The second edition of VIMA Art Fair features a group exhibition and live programme by Greek curator, Kostas Stasinopoulos.
15th-17th May 2026 / Preview: Thursday 14th May 2026
The Warehouse by IT Quarter, Limassol
VIMA Art Fair returns this May to The Warehouse by IT Quarter in Limassol, Cyprus, for its second edition, with London-based Greek curator Kostas Stasinopoulos at the helm of its Curatorial Project.
Taking the waves as his point of departure and inspiration, Stasinopoulos presents a project comprising a group exhibition and a live programme, including film screenings, performances, talks and other events throughout the fair.
Titled The Waves Crashing, the Curatorial Project will be primarily located in the venue’s outdoor space.
The Waves Crashing
To begin a wave is to relinquish certainty: you may never hear it crash, never see where or how it breaks. To be able to receive, a wave demands a profound reorientation of internal and external intentions and politics.
The Waves Crashing takes the wave as a mode of relating, one that refuses linear progression, fixed address or immediate resolution. Against dominant models of communication that privilege clarity, speed and mastery, the project proposes delay, resonance and return.
Allowing time for a wave to travel — to reach a body, a place, a memory or a future listener — also insists on a pause: a space for reflection increasingly disallowed within contemporary regimes of productivity, articulation and advancement.
Within this suspended time lies the possibility of adjustment, repair, recall and reorientation — a space to inhabit and consider what has been thought, uttered or enacted, and what might still be undone or reimagined.
As a form of address, waves operate at the level of the unconscious and support imagination over rigidity and reason. Their rhythms invite drifting, dreaming and attunement, while their persistence carries memory across distant lands through bodies, time and discourse.
They move between what is legible and what remains unspeakable; between what can be historicised and what can only be communed, felt and shared.
The artists and participants in The Waves Crashing invite audiences to become one with the waves, embracing alternate modes of coming together and anticipating that meaning, consequence or impact may only become perceptible later, elsewhere or otherwise.
With:
Stelios Kallinikou, Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Christos Kyriakides, Louiza Ntourou (Orlof), Serapis Maritime, Paky Vlassopoulou, Jeph Vanger, and others to be announced.
Curatorial statement by Kostas Stasinopoulos
Participating galleries
VIMA Art Fair launched in May 2025 in Limassol to create a platform for contemporary art in the Eastern Mediterranean and surrounding regions, while contributing to the growth of Cyprus’s contemporary art infrastructure.
Geographically positioned as a cultural crossroads, the fair brought together 27 galleries from Cyprus and 10 other countries. In 2026, VIMA remains an intimate space for discovery and international dialogue among galleries, art professionals, collectors and the art-loving public.
By invitation only, the fair will host around 30 galleries, including commercial and non-profit spaces.
Confirmed participants to date (denotes new addition):
Alpha C.K. Art Gallery; Art Seen by Maria Stathi; Diatopos Art Centre; Stand in Line – Art Space (all Nicosia); The Edit Gallery; eins; *The Gallery 45 (all Limassol); *Balice Hertling (Paris); *CAN Christina Androulidaki Gallery (Athens); *Eleni Koroneou Gallery (Athens); Fragment (New York); JOEY RAMONE (Rotterdam); Kalfayan Galleries (Athens/Thessaloniki); NIKA Project Space (Dubai/Paris); *Öktem Aykut (Istanbul); pop/off/art (Baku); Sylvia Kouvali (London/Piraeus); The Third Line (Dubai); Window Project (Tbilisi).
Partners for 2026
VIMA is building a strategic partnership with Mellow.io, which returns as the fair’s Premium Partner for the second consecutive year.
The organisers also acknowledge the support of philanthropist Pavel Shynkarenko, founder of Mellow. His new foundation, Syno — dedicated to supporting cultural initiatives — will launch during the fair’s second edition in May 2026.
VIMA’s Curatorial Project is, for the second year, kindly supported by Natalia Kaygorodova.
New initiatives for 2026
VIMA Circle
VIMA Art Fair has launched VIMA Circle, a new paid initiative focused on cultural discovery, connection and shared experience in Cyprus and the Mediterranean, aimed at building a community shaping the future of art.
About Kostas Stasinopoulos
Kostas Stasinopoulos is a curator and writer and Curator of Live Programmes at Serpentine, London. He previously served as Associate Curator at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center and has collaborated with Whitechapel Gallery, White Cube, Frieze, Loop, Sadler’s Wells and the Athens Biennale, among others.
He received his PhD in History of Art from the University of York (2016) and holds degrees from the Courtauld Institute of Art, King’s College London and Imperial College London. Together with Hans Ulrich Obrist, he co-edited 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth (Penguin, 2021).
About VIMA Art Fair
VIMA Art Fair is co-founded by Edgar Gadzhiev, Lara Kotreleva and Nadezhda Zinovskaya, with programming led by an expert committee including Alexandros Diogenous, Tasos Stylianou and Andre Zivanari.
Focusing on contemporary art from Cyprus and neighbouring countries, VIMA welcomes international galleries engaging with the region. Positioned between East and West, it provides a platform for cultural exchange and neighbourly practices.
About The Warehouse by IT Quarter
The fair takes place at The Warehouse by IT Quarter, an ex-industrial building overlooking the Mediterranean Sea in Limassol. Originally part of the SODAP winery built in 1947, the site is a significant piece of Cyprus’s industrial and cultural heritage.
