Kyriaki Goni is an Athens-based artist working across digital media, sculpture, text, sound and installation. Her practice investigates how agency is negotiated across technological infrastructures, ecological systems and more-than-human worlds. Through research-led and speculative methodologies, she explores surveillance, extractivism, environmental change, planetary infrastructures and alternative networks of care. Her work has been presented internationally through exhibitions, commissions, screenings, lectures and publications.

 

Kyriaki Goni is an Athens-based artist working across digital media, sculpture, moving image, sound, text and installation. Her research-led practice investigates how agency is distributed and negotiated across technological infrastructures, ecological systems and more-than-human worlds. Moving between local histories and planetary processes, her work examines surveillance, extractivism, environmental change, artificial intelligence, ecological intelligence and alternative networks of care and collective organisation.

Drawing on scientific research, archives, fieldwork and speculative storytelling, Goni develops installations that combine digital and material forms, including textiles, ceramics, drawings, interactive systems, video and sound. Her works often construct fictional ecosystems in which plants, animals, landscapes, satellites and technological entities emerge as narrators, collaborators or custodians of memory. Rather than treating technology as immaterial, she traces its social, environmental and geopolitical infrastructures, while imagining other relationships between humans, machines and living systems.

Her solo exhibitions have been presented at The Breeder, Athens; Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University; Drugo More, Rijeka; SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen; KVOST and Art Collection Telekom, Berlin; Onassis Stegi, Athens; and Aksioma, Ljubljana. Her work has also been included in international exhibitions and biennials including INDEX – Art and Technology Biennial, Braga; Kunsthalle Mannheim; Warsaw Biennale; Gherdeina Biennale; Ars Electronica; EMST, Athens; Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale; Shanghai Biennale; transmediale; and the Istanbul Design Biennial.

Goni has developed commissions and research projects with organisations including the Shanghai Biennale, Gherdeina Biennale, Warsaw Biennale, Onassis Foundation, Ars Electronica, Art Collection Telekom and the European Space Policy Institute. She has undertaken residencies at Delfina Foundation, Onassis AiR and ONX Studio in New York, and her work is held in institutional and private collections.

Alongside her artistic practice, she lectures, writes and leads talks and workshops. She holds degrees in Visual Arts and Digital Arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts, following earlier studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology in Athens and Leiden.

Full CV available on request.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
The Breeder
Athens, GR, March 2023
Drugo More
Rijeka, HR, February 2023
Blenheim Walk Gallery
Leeds, UK, January 2023
SixtyEight Art Institute
Copenhagen, DΚ, May 2022
Kunstverein Ost
Berlin, DE, April 2022
Onassis Cultural Centre 
Athens, GR, September 2020
Drugo more
Rijeka, HR, January, 2020
Aksioma Institute of Contemporary Art
Ljubljana, SLO, October 2019
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
iMAL, Brussels, BE
Galerie Nord, Berlin, DE
2023
2022
Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, ES
Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong, HK
Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei, TW
2nd Warsaw Biennale, Warsaw, PO
8th Gherdeina Biennale, Dolomites, IT
2021
26th Art Athina, GR
24th PhotoBiennale, GR
62nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival, GR
Ars Elecronica, Linz, AT
You and AI: Through the Algorithmic Lens, Rome, IT
Modern Love, Tallinn, EST
Modern Love, Utrecht, NL
You and AI: Through the Algorithmic Lens, Athens, GR
Bodies of Water, 13th Shanghai Biennale, CN
2020
5th Istanbul Design Biennale, TU
Modern Love, Freiburg, DE
Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative, online
Transmediale2020, Berlin, DE
Trondheim International Biennale for art & Technology, NO
2019
The Glass Room, San Francisco, US
Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, MK
Art Space Pythagorion, Samos, GR
Tomorrows-Urban Fictions for Possible Futures, Le Lieu Unique
2018
Digital Futures, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Athens National Observatory, GR
Oddstream, Arnhem, NL
Action Field Kodra, Thessaloniki, GR
COLLECTIONS
Art Collection Telekom
Yerassimos Yiannopoulos Collection
Polyeco Contemporaty Art Initiative Collection
Private Collections
FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES
Onassis AiR, residency 2023
Allianz Kulturstiftung, Bertelmanns Stiftung, fellowship 2021
Ars Electronica & Art Collection Deutsche Telekom, residency 2021
LINZ FMR, residency 2021
INSPIRE, Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki, award 2020
Delfina Foundation, residency 2019
Artworks SNF, fellowship 2018
COMMISSIONS
2th Warsaw Biennale, 2022
8th Gherdeina Biennale, 2022
13th Shanghai Biennale, 2021
Modern Love, Tallinna Kunstihoone & Museum fuer Neue Kunst, Freiburg 2021-22
Anthropocene on Hold, Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative 2020
Data Garden, Onassis Foundation 2020
The New Networked Normal, Creative Europe, 2018