijiazhuang, China

2001

Europe, Path Of Peace, St Ulrich, Austria

2000

De-Core-Instanz: Deconstruction, Installation
Third Annual Angel Orensanz Foundation Award Competition in conjunction with Derrida Month in New York, Orensanz Foundation, New York

2000

From the Chisel to the Electron. 50 Years of Cypriot Sculpture
Kasteliotissa, Nicosia, Cyprus

1999

Six workshops in Sarajevo
Biennale of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean, Rome, Italy

1999

Changchun China International Sculpture Exhibition, China

1998

Six workshops in Sarajevo
Academy of Fine Arts, Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina
Organized and Curated by Alessandro Stillo

1998

Jeunes Artistes Chypriotes, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

1998

Biennale of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean
The Six Workshops in Sarajevo Project, Roma, Italy

1997

Biennale of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean
Kaapelitehdas, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland

1997

Thessaloniki Cultural Capital of Europe 1997
A Century of Visual Artistic Creation, Thessaloniki, Greece

1997

Biennale of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean, Turin, Italy

1996

Κυπρίων Πλους, Aghios Nicolaos, Crete, Greece
Curated by Takis Mavrotas

1996

Nicosia through the Leontios Macheras Chronicle
The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus

1996

Works on Paper, Diaspro Art Center, Nicosia, Cyprus

1996

Alem da Aqua, Guadiana river, (MEIAC) Museo Extremeno eIberoamericanode Arte Contemporaneo, Copiacabana, Spain

1996

Young Cypriot Artists, Municipal Cultural Center, Athens, Greece

1995

Biennale of Young Artists, Rijeka, Croatia

1995

The Box, Diaspro Art Center, Nicosia, Cyprus

1993

Works on Paper, Greek Cultural Center, New York, USA

1991

Lethaby Gallery, London, UK

1991

Contemporary View 1991
Royal College of Art, London, Auction at Kristie’s London, UK

1991

17/21 Galleries, Holborn, London, UK

1991

Cohn and Wolfe Young Artists Exhibition, Lethaby Gallery, London, UK

1990

Académie Royale des Beaux Arts des Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

1990

Chichester Festival, Echoes from Italy, Chichester, UK

1990

Lethaby Gallery, London, UK

1990

Deep into the 90s, London Institute, Bridge Gallery, London, UK

Theatre

2019

ΜΑ(Τ)ΤΕR
Dance House Nicosia
Installation / Video art Klitsa Antoniou
Choreographic direction Andromachi Dimitriadou Lindahl
Music composition Konstantina Polychronopoulou
Light design George Lazoglou

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2019

WeMen
Egomio for the arts and the culture
Choreography Platform 2019, Limassol Cyprus Rialto Theatre
Video Art: Klitsa Antoniou
Choreography Elena Christodoulidou

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2016

Welcome, Video Dance, 2016, Duration: 1:00
Open Borders Project Video dance Festival of Burgundy
Art Installation and Sculptures: Klitsa Antoniou
Choreography and performance: Elena Christodoulidou

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2016

Frontears, Theatre Performance, 2016, Duration 16:52
16th Cyprus contemporary dance platform, in Limassol Cyprus
Cyprus at the Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival
Video art and Installation: Klitsa Antoniou
Choreography: Elena Christodoulidou

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2003

2003 Synesthesia, Video Art, Performance and Poetry
R.I.K. Theatre and Rialto Theatre, Limassol, Cyprus
Multimedia Performance and Video Art

Honours and Awards

2022

Marlands/Maritima_Islands of the Mediterranean
Creative Europe Program including Malta, Sicily, Mallorca, Cyprus, and Corsica
Following an open call of an international competition Klitsa Antoniou’s proposal was selected as one of the four artists to participate in the Project.
https://marlandsproject.com

2021

Porvoon Taidehallin Competition Award
Following an open call of an international competition
Klitsa Antoniou’s proposal (among 127 proposals) was selected and awarded a solo show at Museum Porvoon Taidehallin for 2022
Porvoon, Finland

2018

First Prize for Proposal Maleth/Haven/Port: Heterotopias of Evocation
Following an open call and international competition it was selected to Represent Malta for Venice Biennale 2019

2018

First Prize for Ayia Napa Competition for Consultation
Services for Designing and Supervising of the Upgrade Project of Parks: "Sculpture Park", "Park of Mediterranean Plants, Cactus and Succis’’ and "Cave of Palaeontological Discoveries". Member of the Polytia armos Architects Team.

2016

Audience Award, for the video “But at the End the Light was Shed on us and it Got us to the Shore”
Mykonos MultiMedia Biennale, Migration Section

2011

First Prize, Public Sculpture for the Conference Centre in Nicosia to be used for the Cyprus Presidency of the European Union. The proposal was selected among 85 proposals. The work has been realized and exhibited permanently at the entrance of the Conference Room of the above building.

