About Us

   

The Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art was inaugurated in October 2005 by the Minister of Education and Culture, Dr Pefkios Georgiades. The first exhibition was an installation by Brazilian artist Antonio Manuel.

The Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art aims to provide a contemporary art space where visiting international artists can work and interact with local artists and the local community, as well as create links with international audiences. Through the work of established international artists and curators, the Centre seeks to initiate a new artistic dialogue that will evolve and in turn bring about a greater dialogue within the broader European art context.

Each year the Centre will be presenting several international artists working in a variety of contemporary art forms – painting, installations, performance, video art, photography – as well as lectures and discussions. Exhibitions will be in many cases individually curated and accompanied by catalogues published in Greek, English, and Turkish.

The Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art also aims to cooperate with other centres of contemporary art around the world, bring touring exhibitions to Cyprus and, over time, build up a permanent collection of its own.

The Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art is part of the Pharos Trust, a non-profit cultural and educational foundation, and is therefore directly dependent on sponsorship and donations for maintaining and developing its activities.

You can find out more about the different ways in which you can support the Pharos Trust and the Pharos Centre from the Pharos Trust website www.thepharostrust.org.