Mikhail Karikis is a Greek/British artist based in London and Lisbon. Through his work in moving image, sound, performance, and other media, he employs listening as an artistic strategy and form of activism. He develops projects with communities located outside the context of contemporary art who may be pushed into economic and socio-geographic fringes. In recent years, Karikis has been collaborating with children, teenagers, young adults and people with disabilities to explore narratives of social, environmental, and economic injustice. While prompting participatory and activist imaginaries, Karikis’ projects rouse the potential for people to imagine futures of self-determination and potency. His work highlights alternative modes of human action and solidarity, while nurturing critical attention, dignity, and tenderness.

Select solo exhibitions include Sounds of a Revolution, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal (2024); Songs for the Storm to Come, HOME Manchester, UK (2024); Because We Are Together, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST), GR (2023); Acoustics of Resistance, Carpintarias de São Lázaro/Lisboa Soa, PT (2022); Ferocious Love, Tate Liverpool, UK (2020); Children of Unquiet, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, IT (2019); For Many Voices, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK (2019-2020); I Hear You, De la Warr Pavilion, UK (2019-2020); Mikhail Karikis, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, JP (2019); No Ordinary Protest, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2018-2019). Karikis was shortlisted for the 2019 and the 2016 Film London Jarman Award, UK, and the 2015 Daiwa Art Prize, UK-JP. Select group exhibitions include: A Outra Vida Dos Animais, MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon, PT (2022); 5th Mardin Biennial, TR (2022); 2nd Riga Biennial, LV (2020); Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016, IN; British Art Show 8, UK (2015-2017); Steirischer Herbst, AT (2015); 5th Thessaloniki Biennale, GR (2015); 19th Biennale of Sydney, AU (2014); Mediacity Seoul/SeMA Biennale, Seoul, KR (2014); Videonale 14, Kunstmusuem Bonn, DE (2013); 2nd Aichi Triennale, Nagoya, JP (2013); Manifesta 9, Ghenk, BE (2012); Danish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, IT (2011).