2010

Leonardo da Vinci, Lifelong Learning Programme 2007- 2013, Five Weeks Residency in London at Golden Lane
Estate: Exhibit Gallery at the Barbican Centre

2009

First Prize in International Competition
Award Solo Exhibition: Golden Lane Estate; Past, Present, and Future: A
Design, Art and Community Legacy International Competition, London

2008

First Prize International Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland Competition.
Represent Cyprus in an International Competition at the Olympic Museum.

2006

Second Prize, Public Sculpture for the Public Administration and Control Building, Nicosia, Cyprus

2006

First Prize, Public Sculpture for the Olympic Building in Nicosia, Cyprus

2006

Passage, Goyang International Open Air Sculpture, Goyang, South Korea,
Following an open call of an international competition
Klitsa Antoniou’s entry was selected as the award winning proposal

2006

Synchronised Swimming, Olympic Building, Nicosia, Cyprus,
Following an open call of an international competition
Klitsa Antoniou’s entry was selected as the award winning proposal

2004

Voyage, Xiamen Sculpture Park, China,
Following an open call of an international competition
Klitsa Antoniou’s entry was selected as the award winning proposal

2003

Cycling, Fuzhou International Sculpture art, China,
Following an open call of an international competition
Klitsa Antoniou’s entry was selected as the award winning proposal to be realized

2002

The Map Queen, Art and Time, Dongyang Museum, China,
Following an open call of an international competition
Klitsa Antoniou’s entry was selected as the award winning proposal to be realized

2001

Bi-cycle, Hebei Sculpture Park, China,
Following an open call of an international competition
Klitsa Antoniou’s entry was selected as the award winning proposal to be realized

2001

Fragmentation, Europe, Path of Peace St Ulrich, Austria,
Following an open call of an international competition
Klitsa Antoniou’s entry was selected as the award winning proposal to be realized

2001

First Prize Europe, Path of Peace Award, St Ulrich, Austria
Following an open call of an international competition
Klitsa Antoniou’s entry was selected as the award winning proposal.

2000

Second Prize, Public Sculpture for the 1974 Missing People
Derynia, Cyprus

1999

Excellence Award, Chanchung China International Sculpture Competition

1999

Round and Round, Chanchung China International Sculpture Symposium, China,
Following an open call of an international competition
Klitsa Antoniou’s entry was selected as the award winning proposal to be realized

1993

Distinction, Pratt Institute, (4.0 student with the highest score) New York

1990

Award, Royal College Competition, London

1987

1st Prize Atlantida Design Competition, London

Residencies

2022

MARLANDS/Maritima - Islands of the Mediterranean,
Creative Europe Program of the European Union
Project Coordinator Elena Posokhova
With Max Fouchy, Taylor Smith, Edgar Sarin, Lucy Orta and selected Scientists
Malta, Cyprus, Ibiza, Mallorca, Sicily
July 2022

2021

Galichnik Art Residency,
In Collaboration with The National Gallery in Skopje
Visual Intrusion
Organizer and curator Ana Frangovska
Galichnik, North Macedonia

2019

Norrköping Air, Norrköping, Sweden
Residency program organised by Vision Forum, Verkstad konsthall and Linköpings University in close collaboration with Norrköpings konstmuseum. Supported by Nordic Culture Point and Östsam. Sponsored by the Cultural Services of the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture.

2017

Norrköping Air, Norrköping, Sweden
Residency program organised by Vision Forum, Verkstad konsthall and Linköpings University in close collaboration with Norrköpings konstmuseum
Supported by Nordic Culture Point and Östsam.
Sponsored by the Cultural Services of the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture.

2010

Exhibit Golden Lane Gallery, London, UK
Golden Lane Estate; Past, Present, and Future: A Design, Art and Community Legacy Competition Residency, Exhibit Studio
Sponsored by Exhibit Golden Lane Gallery and Leonardo European Exchange Program
European Union Funding

2004

Chinese European Art Centre, Xiamen, China
Ceramics residency “Terra Vita Xiamen” and “Chinese European Art Centre” Residency.
Sponsored by the Cultural Services of the Cyprus
Ministry of Education and Chinese European Art Center,
Xiamen China
Catalogue

1999

East Link Gallery, Shanghai, China
Residency Program supported by East Link Gallery and sponsored by the Cultural Services of the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture.
Coordinated by the Chinese European Art Center
Curated and Organized by Ineke Gudmansson
Catalogue

1999

Monagri Foundation
Six months Residency
Exhibition: In the Horizon of the Game with the Other
Monagri, Cyprus
Catalogue

