→Pavlos Ioannides

Biography

Pavlos Ioannides (b. 1995, Nicosia, Cyprus) is an artist based in Berlin. Drawing remains at the centre of his practice, extending into installation, photography, and text. His work explores how spaces are inhabited, remembered, and shared, often informed by personal and collective histories, domestic environments, and the divided landscape of Nicosia. Working primarily with charcoal and cotton canvas, alongside found objects, textiles, steel, photographs, and other materials, Ioannides approaches drawing as something that can move beyond the surface and into physical space. His installations often take their dimensions from existing architectures and engage directly with the body and its movement. Borders, walls, shelters, domestic spaces, and the ways architecture can simultaneously protect, divide, and restrict recur throughout his work. Personal and family histories form another important point of departure. Photographs, objects, materials, memories, and forms of knowledge passed between generations become ways of exploring how personal histories intersect with the broader histories of the places he encounters and works within. Recent projects have also involved collaborations with members of his family and materials connected to Cyprus, including charcoal collected from burned forests on the island. Ioannides studied at Villa Arson in Nice, graduating with an MFA in 2022. His work has been presented, among others, at NiMAC (Nicosia), Zilberman (Berlin), AOA;87 (Berlin), Villa Arson (Nice), and POSTA Space (Sofia). Recent residencies include Kultur Ensemble in Palermo and the Iatrus Residency Programme in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria.