1956 Born in Malounda, Nicosia, Cyprus.

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He lives and works between Cyprus and Paris.

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1977-1981 Painting Studies at the Institute of Fine Arts “N. Grigorescu”, Bucharest. Scholarship from UNESCO.

1986-1987 Winner of Prix Matisse, Scholarship from the French Government.

Artist in Residence, Cité Internationale des Arts and École des Beaux-Arts, Paris.

1995 Artist in residence, FRAC/CRAC d’Alsace, France.

2020 He was elected Correspondent Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts.

2021 He taught in the Fine Arts Department of the Cyprus University of Technology.

2025 He was honored by the French state as: “Officier des Arts et des Lettres”.

 

His participation in the Venice Biennale (Aperto 1990) was the beginning of a significant presence in the international art scene. He has created monumental works in public spaces in Cyprus, France, and Greece. His works can be found in European museums, public and private collections. He has presented his work in many solo and international group exhibitions in Cyprus and abroad.

 

Solo Exhibitions

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2026 “Cyprus on Faubourg Saint-Honoré”, open-air exhibition, Faubourg Saint-Honoré Committee & Embassy of Cyprus in France, Place de l’Église Notre-Dame de l’Assomption, Paris, France 

2025 “From Nature to Structure”, PSI Foundation, Limassol, Cyprus (with C. Como)

2023 “Mental Geography”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, MNAC Bucharest, curators Alex Oberlander - Catherine Louis Nikita

2018 Contemporary Art Center Diatopos, Nicosia, Cyprus

2016 Place du Louvre, Paris, France

2012 Espace Verralbane, Paris, France

2008-09 Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

2009 Diatopos Art Center, Nicosia, Cyprus

2006 UNESCO, Paris, France

2005 Diatopos Art Center, Nicosia, Cyprus

2004 Gallery Beacker, Cologne, Germany

2003 Morphy Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus

Bohem Press, Zurich, Switzerland

Gallery Andersen, Zurich, Switzerland

2001 Ileana Tounta Centre of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

Diatopos Centre of Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus

2000 Zina Athanasiadou Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece

1999 Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

Casino de Monaco, Monaco

1998 André Malraux Contemporary Art Centre, Colmar, France

1996 Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus

Ileana Tounta Centre of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

1993 Diaspro Art Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus

Guest Artist, SYSTEME GLOBAL II, FRAC/CRAC d’Alsace, France

URBAN, Ileana Tounta, Centre of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

1992 SYSTEME GLOBAL, Contemporary Art Center Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France

Galerie Claude Fain, Paris

1991 GLOBAL, Kolossi Medieval Castle, Limassol, Cyprus

URBAN, Diaspro Art Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus

AFTOFOTA-ETEROFOTA, Diaspro Art Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus

1987 TRANSFORMATIONS-TRANSFIGURATIONS, Diaspro Art Center, Nicosia

1983 METAMORPHOSES, Gloria Gallery, Nicosia

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2025 “Révélations”, Grand Palais, Paris, curator S. Christodoulides

2024 “Repetitive Acts”, NIMAC, curator E. Stylianou

2024 “Casts of an Island”, PSI Foundation - Cycoart, Limasol, curator N. Pattichis

2024 Municipal Art Center, Larnaca

2022 “On Ariadne's Thread - In Ictum Arianna – Tapisserie”, Municipal Arts Center, Larnaca, Cyprus

2022 “Visual Scenes”, Limassol Municipal Art Center, Cyprus

2022 Municipal Gallery of Athens, Greece

2021 “The Tides of the Century – International Art Exhibition”, Ocean Flower Hainan, China

2020 FRAC d’Alsace

2019 “Return to Africa”, Bandjoun Station, Cameroon

2017 “So Close Yet So Far Away”, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel

2016 Kolossi Castle, Limassol, Cyprus

“Sense and cognition”, Evagoras & Kathleen Lanitis Foundation, Limassol, Cyprus

2014 “Touch Me not -Byzantine analogies in Cypriot art”, Pelentri, Cyprus

2013 “Maniera Cypria”, Evagoras & Kathleen Lanitis Foundation, Limassol, Cyprus

2012 “The Object”, Evagoras & Kathleen Lanitis Foundation, Limassol, Cyprus

2012 “Mediterranean in CRISIS”, Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus

2010 “Cyprus in Venice Biennale”, Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus

2007 “Russia-Europe”, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2005 “Berlin Wall”, Seoul Olympic Museum, Korea