Participations in Workshops, Symposia and Exchanges

2022

Workshop Vital Project, Collaboration of Apollonia Art Exchanges, Strasburg,
CONA Institute for Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana,
Slovenia, ODA, Kosovo and Out of the Box Athens/London.
14-18 December
Co-funded by Creative Europe
Apollonia European Art Exchanges
Strasbourg

2022

The Art of the Anthropocene
Noah’s Arc
Athens School of Fine Arts Summer Academy
Land Art at Limni Plastira
Invited Tutor
8-27 July
Organized by Katerina Athanasopoulou
Greece

2021

Galichnik art Colony
In Collaboration with The National Gallery in Skopje
Organizer and curator Ana Frangovska
Public Lecture: Embodied Crossings
Galichnik, North Macedonia

2018

Teaching Painting: Painting the New
Conference 2018
Royal Academy of the Arts
Seminar

2013

Economic Crisis: Art and Culture in Cyprus
Lecture and Panel Discussion
Organized by Point Centre of Contemporary Art and Cyprus University of Technology
Point Centre of Contemporary Art

2013

Thinking Greece: Thinking Futures
The Urmadic University HotHouse # 3
Seminar and Workshop
Thessaloniki, 27th – 30th June

2009

Central St Martins School of Art
Teaching Exchange

2004

Xiamen Sculpture Manifest Symposium, China
Six Weeks Residency and a Conference

2004

Terra Vita Xiamen, China
One Month Residency and Workshops at Chinese European Art Center

2003

Fuzhou International Sculpture Exhibition and Symposium China
Four Weeks Residency and two workshops

2002

Art and Time, Dongyang International Symposium, China
Four Weeks Residency and two workshops

2002

Euro-seminar 2002, Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany
Round Table Discussion and Exhibition

1999

China Hebei International Sculpture art Symposium, China
Four Weeks Residency and a Conference

1999

Six workshops in Sarajevo, Visual Arts Workshop
Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina
One Month Workshop, Exhibition and Lectures

1999

Chanchung China International Sculpture Symposium, China
One Month Residency, Exhibition and Lectures

1998

Visual Arts Workshop with Jannis Kounellis, Turin, Italy
One Week workshop with Jannis Kounellis
Biennale of Young Artists
Torino

1996

Kyprion Blous, Sculpture Symposium, Crete
Four Weeks Symposium

Organization of Conferences/Seminars/Actions/Workshops

2022

Collaborative Art Project III
Lecture: Lines and Treads 14.11.22 11:00
Workshop: Geography of colour 16/11/22   10:00-14:00
Dr Natacha Antão Moutinho
Professor of Drawing
Minho University, Portugal
14 and 16 November 2022

2022

Lines and steps, weaving words and walks: The Walking Body III
Participating Institutions: EAAD School of Architecture, Arts and Design, Guimarães​, Portugal, The University of Macedonia, Department of Fine Arts, Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), School of Arts of University College Ghent, Cyprus University of Technology, The Milena Principle, Walk Listen Create, CGeomap/Supercluster, Nogueira da Silva Museum, Braga, Portugal, Centro de Creació Contemporània Nau Coclea, Camallera, Girona Catalonia, Spain.
Hosted by: EAAD School of Architecture, Arts and Design, Guimarães​, Portugal, Lab2PT
Klitsa Antoniou: The Right to the City
March, 2022

2022

Curatorial Academy Project II
Lydia Chatziiakovou: The artist as catalyst and the citizen as co-creator: alternative practices, non-formal education, community building.
Lectures at Fine Art Department on November 28 and and Ayios Theodoros
November 26, 11 a.m.
Workshops: Art for Social Change, November 28-29, 2022
Fine Art Studios, Cyprus University of Technology

2022

Formerly Intimate Spaces, Contemporary Makers οf Culture: The Country House of Adamantios Diamantis
One-day International Symposium | Saturday, November 26, 11 a.m.
Ayios Theodoros Pitsilias
With Lydia Chatziiakovou, Valentina Sokratous, Dr Gabriel Koureas, Dr Theopisti Stylianou Lambert, Stella Evangelidou, Dr Christina Lambrou
Moderator Dr Elena Parpa
Organisation Cut Contemporary Fine Arts Lab / Dr Klitsa Antoniou

2022

Artistic meeting in the Cyprus mountains: Adamantios Diamantis
5th June 2022,
Museum of Rural life
Ayios Theodoros Pitsilias

2021

Collaborative Art Project II
Geert Vermeire: Walking Arts 2.0
Open Lecture: Walking Arts 2.0
Amphitheatre 1, Tassos Papadopoulos Building, Themis and Ifigenia corner
19 October 2021, 20:00
Workshop: Walking Arts 2.0
18-21 October 2021
Organized by Klitsa Antoniou

