Yiannis Sakellis
visual artist
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 6 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..
Solo exhibitions
•The Curtain
March 2020
Almyra Hotel, Paphos
•Fener
December 2018
Blue Iris Gallery, Paphos
•Cappella
September 2016,
Almyra Hotel, Paphos, Cyprus.
•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.
•Fiber optics
February 2009,
“Skali” exhibition center in Aglanzia- Nicosia, Cyprus.
Selected exhibitions
•2023
Incubator.
DabArt.co gallery
Mexico City, Mexico.
•2022
7th International Textile and Fibre Art Exhibition "Fibremen"
Ivano-Frankivs'k, Ukraine
organized and curated by Scythia project.
Efimero, Life, Death, Art.
PRPGMX Gallery
Mexico City, Mexico.
curated by Micheal Swank
International Fine Art Film Festival
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
For Akamas
Psifida Gallery, Paphos
Film Arte 2022
Madrid, SP. & Berlin, GER.
Lush art in difficult times 2022
IsNotGallery, Nicosia
•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
The Thresholds of Life
October 2019
Almyra Hotel, Paphos
.CY, Alternative Traditional Art&Design exhibition
September 2019
Almyra Hotel, Paphos
•2018
1st Biennale Larnaca
Larnaca Municipal Gallery -Larnaca, Cyprus.
Keeping a secret
"Palia electriki", art center - Pafos, Cyprus.
Lush art in Austere times
IsNotGallery - Nicosia, Cyprus
•2017
Kai ti m’auto
IsNotGallery – Nicosia, Cyprus.
Weaving Europe
Attikon, Pafos, Cyprus
a project of the European Capital of Culture PAFOS2017, curated by Dr Efi Kyprianidou
Cementography
Pafos Old market, a project of the European Capital of Culture PAFOS2017
Janus
Ibrahim’s Khan, Pafos, a project of the European Capital of Culture PAFOS2017
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”.
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.
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.
ECO InSite
Documentation of INSITE. Pegasos Art Foundation, Limassol, Cyprus
•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.
INsite,
21 -30 September. Site specific exhibition. Archaeological park, Paphos, Cyprus. (Event for the Cypriot presidency of the EU)
WindowArt.
Site specific exhibition in Paphos old market, Paphos, Cyprus.
Lush art in austere times.
Isnotgallery, Nicosia, Cyprus.
•2011
2nd international painting biennial of Chisinau
Chisinau- Rep. of Moldova
Athletics
Cyprus Olympic center, Nicosia, Cyprus.
All colours
Studio 55 Limassol, Cyprus.
Visual Paphos
Palia Ilectriki art center, Paphos, Cyprus.
•2010
4th annual exhibition of young Cypriot artists
Akamantis conference center, Nicosia, Cyprus.
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
Initinere
Site specific exhibition in the historical center of Perugia, Italy.
•2006
Trame
Corciano historical center, Italy.
•2005
Luoghi
Corciano historical center, Italy.
•2004
Istantanea
Corciano historical center, Italy.