Leventis Gallery, Art museum in central Nicosia, Cyprus.
The Leventis Gallery is an art gallery on Leonidou Street, about 500 metres from the dividing line between the Greek and Turkish parts of Nicosia. It occupies three floors of a new building covering 4,500 m2, designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios after a competition with 76 firms. It holds over 800 paintings by Cypriot, Greek and European artists, plus Louis XV and Louis XVI furniture, Chinese, Meissen and Sèvres porcelain, clocks and miniatures.
The museum emerged from an international architectural competition won by London-based Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, completed in 2013. It opened in 2014 and has since become part of Nicosia's cultural identity.
The gallery displays works by Cypriot artists alongside European and Greek paintings, showing how local and international artistic traditions exist together. This collection reflects the artistic exchange between Cyprus, Greece, and Europe over the past century.
Plan enough time to explore all three floors, especially if you want to spend time with individual works. The modern building is designed for easy navigation, with clear pathways and comfortable spacing between exhibition areas.
The private character of the collection is underlined by wooden panelling removed from Anastasios Leventis's Paris home, which looked towards the Eiffel Tower, and reinstalled in one of the gallery rooms. The collection also holds Louis XV and Louis XVI furniture, Chinese porcelain, Meissen and Sèvres pieces, clocks and miniatures.
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