2021

Walking: The Cyprus Experience
Cyprus Hub seminar coordinator: Dr Gabriel Koureas
Cyprus Hub organized by Cut Contemporary Fine Arts Lab (Klitsa Antoniou)
An International Hub in the frame of the International Walking Encounters/Conference/Walking as a Question,
organized by Visual March to Prespa,
Fine and Applied Arts of the School of Fine Arts of the University of Western Macedonia (EETF/UOWM), and by Made of Walking (VI).
Sunday July 4th to Sunday July 11th, 2021, Prespa, Greece
Cyprus Hub Seminar Coordinator Dr Gabriel Koureas and organizer Klitsa Antoniou

2021

Library Project 2
Evelyn Anastasiou: Rejected Sounds of the Magic Flute
Presentation: Saturday, 30th of October 2021, 19:00
In the Garden of the Municipal University Library
Coordinated and Produced by Cut Contemporary Fine Arts Lab and Klitsa Antoniou
Curated by Konstantinos Argianas
Conductor Dr. Francis Guy
With the participation of The Commandaria Orchestra of the Cyprus Wine Museum in Limassol

2021

Curatorial Academy Project
Invited artist: Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio
http://www.cutcontemporaryfineartslab.com
Open Lecture: Transversal approach / connections, exchanges, and interactions
11 November 2021, 20:00
Workshop: Articulating Mobilities and Territories / Maps, Borders and Constellations
10-13 November 2021
Organized by Klitsa Antoniou

2021

An Hour of Poetry
A poetry performance with invited poets and artists. A collaboration with Cut Students Life office. Invited poets Avgi Lilly, Pambos Kouzalis, Giorgos Christodoulides, Lilly Michaelidou, Filippos Tsitsopoulos and Yiorgos Kalozois. Presented by Nicky Pavlou
Organization: Klitsa Antoniou

2020

Collaborative Art Project 1
Maria Loizidou: Do I Really believe it?
Organized by Klitsa Antoniou
Open Lecture: Do I Really believe it?
Workshop: Do I Really believe it?

2020

Faculty Art Project initiated, organized and curated by Klitsa Antoniou
We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still too close to us.
An Art Intervention by the Fine Arts Department at Forest Park Hotel Cyprus.

2020

Socially engaged art (Workshop)
Cut Fine Arts International Research Center
Ayios Ioannis Pitsilias
Organized by Klitsa Antoniou

2019

Bridges of Altantropa Workshop, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus.
Organized in the frame of Malta Pavilion at Venice Art Biennale.
Sponsored by the Bank of Valletta and supported by Malta Arts Council.

2019

Bridges of Altantropa Workshop, French-Cypriot School, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Organized in the frame of Malta Pavilion at Venice Art Biennale.
Sponsored by the Bank of Valletta and supported by Malta Arts Council.

2019

Library Project 1
Filippos Tsitsopoulos: What you kill, you should also love Performance
Municipal University Library,
Saturday, November 9, 2019, 19.30
Organized by Klitsa Antoniou

2018

Homage to Jake & Dinos Chapman -- A Symposium for the
Inauguration of the Fine Arts Program, at The Cyprus University of Technology. Keynote speakers: Jake Chapman, Dr. Sozita Goudouna, Dr. Efi Kyprianidou and Niki Young.
Organizer Klitsa Antoniou

2015

This Silence has a Sound ... it is the Sound of a Horizon
The Collection Gallery Conference Space, Nicosia, Cyprus
Keynote Speakers: Krista Mikkola, Hesperia Iliadou, Gabriel Koureas
Member of the Organizing Committee

2015

Parallax
Parallax was a large scale weaving installation designed and constructed by a team of students at Kornos Forest Area in October 2015. The installation was named Parallax (παράλλαξις (parallaxis), meaning the displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semiangle of inclination between those two lines. Nearby objects have a larger parallax than more distant objects when observed from different positions, so parallax can be used to determine distances.

2014

Makariou Campus
The “Makariou Campus” was a temporary satellite campus (an extension of the Frederick University Department of Architecture) in the heart of Nicosia in 2014. It intended, through a series of projects and events, to transfer the processes of what constitutes an architecture / design education to Makariou St and open them up to the public for view and participation, to create an interactive environment of learning, creativity and production. All of the actions that were taking place, were based on the idea of bringing the public closer to the education process of a design school and at the same time to develop the influence of the city center life and the communication with the public to the students. Concept, Organization and Curating by academic staff: Klitsa Antoniou, Delis Papadopoulos and Eleonora Antoniadou

2014

Arch-kid-tecture, The Makariou Campus, a Satellite Campus of Frederick
Department of Architecture
Architecture workshops for children

2014

Future Architects, The Makariou Campus, a Satellite Campus of Frederick
Department of Architecture
Architecture workshops for teenagers

