Mikhail Karikis

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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…

A Grand Chorus @ Foundling Museum, London, UK

A Grand Chorus: The Power of Music is a group exhibition looking at the exhilarating experience and enduring impact of the ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ by Handel in the past and present. The exhibition also showcases a major sound and video installation by Mikhail Karikis, We Are Together Because… (2025), the first time the work has been presented in the UK. Featuring a powerful anthem for a new generation, Karikis’s work can be imagined as a contemporary counterpart to the ‘Hallelujah Chorus’. 2 Oct 2025 - 30 June 2026.

Inheriting the Future @ Seoul Museum of Art, S. Korea

Karikis's work SeaWomen features in the 14th Seoul Mediacity Pre-Biennale: Inheriting the Future. It is being held at Nam-Seoul Museum of Art and has been conceived as an occasion to reread, question, and examine the conceptual evolution of Biennale themes and media practices as they have unfolded across the field of contemporary art. The exhibition is composed of 14 works by nine artists, previously presented in past biennales, as well as works from the museum’s collection and newly invited works. Grounded in existing contexts, yet testing the conditions of articulation within a new environment, these works encompass latent curatorial visions and discourses accumulated over time, unfolding as aesthetic practices that seek to transform unrealized and unrecognized histories from the past into future possibilities. The artists featured are Mikhail Karikis, Woo Jeongsu, Lee Jungwoo, Jawshing Arthur Liou, Jakrawal Nilthamrong, Jeon Joon, Jesse Chun, Chan Sook Choi, Sueyon Hwang. Exhibited at May 20 – July 5, 2026

Solo exhibition @ CAST, UK

The Cornubian Arts & Science Trust (CAST) is presenting two of Mikhail Karikis's works created with groups of young people. We Are Together Because... (2025) brings together the 55 teenage students’ sung responses to a series of questions posed by Karikis relating to revolution and democracy, and reflects on things that can unite us in times of crisis. Ain’t Got No Fear (2016) features a small group of boys growing up in the post-industrial marshland of the Isle of Grain in Kent. The film follows the boys as they rap about their lives, searching for purpose and imagining the ways in which their futures might play out. June 24 – August 15, 2026

Small Wonders: Reimagining British Art @ Hayward Gallery Touring, UK

Hayward Gallery is launching a new touring exhibition as part of the Southbank Centre’s 75th anniversary celebrations. Bringing together new and existing work by 50 acclaimed artists. Opening at Williamson Art Gallery, the show offers an eclectic snapshot of British art across the past 45 years. The exhibition features alumni from every edition of the landmark British Art Show - the UK's most significant recurring survey of contemporary art - spanning the inaugural 1979 iteration to the most recent in 2021. The result is a condensed yet expansive overview of a half-century of British art history. 5 June - 25 July 2026