Evgenia Vasiloude - 2023

Gloria Gallery invites you to Evgenia Vasiloude’s exhibition Embroidered Textual Scapes

which will be inaugurated by the President of the House of Representatives, Ms. Annita Demetriou on Tuesday, December 5th, 2023 at 6:30 pm. The exhibition runs from December 5 to December 22, 2023.

Evgenia Vasiloudes’s visual concept is a seamless extension of her “textual nets”. series, inspired by winning the first prize in the recent House of Representatives artistic gift competition. Her new collection, "Embroidered Textual Scapes," delves into the themes of the Mediterranean Sea and the art of embroidery.

Exploring an art form once marginalized within the hierarchical confines of patriarchal dominance in Handicrafts, Vasiloude unveils the unspoken female discourse within. Her artistic practice, merging printmaking techniques with a prayer-like symbolic process, crafts an experience both manual and spiritual.

Through deliberate touch and the ritualistic act of printing, “thinking” hands create an art “scape” that becomes a conduit for the value of community. The artwork weaves tales—old and new—exploring ideas of kinship and symbiosis, not just among humans but also among non-human entities. These sacks and bundles expand the boundaries of thought, fostering environments of co-creation and inclusion, encapsulating collectiveness, memory, and ecology.

Vasiloude’s process, a magical and unhurried inner journey, stretches the limits of imagination to recreate safe havens, fostering a new life and nature-preserving economy. Her practice contends that care, akin to unveiling beauty in nature, is a political act and a form of social resistance

In the well-chosen words of Donna Haraway in her foreword to Ursula Le Guin's book, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, “to salvage the unheroic stories that have yet to be heard. For a language that makes possible the reimagining and re-enchantment of the world around us.”

Brief Bio

Eugenia Vasiloude is a versatile artist and engraver, holding a master's degree in Fine Arts from the Kyiv State School of Fine Arts.

Since 1992, Vasiloude has showcased her art in eight solo exhibitions across Cyprus, alongside participation in biennales and printmaking exhibitions both locally and internationally. Notably, her piece "Hymn to Demeter" earned her the second prize at the 9th Cairo International Biennale in 2003.

Initially focusing on the female form, with references to mythology and the fertility goddess, her work delved into themes revolving around nature, femininity, environmental concerns, ecology, and the delicacy of life. Her current artistic practice centers around gender therapeutic methodologies.

Vasiloude's creations are housed in prominent collections such as the State Collection of Contemporary Cypriot Art, as well as in various banks and private collectors' possessions. From 1989 until 2021, she was also an art teacher in Secondary Education. She is a co-founder of the Cyprus Printmakers Association, with which she actively collaborates in organizing workshops, exhibitions, and other events.

Gloria Gallery opening hours:  Monday 17.30 – 20.00, Tuesday - Friday 10.30 – 12.45 and 17.30 – 20.00 and Saturday 10.30 - 12.45. 

Duration: 5.12.2023 – 22.12.2023

On Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. the General Secretary of AKEL, Mr. Stefanos Stefanou, will inaugurate the new painting exhibition of Giorgos Kotsonis at Gloria Gallery.

Giorgos Kotsonis is one of the most important and well-known Cypriot painters. He was born in Palaichori, Cyprus in 1940. He studied painting at the famous Saint Martins School of Art in London. In 1960 he won a scholarship to study in China where he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts with Ai –Choun Sin. In 1963 he was awarded a scholarship to study in Czechoslovakia where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague with Antonyn Pelts. Graduating from this school in 1967, he received the title of Academic Artist. Today he lives and works in Paphos.

Giorgos Kotsonis has had many individual exhibitions and has taken part in many group exhibitions both in Cyprus and abroad. His works are in private and public collections.

Speaking about the artist's work, Dr. Natia Anaxagorou states: " Giorgos Kotsonis crystallizes the vision of a modern and at the same time classical artist. In his work, currents of Western European and Byzantine influences meet in a creative mixture in a stylistic osmosis and inventiveness, where morphoplastic balance and perfection prevail. His design craftsmanship is channeled into a dialectically structured and consciously controlled expression. Each brushstroke is deposited on the canvas with reverent care and each intonation with precision, so that the color projects comprehensive and complex through the overlapping pulses and vibrations of an endless layering".

The exhibition will be open from 2.11 to 30.11 2023. 

Duration: 2 - 30.11.2023

The visual artist Savvas Christodoulides mentions: 

"The work of Karousios is a chapter in the history of the painting of the place. Along with few others of his contemporaries, he vigorously proclaims and passionately expresses the sanctity of the practice called painting."

Duration: 4 - 26.10.2023

 Gloria Gallery, in the context of encouraging and promoting young artists, presents the exhibition of the multi-awarded high school student of Dali Lyceum, Nefeli Kyriakidou, entitled "Faces". 

