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Mikhail Karikis

Mikhail Karikis is a Greek-born, London-based interdisciplinary artist. Forthcoming projects include the Danish Pavilion at the 54^th Venice Biennale, and commissions for Barbican Art Centre and Royal Opera House. Recent solo projects include XENON: an exploded opera, Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy, Whitstable Biennale and the BBC Opera Season, UK (2010). Group exhibitions include Artist’s Body, Space C*, Coreana Museum of Art, S.Korea (2010), 7^th International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Gyumri, Armenia (2010), Extraordinary Voices, Tate Britain, London (2009), Hesperides II, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Switzerland (2009), For you only you, Milton Keynes Gallery, UK (2008) and Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Ireland (2008), Tripple Echo, De La Warr Pavilion, UK (2007-2008). Recent solo music albums include MORPHICA, Sub Rosa (2010), Orphica, Sub Rosa (2007). Collaborative albums include Sound Unbound, with DJ Spooky, MIT Press & Sub Rosa (2008), Army of Mixes, with Björk, One Little Indian (2005). Karikis’s MORPHICA project was nominated a 2010 Qwartz Electronic Music Award, France.

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