La Shère, Museum Yankelevich La Luvier, The New 10, Kunsthaus Mannheim, Belgium

Museum of Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium

2004 “Art ATHINA 2004 - Olympic Games”, Athens, Greece

“The New 10”, Küppersmühle Museum, Duisburg, Germany

“Greek and Turkish Contemporary Art”, Leverkusen, Germany & Agia Eirini, Istanbul, Turkey

& Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

COSMOPOLIS, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

“La conquête de l’air”, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

Gallery Andersen, Zurich, Switzerland

“Playgrounds & Toys”, Manufacture des Œillets à Ivry-sur-Seine, France

2003 KUNST Zurich - Gallery Andersen

“La conquête de l’air”, Contemporary Art Museum Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France

State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

2002 Sculpture - permanent installation, Park Royal, Toulouse, France

Kunsthall, Cologne, Germany

2001 “OPEN - Lido”, Venice, Italy

2000 “Moving Images”, Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus

Contemporary Art Museum Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France

1999 “North-South”, National Museum, Warsaw

Art Junction, Nice, France (1st Prize for Sculpture, Prize for the Best Presentation, Gallery Ileana Tounta)

1998 MEDITERRANEA, Brussels, Belgium

1997 Cyprus National Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy

“Memories and Contemporary Ways of Cypriot Plastic”, European

Capital of Culture, Thessaloniki 1997, Greece

Art Athena, Ileana Tounta Centre of Contemporary Art, Greece

1995 Rip Arte – Roma, Ileana Tounta Centre of Contemporary Art, Italy

POLYTROPA, Rethimno, Crete, Greece

POLY-TROPES, Château des Ducs d’Epemon, Cadillac, France

Art Fair of Brussels, Gallery Renos Xypas, Paris, France

1994 “Art & Photonics”, International Symposium ARTCAPI, Ministry of Culture, France

Institute Pasteur, Strasbourg, France

TECHNI-MYTIS, Goulandri Museum, Athens, Greece & Famagusta Gate, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, Ministry of Culture, Cyprus and Greece

Biennale d'Arte Emergente, Siena, Italy, International Sculpture Symposium, Delphi European Centre, Greece

1993 FRAC/CRAC d’Alsace, France

Art 93, Basel, Ileana Tounta Centre of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

1992 FIAC, Galerie Claude Fain, Paris, France

Art and New Technologies, European Program, Fast monitor. “Interurban” (Installation), Ileana Tounta Centre of Contemporary Art, Athens

1990 APERTO ’90, Venice Biennale, Italy

Contemporary Art Museum, Savanna, Italy

Gallery Credito Vaitelinese, Milano, Italy

“APHRODITE: Harmony and the Inconceivable”, Famagusta Gate, Nicosia, Cyprus

Modern Art Museum, Toulouse

1989 EXPO-ARTE, Bari, Italy

Mediterranean Sea for Modern Art, Bari, Italy

1987 2nd Biennial of New Artists from Mediterranean European Countries, Thessaloniki, Greece

Contemporary Art of Cyprus, Athens, Greece

New Artists (ECUME), Marseille, France

1983 Contemporary Art Park, Nicosia

6th Art Symposium, Prilep, Skopje, Yugoslavia

 

Selection of works in public spaces

 

1982 “Structure in relief”, wood and color, 400X300 cm, The Cultural Centre of the Cyprus Popular

Bank, Nicosia

1984 “Tholos-Mitra”, diam. 600 cm, depth 270 cm, Park of Contemporary Art, Nicosia

1990 “Phaistos Disc”, Phaistos marble, metal, mirror, diam. 300 cm, depth 60 cm, 2nd International

Art Symposium, Ayios Nicolaos, Crete

1993 “AUTOFOTA-HETEROFOTA”, cement, TV monitors and stainless steel, diam. 600 cm, depth 70 cm,

Industrial Training Centre ANAD, Nicosia

1994 “Omphalos”, cement, TV monitor, video, diam. 180 cm, depth 270 cm

International Sculpture Symposium, Delphi, Greece

1995 “RESOLUTION”, 400X600 cm, at the Green Line, Nicosia

1999 “URBAN”, piece in seven parts, cement, color 120X120X18 cm, glass, drawing, 120X120X18 cm,

Ministry of Urban Planning of Cyprus, Nicosia

2006 International competition. 1st prize, Park of Europe – Nicosia – Cyprus

2007 “Klepsydra”, Audit Office, Nicosia, 70x70x1260 cm sculpture, inox, neon

2009 Larnaka International Airport, Cyprus (Hermes, Bouygues), h. 16.650 cm

2019 Cyprus University, “Mental Geography”, 220x220x440 cm sculpture, aluminum, cement

2021 National Theater THOC, Nicosia, “Cells”, diam. 160 cm sculpture

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​Works in collections

 

MNAC Bucharest – National Museum of Contemporary Art

EMST, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens - donation by NEON org.