Duration: 7 - 23.6.2023

The exhibition “The Road” continues with some more of the minimalistic magic of Johannes van Vught.

Duration: 21 - 30.3.2023

The following painters participate in the exhibition with their artworks: Christos Andreou, Susan Vargas, Evgenia Vasiloude, George Gavril, Doros Irakleous, Andreas Ion Makrides, Dimitris Michlis, Lefteris Olympios, Marion Pascali, George Pafitis, Myro Skapoulli, Olga Spanou, Rinos Stefanis,  Mariam Souhanova-Foukara   and Garth Frost.

Duration: 8 -  24.2.2023

Gloria Gallery is hosting a group exhibition  with small artworks of paintings, sculpture, ceramics and jewelry  from our well known and new visual artist.  

 The following artists are participating in the exhibition:

Andreas Asproftas, Evgenia Vasiloudi, George Gavriel, Doros Heracleous, Lisa Zakharova, Evagoras Karageorgis, Dimitris Karakassiev, Stavros Kikas, Dimitris Michlis, Despina Nicolaides, Gianna Nikolaou, Lefteris Olympios, Stefano Paci, George Pafitis, Chara Savvidou, Myro Skapoulli, Olga Spanou, Charalambos Christodoulou.

Duration: 16.12.2022 -  5.1.2023

Gloria Gallery is hosting a group exhibition with an autumn theme. 

The following painters are participating in the exhibition with their artworks: 

Johannes Van Vugt,  Lisa Zakharova,  Doros Irakleous,  Dimitris Karakassiev,  Dimitris Michlis,  Despina Nikolaides,  Gianna Nikolaou

 Lefteris Olympios,  Marion Pascali,  Myro Skapoulli,  Olga Spanou

 Duration: 5 - 18. 11. 2022

Gloria Gallery launches the new artistic season with a painting exhibition by Marion Pascali bearing the title “The Internal Body of Desire”. 

The artists explains the theme of her current exhibition as follows: In Dante Alighieri’s work, the human desire is the springboard for a conscience movement towards the encounter with the good and beautiful, God. As such, desire in everyday life- in all its manifestations- constitutes a “staircase” towards the truth of the Divine. 

Duration: 5.10 - 21 .10. 2022

Gloria Gallery celebrates its 45th anniversary with a group exhibition. 

The following visual artists are  participating in the exhibition with their artworks: 

Suzan Vargas, Eugenia Vassiloudi, Johannes Van Vugt, George Gabriel, Myria Georgiou, Andreas Efesopoulos, Liza Zakharova, Doros Irakleous, Glyn Hughes, Kyriakos Theocharous, Umit Inatci, Evagoras Karageorgis, Stavros Kikas, George Kotsonis, Evangelos Konstantelos, Argyris Konstantinou, Kikos Lanitis, Arsenti Lisenkov, Eleni Nikodemou, Despina Nikolaidou, Yianna Nicolaou, Lefteris Olympios, Marion Pascali, Miro Skapoulli, Leonidas Spanos, Olga Spanou, Rinos Stefani, Christos Foukara, Mariam Souxanova - Foukara and Katerina Foukara.  

Duration: 26.5 - 30 .6. 2022

Notebooks were compiled by  members of the Greek Archaeological Mission to Agios Georgios Pegeias and associate teachers under the supervision of the Department of Antiquities and sponsored by the Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation.

The original of the artworks illustrating the notebooks by Rinos Stefani and Susan Vargas are presented at the exhibition. 

Duration: 6 - 23.5.2022 

An exhibition of artworks dedicated to the anniversary of National Polygenesis by Argyris Konstantinos.  

Duration: 17.2.2022 to 15.3.2022.

After their joint exhibition entitled Autobiographical in 2018 in Amsterdam, the work of the two artists is reunited this time at Gloria Gallery in Nicosia.

Duration: 22.2.2022 to 15.3.2022.

Stefano Paci was born in Italy in 1956. He studied at the Istituto Statale d’Arte in Urbino. From 1982-1985 he worked with the "Emarginante" team in Urbino. The group created a series of musical, theatrical and visual works which were presented at an event in Italy. For many years and until 2016 he lived and worked in Cyprus. He has been living in Fano, Italy since 2016, but his relations with Cyprus remain close. He has made a series of solo exhibitions and has taken place in many group exhibitions both in Cyprus and in Italy.

Duration: 1.2  to 19.2. 2022 

Using materials she finds in her yard, in the workshop and elsewhere, Olga Spanou creates unique works of art:  micro-sculptures, jewelry and constructions.

