BIOGRAPHY

Yiannis Sakellis is a multidisciplinary visual artist born in Cyprus in 1983.

He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts “Pietro Vannucci” in Perugia, Italy, from where he graduated in 2007. In 2018 he received a Master's degree in Art History and Theory from the state university of Cyprus (TEPAK). In his work is often changing medium from thread, painting, drawing, installations, video, photography and printmaking as well as subjects focusing always in the research of an aesthetic re-evaluation of life. He held 7 personal exhibitions in Cyprus while he participated in various other exhibitions in Cyprus and internationally. He artworks and videos were presented in Cyprus, Italy, Moldova, U.S.A., France, Ukraine, Mexico and in the U.K. In addition, he organized and curated a number of art events and exhibitions in Cyprus, focusing on abandoned spaces and in community participation thorough art. Contemporarily to his creative work, Sakellis has also taught art in the private and state sector. In 2015 he co-founded the Kimonos Art Center with a small group of fellow artists where he is based till today. From April 2015 until February 2018, he worked as an event coordinator for the visual art events of the European Capital of Culture PAFOS2017..

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Solo exhibitions

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•a carcass/το ψοφίμι

March 2024

Blue Iris Gallery, Paphos

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•The Curtain

March 2020

Almyra Hotel, Paphos

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•Fener/Φανάρι

December 2018

Blue Iris Gallery, Paphos

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•Cappella

September 2016,

Almyra Hotel, Paphos, Cyprus.

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•The observed and the Observer - The FlevaRES project

November 2010,

NikokliaINN, Nikoklia, Paphos, Cyprus

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•The theory of the strings

December 2009,

“Harupomilos” art hall, Paphos, Cyprus.

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•Fiber optics 

February 2009,

“Skali” exhibition center in Aglanzia- Nicosia, Cyprus.

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Selected exhibitions

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•2023

Incubator.

DabArt.co gallery

Mexico City, Mexico.

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•2022

7th International Textile and Fibre Art Exhibition "Fibremen"

Ivano-Frankivs'k, Ukraine

organized and curated by Scythia project. 

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Efimero, Life, Death, Art.

PRPGMX Gallery

Mexico City, Mexico.

curated by Micheal Swank 

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International Fine Art Film Festival

Santa Barbara, CA, USA
 

For Akamas

Psifida Gallery, Paphos 

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Film Arte 2022 

Madrid, SP. & Berlin, GER.

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Lush art in difficult times 2022

IsNotGallery, Nicosia

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•2021

Threaded III

On-line exhibition by Envision artists, UK

 

•2019

19th International Biennale of the engraving of Ville de Sarcelles

December 2019

Sarcelles, France

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The Thresholds of Life

October 2019

Almyra Hotel, Paphos

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.CY, Alternative Traditional Art&Design exhibition

September 2019

Almyra Hotel, Paphos

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•2018

1st Biennale Larnaca

Larnaca Municipal Gallery -Larnaca, Cyprus.

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Keeping a secret

"Palia electriki", art center - Pafos, Cyprus.

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Lush art in Austere times

IsNotGallery - Nicosia, Cyprus

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•2017

Kai ti m’auto

IsNotGallery – Nicosia, Cyprus.

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Weaving Europe

Attikon, Pafos, Cyprus

a project of the European Capital of Culture PAFOS2017, curated by Dr Efi Kyprianidou

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Cementography

Pafos Old market, a project of the European Capital of Culture PAFOS2017

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Janus

Ibrahim’s Khan, Pafos, a project of the European Capital of Culture PAFOS2017

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The Big Mosaic

May 2017, Ibrahim’s Khan, Paphos, For PAFOS2017 European Capital of Culture.

more info at www.thebigmosaic.com

 

•2016

2016 a year in review

December 2016, Almyra hotel, Paphos, Cyprus.

 

•2015

FAFF, the Fine Art Film Festival

Film Festival focus on Fine Art subjects. Venice, California.

Selected for screening the video “the Box”.

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Street Art Square

Street Art event in the town center of Paphos, Cyprus.

 

•2014

50 Years EKATE

Four exhibitions for the 50th anniversary of E.KA.TE. –the Cyprus chamber of Fine Arts.

Haroupomylos, Lanitis Art center, Limassol, Cyprus.

Palia Ilektriki, art center Paphos, Cyprus.

Municipal gallery, Larnaka,Cyprus.

Pili Ammochostou art center, Nicosia, Cyprus.

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Technopolis20

Group exhibition for the opening of Technopolis20 art center, Paphos, Cyprus.

 

•2013

Othello/Rebirth

Othellos cinema, Paphos, Cyprus.

Site specific exhibition in the abandoned cinema Othellos. Part of the second edition of ReBirth day, in collaboration with the “Cittadellarte” Foundation in Biella, Italy.

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ECO InSite

Documentation of INSITE. Pegasos Art Foundation, Limassol, Cyprus

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•2012

Catharsis/rebirth.

Hamam, Paphos, Cyprus, (part of a global event organized by the “cittadellarte foundation”, Italy. Documentation- video of catharsis/rebirth was presented in the Louvre museum during the personal exhibition of M.Pistoletto ‘Year one the paradise on earth” together with all the “rebirth day” video-events on May 15th 2013.

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INsite, 

21 -30 September. Site specific exhibition. Archaeological park, Paphos, Cyprus. (Event for the Cypriot presidency of the EU)

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WindowArt.

Site specific exhibition in Paphos old market, Paphos, Cyprus.

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Lush art in austere times.

Isnotgallery, Nicosia, Cyprus.

 

•2011

2nd international painting biennial of Chisinau

Chisinau- Rep. of Moldova

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Athletics

Cyprus Olympic center, Nicosia, Cyprus.

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All colours 

Studio 55 Limassol, Cyprus.

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Visual Paphos

Palia Ilectriki art center, Paphos, Cyprus.

 

•2010

4th annual exhibition of young Cypriot artists

Akamantis conference center, Nicosia, Cyprus.

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50 years of artistic creation

Exhibition dedicated to the 50 years of The Republic of Cyprus.

Melina Mercuri Hall, Nicosia, Cyprus.

 

•2009

Images from Paphos

“Palia Ilectriki” art center, Pafos, Cyprus.

 

•2007

Risonanze

Corciano historical center, Italy

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Initinere

Site specific exhibition in the historical center of Perugia, Italy.

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•2006

Trame

Corciano historical center, Italy.

 

•2005

Luoghi 

Corciano historical center, Italy.

 

•2004

Istantanea 

Corciano historical center, Italy.