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.
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Athens, GR, March 2023
Rijeka, HR, February 2023
Leeds, UK, January 2023
Copenhagen, DΚ, May 2022
Berlin, DE, April 2022
Athens, GR, September 2020
Rijeka, HR, January, 2020
Ljubljana, SLO, October 2019