Kiki Kouniari creates fragmentary compositions that draw from the unconscious, everyday life, and the absurd. Her practice aims to blend social criticism, emotion, and introspection. Recurring themes in her work include power, the erosion of meaning in contemporary life and art, commodification, spectacle, and the alienation and nihilism that result from these manifestations. Kouniari’s works are characterised by the subtle use of humour and irony, which aim to employ a self-critical edge, aware of its shortcomings.
EDUCATION
2020 MA Fine Art, University of Leeds, West Yorkshire
2017 Degree in Art (5-year Level 7 Integrated MA), Athens School of Fine Art, Athens, Greece
1999 BA Graphic Design, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025 Back to Athens International Art Meeting 2025: The Division of Life, (Curated by Filippos Tsitsopoulos), Isaia Mansion, Athens, Greece
2024 Vision: New Media Art and Conference 2024, (Curated by Gregory Pages and Yasha Young), CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, South Korea
2024 Semantics of Observation and Waiting, (Curated by Samuel Ferstl), PE Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (Solo)
2023 Arte Laguna Prize, (Curated by Luca Beatrice and Igor Zanti), Arsenale of Venice, Venice, Italy
2023 Art Nova 100, Guardian Art Center, Beijing, China
2023 Sillouettes, (Curated by Samuel Ferstl), PE Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (Solo)
2022 Calling the Anthropomorphic Cabinet, (Curated by Samuel Ferstl), Domagkhalle, Munich, Germany
2022 Experimental Film and Video 2022, CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, South Korea
2020 MA Thesis Exhibition, University of Leeds, Leeds Pause, Freehold Projects Space, Leeds
2019 Origin, Yorkshire Hub, Leeds
2019 What is to come of this, Yorkshire House, Leeds
2017 Degree Show Exhibition, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
2017 Health, Diachronic Museum of Larisa, Larissa, Greece
2016 Shapes, Colors, Materials: The garden of sculptures, Italian Embassy, Athens, Greece
2016 Anthropographies, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
PUBLICATIONS
2025 “Turbulence. New Media Art 2025”, Korea: CICA Press, 2025, (p. 52-55)
2023 Aesthetica Magazine, Artists’ Directory, issue 112 (April/May 2023), (p. 145)
TALKS
2020 Inter-Institutional Symposium, University of Leeds, Leeds
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