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Rijksakademie resident Olga Micińska @o_o.m__m presents ‘Routine Maintenance: A Tale’ together with Lower Levant Company (Emiddio Vasquez & Peter Eramian) at Thkio Ppalies in Nicosia, Cyprus.

The exhibition brings two existing works into conversation, tracing histories of military transmission and surveillance in Cyprus alongside the lives and movements of bats. Recordings range from frequencies captured near British RAF military antennae to bat calls recorded in Cyprus, Cuba and Texas. Through speakers, ceramics and sculptural forms inspired by artificial bat houses, the works explore how human and other-than-human life inhabits and crosses militarised landscapes.

‘Routine Maintenance: A Tale’ opens 16 October at 19:00 and runs through 6 November 2026.  Photos from Sonic Acts: Peter Eramian
Poster design: Olga Micińska
Photo on the poster: Haris Nicolaou

#Rijksakademie #OlgaMicinska #OlgaMicińska taken in Θκιό Ππαλιές - Thkio Ppalies by @2ppalies

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Routine Maintenance: A Tale
Lower Levant Company & Olga Micińska

Thkio Ppalies is pleased to present Routine Maintenance: A Tale, a sculptural sound environment by Lower Levant Company (Emiddio Vasquez & Peter Eramian) and Olga Micińska. At the core of the installation two existing works are brought into conversation: Crossover Frequency Spectrum (2024, LLC in collaboration with Gaetano di Gregorio) and Bad Luck to Every Magistrate, and Bad luck to Every Gamekeeper (2026, LLC & Olga Micińska), previously presented at the 60th Venice Biennale Cyprus Pavilion (@forever.informed) and the @sonicacts Biennial in Amsterdam, respectively.

The title of the exhibition cites the official statement by the Sovereign Base Areas (SBA) authorities regarding the ongoing developments at Akrotiri Salt Lake, where locals are protesting plans to erect as many as 68 new communications antennae, describing them as “antennae of death”. According to the statement, any work currently ongoing is “associated with routine maintenance” and not with plans to install new listening antennae. So the tale goes…

Opening: 16/10/2026, 7pm
Duration: 16/10 – 06/11/2026
Opening hours: Wednesday-Friday, 6-8pm (or by appointment)

Poster by Olga Micińska
Photo by Haris Nicolaou taken in Θκιό Ππαλιές - Thkio Ppalies by @2ppalies

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12 days ago

How to inherit a history of solidarity?

Big thanks to Ali al-Adawy, Sami Rostum & Sina Ahmady (@fehras_publishing_practices) with Seta Astreou Karides, Panayiotis Achniotis, Joud al-Tamimi (@asphaltcoop), for the truly enlightening talks, and to everyone who attended over the two day program!

Many thanks to Haytham el-Wardany and Ali al-Adawy for their generosity and bringing it all together so wonderfully. by @2ppalies

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18 days ago

How To Inherit a History of Solidarity? is the second chapter of Choosing the Sad End, a four-chapter artistic research project that critically interrogates national liberation and transnational solidarity and asks: How did the left's political and cultural-artistic project shift from an internationalist liberation project to just symbolic gestures within a globalized political economy of solidarity?

Through dialogues in four different cities — Amman, Nicosia, Beirut, and Tunis — the project seeks to inspire a political imagination in the current moment, by engaging with archival and historical networks, various publications, knowledge production, artworks, and films. These materials engage with national liberation, decolonization movements, and transnational solidarity in the Global South. In each city, the project collaborates with a co-curator and partner art space around its core questions.

In the Nicosia chapter, we focus on the archive of Palestinian and independent publications produced in Cyprus between the 1980s and 1990s, including Al-Karmal, Palestinian Studies, Palestinian Revolution, and other periodicals. The publications spanned a wide range of formats and themes — social studies, theoretical reflections, literary production, and journalistic periodicals. Printed in Cyprus through what we call an infrastructure of solidarity, they were then distributed across Arabic-speaking countries. This work was carried out alongside major literary figures such as Mahmoud Darwish and Salim Barakat.

