ABOUT

Olga Kozmanidze (b.1985, she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, working at the intersection of performance, sound art and music. She explores the uncanny within herself, things, people and spaces to facilitate rapture, resonance and affect. Kozmanidze is an alumni of the Experimental Sound and Multimedia Technology program at Moscow’s SA))studio and Voice Movement integration program in Amsterdam. She is a founding member of the award-winning Berlin-based project “Sentire”, a participatory performance that engages a system that transforms human interaction into sound. Her work has been presented internationally as part of Paesaggi Sonori festival, Pescara (2023), Madness / Disruption Network Lab, Berlin(2022), Malá Inventura Festival, Prague (2019), Satellite Art Show/Miami Art Fair, Miami (2016) and more. In 2023 Kozmanidze received the “Performative” prize from the Italian foundation “MAXII” for her work “Self-reversing”. Currently, Kozmanidze is based between Berlin and Pescara, IT where she collaborates with ”Campo Ife”, “Orti Geometrici” and “Pollinaria”, organizations which adopt regenerative ways of nature-cultural production in rural areas.

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Festivals:
2023 Performative 03, L'Aquila
2023 Paesaggi sonori, Pescara
2022 Gala festival, Loreto Aprutino
2019 Eufonia, Berlin
2019 Malá Inventura Festival, Prague
2018 Project Space Festival, Berlin
2018 Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, Berlin
2018 KlangKellar festival for experimental music, Berlin
2018 CTM Vorspiel, Könnig Otto, Berlin
2017 Wärmflasche sound and performance art festival, Green House, Berlin
2017 Scope sessions, Spektrum, Berlin
2017 "Berlin International Performance Art Weekend", Luisa Catucci Gallery, Berlin
2016 "Satellite art show", Miami art week, USA
2016 «Archstoyanie», Nikola-Lenivetz, Russia
2016 CIPAF international performance art festival, Cyprus
2015 «Archstoyanie», Nikola-Lenivetz, Russia
2015 «Moscow Music Week» at Mars Gallery, Moscow
2015 «Prepared Wednesdays» festival for experimental music, GCCA, Moscow

Exhibitions/Shows:
2021: "Museo Laboratorio", Città Sant'Angelo, Italy
2017 "Just Mad Art Fair", Madrid
2016 «10 new» at Solyanka VPA Gallery, Moscow
2016 «Zvukochto» at Graund Gallery, Moscow
2016 «Antimuseum» at Elektromuseum, Moscow
2015 «Art-dictionary: A-art, F-feminism» at NII DAR Gallery, Moscow.


Conferences, symposiums:
2022 Madness by Disruption Network Lab, Berlin
2020 "Music, media, art education", Berlin
2019 Reihe: interacting with body, electronics and space, Berlin
2018 Linux Audio Conference, Berlin

Collaborations
2018 on, Unfold:community for unfolding perception, Berlin
2018 MAVOtech IV by Tomomi Adachi, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin
2018 Vokale Räume by Maulwerker and Cristian Kesten, Ballhous Ost, Berlin
2018 on, "y" with Martina Marini Misterioso
2016 on, a member of MovLab Community, Spektrum, Berlin
2016 on, co-founder, performer, researcher in "Sentire"

Residencies:
2022 Summer school of margins by Robida, Topolove, Italy
2017 "Just Mad Art Residency", Aviles, Spain
2016 «Break Through» performance series at the world smallest performance space, Kreativquartier, Munich
2016 New Synchronicities within CIPAF international performance art festival, Cyprus

Grants, Prizes:
2023 “Performative” prize from the Italian foundation “MAXII”

2019 German Federal Ministry of Education and research (BMBF) for 3-year research in "Sentire: social interaction through sound feedback", Humboldt University, Berlin
2019 Special prize at the contest "New instruments for music therapy" by the Deutsche Musiktherapeutische Gesellschaft and Frankfurt Music Messe in 2019.
2018 Initiative neue musik berlin e.V. (for Sentire project)
2016 STEP Beyond travel grant