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Operating as a nomadic format based in Cyprus, it also runs an international art residency CARV, fostering critical dialogue and cultural exchange.

30/07/2026

This August, VELYCHKO GALLERY will make its debut at the 20th edition of ART-O-RAMA 2026 ART-O-RAMA in Marseille, one of Europe’s leading contemporary art fairs, recognised for its strong curatorial vision and commitment to discovering new voices.
For this occasion, we will present the latest project, “Homes That Never Land” bringing together Ukrainian artist Olga Stein Olga Stein Kalynovska-Kravchuk and Cypriot artist Michalis Papamichael Papamichael Michael . Working from two distinct geopolitical and cultural contexts, the artists explore how landscapes, architecture and everyday objects become carriers of memory, revealing the ways identity and the idea of home are continuously reconstructed across territories and generations.

We are deeply honoured that our participation has also been featured by The Art Newspaper France The Art Newspaper France and which introduced VELYCHKO GALLERY among the new international exhibitors joining this year’s edition of the fair.

For us, this is more than a debut at an international fair. It is another important step in building conversations between artists, institutions and audiences across borders.

We look forward to seeing many friends, colleagues, collectors and curators in Marseille.

ART-O-RAMA 2026
📍 Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille
📅 28–30 August 2026

22/07/2026

Breaking the silence of the past few months▪️
We have accumulated so many impressions and journeys, important meetings with curators and artists, studio visits, plans and conversations — but somehow, we had no energy to share them. Now we feel it is time to return to your feeds with good content and stories worth telling.

Just before jumping into the Biennale rhythm in May, we were honoured to be welcomed to the private opening of a new project by someone who plays an important role in today’s art world — dear Matthias Arndt Matthias Arndt . We came to congratulate him on establishing a new art destination in our Mediterranean region: a salon, a home and a gallery at once, in the heart of Athens.

For the inaugural exhibition “Homecoming” curator Polina Kosmadaki Polina Kosmadaki brought together forty-four Greek and international artists in dialogue, each reflecting on the idea of homecoming and what it means to belong.

The atmosphere of the exhibition, unfolding within an old Athenian building, reminded us strongly of our own project in Limassol last November. And once again, it confirmed something we deeply believe in: in today’s fast-moving reality, it is better not to wait for ideal conditions or perfection, but to create — here, now, whatever.

We admire the courage behind Matthias’s approach, and it is one we deeply share.

We were also lucky to reconnect with old friends, meet new ones — and discover a new artwork for our own collection.

Stay tuned. We have a lot to share.

24/04/2026

Glad to share the news about our artist! The works by .michael shown in the past exhibition “Reflections” at , brought together by the careful vision of curator and director , are now part of the exhibition’s permanent catalogue — a publication that carries this body of work far beyond the gallery and museum walls.

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24/02/2026

VELYCHKO GALLERY has started in 2022, as a reaction to 24/02 and the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, together with the Residency. It emerged as an urgent private initiative dedicated to supporting and protecting Ukrainian living artists, preserving and promoting their artistic practices, and creating opportunities for their voices to enter and actively shape international cultural discourse. Based in Cyprus, the gallery develops its program through dialogue with the local context, engaging in research and exchange that explores intersections with Cypriot culture, history, and contemporary realities.
During these 4 years our path has been defined by an ongoing search of our own approach — an investigation into how a residency and a gallery can coexist as a single evolving ecosystem rather than as separate institutional formats. We experimented with different curatorial models, production processes, and modes of collaboration, testing how long-term artistic research developed within a residency could transition into public presentation, critical dialogue, and sustainable visibility through gallery practice.
This process involved rethinking traditional roles: the gallery not only as a commercial platform, but as a space for discourse and experimentation, and the residency not only as retreat, but as a generator of ideas, communities, and exhibition concepts. Each project became a step toward finding a balance between care and professionalism, research and presentation, process and outcome — shaping a hybrid structure responsive to the realities faced by contemporary artists and curators.

Today, as noted by The Art Newspaper, “as the war enters its fifth year,” we’re entering a new phase of development. With the intention of strengthening collaboration with foundations, European Union and international cultural initiatives, we are establishing an NGO structure to support this mission. This step aims to stabilize our operational model and expand opportunities for artists to continue their practice despite ongoing uncertainty.
We continue to move forward in our own way.

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25/12/2025

This year has not been easy, but your support and belief gave us strength and helped us keep going. It truly means so much.

We are deeply grateful to our sponsors, partners, and collectors who put their trust—and their money resources—into our exhibitions and art. Your commitment touches us more than words can say🖤

During this year, we feel your kindness and your hearts with us. We love you, and we wish all our followers warmth, joy, and inspiration.

You inspire us, just as we hope to inspire you—this connection is what keeps us moving forward.

With true gratitude,
VELYCHKO GALLERY & Viktoriia Velychko

05/12/2025

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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