“With What Remains”, an art exhibition at the Cyprus Museum, featuring works by Andreas Mallouris and Leontios Toumpouris, and curated by Cristina Anglada, will run from 6 November 2026 to 31 January 2027. The exhibition reflects on fragments, reconstruction, memory and care within the context of the Cyprus Museum.
The Department of Antiquities said in a press release on Tuesday that “the exhibition takes place at a moment of transition for the institution, as it prepares its main collection for a new location and a new architectural and museological framework.”
“Against this backdrop, the artists respond to the Museum’s archaeological exhibits and spaces with site-specific interventions. The exhibition asks what it means to work with what remains: archaeological fragments, damaged objects, bodies, scars, memories, landscapes, stories and forms of knowledge,” the press release noted.
“Rather than understanding reconstruction as a return to an original or complete state, the exhibition approaches it as a process of interpretation, care and imagination. A fragment does not simply point backwards towards what has been lost; it can also become the starting point for something that has not yet been imagined,” the Department of Antiquities pointed out.
It further noted that Toumpouris’ work engages with archaeology, landscape and the museum through sculpture, fiction and collective processes. “He responds to the condition of transition and in-betweenness, treating non-resolution not as a failure to arrive at an endpoint, but as a space for development, and speculation,” it added.
“Mallouris brings together his artistic practice and experience as a reconstructive surgeon, exploring vulnerability, healing, and the body through gestures of care, the functional hand, tools, flowers, scars,” the press release said. Considering the wound simultaneously as a site of vulnerability, knowledge, identification and care, his work draws on the statement that “outside of the womb, all wounds leave scars’.
The Department of Antiquities also noted that “With What Remains” approaches the museum as a space in which histories can be reconsidered, relationships reconfigured and new forms of knowledge activated. The exhibition asks not only ‘What survives?’ but also ‘What becomes possible when we choose to work with what remains?’
The exhibition is supported by Pylon Art and Culture and BA in Fine Art, Department of Design and Multimedia, University of Nicosia.