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IN THE SEA OF THE SETTING SUN
The State Gallery of Contemporary Art - SPEL, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2023
 Waterfall
Xarkis festival, Agros, Cyprus, 2022
Glass Cage Dream
Eins Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus, 2022
 Weeper Capuchin
6th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, 2021
Flamingo Theater
State and Nature, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 2021
 acrobat above the dome
Goethe-Institut Zypern, 2021
 Fabrica hill
Thkio Ppalies, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2021
 Nebokeru
Grey Noise, Dubai, 2021
 Howlings and optical illusions
Saigon, Athens, Greece, 2020
 hypersurfacing
NiMAC, Nicosia, Cyprus , 2019-2020
 Nymphaeaceae
Point Centre for Contemporary Art , Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019
 Phenomenon 3
Anafi Island, Greece, 2019
 rcsaerh
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 2019
 Studies in Geology
APhF19, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece, 2019
Studies in Geology
Foam Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2018
Over The Horizon, Drone Vision: Surveillance, Warfare, Protest
Nimac, Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, 2018
 SKPP
PARTY Contemporary | Artist-run gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2018
Where are you going young man, handsome like a legend
Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2017
The Equilibrists
organized by the Deste Foundation and the New Museum, New York in collaboration with the Benaki Museum, 2016

Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019 Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019 Cardboard, 2018, archival pigment print, 30x44 cm Young coconut juice, 2019, archival pigment print, 30x44 cm Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019 Hide out, 2017, archival pigment print, 60x40 cm Peacock, 2017, archival pigment print, 60x40 cm Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019 Bird, 2018, archival pigment print, 72x48 cm Statue 1, 2019, archival pigment print, 35x23 cm Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019 Reflection, 2018, archival pigment print, 72x48 cm Bench, 2017, archival pigment print, 60x40 cm | Landscape I, 2017, archival pigment print, 60x40 cm Bench, 2017, archival pigment print, 60x40 cm Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019 Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019 Raven, 2019, archival pigment print, 28x19cm Landscape II, 2017, archival pigment print, 40x26 cm Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019 Water lilies, 2017, archival pigment print, 48x32 cm Glove, 2017, archival pigment print, 29x19 cm Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019 Tree, 2017, archival pigment print, 130x86 cm Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019 Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019 Mahatma, 2017, archival pigment print, 24x16 cm | Over exposed bird, 2019, archival pigment print, 29x19 cm Still life, 2017, archival pigment print, 44x30 cm Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019 Boy with violin, 2017, archival pigment print, 60x40 cm Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019 Halo, 2019, archival pigment print, 42x29 cm | Palm tree, 2019, archival pigment print, 40x26 cm Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019 Dead end, 2018, archival pigment print, 44x30 cm cm each Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019 Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019 Statue 2, 2019, archival pigment print, 29x19 cm Full moon studies, 2018, archival pigment print, 37x16 cm each Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019 Yuri, 2017, archival pigment print, 20x13 cm


Nymphaeaceae
Point Centre for Contemporary Art
Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019

Kallinikou for this exhibition present works from his long term project entitled “The Garden of Peace and Desire”. This time he turns his gaze on the Nicosia Municipal Gardens, located behind the parliament house and next to the Green Line. Its set up started during the English rule and it was originally named ‘Victoria’s Garden’, in honour of the namesake queen. In 1968, almost ten years after Cyprus independence, the prominent Cypriot architect Neoptolemos Michaelides undertook the area’s remodeling. He replaced ‘Victoria’s Garden’ with a "Cypriot garden" of endemic plants that develops "freely", as he himself put it. The garden was renamed as ‘The Garden of Peace’.Kallinikou enters this politically charged space and concentrates on the locations and visible traces of sexual activity, moving within a new architecture indicated by the needs of “cruising”. In Where are you going young man, handsome like a legend (2016-17) the artist scouted out, in the rough forests of Cyprus, the hideouts created from the organization EOKA during the campaign for Cypriot self-determination against the British rule (1955-59). In The Garden of Peace and Desire he further develops his thought on how nature, in the guise of the municipal garden, acts as a hide out -this time for desire, becoming by extension an arena for the fight for the self-determination of the body itself.