ARTISTS & EXHIBITIONS

Annu Yadav is a New York–based artist, born in Rajasthan, India who joins us for a residency and exhibition.

The London-based painter lauded for his otherworldly work is turning his attention to Hydra’s cats as inspiration for his new exhibit.

On Hydra, four friends - Jacqueline Savidge, Dimitris Fousekis, Maribe Lambert and Andreas Horstmann -gathered, different in age, nationality, and artistic voice, yet bound by the island’s spell.

Saudi-American photographer and a creative powerhouse whose eye for detail and passion for visual storytelling brought an exceptional dimension to our experience.

Italian ceramicist Vittoria Berardinone has been living and working in Hydra for over a decade. Her unique pieces combine traditional Italian and Greek techniques with modern innovation, reflecting her deep connection to Mediterranean culture.

Discover the vibrant talent of Hydra’s local artists through arranged studio visits that we promise will be unforgettable.

Explore the many museums and attractions on the island of Hydra dedicated to the artistry and history of the island.

Abattoir turned art space founded by the venerable art collector Dakis Joannou, this year’s residency celebrates Romanian artist Andra Ursuța.

ARTCINEMA’S ARTIST EXHIBITIONS

OPEN UNTIL OCTOBER 31, 2025

ANNU YADAV

INTERRUPTION

From New York to Hydra, Rajasthan born multimedia artist Annu Yadav maps interruptions across body and land, turning flour into a language of fragility and survival.

  • SITE SPECIFIC LOCATION NEAR ALEXANDRA GUEST HOUSE

    Attended from 12:00 - 13:00
    18-19 October (Saturday & Sunday)
    25-26 October (Saturday & Sunday)

    Or by appointment via Instagram DM @artcinemasocial

STEPHEN APPLEBY-BARR

AN HYDRA STUDY

The London-based Canadian painter lauded for his otherworldly work has turned his attention to Hydra’s cats and nature as inspiration for his new exhibit.

  • HYDROUSSA HOTEL DRAWING ROOM

    Attended Viewing Times
    13:00 – 14:00
    18–19 October (Saturday & Sunday) 25–26 October (Saturday & Sunday)

    Or visit during Hydroussa Hotel opening hours:
    07:00 – 23:00

    To schedule an attended viewing, please contact @artcinemasocial via Instagram DM.

YDRA 4

‘Y-4-EVER ?!’

On Hydra, four friends - Jacqueline Savidge, Dimitris Fousekis, Maribe Lambert and Andreas Horstmann -gathered, different in age, nationality, and artistic voice, yet bound by the island’s spell.

  • HydrAndArt / Andreas Horstmann Studio

    Please contact (+49) 178 7100 700 for Studio appointments

We’re thrilled that art collector and founder of the DESTE Foundation, Dakis Joannou, enjoyed an informal tour of the artists’ exhibitions. It meant so much to ArtCinema and the artists to personally introduce him to their work and to share the experience of ArtCinema’s first steps in patroning and supporting our artist residencies and exhibitions on Hydra.

"Dakis has already inspired me to understand the true value of patronage - that it’s much more than acquiring artworks. It’s about offering support, resources, and networks, and engaging with artists in ways that help them create their best work. His enthusiasm for our resident artists’ work was an incredible gift. He has done so much for art in Hydra and Greece, and to have his blessing felt like a true elevation of what we can achieve in the future." - Amanda Palmer, Founder of ArtCinema

YDRA 4

On Hydra, four friends - Jacqueline Savidge, Dimitris Fousekis, Maribe Lambert and Andreas Horstmann -gathered, different in age, nationality, and artistic voice, yet bound by the island’s spell. Out of our shared intuitions, and a spirit of serious play infused with childlike wonder, a five-part painting took shape: an abstract evocation of Hydra’s rhythms and life. Each brushstroke carried its own cadence, yet together they formed a chorus. The process was as vital as the work itself, woven with generosity, love, and the tender unpredictability of true human collaboration.  


