We are excited to announce the second residency of the MATCH project, taking place from 5 November to 4 December 2025 at Gardens of the Future in Nicosia, Cyprus. The residency will conclude with a public exposition in May 2026, presenting the artists’ research and creative outcomes.

Hosted by Gardens of the Future, a dynamic community garden and cultural initiative in the historic centre of Nicosia’s Venetian Walled City, the residency unfolds within a network of restored heritage buildings and hidden courtyards. Established by architect Anastasia Christou together with a collective of artists, architects, anthropologists, innovators, and cultural practitioners (including D6EU Co-Director Argyro Toumazou), the Gardens foster encounters between established and newly arrived communities. It is a place to garden, to talk, to eat, and to imagine new ways of living together in response to the climate crisis. In 2022, Gardens of the Future received the New European Bauhaus Community Award for their innovative community-led approach to sustainability.

Produced by D6:EU, a visual arts organization based in Nicosia, the residency supports artistic practices that engage with social and environmental justice through collaboration and research. D6:EU’s international programmes connect artists, heritage professionals, and communities across Cyprus, Europe, and the Middle East, guided by values of equity, sustainability, curiosity, and generosity.

This residency welcomes Christina Zambulaki and Caterina Miralles, two artists whose practices intertwine art, ecology, and social inquiry.

Caterina Miralles is a Barcelona-based artist, architect, and educator whose audiovisual practice explores the social and emotional impact of the built environment. Her work moves across disciplines, merging field research, visual storytelling, and spatial analysis to examine the frictions between urban landscapes and human experience. Approaching art, architecture, and research as interconnected tools for observation and critique, she investigates how built spaces shape social relations and affective experience. Her work has been presented at Sala d’Art Jove (Barcelona), Loop Festival at La Casa Encendida (Madrid), and the Venice Biennale.

Christina Zambulaki is a Greek-American artist working across sculpture, installation, and video. Her practice centres on the interdependence between human and non-human matter, guided by the belief that the materials shaping our world are alive and that our bodies work in relation to theirs. Seeing organisms within our ecosystems as caretakers, she studies the infrastructures and processes that sustain life. Her work focuses on the organisms that constitute our food systems and the supply chains that emerge within Western capitalist contexts. Through this lens, she explores food as both a political and living material — one that narrates human civilisation while reflecting the ecological systems it depends on.

Together, the artists will use their time in Nicosia to explore how local ecologies, food systems, and urban spaces shape collective resilience and coexistence, engaging with the community at Gardens of the Future and the wider MATCH network to imagine creative responses to today’s environmental and social challenges.