VIMA Art Fair returns this May to The Warehouse by IT Quarter (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 the project with a group  exhibition and live programme that will see film screenings, performances, talks and  more unfold during the fair. Titled The Waves Crashing, the Curatorial Project will  mostly be located within the venue’s outdoor space.

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 Waves Crashing proposes delay,  resonance, and return. To allow time for a wave to travel to reach a body, a place, a  memory, or a future listener, is to also insist on a pause: a space for reflection that is  increasingly disallowed within contemporary regimes of productivity, articulation and  advancement. In 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 far-away 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 us to  become one with the waves, to embrace alternate modes of coming together and to  anticipate that meaning, consequence, or impact from these moments 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

VIMA Art Fair launched in May 2025 in Limassol, Cyprus, to create a platform and  gathering place for contemporary art in the Eastern Mediterranean and its  surrounding regions, while contributing to the growth of the contemporary art  infrastructure in Cyprus. Geographically positioned as a cultural crossroads, the fair  saw 27 galleries from Cyprus and 10 other countries gather. For 2026, VIMA  remains an intimate place of discovery, a breeding ground for international and  regional dialogue among galleries, art professionals, collectors, and the art-loving  public alike. Once again, 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, Cyprus), The Edit Gallery, eins, *The Gallery 45 (all Limassol, Cyprus), *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).

VIMA is building a strategic partnership with Mellow.io, who, for the second  consecutive year, come on board as the fair’s Premium Partner. We are also  grateful for the support of philanthropist Pavel Shynkarenko, founder of Mellow,  whose new foundation, Syno, dedicated to supporting cultural initiatives, will be  launched during the fair’s second edition in May 2026. 

VIMA’s Curatorial Project is for the second year, kindly supported by Natalia Kaygorodova.

VIMA Circle  

VIMA Art Fair has launched ‘VIMA CIRCLE’, a new, paid-for initiative geared toward  cultural discovery, connection and shared experience in Cyprus and the  Mediterranean to build a community for those shaping the future of art. Get in touch HERE for more information. 

VIMA Newsletter 

In addition, VIMA Art Fair has launched a regular newsletter in October 2025, giving  insight into relevant events taking place in Cyprus, its diaspora, and beyond. You can sign up to receive the VIMA Art Fair newsletter HERE.