UNESCO patrimonial collection

Les Abattoirs, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Toulouse, France

Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, Midi-Pyrénées, France

Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, Alsace, France

Museum of Contemporary Art, Prilep, Skopje, Yugoslavia

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France

The Cyprus State Gallery, Cyprus

Municipal Centre of Contemporary Art André Malraux, Colmar, France

Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens - Daskalopoulos Donation

Artworks in private collections of Cyprus, UK, France, Belgium, England, Switzerland, Italy, and Greece

 

Bibliography

 

1990 THEODOULOS, La Biennale di Venezia, “APERTO 90”, text: Efi Strouza, D. Davvetas, published by the Ministry of Culture and Education of Cyprus, The Cyprus Popular Bank.

1991 THEODOULOS, published by Cyprus Youth Council

1992 THEODOULOS-URBAN, published by the Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens

1992 THEODOULOS, Système Global, Monography, Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain, Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, text: Efi Strouza, K. Axelos, Alain Mousseigne (National prize of artistic edition 1992, France).

1993 THEODOULOS, Edition FRAC/CRAC d’Alsace, Texts: Alain Mousseigne, D. Constantinides, J.C. Altoé

1996 THEODOULOS, Edition Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia, text: Yiannis Toumazis

1997 THEODOULOS, Edition Centre d’Art Contemporain de Colmar, France

1997 THEODOULOS, La Biennale di Venezia, published by the Ministry of Culture and, The Cyprus Popular Bank.

2000 THEODOULOS / published Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki

2008 THEODOULOS / expo, Musée du Louvre, edition Ministry of Culture, Cyprus, Texts: A. Michael

2023 THEODOULOS Mental Geography, MNAC Bucharest

 

Books and Catalogues referring to his work (selection)

 

Biennale of Young Artists of European Mediterranean Countries, Thessaloniki 1986, Greece

Meditarraneo per l’ Arte Contemporanea, Bari, Italy 1990

Biennale di Venezia (APERTO ’90), Fabri ’90 editions

APHRODITE: Harmony and the Inconceivable, Gnosi editions, Enrico Navaro, Athens 1990

New Mediterranean Identity, Crete 1990

Idea Europa, Palazzo Publico, Sienna, Italy 1994

Biennale di Venezia, 1997

Mediterranean, Brussels, 1998

Moving Images, published by the Municipal Contemporary Art Center, Nicosia 2001

ART ATHINA, published AICA-HELLAS 2004

Europa - Russia - Europa, Gallery Tretyakov, Moscow, 2007

A universe of Art, edition UNESCO, text Eleni Nikita 2017

UNESCO ART COLLECTION, selected works, edition UNESCO, text Andri Michael 2021

 

International Art Press (selection)

 

Le Monde, Art Press, Flash Art, Beaux-Arts, Art in America, Dépêche du Midi, D.N.A.,

Alsace, La Repubblica, La Stampa, Corriere della Sera, Arca, Sima, ARTI, Ta Nea Tis Technis, Tefchos, Ta Nea, To Vima, Kathimerini, Phileleftheros, Politis, LIGEIA (France)

ERT TV Greece, Deutsche Welle TV Germany, RIK TV, Cyprus, France Culture

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Theatre - Stage design

 

1982 “ΣΩΜΑ – ΧΩΡΟΣ” (Corps - Space), choreography Ariana Oikonomou / music Nicolas Oikonomou

1989 “End of the Game”, Samuel Beckett (theater ENA / A. Pantzis) Cyprus

1995 “NIKI”, Loula Anagnostaki, THOC (national theater / A. Pantzis) Cyprus

2001 “Macbeth”, Shakespeare, THOC (national theater / A. Pantzis) Cyprus

2014 “Prometheus”, KYPRIA international Festival / A. Pantzis

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Architecture

 

“Communal Center” / Malounta, co-creation with architect G. Patsalosavis

“Nice Day Tower” / Nicosia, competition – co-creation with architect G. Patsalosavis

“Tram - Strasburg” / competition, selected group, 2nd Prize, in collaboration with a group of architects / France

“Tram - Grenoble” / competition, 2nd Prize, in collaboration with a group of architects / France

“Europe Park” – Nicosia / landscape, sculpture, 1st and 2nd Prize, collaboration C. Chrisanthou, arch.