Kyriaki Goni
Kyriaki Goni is an Athens-based artist. Employing a variety of media, her practice explores the political, affective, and environmental aspects of technology. She focuses on extractivism, surveillance, human and other than human relations, distributed networks, and infrastructures. Her installations, which take the form of websites, drawings, videos, sound, and text, create alternative ecosystems and shared experiences by connecting the local and the planetary, the fictional and the scientific.
Solo exhibitions include The Breeder, Athens (2023); Drugo More, Rijeka (2023); Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds (2023); SixtyEight, Copenhagen (2022); KunstvereinOst, Berlin (2022); Onassis, Athens (2020); DrugoMore, Rijeka (2020); Aksioma, Ljubljana (2019).
She has also taken part in various group shows and biennials, including the following: Don't Dream Dreams, Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana (2023); 1.5 Degrees, Kunsthalle Mannheim (2023); Modern Love, EMST; Athens (2022), Taiwan Contemporary CultureLab (2022), Hong Kong New Media Arts (2022), 8th Gherdeina Biennale (2022), 2nd Warsaw Biennale (2022), 13th Shanghai Biennale (2021), ArsElectronica (2021), 24th Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale (2021), Tallinn Kunsthalle (2021), Transmediale (2020), 5th Istanbul Design Biennale (2020), Melbourne Triennale (2017), Siggraph (2016), International Symposium on Electronic Art (2015).
Goni has received several awards, including ArtScience Residency 2021 (ArsElectronica, Collection Telekom), The New New 2021 AlianzKulturstifting, INSPIRE2020, SNF ARTWORKS2018. In 2019, she was a resident artist at Delfina Foundation. Her work Not allowed for algorithmic audiences (2021) was selected among the 28 S+T+ARTS Prize 2023 nominations.
Her work is part of private and institutional collections and has been featured in art magazines and scientific journals, such as Flash Art, Tank Magazine, Holo Magazine, Frieze, HumaniTies and Artificial Intelligence, EU (2022), Neural Magazine (2020), Leonardo Journal MIT Press (49:4). She has studied Fine Arts (BA), Digital Arts (MA), and Social and Cultural Anthropology (BA, MSc). As part of her practice, she has created syllabi such as ‘Long term co-design of futures in the Mediterranean’, ‘Expanded Uses of Lens Based Media’ etc. (University of Patras, AKTO College & Middlesex University etc).