Kyvèli Zoi
CYCLADIC CAFE ART PROJECT
MAY 20 UNTIL JUNE 29, 2026
Her visual language is composed of an amplified theatricality that celebrates the details that make the ordinary extraordinary.
At the Cycladic Café Art Project at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Kyvèli presents three framed oil paintings that explore the relationship between the spectator and the spectacle. Through playful perspectives and carefully staged compositions, the works depict atmospheric fragments, fictional viewers, and imagined moments of observation.
Blurring the boundaries between intimacy and performance, the paintings invite the viewer into layered scenes where reality and imagination coexist. Their theatrical sensibility transforms ordinary gestures and interiors into reflective narratives about perception, presence, and the act of looking itself.
THE ARTWORK
If You Know, You Know, 2025
Oil on canvas, 12 × 12 cm
Kyvèli Zoi
The Critics, 2025
Oil on canvas, 13 x 11 cm
Kyvèli Zoi
Old Soul, 2025
Oil on canvas, 12 × 10 cm
THE ARTIST
Kyvèli holds a BA degree from the School of Visual Arts (New York, USA) and has participated in the student exchange programme of the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France). Kyvèli has exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions internationally, from New York, Paris, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Istanbul to Brussels, Belgrade, Gothenburg, Naples and Athens, while her collaborators span from galleries and collectors to film and theatre directors, as well as designers and musicians. In 2021-2022 she was awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship. She is also the founder of KYAN, a residency program in Athens, Greece.
Solo exhibitions: Been to Places, Seen Some Faces, Iris Gallery (Athens, Greece, 2025); Shoe Shop, Acappella Gallery (Naples, Italy, 2024); Spectators, NEVVEN Gallery (Gottenburg, Sweden, 2023); Letters to My Future Self, Acappella Gallery (Naples, Italy, 2022); Coffee Cigarettes Amore, Elma Gallery (Νew York, USA, 2022)
Group Exhibitions: BEN’LER curated by Mina Malaz, Historic Armenian Bathhouse (Istanbul, Turkey, 2025); Sadness is Rebellion, curated by Dayneris Brito, LAC foundation (Paris, France, 2024); An Eye is all I am, curated by Katerina Nikolaou, Baraka Arts (Spetses, Greece, 2024); The Collective II, Visionary Projects (New York, USA, 2024); Jardin des Delices, Claire Gastaud Gallery (Paris, France, 2024); Petite Shoe Show, Adrian Sutton Gallery (Paris, France, 2024); Figures Hydropiques, Ciaccia Levi Paris-Milan (Paris, France, 2023); Looking With the Eyes of Love curated by Aristeidis Lappas, Breeder Gallery (Αthens, Greece, 2023)
CYCLADIC CAFE ART PROJECT
The Museum of Cycladic Art presents the Cycladic Café Art Project – part of the Modern Art Program – combining places of social gathering with art. With the ultimate aim of embracing the Greek and international scene of modern art, the Museum presents works by internationally acclaimed and emerging artists linked to its current exhibitions and activities at Cycladic Café. The Cycladic Café Art Project motivates the dialogue between art and everyday life.
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