“A Collective Art Project”

We release control and move with colour, embracing the trust and connection inspired by our surroundings. Each of us is an equally vital part of this collective work. Through a mixed media approach, we bring our individual worlds into dialogue. Our focus lies in the process rather than the outcome. The anticipation of the final stroke is both powerful and revealing. The synergy that emerges is healing and nurturing. Form, light, and movement become our shared instruments. Our muse is the imprint, both visible and felt, of this island, encircled by water and shaped by a distinct history and boundless potential. In this moment, our paths converge." - Dimitris Fousekis


ANNU YADAV

“From New York to Hydra, Annu Yadav maps interruptions across body and land, turning flour into a language of fragility and survival”

MULTIMEDIA VISUAL ARTIST

Annu Yadav is a New York–based multimedia artist, born in Rajasthan, India. Her practice spans painting, sculpture, and installation, weaving Indian vernacular and mythologies with modern esotericism. Her work engages themes of interruption, ritual, territorial conflict, and corporeality, often staging symbolic figures and spaces that examine suppression, permeability, and the emotional weight of the gaze. Working with fabric, clay, found objects, and construction materials, she creates visceral environments that blur beauty, burden, and belief.

  • Her solo exhibition Gold God Meat at All Street Gallery, New York, investigated divinity and gendered violence through charged sculptural and painted forms. In 2025, she presented Interruption at Koik Contemporary, Mexico City, a conceptual installation solo show centered on division, permeability, and contested boundaries. She has presented solo shows at All Street Gallery, JOHS Gallery, IIDR Gallery, Orveda, and Quiet Lunch (NYC); Casa Lu (Mexico City); Koik Contemporary (Mexico City); and Throckmorton Arts (California). Her work has been featured in ArtCurrently, Impulse Magazine, Artnet, and White Hot Magazine.

INTERRUPTION

Hydra Site Specific Solo Show

Interruption extends Annu Yadav’s exploration of interruption as it unfolds in both body and land. Where her Mexico City exhibition centered on walls and membranes, in Hydra the work turns to flour a substance at once ordinary and charged, sustaining yet precarious. Flour is promise and threat, nourishment and scarcity. In moments of conflict, it can be weaponized, rationed, withheld, or scattered in panic. Flour carries latency: a fine dust suspended between nothingness and form. Alone, it offers no shape or sustenance. It requires an encounter, water, yeast, heat for potential to become substance. Each addition shifts it along a spectrum, from austere nourishment to the ornament of sweetness, oils, and spices, where necessity tilts into excess.

  • A flour structure occupies the center, dense and precarious, a body without organs, suspended between collapse and stability. Around it, flour dust spreads across the stone floor, forming shifting rhizomes: unstable maps that can be stepped upon, erased, and redrawn. No pattern holds; each movement of the body reorganizes the constellation. These shifting constellations recall borders and displacements, impermanent and arbitrary. They remain unsettled, constantly rearranged as the body moves through them.

    Flanking the flour piece, the paintings expand this visual language, transforming body into land and land into body, revealing how division and polarity mark both terrains. Violence scars not only soil or territory, but also inhabits flesh, eroding the borders of self and nation simultaneously. In these works, topography becomes anatomy, wounds become landscapes, and the gaze itself transforms into a threshold. The paintings open fissures, allowing the image to breathe through its own obstructions.

    It is in the ruin itself that flour, paintings, and patterns come together, stone walls that endure and crumble in the same gesture, becoming the milieu that unites these elements. While concerns with fragility and unstable ground recall the work of artists such as Mona Hatoum and Doris Salcedo, Yadav defines interruption on her own terms, shaping her own language of precarious encounter. In Hydra, ruin, flour, and image converge in a precarious constellation: gathered and scattered, sustenance and scarcity, always poised at the edge of disappearance, where every surface carries both memory and the possibility of renewal.

    Part of Interruption–II unfolded in collaboration with local youth in Hydra, who worked alongside the artist to create flour-based works. Guided with the support of Dimitri Fousekis, these sessions invited children to transform a material of survival into symbols of imagination and resilience. Their contributions extend the installation beyond individual authorship, rooting it in shared experience and in the rhythms of the island itself.

    Curated by Katharina Bosch 

    Flour sponsored by Stefanos Akliros at "Το Στάχυ" ("To Stahi")


ANNU'S INSTAGRAM

STEPHEN APPLEBY-BARR

AN HYDRA STUDY

Stephen Appleby-Barr - a Canadian painter currently based in London, England - approaches his art as storytelling. He wanders through museums and city streets in search of characters and settings to weave into his otherworldly universe. His dark, intimate scenes, rich colors, and dramatic lighting evoke the timeless mastery of Baroque painters like Caravaggio.

