Limassol Municipal Arts Centre – Apothikes Papadaki
Rehearsals in placemaking
A transdisciplinary project opening our 2026 programme
April 24 – May 24, 2026
Opening: Friday, April 24, 18:00–22:00
Words of welcome: 19:00
Jafra Abu Zoulouf | Ria Alexandrou | ANBAU | Angela Ioannidou | Kalaqs | Loizos Olympios | Belinda Papavasiliou | Eva Papavasiliou | Marios Pavlou | Maria Petrides | Suzana Phialas | Phivos Philitas | Elena Savvidou | Eleftheria Sokratous | Emiddio Vasquez
Rehearsals in placemaking initiates the 2026 programme of the Limassol Municipal Arts Centre – Apothikes Papadaki, unfolding as both a group exhibition and a process of reinhabiting the warehouse shell. The project approaches place and artistic practice as action, movement, and labour, forces that extend beyond repair through a commitment to the daily as a social space of transformative rehearsal. Drawing on methodologies of self-organisation, rehearsal is proposed as a way of practicing critical forms of making, thinking and being together in times of rupture and ecological catastrophe.
Through a sequence of gestures and scores, the project brings together a transdisciplinary assembly of fifteen artistic contributions. Artists, writers and makers working across text, video, sound, sculpture, performance, site-specific installation, drawing, archiving, and public interventions, engage placemaking as a situated and relational act. The exhibition embraces artistic practices as modes of becoming — speculative, poetic, and pragmatic at once.
At a time when place is increasingly constrained, the project asks how public space, its fragments, and the city more broadly might be reclaimed and reimagined as a commons that defies the financialisation of daily life. In doing so, it traces this urgent prompt as an attempt to imagine cultural space as an infrastructure of feeling and enchantment, and how it might be sustained through everydayness and togetherness.
Beyond the duration of the exhibition, Rehearsals in placemaking sets a placeholder for the long term on-site activation of a “living room”: a space where familiarity and belonging are rehearsed, hosting frequent gatherings, assemblies, performances, listening sessions, poetry nights, walks, workshops and reading groups, and more. Over time, this space will nurture these encounters and inspire other ways of rehearsing public space.
Hours:
Wednesday–Saturday
10:00–20:00
Sunday
10:00–18:00
Free admission
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