How To Inherit a History of Solidarity? takes this history as a starting point to rethink and practice solidarity in today's moment of genocide in Gaza, militarization, financialization, and the rise of populism and fascism. The geographies gathered in this chapter may seem distant and disparate, yet they are entangled in a long shared history of colonialism. As the abolitionist thinker Ruth Wilson Gilmore reminds us, geographies of abolition — that is, of solidarity — are “the negation of the overlapping and interlocking carceral geographies of which the prison-industrial complex is one examplar — while absolutely nonexhaustive”.

How To Inherit a History of Sol by @2ppalies

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Many thanks to @taysir_batniji for every brush mark offered with such care throughout the duration of his performance Like Water last night. As words evaporated, we were left with much to reflect on.

Big thanks to @rrizkreem, @across.waters and everyone who attended. by @2ppalies

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September 12 | 18:00
Performance | Taysir Batniji
Thkio Ppalies | Kissamou 2b, 1040 Nicosia

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"Like Water" is a durational performance by Palestinian artist Taysir Batniji, presented as part of the 2008 exhibition "Water: Misery and Delight" at IFA Gallery in Stuttgart.

Using water and a paintbrush, Batniji inscribes onto the concrete floor an inventory of 109 Arabic terms for "water", drawn from Mahmoud Darwish's "Memory for Forgetfulness." As the artist writes, each word vanishes progressively, evaporating into air or absorbing into stone — leaving almost invisible traces on the ground.

Reflecting on this gesture, Batniji explains: "The work stems from a striking contradiction: the vast linguistic vocabulary of more than a hundred words for water in Darwish’s book is set against a region suffering from its acute scarcity. Today, amid recent political developments, addressing this crisis has become all the more urgent."

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This performance is part of "Across Waters," a research project and public program curated by Reem Rizk in collaboration with the Arab Image Foundation, Haven for Artists, Thkio Ppalies, and Visual Voices, with the generous support of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC).

@afac.fund @2ppalies @rrizkreem

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Taysir Batniji (b. 1966, Gaza) is a Palestinian artist based between France and Palestine. He studied at An-Najah National University in Nablus and the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges, France. His multidisciplinary practice spans drawing, installation, photography, video, and performance, often exploring impermanence, fragility, personal history, and current events.

Since 2002, Batniji has exhibited widely in Europe and internationally, participating in exhibitions, biennials, and rirut).esidencies. He received the Abraaj Group Art Prize in 2012 and the Immersion residency in 2017, supported by the Hermès Foundation and Aperture Foundation. His work is held in collections including the Centre Pompidou, V&A, Imperial War Museum, Queensland Art Gallery, and Zayed National Museum.

He is represented by Sfeir-Semler Gallery (Hamburg/Beirut). by @2ppalies

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2 months ago

“Across Waters” is an interdisciplinary public program taking place between Lebanon and Cyprus and running from September till December 2026. Comprising an exhibition, discursive and film series, and a performance, the program invites scholars, cultural practitioners, and students to examine the politics of water across the Mediterranean East.

Drawing on law and policy, political science, environmental studies, architecture, and the arts, “Across Waters” aims to challenge reductionist notions of water, reframing it instead as a site where social, political, and ecological hegemony are negotiated and contested.

Grounded in fieldwork in South Lebanon in July 2026, the program examines water weaponization and the systemic control of transboundary resources amid ongoing regional wars. It demonstrates how the deliberate targeting of hydraulic infrastructure functions as a mechanism of state violence, resulting in severe ecological and humanitarian crises — and exposes the failure of international law to confront these water-related crimes.

Israel has been responsible for the systematic destruction of critical water infrastructure across the region. In Lebanon, it has repeatedly targeted the Litani River and its irrigation systems, cutting water access to thousands of hectares of agricultural land across the South. Similarly, in Gaza, the destruction of desalination plants, water wells, pipelines and sewage systems has yielded famine, spread of waterborne disease, and has exacerbated an already severe humanitarian crisis. This context demands critical inquiry into how water has been weaponized as an instrument of occupation and territorial expansion, and as such lays the groundwork for a renewed water culture.

Further details on the program schedule will follow.

“Across Waters” is curated by Reem Rizk in collaboration with the Arab Image Foundation, Haven for Artists, Thkio Ppalies, and Visual Voices.

This program is made possible with the generous support of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC).

