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    • Songs for the Storm to Come
    • The Last Concert
    • Acoustics of Resistance
    • Ferocious Love
    • I Hear You
    • No Ordinary Protest
    • The Chalk Factory
    • Ain’t Got No Fear
    • The Endeavour
    • Children of Unquiet
    • SeaWomen
    • Sounds from Beneath
    • The Highflyer
    • Xenon
    • The Shape of Breath
    • For you, only you
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    • Songs for the Storm to Come
      Songs for the Storm to Come
    • Songs for the Storm to Come: “together we can move mountains”
      Songs for the Storm to Come: “together we can move mountains”
    • Songs for the Storm to Come (film trailer)
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Songs for the Storm to Come (2024)
Songs for the Storm to Come

Songs for the Storm to Come

Songs for the Storm to Come focuses on collective and individual responses to the impending transformations caused by climate change as forecast by environmental scientists,…

Songs for the Storm to Come (cymatics videos), 2024, by Mikhail Karikis
Songs for the Storm to Come

Songs for the Storm to Come: “together we can move mountains”

Songs for the Storm to Come: “together we can move mountains”  is part of the project Songs for the Storm to Come by Mikhail…

Songs for the Storm to Come
Songs for the Storm to Come

Songs for the Storm to Come (film trailer)

Songs for the Storm to Come (2024), by Mikhail Karikis.

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The Last Concert

The Last Concert (2023) – trailer

For The Last Concert (2023) Mikhail Karikis collaborated with seventy teenage musicians in Japan to celebrate the life and architecture of former Omiya Civic…

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The Last Concert

The Last Concert (2023)

For his film The Last Concert, artist Mikhail Karikis collaborated with seventy teenage musicians in Japan to celebrate the life and architecture of the…

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Acoustics of Resistance

Surging Seas (mixed media installation)

Surging Seas comprises a three-screen video, a flag with a thermal map, a sound installation and a display of placards with archival images of…

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Acoustics of Resistance

The Weather Orchestra (trailer)

  Taking the form of a four-channel video installation with surround sound, The Weather Orchestra is an ode to the elements, expressing both our…

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Acoustics of Resistance

The Weather Orchestra (2022)

Taking the form of a four-channel video installation with surround sound, The Weather Orchestra is an ode to the elements, expressing both our deep…

Solo exhibition @ The Showroom, London, UK

Songs for the Storm to Come is a solo exhibition by Mikhail Karikis hosted by The Showroom London. The work focuses on collective and individual responses to the impending transformations caused by climate change and searches for ways to activate our trust in the possible and to imagine hopeful shared futures. While rejoicing in the transformative power of sound, the project declares that changing the course of global warming is in our hands. 26 June - 16 August 2025 (free entrance)

Solo exhibition @ Centre for Modern Art, CAM Gulbenkian, Lisbon, PT

Karikis's solo exhibition We Are Together Because... resulting from a 2-year collaboration with 54 teenage musicians from Artallis Conservatory and the Gulbenkian Orchestra culminates in new a multi-channel audio-visual installation which explores solidarity, protest and hopeful futures. Exhibited at Centro de Arte Moderna, Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal 17 May - 22 September 2025.

Solo exhibition @ Kunstmuseum St Gallen, CH

Kunstmuseum St Gallen is presenting Mikhail Karikis's most comprehensive career exhibition to date, with projects from the past 15 years and a new commission exploring climate change and visions of the future "Universe of Solutions CH". Exhibited at Kunstmuseum St Gallen, Switzerland, 4 April - 27 July 2025.

Labour of Love, Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland

Curated by Fiona Kearney and Katie O'Grady, Labour of Love presents artists who explore the responsibility and reality of labour in contemporary society, and how the burden of unpaid and low paid work might be made visible through art. With a particular focus on the care economy, this exhibition considers how the physical and emotional wellbeing of people is enabled in our society. Mikhail Karikis presents his project "I Hear You" created with caregivers and neurodiverse people who are non-verbal. Open until 6 July 2025.
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