Haris Epaminonda

Haris Epaminonda (b. 1980, Nicosia) is a visual artist living and working in Berlin. Incorporating film, video, installation, photography, sculpture, text, and collage, her practice brings architectural interventions and constructed environments into dialogue with found materials—such as book pages, objects, and artifacts—to produce layered, associative meanings and experiences. Her work explores the relationship between past and present, reflecting on time, memory, and continuously shifting perception.

She has presented numerous solo exhibitions internationally, including at ASCAD (New York, 2025), Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2023), Neue Berliner Kunstverein (2022), Fabra i Coats (Barcelona, 2020), Secession (Vienna, 2019), Aspen Art Museum (2017), CAAC (Seville, 2016), Leopold-Hoesch Museum & Papiermuseum (Düren, 2016), Le Plateau, Frac Île-de-France (Paris, 2015), Vila du Parc (Annemasse, 2015), Fondazione Querini Stampalia (Venice, 2014), Point Centre for Contemporary Art (Nicosia, 2014), Modern Art Oxford (2013), Kunsthaus Zürich (2013), Badischer Kunstverein (Karlsruhe, 2012), Kunsthalle Lissabon (2012), MoMA (New York, 2011), Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt, 2011), Site Gallery (Sheffield, 2010), Tate Modern (London, 2010), and Malmö Konsthall (2009).

Her work has also been included in major group exhibitions at institutions such as Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Copenhagen), Frac Île-de-France (Paris), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Hara Museum (Tokyo), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin), Rudolfinum (Prague), MAXXI (Rome), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (USA), Museo del Novecento (Milan), Halle für Kunst Steiermark (Graz), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Witte de With (Rotterdam), ar/ge kunst (Bolzano), Serralves Museum (Porto), Fondazione Prada (Milano), Museo Tamayo (Mexico), Palazzo Fortuny (Venice), Museo di Palazzo Poggi & Biblioteca Universitaria (Bologna), Palais des Beaux-Arts (Paris), Lenbachhaus (Munich), Cleveland Museum of Art (USA), Museo Madre (Naples), Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) (London), CCA Wattis Institute (San Francisco), Renaissance Society (Chicago), Fridericianum (Kassel), Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), and New Museum (New York).

She co-represented Cyprus at the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007) and later participated in the 58th edition (2019), as well as in dOCUMENTA (13) (2012). Other international presentations include Manifesta 14 (Prishtina, 2022), the 34th Bienal de São Paulo (2021), the 2nd Lahore Biennale (2020), the Pune Biennale (2017), the 1st New Museum Triennial (2009), the 2nd Athens Biennale (2009), the 9th Sharjah Biennial (2009), and the 5th Berlin Biennale (2008).

Epaminonda is the recipient of several distinctions, including the Henraux Foundation Sculpture Award (2024), the Silver Lion at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), the Günther-Peill Award (2014), the Audience Award of the Preis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst (2013), and the 9th Sharjah Biennial Award (2009).

Her work is represented by Sylvia Kouvali (London/Piraeus) and Galleria Massimo Minini (Brescia).