Duration: 16.12.2021 to 7.1. 2022 

In this artistic proposal of Evangelos Konstandelos the essence is the black, which floods the artistic creations, redefining and reshaping a dialectic long forgotten. 

Duration: 26.11.2021 to 14.12 2021  

The new artistic proposal of Eugenia Vassiloudi is developed in the familiar space of Engraving and on the themes at the core of her artistic interest: always nature, the environment and the female identity in the foreground.

 Duration: November 2 - 22, 2021

Gloria Gallery presents the fourth solo exhibition of paintings by Andreas Karousios. 

Andreas Karousios was born in 1978 in Athienou. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Thessaloniki in the atelier of Professor G. Skolfinos and graduated in 2004 with honors. In his new solo exhibition, he will present 89 works measuring 35x50 cm with themes inspired by nature, the pulse of life and the four seasons. Vibrant bright colors alternate with soft pastel shades.

The works he will present are a work that thrives through emotions, memories and moods. Speaking about his works, he mentions "Painting with colored pencils and inks on paper pressed on wood. Don't like the word pressed? Stuck then ... so that they never separate. The setting up of the works in the space creates an adjacent landscape. The importance of recalling memory lies in the fact that it is likely to be instantaneous - product "

Duration: October 7 - 27, 2021  

"But in my paintings, you will not see my dreams and my own associations but a clear representation of the source of information and inspiration. I try, if ever possible, to paint the swirling air, the light that illuminates, the earth that is shaken and the damage that, all together, they cause incessantly. Damage to stones often creates the most unexpected and complex formations in shape and surface. Even random assemblies resulting from all kinds of displacements are magical. The wild vegetation and the drastic and dramatic encounter of all the elements with the sky, the clouds, and the turbulent sea complete successive theatrical performances. I did what I could to give it live, so that they might be able to become a trigger or motivation for each viewer to make their own associations and myths." 

Duration: July 7 - 30, 2021  

The following artists are participating in the exhibition: Stella Angelidou, Stavros Antonopoulos, Eugenia Vassiloudi, George Gabriel, Andreas Efesopoulos, Kyriaki Efesopoulou, Renos Efesopoulos, Doros Irakleous, Glynn Hughes, Nina Iakovou, Vassilis Ierides,  Evagoras Karageorgis, Stavros Kikas, George Kotsonis, Maria Kyprianou, Annita Laniti, Pindaros Michaelides,  Georgia Michaelidou,  Yianna Nikolaou, Lefteris Olympios, Stefano Paci, Marion Paschali, George Pafiti, Chara Savvidou, Myro Skapoulli, Olga Spanou, Andreas Farmakas, Katerina Foukaras, Mariam Souhanova – Foukaras, Christos Foukara, Charalambos Christodoulou and Christina Christofi.  

Duration: April 19 - May 15, 2021  

Gloria Kassianidou invites the art-loving public with the following words: "Our ancient ancestors said that in order for life to be beautiful, it needs" bread and spectacles ". With the quarantine we were deprived of everything. So, we take the courage to offer you "Spectacle".  I invite you to come and enjoy this multi-form, multi-faceted and multi-dimensional truly spectacular exhibition, with 32 well-known artists who worked and created in these difficult situations, paintings, sculptures, ceramics and photography".

The following artists are participating in the exhibition: Stavros Antonopoulos, Eugenia Vassiloudi, George Gabriel, Andreas Efessopoulos, Renos Efessopoulos, Kyriaki Efessopoulou, Doros Irakleous, Nina Iacovou, Alexis Ierides, Kyriakos Kallis, Evagoras Karageorgis, Stavros Kikas, Giorgos Kotsonis, Annita Laniti, Georgia Michaelidou, Despo Nikolaidou, Eleni Nikodemou, Yianna Nikolaou, Lefteris Olympios, Marion Paschali, George Pafitis, Mary Savva, Chara Savvidou, Myro Skapoulli, Leonidas Spanos, Olga Spanou, Andreas Farmakas, Katerina Foukaras, Mariam Souhanova – Foukaras, Christos Foukara, Charalambos Christodoulou and Christina Christofi.  

Duration: February 17 - April 10, 2021  

 A retrospective exhibition of the famous painter Giorgos Erotokritos (1948-2013) . The exhibition includes works by the artist with the well-known themes that inspired him, such as angels and mermaids framed by the intense blue color that characterizes his work.  . 

Duration: November 10, 2020 - January 11, 2021.    

 In this Exhibition, George Gabriel opens his sketch books, announces his blueprints, his ideas, his reflections, the way he thinks and the process by which he creates his works.  

Duration: October 9 - November 5, 2020. 

This exhibition of paintings spans the artistic life time of the Dimitris Michlis.  The works presented are from Gloria Gallery' collection.  Duration: June 26 - July 15, 2020.