QUANTO BUIO VEDE L'ACQUA
HOW MUCH DARKNESS WATER SEES
short film
2025 – in progress
Kozmanidze's exploration of vocality is a lifelong engagement. Beginning with the practice of singing and songwriting, it evolved through her endeavors in contemporary art, culminating in singing ‘backwards’—an extended vocal technique she developed to transform lyrical singing into a radical vocal experiment. Her performance Self-reversing, which features this technique, earned her the Performative Prize from the MAXXI Foundation in Rome (2023).
Kozmanidze gives workshops on somatic movement and 'backwards' singing. Her work has been presented internationally as part of the E.ART.H Prize Exhibition, Verona (2024), Performative Festival by MAXXI, L'Aquila (2023), Madness Festival by Disruption Network Lab, Berlin (2022), Malá Inventura Festival, Prague (2019), Satellite Art Show, Miami Art Fair, Miami (2016) and more.
Currently, Kozmanidze is based in Pescara, Italy where she serves as a Chair of the Board of the NGO Campo Ife and collaborates with the farm and fermentation lab Orti Geometrici, organizations which adopt regenerative ways of nature-cultural production in rural areas. Lately, she has been working on her first short film and producing her debut music album, both to be released in 2026.
Self-reversing, 2019
On the set of Quanto buio vede l’acqua, 2025
She co-founded and performed in Berlin's Sentire, a participatory performance and award-winning interdisciplinary project that merged human interaction with sound. Sentire received a grant from the BMBF to conduct a three-year study at Humboldt University, Berlin, examining the potential applications of the Sentire sound system in music and movement therapy.
Sentire, 2022
Olga Kozmanidze (b.1985) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses performance and sound art, music, and moving image. Classically trained as a pianist and graduated as a lawyer in Russia, Kozmanidze further pursued her artistic education at the Experimental Sound and Multimedia Technology program at Moscow’s SA))studio and Voice Movement Integration program in Amsterdam.
BMBF – German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
