Art Exhibition “Agropoetics: Soils / Bodies”

The Cyprus Presidency and the Deputy Ministry of Culture organise and present, within the framework of the Cultural Programme of the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2026, the group exhibition Agropoetics: soils/bodies at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, curated by Dr Elena Parpa.

The exhibition brings together more than fifty artists from Cyprus, both historical and contemporary, in order to suggest an open reading of the term landscape in connection with the related concepts of nature, countryside, land, place, and soil.

The exhibition draws its point of departure from the observation of works in the State Collection of Cypriot Art. Employing what in art historical terms has been elaborated as “an ecological eye”, it expands its scope to investigate the multilayered relationship between art and landscape in the practice of Cypriot artists. The term landscape is considered in its expanded sense, wherein the experience of geomorphology, geology, light, and nature is intertwined with history and with conceptions of identity and belonging, towards a conception of art in direct relation to the earth.

Through diverse artistic approaches that draw obse