The Cyprus Film Club, Open Arts and a string of galleries across the island have a packed week of culture on offer, with highlights ranging from award-winning cinema to postcolonial art debates.
Film
The Cyprus Film Club screens Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy at the Pantheon Cinema in Nicosia. The Japanese film, which won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, comprises three standalone stories exploring coincidence, human relationships and hidden desires. A sake-tasting hosted by the Japanese Embassy will precede the screening. Dialogue in Japanese with Greek subtitles. (2021, 121 min)
Spanish actress Carmen Maura — known as a muse of Pedro Almodóvar — stars in Calle Málaga, the latest film by Maryam Touzani, also screening at Pantheon. Showtimes: 10, 12 and 13 May at 8.30pm; matinée screenings on 9 and 10 May at 6pm.
New releases now showing at RIO (Nicosia Mall and Limassol, tel. 25871410) include Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft – The Tour, a documentary directed by James Cameron and Billie Eilish; animated family film The Sheep Detectives, directed by Kyle Balda and starring Hugh Jackman, Brett Goldstein and Patrick Stewart; horror film Hokum, directed by Damian McCarthy and starring Adam Scott; Mortal Kombat II, directed by Simon McQuoid and starring Karl Urban; and anime feature That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime – The Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea, directed by Yasuhito Kikuchi.
Theatre
Open Arts presents Caryl Churchill’s Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp., directed by Athena Kasiou, at 11 Plutarchou Street in the Old Town of Nicosia. The production transforms a building in the historic city centre into a multi-layered theatrical space. Upcoming performances: 12, 18, 19, 25, 30 and 31 May at 8pm. Tickets via more.com.
Seminar
The Cyprus Museum in Nicosia hosts a one-day seminar titled Artistic Practices in Museums and Archives: Post-Colonial Perspectives from 5pm to 8pm. The event examines how contemporary art can serve as a tool for reinterpreting colonial and postcolonial collections and archives, opening new narratives and repositioning historical documents within a critical, present-day framework. Researchers, artists and museum professionals from Cyprus and abroad will take part. In English. Free admission.
Exhibitions
Nicosia
Marginalia (tel. 99657080): Cycles – Everything Flows by Rhea Bailey. Until 30 May.
Isnotgallery: Group exhibition Contemporary Art Under Pressure. Until 20 May. www.isnotgallery.com
Hambis Printmaking Museum: Mediterranean, featuring works from the collection of Andreas Nicholas. Until 25 July. www.hambismuseum.cy
Gardens of the Future (tel. 99244852): MATCH by Christina Zampoulaki and Katerina Mirajes. Until 28 May.
Gloria Gallery (tel. 22762605): The Charm of the Visible by Cilia Philippou. Until 15 May.
Art Seen – Contemporary Art Projects (tel. 22006624): The Objects are Watching by Clare Burnett. Until 27 May.
Stelios Ioannou Learning Resource Centre, Philippos Tsimpoglou Amphitheatre: Exhibition of historical documents marking the 200th anniversary of the Exodus of Messolonghi (1826–2026). Until 21 May.
Goethe Institut (tel. 22674606): Group exhibition Between Imagination and Hope. Until 5 June.
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art – State Gallery of Contemporary Art (SPEL, tel. 22479600): Group exhibition Agropoiitiki: Soils/Bodies, featuring 50 artists. Until 30 June.
NiMAC (tel. 2797400): Fluid Persistence — 19 artists explore ecological crisis, the role of water in narrative, and fiction. Until 31 May.
Municipal Square: Water Movement Nicosia, a site-specific installation by Maurice Cazzolli. Until 30 June.
Leventis Gallery, Temporary Exhibitions Hall: Christoforos Savva: Simple – Complex – Invisible: An Unknown Archive. Until 28 June.
Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation: Cyprus: Island, History, Memory, Reality. Until 30 June.
Limassol
Pylon Art & Culture (tel. 95950857): Interior by Phanos Kyriacou. Until 27 June.
The Edit Gallery (tel. 25051710): The Greatest Nation Ever by Yeti. Until 4 June.
Rouan Gallery (tel. 25350845): Group exhibition featuring seven contemporary artists. Until 13 May.
Municipal Arts Centre – Papadakis Warehouses (tel. 25367700): Group exhibition Rehearsals in Placemaking. Until 24 May.
PSI Foundation: Bill Viola: Unspoken. Until 1 August.
125 Space (tel. 25733994): Figures in Suspension: Unbinding the Body by Alexandra Kow. Until 30 May.
Larnaca
Pierides Museum (tel. 22128175): Nina Iakovou: Eyes to See and Hands to Touch. Until 6 May 2027.
Municipal Gallery (tel. 24658848): Testimonies of an Unseen Time — retrospective exhibition by Andreas Paraskevas. Until 6 June.
Paphos
Blue Iris (tel. 99310893): The Flower Series by Nikolas Antoniou. Until 23 May.
