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“Communication Breakdown”
on view thru 24/10 @soup.ldn

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Disconnected, 2026
Oil on linen
27cm x 22cm

Kyvèli’s paintings merge the domestic with the dramatic, highlighting the quiet theatricality of everyday life to explore wider concerns surrounding human connection, memory and our relationship to the natural and spiritual world. Carefully composed environments feel at once familiar and somewhat unsettled, with the intimate interiors serving as stage sets on which her cast of characters, objects and animals - imagined or otherwise - interact. Demonstrating a cinematic sensibility, closely cropped gestures, sentimental still-lives and charged, emotive exchanges suggest the existence of an ongoing narrative that extends beyond the confines of each canvas, and reflect the artist’s own interest in cultural conversation and contemporary societal struggles.

Kyvèli’s debut UK solo exhibition borrows its title from Led Zeppelin’s frantic, five- decade-old cry of romantic frustration and examines the distance that can develop between people, despite possessing all the technological tools designed to bring them closer. Produced in the aftermath of a long-term relationship, her latest suite of paintings casts communication difficulties as the emotional hinterland between intimacy and isolation, while navigating the unnerving experience of occupying once shared spaces alone. Kyvèli’s compositions appear to physically capture and contain such sensations, as faded figures float in oversized speech bubbles, television screens enclose distant crowds of indistinct faces, and framed paintings-within-paintings offer views into similarly vacant vignettes. Fishbowls recur throughout as an anthropomorphic analogy for such sudden estrangement, their occupant on display, separated and suspended within a self-contained simulation of its natural surroundings.

Kyvèli Zoi
Communication Breakdown
Curated by Megan Macnaughton
Until 24 October

For sales & press enquiries, contact info@soupldn.com by @thekyveli

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2 days ago

To celebrate Frieze Week in London, the gallery will be open with extended hours, Thursday - Sunday, 10am-6pm.

Communication Breakdown, 2026
Glazed ceramic w. sound installation
27cm x 11cm x 5.5cm

Kyvèli Zoi
Communication Breakdown
Curated by Megan Macnaughton
Until 24 October

For sales & press enquiries, contact info@soupldn.com by @thekyveli

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5 days ago

Absence, 2026
Oil on linen
146cm x 114cm

Kyvèli’s paintings merge the domestic with the dramatic, highlighting the quiet theatricality of everyday life to explore wider concerns surrounding human connection, memory and our relationship to the natural and spiritual world. Carefully composed environments feel at once familiar and somewhat unsettled, with the intimate interiors serving as stage sets on which her cast of characters, objects and animals - imagined or otherwise - interact. Demonstrating a cinematic sensibility, closely cropped gestures, sentimental still-lives and charged, emotive exchanges suggest the existence of an ongoing narrative that extends beyond the confines of each canvas, and reflect the artist’s own interest in cultural conversation and contemporary societal struggles.

Kyvèli’s debut UK solo exhibition borrows its title from Led Zeppelin’s frantic, five- decade-old cry of romantic frustration and examines the distance that can develop between people, despite possessing all the technological tools designed to bring them closer. Produced in the aftermath of a long-term relationship, her latest suite of paintings casts communication difficulties as the emotional hinterland between intimacy and isolation, while navigating the unnerving experience of occupying once shared spaces alone. Kyvèli’s compositions appear to physically capture and contain such sensations, as faded figures float in oversized speech bubbles, television screens enclose distant crowds of indistinct faces, and framed paintings-within-paintings offer views into similarly vacant vignettes. Fishbowls recur throughout as an anthropomorphic analogy for such sudden estrangement, their occupant on display, separated and suspended within a self-contained simulation of its natural surroundings.

Kyvèli Zoi
Communication Breakdown
Curated by Megan Macnaughton
Until 24 October

For sales & press enquiries, contact info@soupldn.com by @thekyveli

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11 days ago

Just Do It, 2026
Oil on linen
27cm x 22cm

Kyvèli’s paintings merge the domestic with the dramatic, highlighting the quiet theatricality of everyday life to explore wider concerns surrounding human connection, memory and our relationship to the natural and spiritual world. Carefully composed environments feel at once familiar and somewhat unsettled, with the intimate interiors serving as stage sets on which her cast of characters, objects and animals - imagined or otherwise - interact. Demonstrating a cinematic sensibility, closely cropped gestures, sentimental still-lives and charged, emotive exchanges suggest the existence of an ongoing narrative that extends beyond the confines of each canvas, and reflect the artist’s own interest in cultural conversation and contemporary societal struggles.

Kyvèli’s debut UK solo exhibition borrows its title from Led Zeppelin’s frantic, five- decade-old cry of romantic frustration and examines the distance that can develop between people, despite possessing all the technological tools designed to bring them closer. Produced in the aftermath of a long-term relationship, her latest suite of paintings casts communication difficulties as the emotional hinterland between intimacy and isolation, while navigating the unnerving experience of occupying once shared spaces alone. Kyvèli’s compositions appear to physically capture and contain such sensations, as faded figures float in oversized speech bubbles, television screens enclose distant crowds of indistinct faces, and framed paintings-within-paintings offer views into similarly vacant vignettes. Fishbowls recur throughout as an anthropomorphic analogy for such sudden estrangement, their occupant on display, separated and suspended within a self-contained simulation of its natural surroundings.

Kyvèli Zoi
Communication Breakdown
Curated by Megan Macnaughton
Until 24 October

For sales & press enquiries, contact info@soupldn.com by @thekyveli

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17 days ago

« Can You Hear Me? » 2026

Part of my solo show “Communication Breakdown” at @soup.ldn curated by @meganlmacnaughton

Oil on Linen
146 x 114 cm taken in London, United Kingdom by @thekyveli

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18 days ago

Fading Words, 2026
Oil on linen
146cm x 114cm

Kyvèli’s paintings merge the domestic with the dramatic, highlighting the quiet theatricality of everyday life to explore wider concerns surrounding human connection, memory and our relationship to the natural and spiritual world. Carefully composed environments feel at once familiar and somewhat unsettled, with the intimate interiors serving as stage sets on which her cast of characters, objects and animals - imagined or otherwise - interact. Demonstrating a cinematic sensibility, closely cropped gestures, sentimental still-lives and charged, emotive exchanges suggest the existence of an ongoing narrative that extends beyond the confines of each canvas, and reflect the artist’s own interest in cultural conversation and contemporary societal struggles.

Kyvèli’s debut UK solo exhibition borrows its title from Led Zeppelin’s frantic, five- decade-old cry of romantic frustration and examines the distance that can develop between people, despite possessing all the technological tools designed to bring them closer. Produced in the aftermath of a long-term relationship, her latest suite of paintings casts communication difficulties as the emotional hinterland between intimacy and isolation, while navigating the unnerving experience of occupying once shared spaces alone. Kyvèli’s compositions appear to physically capture and contain such sensations, as faded figures float in oversized speech bubbles, television screens enclose distant crowds of indistinct faces, and framed paintings-within-paintings offer views into similarly vacant vignettes. Fishbowls recur throughout as an anthropomorphic analogy for such sudden estrangement, their occupant on display, separated and suspended within a self-contained simulation of its natural surroundings.

Kyvèli Zoi
Communication Breakdown
Curated by Megan Macnaughton
Until 24 October

For sales & press enquiries, contact info@soupldn.com by @thekyveli

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19 days ago

Communication Breakdown @soup.ldn taken in London, United Kingdom by @thekyveli

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21 days ago

Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for the opening of Kyvèli Zoi’s debut London solo exhibition ‘Communication Breakdown’, curated by Megan Macnaughton 🧡⁣⁣⁣
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The exhibition continues until October 24th. Open Thursday - Saturday (12-6pm) & Sunday (12-4pm).⁣⁣⁣⁣ by @thekyveli

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23 days ago

Communication Breakdown @soup.ldn

Curated by @meganlmacnaughton

Above: Funky Room 2026
Oil on linen, 22 x 27 cm taken in London, United Kingdom by @thekyveli

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23 days ago

Soup is delighted to present our twenty-first exhibition⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

Kyvèli Zoi
Communication Breakdown
Curated by Megan Macnaughton

17 September - 24 October
Opening 16 September, 6-9pm

For sales & press enquiries, contact info@soupldn.com by @thekyveli

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a month ago

Θέρως

From “Convivial Gestures” curated by @odette_kouzou for @thermia_project 2026

Photo @nefeli.papaioannou
Oil on linen, 18x24 cm by @thekyveli

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a month ago

Kythnos Paintings with @thermia_project

1. «The Gossip» , oil on linen, 24x17 cm, 2026
2. «The View», oil on linen, 24x17 cm , 2026

Part of the group show Convivial Gestures, alongside @yannis_malinakis @polinamiliou , curated by @odette_kouzou and @thermia_project @nikisousu by @thekyveli

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3 months ago