In his work, Cypriot artist Stelios Kallinikou (b. 1985) explores the Akrotiri Peninsula in southern Cyprus. For more than a decade, he has been photographing and filming an area where ecological diversity and military use are closely intertwined.
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Kneeling Flamingo, 2026
Akrotiri is a British Sovereign Base Area that houses a Royal Air Force airbase. At the same time, it is home to the Akrotiri Salt Lake, the island’s largest natural inland body of water and an important wetland for migratory birds.
Kallinikou’s photographs reveal the coexistence of nature and military infrastructure, highlighting how the military base shapes perceptions of and access to the site.
The exhibition combines photography, film, and sculptural assemblages, approaching Akrotiri as both a landscape and a territory. It links geopolitical issues with themes of migration, belonging, and extinction, without reducing them to a linear narrative.
- The work is presented in collaboration with Susanne Kriemann. *In the Fever of the Sun, Butterflies Flutter in the Stomach* is a dual exhibition presented for the first time at C/O Berlin as part of the *After Nature* Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize 26.
