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Finishing our stories on “Homes That Never Land” for with the series by .michael created in the distinctly natural Cypriot pigment Nicosia Green — La Terre Verte de Nicosie.
This green earth, sourced from Cyprus, carries a long historical lineage. Since antiquity it has appeared in frescoes, ceramics, and icon-painting under the name terra verte — a pigment shaped by the island itself.
Its colour emerges from the same geological forces that formed Cyprus’s copper-rich landscape born of the same terrain, the same deep history of extraction and transformation. Choosing this pigment becomes a subtle gesture of continuing a dialogue about the traces of colonisation, the shaping of the island, and the shaping of its people in our ongoing conversation about what is inherited and what is carried; about landscapes and metaphorical homes that remember.

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Limassol Art Walks was a wonderful event! We were delighted to take part this year with our exhibition “Homes That Never Land” and share our vision with such an inspiring audience.

▪️Thank you to everyone who visited VELYCHKO GALLERY — your presence, questions, and conversations made this experience unforgettable. 
We are also truly grateful to our partners Serge Polivar and G Bar Limassol for their support and collaboration — together, we make art happen.

🛠️For this exhibition, we actually built a new home inside the new space — bringing in light, doing repairs, and installing everything from scratch. But your reaction made it all worth it: the way your eyes lit up, your curiosity, your openness to absorb the ideas of our artists.

From today, we’ll start sharing their works here.
Meet .michael first piece — an exact depiction of the furniture from his childhood home, created from eucalyptus paper with native Cypriot pigments. Rooted deeply in the local context, this work explores how architecture and materials can carry identity — moving between intimacy and distance, resonance and rupture.
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VELYCHKO GALLERY presents a special project for Limassol Art Walks 31/10-2/11
«Homes That Never Land»
Opening at 17:00 on 31 October ▪️
📍Kitiou Kiprianou 2, Limassol (corner of G Bar)

Dear friends! In several days we’ll have a new opening and we invite you again into our new dialogue exhibition “Homes That Never Land” that explores home as a space in constant motion.
It reflects on belonging, memory, and coexistence under the conditions of displacement. Here, home is a fragile organism—assembled from fragments of objects, memories, and gestures carried across contexts.
▪️The exhibition unfolds between two artistic voices: one rooted in the very fabric of the local—working with architecture and pigments belonging to a place—while the other carries the object and practices that anchor her identity, moving between intimacy and distance, resonance and rupture. Together, they weave a conversation of what is inherited and what is carried, of presence and absence.

Artists: Michalis Papamichael .michael and Olga Stein

Under support of Serge Polivar and G Bar Limassol
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We will enjoy the evening with Octopus beer🍻


31 Oct - 2 Nov 2025
▪️Friday 31 Oct • 17:00-22:00
▪️Saturday 01 Nov • 11:00-20:00
▪️Sunday 02 Nov • 11:00-20:00

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