2011

The Persistence of the Image, Artos Foundation, Nicosia
Keynote Speakers: Kiara Bubnova, Gabriel Koureas, and Stephanos Stephanou
Foundation, Nicosia Cyprus
Member of the Organizing Committee
Sponsored by Cyprus Ministry of Culture and Education, the Macedonian Museum of Greece and the European Union

2004

Nomadifesta
Keynote speakers: Ilan Wisgan, Antonis Danos and Mercedes Kemp
Member of the Organizing Committee
Sponsored by Cyprus Ministry of Culture and Education

Abstract of Doctorate Dissertation

By analyzing selected Cypriot works of art, from 1950 to the present, I question what it might mean to “write trauma,” or to give voice to a wound that seems to defy representation. The artists discussed do not only confront the aesthetic potential of visual practice, but also address the theoretical and ethical impossibilities of such a practice. They enact a conception of another set of relations between representation and the unrepresentable, where no aesthetic object will ever be right or appropriate to the historic trauma that it takes as its grounding subject. As the ‘unrepresentable’ is not located in narrative representation, following a Deleuzian line, I locate it in how the material passes into sensation and in how this sensation affects the audience. I open up the question of what art itself might tell us about the lived experience and memory of trauma, and what the specific works studied trigger in the viewer.

Cypriot artists’ works can be viewed as yet-to-be-completed, as resisting the intention for wholeness, conclusion and resolution, and instead sustaining it as desire. Art is therefore a realm that opens up the world, unfolding it towards that which we are unable to represent. The cause of the violence, the fractured sensory experience and the unpredictable and persistent temporality of trauma and memory in Contemporary Cypriot art are invisible but present – they constitute a force which makes its presence known. Suffering from a burden of historical belatedness, Cypriot artists attempt the impossible in striving to bear witness to the loss and suffering experienced not only through a past loss, but rather to something at once more general and more devastating: namely to the loss inscribed in the movement of temporality itself. Thus, melancholy, which is located in contemporary Cypriot art and analyzed in this research, not only implies an intense awareness of a traumatic past, but also an expectant openness, a void waiting to be filled by worlds yet to be born, worlds that could be equally doubtful, painful, insecure and uncertain.

Research Interests

Drawing on Interdisciplinary practices, contemporary art, visual studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis, political activism, Klitsa Antoniou’s research has developed in the following overlapping areas:

  1. Loss, Memory, Trauma, Affect and Silence and the representation of the “unrepresentable.” The possibility of representation of trauma experiences could be inscribed within a Lyotardian metaphor of im-possibility, where no aesthetic object will ever be right or appropriate to the historic trauma that it takes as its grounding subject.
  2. Exploring contemporary art and curatorial practices as forms of critical inquiry, social engagement and knowledge production focusing on the Mediterranean and the Middle East. The Mediterranean as a hotspot for international conflicts, a topographical area and its cultural, social and historical past, a mobile zone of crisis, a particularly neuralgic border zone, in which multiple and heterogeneous crossings are performed and intertwined.
  3. Socially engaged art in a role of addressing social and political issues. This social turn has been deeply relevant in the Mediterranean, a place which, in the past two decades, has witnessed a rising surge in practices that cross the boundaries between art and social activism, and the emergence of an abundance of art forms that use aesthetics to affect social dynamics. Promoting participatory arts and the political through transculturation, memory, embodiment, performance/performativity, and the senses.
  4. Historical and psychological excavations, use of Archival material which responds to issues of space, incarceration, the personal and the political, and censorship. Focus on the resonance of Cypriot architectural and non-architectural places charged with the presence of those who once occupied the space or the activities that took place there. Explore the history of haunted spaces like deserted mines and old hospitals, once glamorous interiors like forest Park Hotel and heterotopic spaces bearing the residues of state power like prisons and confinement camps.
  5. Questions of performative artistic walking practices at contested boundaries and borders: How effectively can such actions problematize and challenge artificially imposed and constructed barriers such as checkpoints, erected walls, barbed wired borders, fortifications and prisons. How does the physicality of these objects and the resulting restrictions in movement they impose can be challenged by the performativity artistic practices?
  6. Anthropocene / Capitalocene: Rethinking Nature, exploring contemporary art and indigenous/ local forms of cultural and environmental knowledge and reflection. Focusing on the need to reintegrate nature and culture in addressing ecological crisis, climatic variability and, more specifically, global climate change. Engage with projects and Actions which have merit of being part of an unprecedented cultural and political revolution which artists, scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, all from different universes, put their knowledge at the service of the fight against the direct actors of this climate crisis.

