Kyriaki Goni
Kyriaki Goni is an artist, who for ten years now engages with diverse media to explore the political, affective, and environmental dimensions of big tech. Her focus encompasses extractivism, surveillance, human and non-human relations, as well as alternative networks and infrastructures related to care and community. Employing websites, textiles, ceramics, drawings, videos, sound, and text, Goni's installations construct alternative ecosystems and shared experiences by bridging the local with the planetary and intertwining the fictional with the scientific.
Recent solo exhibitions have been showcased at The Breeder Gallery in Athens, the Blenheim Walk Gallery at Leeds Art University, Drugo More in Rijeka, SixtyEight Art Institute in Copenhagen, KVOST Art Collection Telekom in Berlin, Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, and Aksioma in Ljubljana.
Goni's work has also been featured in group exhibitions such as Art and Technology Biennial INDEX, Braga, 1.5 Degrees at Kunsthalle Mannheim, 2nd Warsaw Biennale, 8th Gherdeina Biennale, The New Digital Deal Ars Electronica, Modern Love at EMST, 24th Thessaloniki Photobiennale, 13th Shanghai Biennale, Transmediale2020, 5th Istanbul Design Biennial.
Goni has been commissioned from prestigious organizations such as the Shanghai Biennale, Gherdeina Biennale, Warsaw Biennale, Onassis Foundation, PCAI, Ars Electronica, and Art Collection Telekom. Her work has garnered recognition through prizes and fellowships from Allianz Kulturstiftung and Bertelmanns Stiftung, Ars Electronica and Telekom, as well as the Metropolitan Organization of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki, Greece, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Her art is included in institutional and private collections.
In addition to her artistic pursuits, Goni frequently lectures, writes, and delivers talks. She holds a BA in Visual Arts and an MA in Digital Arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts. Prior to that, she pursued graduate and postgraduate degrees in Social and Cultural Anthropology in Athens and Leiden, Netherlands.
THIS ARTWORK WAS DEVELOPED WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE ARS ELECTRONICA ARTSCIENCE RESIDENCY ENABLED BY ART COLLECTION DEUTSCHE TELEKOM IN PARTNERSHIP WITH JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY.