EVROVIZION
About Evrovizion
EVROVIZION.CROSSING STORIES AND SPACES focuses on less visible and marginalized geopolitical and cultural spaces, in particular in southeastern and eastern Europe. These are so-called “semi-peripheries” and “places of diversity” that often play only a minor role in many international theoretical discourses and exhibition practices. In close cooperation with regional protagonists and each local art scene, new artistic projects are being added to the exhibition during the course of its tour.
Cities of the travelling exhibition
The Exhibition in Nicosia
Nicosia was the fourth station after the presentations at the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina in Serbia, and the Goethe-Institut Athen in Greece.
The exhibition in Nicosia was expanded to include works by Turkish-Cypriot artist Nurtane Karagil and Greek-Cypriot artist Kyriakos Theocharous. Further local expansion of the exhibition was also planned: the artist Adnan Softić developed new works in close cooperation with local actors.
Both the residency-mentorship program and the Pickle Bar installation by the artists’ collective Slavs and Tatars were part of the EVROVIZION project. The integration of the Pickle Bar installation into the exhibition created an open space for local dialogues. Slavs and Tatars and ifa selected the young Greek-Cypriot curator Ioulita Toumazi as a fellow of the 2023 Pickle Bar residency-mentorship program.
![EVROVIZION. Photographs by Johanna Diehl. NiMAC, Nicosia/CY, 2023 Three framed photographs depicting worship places are hanging on an exhibition wall.](/resources/files/jpg1289/01-evrovision_nicosia_diehl_c_ifa_photobylouca_dsc0522-formatkey-jpg-w320r.jpg)
EVROVIZION. Photographs by Johanna Diehl. NiMAC, Nicosia/CY, 2023 | © ifa-Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen / Nicos Louca
![EVROVIZION. Works by Janine Jembere. NiMAC, Nicosia/CY, 2023 Photographs in different sizes hanging in an exhibition hall. A group of visitors are looking at the works.](/resources/files/jpg1289/02-evrovision_nicosia_jembere_c_ifa_photobylouca_dsc0650-formatkey-jpg-w320r.jpg)
EVROVIZION. Works by Janine Jembere. NiMAC, Nicosia/CY, 2023 | © ifa-Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen / Nicos Louca
![EVROVIZION. Works by Nurtane Karagil. NiMAC, Nicosia/CY, 2023 Colourful drawings and texts on paper are placed as a collage on two cornered walls](/resources/files/jpg1289/03-evrovision_nicosia_karagil_c_ifa_photobylouca_dsc0560-formatkey-jpg-w320r.jpg)
EVROVIZION. Works by Nurtane Karagil. NiMAC, Nicosia/CY, 2023 | © ifa-Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen / Nicos Louca
![EVROVIZION. Works by Kyriakos Theocharous. NiMAC, Nicosia/CY, 2023 Pottery mosaics on a white wall, next to two frames with pencil drawings](/resources/files/jpg1289/04-evrovision_nicosia_kyriakos_c_ifa_photobylouca_dsc0552-formatkey-jpg-w320r.jpg)
EVROVIZION. Works by Kyriakos Theocharous. NiMAC, Nicosia/CY, 2023 | © ifa-Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen / Nicos Louca
![EVROVIZION. Triangular Stories by Henrike Naumann. NiMAC, Nicosia/CY, 2023 An interior design installation consisting of a double bed and two small tables on top of which are old-fashioned TVs and a table lamp.](/resources/files/jpg1289/05-evrovision_nicosia_naumann_c_ifa_photobylouca_dsc0535-formatkey-jpg-w320r.jpg)
EVROVIZION. Triangular Stories by Henrike Naumann. NiMAC, Nicosia/CY, 2023 | © ifa-Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen / Nicos Louca
![EVROVIZION. Viva La Vida by Selma Selman. NiMAC, Nicosia/CY, 2023 Film still on a big screen showing a woman sitting on a colourful carpet holding half a watermelon. Next to her are two more watermelons.](/resources/files/jpg1289/06-evrovision_nicosia_selman_c_ifa_photobylouca_dsc0728-formatkey-jpg-w320r.jpg)