Work Experience

2022-today

Cyprus University of Technology
School of Fine and Applied Arts
Fine Arts Department
Professor and Director of
Cut Contemporary Fine Arts Lab

2018-2022

Cyprus University of Technology
School of Fine and Applied Arts
Fine Arts Department
Head of the Fine Art Department
Professor

2007-2016

Frederick University, Cyprus
School of Architecture, Fine and Applied Arts
Vice-Head of the Applied Arts Department
Frederick Institute of Technology until 2011.
Vice-Dean of the School of Architecture,
Fine and Applied Arts until 2008.
Associate Professor

2002-2007

Frederick Institute of Technology, Cyprus
School of Architecture, Fine and Applied Arts
Program Coordinator
Associate Professor

1998-2002

Frederick Institute of Technology, Cyprus
School of Architecture, Fine and Applied Arts
Program Coordinator
Assistant Professor

1993-1998

Frederick Institute of Technology, Cyprus
School of Architecture, Fine and Applied Arts
Lecturer

1991-1993

Pratt Institute, New York,
School of Fine Arts,
Sculpture Department
Special Teaching Staff

2007-2013

Cyprus University of Technology
Department of Graphics,
Special Teaching Staff

Member of Committees

Member of the Advisory Committee on the establishment of Sub-Ministry for Culture and Culture Policy [Ministry of Education and Culture, Cyprus] 2021-2022.

Member of the Independent Judges Register for the field of “Fine Arts” Cyprus Council for the Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications [KY.S.A.T.S] 2020-today.

Member of the School of Fine and Applied Arts Council, Cyprus University of Technology

Member of the Senate Research Committee (2018)
Cyprus University of Technology

Member of the Senate Committee for Editorial Policy, Public and International Affairs and Events, Cyprus University of Technology

Member of the Committee for the Organization and Development of Buildings Infrastructure
Cyprus University of Technology

Various Committees at Frederick University and Cyprus University of Technology

Member of Selection Committees

2022

Scientific Refereeing
#6 of PSIAX magazine
Portugal

2016

Member of the jury of the Second Nature International Competition, a public sculpture project in the Frame of Paphos European Cultural City, Cyprus

2012

Member of the jury of the National Olympic Committee for choosing Cyprus Participations for the International Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland

2010

Member of the Steering Committee. Creative and Production Corporation, The Yekaterinburg Art Fund 47 Onufriev str., Yekaterinburg, Russia www.exf.ru

2010

Exterritory Project: Initiated and curated by Ruti Sela and Maayan Amir, in Israel and took place in the Mediterranean Sea, June 17-21, 2010. Cyprus participation was selected and curated by Klitsa Antoniou.

2007

5th International Exhibition & Competition of Contemporary Arts Russian Art Week, Russia, Member of Prize Committee

Founding Member of Cultural Organizations and Research Labs

2019

Founder and Director of Cut Contemporary Fine Arts Lab

Cut Contemporary Fine Arts Lab, initiated and launched in 2019 by Klitsa Antoniou, is an interdisciplinary research group within the Fine Arts Department of the Cyprus University of Technology. Cut Contemporary Fine Arts Lab aims to support Experimental Art Practices and Theoretical Research within the context of current local/global/glocal geopolitical and social issues.
It aims to achieve this by:
• Exploring contemporary art and curatorial practices as forms of critical inquiry, social engagement and knowledge production focusing on the Mediterranean and the Middle East.
• Promoting participatory arts and the political through transculturation, memory, embodiment, performance/performativity, and the senses.
• Encouraging the collaboration and integration of theoretical academic research into contemporary and experimental artistic practices where knowledge is enacted, produced and shared.
It aims to reach out to other national/international artists, curators and scholars working across disciplines and practices and to establish synergies with international partners through seminars, conferences, artistic and academic residencies as well as exhibitions.
www.CutContemporaryFineArtsLab.com

2000

Founding Member of Parakentron

Parakentro is non-profit cultural organization and publishing company in Lemithou village in Cyprus
www.parakentro.gr

Participation in Conferences

2022

AIMC University of Malta Annual International Multi-Disciplinary Conference
University of Malta Junior College
“Performing Embodied Crossings at Contested Spaces”
Keynote Speaker
September 16 2022

2022

Kairos: Only the space remembers – Greeks of the East and Greeks of the West
Municipality and the Department of Culture of the city of Syracuse
Organized by Leucò Cultural association
Chaired by the Syracuse Council of Culture
Ex-convent of Syracuse
‘’The Place Remembers’’
July 2nd 2022

2022

Performance Design Futures 2022
International academic symposium
Organised by CYCSTAT, the Cyprus Centre of Scenographers and Theatre Architects and Technicians
Theatro Polis OPAP Nicosia, Cyprus
‘’Developing an academic Performance Design Curriculum in Cyprus’’
8-10th April 2022

