About




Othonas Charalambous is a visual artist and writer based between London, UK and Nicosia, Cyprus. He completed postgraduate studies at the University of the Arts, London in 2014. His practice incorporates video, sound and sculpture to create hybrid expressions between body and landscape, exploring spatiotemporal narratives that encompass biopolitics, corporeality and elaborations of corporeal existence through and around natural environments. He is the co-founder and co-director of various arts inititatives including the interdisciplinary programme Platform: Climate Challenge - Visual Artists and Art Theorists Association (2018-20), co-curator of Perceiving Landscape(s) - International Association of Photography and Theory (2021) and One Life Down and Eight to Go (2018-ongoing), among other.

Charalambous is currently an artist-in-residence at snehta residency, Athens, Gr.
 



Selected Exhibitions

2022
body-mind-problem
The One Minutes, Chinese European Art Center CEAC, Xiamen, China

Azines Library  
Garage Project Space, Nicosia, Cyprus
Curated by Maria Leonidou, Andreas Pitsillides, AnnaMaria Charalambousand Alexandra Pambouka 

2020
Yours Faithfully: A Collective Library Project
Visual Artists Association, Nicosia, Cyprus
Curated by Maria Loizidou and Anastasia Mina

All At Sea
Art Walk Projects, Edinburgh, Scotland
Curated by Rosy Naylor

Quarantine Exhibition

Space 52, Athens, Greece
Curated by Dionisis Christofilogiannis, Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Lydia Pribisova and Nicolas Vamvouklis

2019
Home - Sling - Home: The Fetishization of Place in Displaced Mind

Artist’s studios.


The Sea Within
Municipal Arts Centre, Limassol, Cyprus
Curated by Catherine Louis Nikita and Sylia Panayiotidou 

2018
One Life Down and Eight to Go
Garage Project Space, Nicosia, Cyprus
Curated by Evagoras Vanezis 

Imago Mundi: Join the Dots 
Salone Degli Incanti, Trieste, Italy
Curated by Nikolas Vamvouklis

2017
The Vision of Saint Void
Depo Darm Gallery, Athens, Greece
Curated by Kiriakos Spirou

Let’s Play Art in the Park
Municipal Garden, Nicosia, Cyprus
Co-curated by participants

Love BYTES: Love in the Digital Age
Chamber of Fine Arts, Nicosia, Cyprus
Co-curated by participants



Selected Residencies
2022
Imperceptibilities
Snehta residence, Athens, Greece 
 
2020
Disrupting the Haptic Continuum
Phytorio Artists - in - Residence programme (collaboration with Michalis Charalambous)
Visual Artists and Art Theorists Association, Nicosia, Cyprus

2017
Letters From Cyprus
Elika Gallery, Athens, Greece


Selected Workshops / Discussions
2019
FORMWORKS 02 ‘I’m in a space called vertigo’  
Thkio Ppalies Artist Led Space
With Peter Eramian, Faysal Mroueh, Evi Tselika and Evagoras Vanezis
www.hkioppalies.org/I-m-in-a-space-called-vertigo-Workshop-14-12-2019
 
Perceiving Academy  02 ‘I’m in a space called vertigo’  
Fine Arts Chamber, E.KA.TE, Nicosia, Cyprus.  
With Katerina Neofytidou, Ilina , Evi Tselika and Evagoras Vanezis


Selected Publications
2020 
A Tactile Crisis

Space 52, Athens, Greece
www.space52.gr/a-tactile-crisis 

2019
CYPRUSBOUND
Artist’s book, self-published 

Wonder Island: Contemporary Artists From Cyprus
Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton Collection
Edited by Nikolas Vamvouklis. Published by Antiga Edizioni

2018
Eight Years
OWK Zine, Issue No.9
Edited and published by Omiros Panayides

One Life Down and Eight to Go

Conversation between curator Evagoras Vanezis and artist Othonas Charalambous
Edited and published by the participants 

Selected Curatorial Work / Projects
2020 - 2021
Perceiving Landscape(s)
Lead Curator
With Theopisti Stylianou Lambert and Nicolas Lambouris  
International Association of Photography and Theory
www.photographyandtheory.com

2019 - 2020
Platform: A Climate Challenge
Project Co-Founder and Co-Director
Visual Artists and Art Theorists Association
www.phytorio.org

2018 - 2019
International Artists Residency Program
Programme Co-Director and Co-Organiser
Visual Artists and Art Theorists Association





Contact
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