@afac.fund; @arabimagefoundation; @havenforartists; @2ppalies; @visual_voices.vivos by @2ppalies

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We are lost for words. The fundraiser was an enormous success beyond any of our expectations!!! Not only did we meet our goal, we surpassed it. Thank you from the innermost depths of our hearts!! 😭💖 Love and friendship is what binds Thkio Ppalies together, it's what keeps us going. Without love and friendship, without a community to laugh and cry together with, what's the point of art? On Thursday Thkio Ppalies felt co-owned by everyone present (and everyone who supported but could not be with us). Not only because of the donations, but also because of the smiles, the warmth and care, that you offered so generously. We are infinitely grateful 💖✨💖✨

We would like to thank @therealpannybrown, @nicolamitro, @michaelpavlides and DJ DIAFORA (Jimmy) for the magic, the hilarity and laughter you offered throughout the evening. Your spellbinding energies wove together an evening that felt once in a lifetime!

An enormous thanks to the organisers of the fundraiser, who offered so much of their time, energy and love to bring everything together so wonderfully: @fisherwomxn, @seta.ak, @fresh_fish_fresh_fish, @ioulita__, @dimitrischimonas, @sesssssions, @rrizkreem, @marinachristodoulidou, @lexistenceispain

The delicious food and drinks by @rrizkreem, @seta.ak, Clara Zinecker

The artists who generously offered their artworks for auction: @nice.contradiction, @elektroniki, @phanos.kyriacou, @fresh_fish_fresh_fish, @panayiotis__an, @orestislazouras, @neoterismoi, Robert Der Arakelian, @dshmms, @othonas_charalambous, @klamoura

The super special Bingo offerings: @georgiamoditi, @michaelpavlides, @bravobravo__editions, @shesohevi, Pitcherzzzz, Jimmy, @della_savvidou

The incredible 2ΠΠ caps: @object.type, @leontiostoumpouris, @nurtane, @fisherwomxn, @tradition_now, @aphroditios, @andronicoua, @theneuroticarchive, @rhyzomechoreographicschool, @olygraph & @_melandin, @cypriot_graffiti

And the amazing donations for the shop: @endrosia, @klamoura, @steliosilchuk, @paris000c, @pyrgatory.studios, @marinachristodoulidou, Pitcherzzzz, Midea shirts, @oresteaser, @agleventisgallery, @nemeorg, @fisherwomxn, @sesssssions, @rhyzomechoreographicschool, @ayiosloizos, @shufflebakes taken in Θκιό Ππαλιές - Thkio Ppalies by @2ppalies

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4 months ago

"Labanotation and abstract scores from Rhyzome Choreographic School for our beloved PP"

Scoring the cap - choreocap by @rhyzomechoreographicschool!

Available for bidding during:
Friends of Friends 4 Ever
Fundraiser
Thursday, June 11th, 19:00 - 23:00
📍Kissamou 2b, Nicosia, 1040 by @2ppalies

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4 months ago

"I always expected to fall in love during the summer.

The anticipation would begin as early as the first days of May, when the temperature started rising along with it. Perhaps it was because the monotony of the student’s routine was interrupted, and the possibilities for living a fuller life seemed to increase. The funny thing is that all of my summer romances remained, quite literally, A Midsummer Night's Dream (with only one exception).

Even so, summer never ceases to be, without a doubt, the most romantic season of the year."

Typography, Fabric, Cypriot Humidity @_melandin
Collaboration with @chrisoly

Available for bidding during:
Friends of Friends 4 Ever
Fundraiser
Thursday, June 11th, 19:00 - 23:00
📍Kissamou 2b, Nicosia, 1040 by @2ppalies

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4 months ago

This incredibly special cap by our friends at @tradition_now has been hand dyed with red soil, coated with beeswax and features the base of a kofina basket!

"Πουλώ Πατάτες"*
By Tradition Now

Available for bidding during:
Friends of Friends 4 Ever
Fundraiser
Thursday, June 11th, 19:00 - 23:00
📍Kissamou 2b, Nicosia, 1040

*Potatoes not included by @2ppalies

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4 months ago

Behold the Cypriot graffiti cap by our friends at @cypriot_graffiti! Because every mark is worth a thousand words.

Available for bidding during:
Friends of Friends 4 Ever
Fundraiser
Thursday, June 11th, 19:00 - 23:00
📍Kissamou 2b, Nicosia, 1040 by @2ppalies

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