2021

Walking: The Cyprus Experience
Cyprus Hub seminar coordinator: Dr Gabriel Koureas
Cyprus Hub organized by Cut Contemporary Fine Arts Lab (Klitsa Antoniou)
An International Hub in the frame of the
International Walking Encounters/Conference/Walking as a Question,
organized by Visual March to Prespa,
Fine and Applied Arts of the School of Fine Arts of the University of Western Macedonia (EETF/UOWM), 
and by Made of Walking (VI).
“Performing Embodied Crossings”
Sunday July 4th to Sunday July 11th, 2021, Prespa, Greece
Cyprus Hub Seminar Coordinator: Dr Gabriel Koureas

2021

Rethinking Nature
Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani de Palma
Organized by: Maritima Art Project Founder and Director Elena Posokhova
Moderated by: Laurine Wagner
“The Mediterranean Topos”
Monday, June 7, 2021 at 8 PM

2016

4th International Conference of Photography and Theory (Icpt2016)
2016 Photography and the Everyday
The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation [Nimac] Nicosia, Cyprus
2-4 December, 2016
“Birth Certificate”: The Transference of an Intimate, Private Photograph into a Public Site of Mediterranean Silent History.”

2016

The Arts of Healing: Cultural Narratives of Trauma,
The Department of Philology, Universitatea Petrol-Gaze din Ploieşti, The Centre of Literary Studies, Linguistics, Theory of Criticism and Culture, Romania
3-5 November 2016
“The Odyssey of Nikos Kouroussis: Loss, Trauma, Affect and the Material that Passes into Sensation.”

2016

Troubled Contemporary Art Practices in the Middle East: Post-Colonial Conflicts,
Pedagogies of Art History, and Precarious Artistic Mobilization, organized by Birkbeck University of London
University of Nicosia, University of Nicosia Cyprus
3-4 June 2016
“Socially engaged art across the Mediterranean Sea: 2001/51/EC - Embodied Crossings - Now Boarding.”

2016

Activism in Art and Literature, Pen International Swedish Centre
Stockholm Sweden
“Klitsa Antoniou: The Un-story.”

2015

30 years of Bjcem - Association Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Scuola Holden, Turin
“Klitsa Antoniou: The Stolen Futures."

2015

"Is this the Time for Art? How to Represent the Unrepresented"
Conference at the Museum of Modern Art Norrkopinkg Sweden. Collaboration between The Museum of Forgetting www.museetforglomska.se, ACSIS (Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden), Linköping University and Norrköping Art Museum.
“Klitsa Antoniou: Loss, Trauma, Affect and how the Material Passes into a Sensation.”

2013

Through The Roadblocks: Realities in Raw Motion Conference
co-organised by NeMe, the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts (Art History and Theory Research Lab) of the Cyprus University of Technology, and the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture.
“The Persistence of the Image” Gabriel Koureas CY/UK, Klitsa Antoniou CY Publication Available

2010

Enlighten Europe Conference, Art Light and Architecture, organized by IALD, London
Member of Panel

2006

Renaissance and Rising, International City Sculptural and Cultural Year of Zhengzhou Conference, Zhengzhou, China
“Klitsa Antoniou: Public Space”

Publications

Kairos: Only the space remembers – Limitrofi,
Introduction Fulvia Toscano
Klitsa Antoniou Marcare il Territorio: Negoziare La Presenza Del Corpo
Municipality and the Department of Culture of the city of Syracuse
Organized by Leucò Cultural Association
‘’The Place Remembers’’
ISBN 979-12-210-1390-0

Under_Mining,
Curated by Gabriel Koureas, George Lazoglou and Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio
In the frame of Cultural Decentralization Programme of the Cultural Services of the Deputy Ministry of Culture, Republic of Cyprus
Kalavasos Mining Area
Catalogue Edited by Dr Gabriel Koureas, Dr Klitsa Antoniou and Melita Couta
Cyprus
ISBN978-9925-597-86-4

We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still too close to us. / Δεν μπορούμε να ξαναγυρίσουμε πίσω - πάει, τελείωσε. Τα περασμένα είναι ακόμα πολύ κοντινά 2020-21,
Exhibition Catalogue of an Art Intervention by the Fine Arts Department Cyprus University of Technology
Exhibition, 2020
Organized and Curated by Klitsa Antoniou
Catalogue Edited by Klitsa Antoniou
ISBN-978-9963-697-41-0

Klitsa Antoniou and Antonis Danos,
“Writing Trauma:” Giving Voice to a Wound that Seems to Defy Representation in Contemporary Greek Cypriot Art,
Intervalla, Vol. 2,
2014

Klitsa Antoniou,
Episodes of Domestic Nature,
Accidental Meetings, p. 26-27.
The Nicosia Municipal Art Center with Ministry of Education and Culture-Cultural Services and Cultural Center of Laiki Group,
2005

Klitsa Antoniou,
Artrageous Group,
Unclaimed Luggage
Ministry of Education and Culture, Cultural Services,
Le Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid,
Nicosia, 2005

Klitsa Antoniou,
Introduction,
Nomadifesta,
Entipis Publications,
Nicosia, 2004

Klitsa Antoniou,
In the Horizon of the Game with the Other,
8th International Cairo Biennale
Ministry of Education and Culture, Cultural Services,
Nicosia, 2001

International Curating

Cyprus Commissioner for the Biennale of Young artists from Europe and the Mediterranean which took Place in Albania, in 2017. Accompanied the selection of Young Cypriot Artists to Tirana and promoted their work at the International Biennale.

