‘Lines That Do Not Hold’ group exhibition
The Gallery 45 (@thegallery_45 )
Part of the Parallel Programme at VIMA Art Fair
Opening:
Wednesday 13 May, 18:00 – 21:00
Exhibition:
13 May–15 June
Monday–Friday, 10:00–18:00
Saturday, 10:30–13:30
Address: Agiou Andreou 45, Limassol
free entry
A line suggests order—it separates, contains, defines. It marks beginnings and ends, producing the illusion of structure. Lines That Do Not Hold begins where this structure falters. Across painting, photography, installation, and moving image, the artists approach the line as unstable and permeable, shaped by memory and embodiment.
Alix Marie anchors the exhibition in the body, constructing a ritualistic language around fertility and protection. Maryam Khastoo shifts this inquiry into the image, exploring displacement and interior rupture. Natalia Papadopoulou extends it into space, creating immersive environments that unsettle orientation. Kyveli Zoi gathers these tensions into oneiric scenes where bodies and landscapes merge.
Group exhibition with Alix Marie, Kyveli Zoi, Maryam Khastoo, Natalia Papadopoulou.
Curated by Sylvia Sachini (@sylvia.ps )
Curatorial Assistant: Lola Inó Schönherr
Credits: ADA scene, 2026 by Alix Marie
We’re excited to announce Lines That Do Not Hold, a group exhibition bringing together the work of Alix Marie, Kyveli Zoi, Maryam Khastoo, Natalia Papadopoulou. Curated by Sylvia Sachini. Curatorial Assistant: Lola Inó Schönherr.
Opening 13th May at the Gallery 45, Limassol. On view until the 15th June. Part of the Parallel Programme at the VIMA Art Fair.
A line suggests order — it separates, contains, defines. It marks beginnings and ends, producing the illusion of structure. Lines That Do Not Hold begins where this structure falters. Across painting, photography, installation, and moving image, the artists approach the line as unstable and permeable, shaped by memory and embodiment.
Alix Marie anchors the exhibition in the body, constructing a ritualistic language around fertility and protection. Maryam Khastoo shifts this inquiry into the image, exploring displacement and interior rupture. Natalia Papadopoulou extends it into space, creating immersive environments
that unsettle orientation. Kyveli Zoi gathers these tensions into oneiric scenes where bodies and landscapes merge.
#thegallery45 #SylviaSachini #internationalartists #VIMAparallelprogramme #contemporaryart
We’re excited to announce a new collaboration with Sylvia Sachini, an Athens-based Greek-Albanian curator, publisher, and advisor working with photography and lens-based practices. Her work focuses on exhibition-making as a space where research, production, and display converge, with a particular attention to how artworks are positioned within both institutional and commercial contexts. She is the founder of MISC Gallery and co-founder of the Athens Photo Research Center, and has collaborated with institutions including the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Athens, Benaki Museum, Paris Photo, and The Photographer’s Gallery.
Sachini will be curating a forthcoming exhibition at the Gallery 45 opening in May 2026 and as part of the VIMA parallel program.
Photograph courtesy of @valeria.yamska .
#thegallery45 #contemporaryartcurator #Albaniancurator #vimaparallelprogramme
📚 APhF BOOK Program 2026 — Open Call Now Live
Submit your photobook project by 28 April 2026 and be part of Athens Photo Festival 2026.
The APhF Book Program, curated by Sylvia Sachini, supports photobook practices through two awards and one exhibition:
🔹 Dummy Award feat. Chose Commune — one photobook dummy will be published by @chose_commune with production support of up to €15,000
🔹 APhF Pick:26 Book Award — for books published within the past year
🔹 Unfolded Chapters Exhibition — a curated group show of selected photobooks
Open to photographers and lens-based artists worldwide.
✨ The 2026 winners and shortlisted projects will be selected by the jury and exhibited at the Benaki Museum from 10 June to 28 July 2026.
This is your opportunity to bring your book into an international context — whether published or in progress.
