Kiki Kouniari is a UK based visual artist working with video, sound and text. By using fragmentary compositions, noise, the everyday, the absurd, humour and irony, and by drawing from Critical Theory and postructuralism, Kiki aims to bring social criticism and psychology together, in works that balance between affect and reflection.
Prevalent thematics in her works are power, commodification and spectacle, lack of meaning, as well as the way these translate into alienation, narrow-mindedness, and nihilism. Important aspect is the self-critical, which attempts to transform the subject in her works from a passive receiver of their facticity, to a perpetuator of the conditions of their unfreedom.
CV
b. Athens, Greece
Education
University of Leeds, ΜΑ in Fine Arts, 2020
Athens School of Fine Arts, BFA in Sculpture, 2017
Staffordshire University, ΒΑ in Graphic Design, 1999
Exhibitions
Art Nova 100, Guardian Art Center, Beijing, China, 2023
Arte Laguna Prize, Arsenale of Venice, Venice, Italy, 2023
Calling the Anthropomorphic Cabinet, Domagkhalle, Munich, Germany, 2022
Experimental Film and Video 2022, CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, South Korea, 2022
MA Thesis, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 2020
Pause, Freehold Projects Space, Leeds, UK, 2020
Origin, Yorkshire Hub, Leeds, UK, 2019
What is to come of this, Yorkshire House, Leeds, UK, 2019
Degree Show, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece, 2017
Health, Diachronic Museum of Larisa, Larissa, Greece, 2017
Shapes, Colors, Materials: The garden of sculptures, Italian Embassy, Athens, Greece, 2016
Anthropographies, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece, 2016
Talks
Inter-Institutional Symposium, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 2020
kiki kouniari 