Curator and Commissioner of First Architecture Biennale Thessaloniki for the participation of Frederick Department of Architecture.

Selection of Monographs

This Silence has a Sound...it is the Sound of a Horizon, Exhibition
Texts: Gabriel Koureas, Hesperia Eliadou, Elena Parpa
The Collection Gallery, 2015
Curated by Krista Mikkola

This Silence has a Sound...it is the Sound of a Horizon, Symposium
Texts: Gabriel Koureas, Hesperia Eliadou, Elena Parpa
The Collection Gallery, 2015
Curated by Krista Mikkola

This Silence has a Sound...it is the Sound of a Horizon, Drawings
Texts: Gabriel Koureas, Hesperia Eliadou, Elena Parpa
The Collection Gallery, 2015
Curated by Krista Mikkola

The Persistence of the Image
Artos Foundation, Nicosia
Curated and Texts: Gabriel Koureas

Paralellotopias
Text: Gabriel Koureas
National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, Thessaloniki
Curated by Gabriel Koureas

Mirror Space Travel Pass, Various Texts
Exhibition at Larnaca Airport for the Cyprus of the European Union
Tall Tales: Lovely Landmarks,
Text: Gabriel Koureas,

Exhibit Gallery, Barbican, London 2010
Tempus Arti: Klitsa Antoniou, Klitsa Antoniou, On the Routes of Contemporary Art.
Text: Andrea Costantinou,
Cyprus 2009

Since You Left my Wet Embrace, Open Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations
Text: Artemis Eleftheriadou
Cyprus 2008

Recent Acquisitions
Pierides Museum, Marfin Laiki Cultural Center
Selection of Monographs
Text: Andrea Costantinou
Cyprus 2008

Klitsa Antoniou: Frames of the Elusive
Stoa Cultural Center of Eastern Helsinki
Text: Artemis Eleftheriadou
Cyprus 2006

Unclaimed Luggage
Text: Mercedes Kemp,
Cerculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid 2005
Mare Nostrum: Visions of a Mermaid, Diatopos Center of Contemporary Art, Text: Antonis Danos.
En Tipis Publications, Cyprus 2004

Nomadifesta
Text: Klitsa Antoniou
Nicosia 2004

Traces of Memory,
Diatopos Center of Contemporary Art
Text: Vitaliano Corbi, Daphne Nikita, Lucy Watson
En Tipis Publications
Cyprus 2002

Tracing Homeness
5th International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations
Open 2002 (Cyprus), Lido Venice
Text: Artemis Eleftheriadou, Stefan Tiron
Cyprus 2002

Klitsa Antoniou: In the Horizon of the Game with the Other
The Monagri Centre for Contemporary Art
Text: Jane Burton, Costa S.Theocharides
The Monagri Foundation
Cyprus 1999

Selection of Academic Articles on art work

Gabriel Koureas, Trauma, Space and Embodiment: the Sensorium of a Divided City, War and Culture Studies, Volume 1 Number 3—2008 309-324

Yvonne Ihmels, Historiens Oskrivna Blad, Cora, Volume 43, 2015/2016, Stockholm Sweden.

Gabriel Koureas, Atlantropa X: Bridging Mediterranean Diversities’, essay for the Malta Pavilion Maleth / Haven / Port - Heterotopias of Evocation at the Venice Biennale 2019.

Gabriel Koureas, ‘Silent Horizons: Reconsidering Memory, Place, Trauma’, essay in exhibition catatalogue, ‘The Silence has a sound … it is the sound of a Horizon’, Collection Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus, September 2015

Gabriel Koureas, ‘Parallelotopias’, essay in exhibition catalogue, ‘Parallelotopias’. An exhibition by Klitsa Antoniou at the Cultural Foundation of the Bank of Greece, Thessaloniki, November 2012 to January 2013

Gabriel Koureas, ‘Roaming Images: The Persistence of the Image’, essay in Exhibition Catalogue, Roaming Images: Crossroads of Greek and Arab Cultures, part of the 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, September 2011

Gabriel Koureas, ‘Modernist Transgressions: Memory, Place and Identity’ essay in Exhibition Catalogue, Tall Tales: Lovely Landmarks. An exhibition by Klitsa Antoniou at Exhibit Gallery, Barbican, London, June-July 2010

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