EVROVIZION. Viva La Vida by Selma Selman. NiMAC, Nicosia/CY, 2023 | © ifa-Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen / Nicos Louca
![EVROVIZION. BALKANGREUEL – BALKAN CRUELTY by Lana Čmajčanin. NiMAC, Nicosia/CY, 2023 Exhibition view with a big wallpaper installation and framed photographs on the walls. Visitors are moving around in the hall.](/resources/files/jpg1289/07-evrovision_nicosia_selman_cmajcanin_diehl_c_ifa_photobylouca_dsc0514-formatkey-jpg-w320r.jpg)
EVROVIZION. BALKANGREUEL – BALKAN CRUELTY by Lana Čmajčanin. NiMAC, Nicosia/CY, 2023 | © ifa-Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen / Nicos Louca
![EVROVIZION. Works by Adnan Softić, Vajiko Chachkhiani and Janine Jembere. NiMAC, Nikosia/CY, 2023 A girl is sitting on a stool at a wooden desk and listens to something with headphones. In the room is another desk and stool, a metal and wood installation with a video screen and photographs on the wall.](/resources/files/jpg1289/08-evrovision_nicosia_softic_chachkhiani_jembere_c_ifa_photobylouca_dsc0573-formatkey-jpg-w320r.jpg)
EVROVIZION. Works by Adnan Softić, Vajiko Chachkhiani and Janine Jembere. NiMAC, Nikosia/CY, 2023 | © ifa-Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen / Nicos Louca
![EVROVIZION. This Is the Place Gentlemen! Maria Tsagkari. NiMAC, Nikosia/CY, 2023 İnsan saçlarından hazırlanan saç tutamları bir yazı oluşturacak şekilde yan yana duvardaki iki çubuğa dizilmiş: This is the place. This is the place gentlemen. (O yer burası. O yer burası beyler.) yazısı okunuyor.](/resources/files/jpg1289/09-evrovision_nicosia_tsagkari_c_ifa_photobylouca_dsc0565-formatkey-jpg-w320r.jpg)
EVROVIZION. This Is the Place Gentlemen! Maria Tsagkari. NiMAC, Nikosia/CY, 2023 | © ifa-Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen / Nicos Louca
![EVROVIZION. NiMAC, Nikosia/CY, 2023 View of an exhibition hall with brick walls and an arch. A woman stands in front of a wallpaper with text about the exhibition EVROVIZION. There are square boxes covered with an illustration.](/resources/files/jpg1289/10-evrovision_nicosia_walltext_c_ifa_photobylouca_dsc0453-formatkey-jpg-w320r.jpg)
EVROVIZION. NiMAC, Nikosia/CY, 2023 | © ifa-Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen / Nicos Louca
Magazine
Following the exhibition in Nicosia, a new issue of the EVROVIZION magazine will be published, thus enriching the “archive of the journey.” Co-edited by Evagoras Vanezis, EVROVIZION.CROSSING NICOSIA will be dedicated to the presentation of the ever-growing project in Nicosia and its impact on the city’s cultural identity.
Credits
Artists participating in the EVROVIZION.CROSSING STORIES AND SPACES project:
Nevin Aladağ, Igor Bošnjak, Vajiko Chachkhiani, Lana Čmajčanin, Johanna Diehl, Petrit Halilaj, Ivana Ivković, Janine Jembere, Nurtane Karagil, Vladimir Miladinović, Henrike Naumann, Selma Selman, Emilija Škarnulytė, Slavs and Tatars, Adnan Softić, Kyriakos Theocharous, Maria Tsagkari
Curators
Sabina Klemm, Sanja Kojić Mladenov
Local curator
Maria Efstathiou
Local co-editor of the magazine EVROVIZION.CROSSING NICOSIA
Evagoras Vanezis
Fellow of the Pickle Bar residency
Ioulita Toumazi
Goethe-Institut Cyprus
In charge of the project: Dr. Gabriele Gauler
General coordination: Natalie Stylianou
NiMAC [Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation]
In charge of the project: Maria Efstathiou
General coordination: Marika Ioannou
Partners
EVROVIZION.CROSSING STORIES AND SPACES is a project by ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), it is being presented in Nicosia in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Cyprus, and NiMAC [Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation].