Kyriaki Goni (b. 1982, in Athens, Greece) lives and works in Athens. She completed graduate and postgraduate studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology in Athens and in Leiden, Netherlands. Additionally, she earned a BA in Visual Arts and an MA in Digital Arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts. For the past ten years,Goni has used a wide range of media to examine big tech’s political, affective, and environmental dimensions. Her work addresses extractivism, surveillance, relations between human and non-human beings, and alternative networks and infrastructures linked to care and community. Through websites, textiles, ceramics, drawings, videos, sound, and text, her installations build alternative ecosystems and shared experiences that connect the local with the planetary and weave together the fictional and the scientific.
Solo exhibitions include Not Allowed For Algorithmic Audiences, The Breeder, Athens, Greece (2023); Data Garden, Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds, United Kingdom (2023); The Future Light Cone, Drugo More, Rijeka, Croatia (2023); Networks of Trust, SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark (2022); Not allowed for algorithmic audiences, Kunstverein Ost, Berlin, Germany (2022); Data Garden, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece (2020); The Future Light Cone, Drugo More, Rijeka, Croatia (2020); Counting Craters on the Moon, Aksioma Institute of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2019).
Group exhibitions include (Upcoming) Orbital, Kristin Hjellegjerde, Berlin, German (2026); Serpentine Cinema, Ciné Lumière, London, United Kingdom (2024); CODE & ALGORITHMS. WISDOM IN A CALCULATED WORLD, iMAL, Brussels, Belgium (2024); v01ces – The Human Voice in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Galerie Nord, Berlin, Germany (2024);Attention After Technology, Kunsthalle Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway (2023); Don't Dream Dreams, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2023); 1.5 Degrees, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany (2023); Modern Love, Museum of Contemporary Art EMST, Athens, Greece (2023); AS ABOVE, SO BELOW, Science Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2023); Modern Love, Museum of Contemporary Art EMST, Athens, Greece (2022); Connections in the Telefónica Collection, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain (2022); Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong, Hong Kong (2022); Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, C-LAB, Taipei, Taiwan (2022); 2nd Warsaw Biennale, Warsaw, Poland (2022); 8th Gherdeina Biennale, Dolomites, Italy (2022); 26th Art Athina, Athens, Greece (2021); 24th PhotoBiennale, Thessaloniki, Greece (2021); 62nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki IFF, Thessaloniki, Greece (2021); A New Digital Deal, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria (2021); You and AI: Through the Algorithmic Lens, Maker Fair Rome, Rome, Italy (2021); Modern Love, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia (2021); Modern Love, IMPAKT Festival 2021, Utrecht, Netherlands (2021); You and AI: Through the Algorithmic Lens, Art Festival, Athens, Greece (2021); Bodies of Water, 13th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China (2021); 5th Istanbul Design Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey (2020); Modern Love, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany (2020); Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative, Online (2020); Transmediale 2020 — End to End, transmediale, Berlin, Germany (2020); Meta.Morf X – Digital Wild, Trondheim International Biennale for Art & Technology, Trondheim, Norway (2020); The Glass Room, Pop-up exhibition, San Francisco, United States (2019); That Name or That Image?, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, North Macedonia (2019); Art Space Pythagorion, Samos, Greece (2019); Tomorrows — Urban Fictions for Possible Futures, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France (2019); Digital Futures, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom (2018); Cosmonauts of Inner Space, National Observatory, Athens, Greece (2018); Odd Stream Festival, Arnhem, Netherlands (2018); Action Field Kodra Contemporary Art Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece (2018).
Highlights and collections. Goni’s works can be found in the following collections: Art Collection Telekom, Deutsche Telekom, Bonn, Germany; Yerassimos Yiannopoulos Collection; Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative Collection, Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative, Athens, Greece; Private Collections (various). She was a resident artist at Onassis AiR, Onassis Foundation, Athens, Greece (2023); Ars Electronica & Art Collection Deutsche Telekom Residency, Ars Electronica / Art Collection Deutsche Telekom, Linz, Austria / Bonn, Germany (2021); LINZ FMR Residency, LINZ FMR, Linz, Austria (2021); Delfina Foundation Residency, Delfina Foundation, London, United Kingdom (2019). Furthermore, she has received multiple fellowships from Allianz Kulturstiftung & Bertelsmann Stiftung, Berlin / Gütersloh, Germany (2021); ArtWorks SNF Fellowship, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Athens, Greece (2018); and the INSPIRE Award, Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki (MOMus), Thessaloniki, Greece (2020). She has been commissioned by 2nd Warsaw Biennale, Warsaw Biennale, Warsaw, Poland (2022); 8th Gherdeina Biennale, Gherdeina Biennale, Dolomites, Italy (2022); 13th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China (2021); Modern Love, Tallinn Art Hall / Museum für Neue Kunst, Tallinn, Estonia / Freiburg, Germany (2021–2022); Anthropocene on Hold, Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative, Athens, Greece (2020); Data Garden, Onassis Foundation, Athens, Greece (2020); The New Networked Normal, Creative Europe, Brussels, Belgium (2018).