Theodoulos Polyviou (b. 1989, Nicosia, Cyprus) is a Berlin-based artist working with time-based and expanded media. His practice explores ritual, sacrality and embodied experience, speculating on an esoteric-queer identity within the complex historical entanglements of his homeland. Through site-specific video and virtual-reality installations, sculpture, and archival objects, Polyviou engages immersive technologies as ceremonial tools to bridge the visible and the transmundane.
Recent solo presentations include Double Feature (Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin, 2024); Transmundane Economies Chapter 3 (Fondazione Elpis, Milan, 2024); Transmundane Economies Chapter 2 (Bode Museum, Berlin, 2023); Rosa Mystica (Fondazione Elpis, Milan, 2023); Transmundane Economies (Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2022); Drifting, Browsing, Cruising (ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2021); Post Impalpable Rites (Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2021); Molly House (The Bomb Factory, London, 2019); and Four Words on Desire (Korai Project Space, Nicosia, 2017).
His work has been included in group exhibitions at venues such as MMCA Changdong (Seoul), Benakis Museum, an offsite exhibition by New Museum in collaboration with the DESTE Foundation (New York/Athens), NiMAC (Nicosia), Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler (Berlin), the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale (Cyprus Pavilion), Zoumbloulakis Contemporary (Athens), Haus N Athen (Athens), Belmacz (London), the Copenhagen Photo Festival, and the Mediterranean Biennale of Young Artists (Tirana), among others.
Polyviou has participated in numerous international residencies, including MMCA Residency Changdong (Seoul, 2025), Una Boccata d’Arte at Fondazione Elpis (Italy, 2023), Kora Contemporary Arts Center (Italy, 2022), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin, 2021), Beyond Matter at ZKM (Karlsruhe, 2020), Villa Lena Foundation (Italy, 2019), A Natural Oasis (Italy, 2018), the Window (Paris, 2018), the Florence Trust (London, 2017) and Shehta (Greece, 2017).
His projects have been featured in publications such as Berlin Art Week Journal, Artforum, Monopol, NERO, KoozArch, MOUSSE, Flash Art, and Archive Books. He holds an MA in Visual Communication from the Royal College of Art, London, and a BA in Fine Art from Kingston University.