⏳ Deadline: 28 April 2026
🔗 More info via the link in bio
Thrilled to introduce Witty Book's #104
Something Was Missing Within by @elliottkreyenberg .
The first copies will be available next week in Paris at @parisphotofair and in pre-order at a special price on our website.
The project is the Winner of APhF:24 Dummy Award feat.
Witty Books.
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The award was part Athens Photo Festival Book Program curated by Sylvia Sachini and with the
support of Future Format.
@athensphotofestival_official@sylvia.ps@thefutureformat
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Designed by @ilaria.miotto_
@festivart.teens_ is a contemporary art festival showcasing the work of teenagers — organized by the teens themselves, with the support of @lab2art by the wonderful @zoi_pirini
Throughout the year, @misc.athens team worked closely with the teens to create their annual @young_yum_zin fanzine, themed Full Bloom. The zine will be available for sale at the FESTIVART shop from July 24–27, where their full body of work will also be on view.
Congratulations to all the amazing team ❤️🔥
🌸 Support their project and take a copy home!
✨ Pre-order now and I’ll ship you the copy
Tamara Kametani’s utopia starts here—in the mess, the code, the wires.
ALL UTOPIAS FAIL in the making: data ghosts, missile trails, and broken dreams. - on view @misc.athens
Forever grateful to my amazing team
@tamarakametani@clmalleret@marinakostruba
and special thanks to our greatest supporter @mr_yoshi.k
ALL UTOPIAS FAIL is open by appointment only during July-August
Just returned from the 5th edition of @deoprojects , ONCE WE WERE GARDENS exhibition, where @papadopoulou.natalia presented her breathtaking new sculptural installation: Delphine (2025).
Delphine is both mythic and alive - a large-scale, light-reactive structure of iron, mirrored surfaces, and shimmering threads.
Positioned like a portal at the edge of the garden, it responds to sun, shadow, and time itself. In the morning light it glows, hovers, shifts, tethered to the trees, vibrating with presence.
Delphine draws from myth and memory, evoking the hybrid, the dreamlike, and the feminine archetype. Part serpent, part butterfly, part constellation. It resists definition, much like Natalia’s practice itself.
So proud to have accompanied her through this journey — and be part of this stunning realization.
Metal structure by Spyros Doukeris
Textiles by the beautiful hands of @katerinanakou
Artist Residency: @alfa12org / Commissioned by DEO
Congratulations to @akis.kokkinos
Thank you to my partner in crime and best driver @gadzhiev.ed
Day 3 is here - and it’s the final day of our SPF workshops! 🎉
A huge thank you to @pierremohamedpetit , @vladaa93 , @sylvia.ps , @clmalleret , and @125thofasec for your incredible guidance!
Our participants poured passion, energy, and creativity into every session, and from what we can see - it was super fun and insightful!
Watching collaborations spark and stories evolve has been truly inspiring.
Thank you to everyone who joined us and made the last couple of days unforgettable!
Hope you had as much fun attending, as we did watching from the sidelines! :)
Thanks, @aminatized and @monika_andric for beautifully capturing each workshop!
Also, a big thank you goes to @europehouse.ba | @eubih and @historijski.muzejbih for being fantastic hosts! And of course we can’t forget @asabankadd who actively supported the realization of our workshops this year! 😍
#workshop #PhotographyWorkshop #sarajevophotographyfestival #sarajevo #PhotographyFestival #Photographyfest #photofest #photofestival
Day 1 of our “Developing a Photographic Project into a Photobook” workshop with @misc.athens ’ Sylvia Sachini & Clémence Malleret is here! 📚✨
From the photos, we can see they’re already going deep in creating fresh connections between images and stories.
Big thanks to @europehouse.ba | @eubih for hosting this creative workshop.
These three days will definitely be an unique experience at SPF this year!
Thanks, @sylvia.ps and @clmalleret , for joining us!
Love the photos, @aminatized !
A big thank you goes to @asabankadd who actively supported us in bringing these workshops to life. 🙌
#workshop #sarajevophotographyfestival #sarajevo #PhotographyFestival #Photographyfest #photofest #photofestival
