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
othonas.charalambous[@]gmail.com