A passionate cat lover, Stephen returned to Hydra for a nine-day residency and studio exhibition inspired by his latest muse: Hydra’s cats. During his residency, he created an incredible seven new artworks celebrating cats and nature - including “Lilycat,” which he affectionately called “the Mona Lisa of ArtCinema.”

“Seeing Stephen’s work had a profound effect on me. I began to truly understand the power of oil painting because he captured the essence of something I loved - the cat I rescued two years ago.”
- Amanda Palmer, Founder of ArtCinema

This exhibition is dedicated to supporting Hydra’s much-needed veterinary clinic, continuing ArtCinema’s commitment to both art and animal welfare on the island.

STEPHEN'S INSTAGRAM

HISHAM ABAHUSAYN

PHOTOGRAPHER

ArtCinema Hydra was truly honored to welcome our friend and artist patron, Saudi-American photographer Hisham Abahusayn to our event - a creative powerhouse whose eye for detail and passion for visual storytelling brought an exceptional dimension to our experience. We’re deeply grateful for the amazing moments he captured of our guests, blending warmth, precision, and cinematic flair in every frame.

Hisham’s career spans collaborations with the world’s most iconic figures and brands — from Angelina Jolie and Kim Kardashian’s security detail famously calling him “the guy who knows the answers,” to working with Apple, Facebook, Google, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Tom Ford, Madonna, and Robert Downey Jr. His instinct for atmosphere and his ability to create beauty in real time shone through during his time on Hydra.

Hisham’s presence reminded us why mastery in film and photography is as much about soul and connection as it is about skill. We look forward to seeing his vision unfold as he pursues his dream of building a world-class studio in Saudi Arabia - a creative hub to rival Pinewood and Milk Studios - and we’re proud to have shared this chapter of his journey at ArtCinema Hydra.

VITTORIA BERARDINONE

ITALIAN CERAMICIST

ArtCinema Hydra 2025 Commemorative Dinner Service

Italian ceramicist Vittoria Berardinone has been living and working in Hydra for over a decade. Her unique pieces combine traditional Italian and Greek techniques with modern innovation, reflecting her deep connection to Mediterranean culture. Each creation showcases her meticulous attention to detail and passion for craftsmanship.

From her island studio - the only one in Hydra with a kiln - Vittoria oversees the entire production process. Her studio has become a creative hub for local artists and visitors alike, embodying her dedication to both heritage and contemporary design.

ArtCinema Hydra is proud to have commissioned a special dinner service from Vittoria - six sets of six hand-crafted plates - created exclusively for ArtCinema Hydra as part of our annual fundraiser. Her work was also presented during the Artists & Patrons Lunch, celebrating the union of art, craft, and community.

To acquire one of Vittoria’s unique pieces, please contact Airinie Azhar-Sarakakis at airinie@artcinemahydra.com or WhatsApp: (+30) 694 493 1901

More of Vittoria’s work can be seen at our Gallery HERE

HYDRA PRIVATE STUDIO TOURS

Since the mid-20th century, Hydra has emerged as a haven for international artists - attracting painters, poets, and musicians such as Leonard Cohen. ArtCinema Hydra continues this legacy by supporting the island’s local artists and encouraging our guests and community to join open studio visits. Details about participating artists and visiting times can be found on our Artists Page.

PLAN A VISIT

LOCAL ART ATTRACTIONS

Explore local museums and historic locations


DESTE FOUNDATION’S PROJECT SLAUGHTERHOUSE

Greek Cypriot industrialist and art collector Dakis Joannou founded the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art in 1983 to support emerging artists in Greece, Cyprus, and Switzerland. As the collection grew, so did DESTE’s mission. In 2009, Joannou expanded to Hydra, transforming a former abattoir into the Slaughterhouse, a summer project space perched above the sea. It has since hosted annual solo exhibitions from his collection.

This year, New York–based Romanian artist Andra Ursuța presents Apocalypse Now and Then, featuring new and existing works, including the debut of Desolation Ware (2025), a series of lost-wax cast bronze sculptures. Ursuța has installed sculptures inside and outside the Slaughterhouse, creating a viewing experience inspired by historical museums and archaeological sites across Greece and the Mediterranean.

Andra Ursuţa: Apocalypse Now and Then is on view at the DESTE Foundation Project Space, Slaughterhouse, Hydra, from 24 June to 31 October 2025.