Dimitra Kousteridou(GR) is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher and composer who currently lives and works in Athens, GR. Her Diploma in Art and Design was received from Akto Art and Design College, her Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the Hanze University|Academy Minerva, Groningen, NL, a Master's degree in Music Composition with New Media from Musicology of National and Kapodistrian University Athens, GR and Doctoral Candidate, Ph.D. in Creative Multimedia and Visual Arts at University of Technology, Limassol, CYP
Her work is driven by a desire to invent a language in composition that examines tactile and sound aspects within site-specific art installations, painting and improvisation. Through multidisciplinary forms that include installations, ephemeral situations and fractures of objects, she creates a space for research, while using the sound and aesthetics of the materials in time. Recently working on improvised sound compositions with handmade
instruments (interactive handmade synthesizers). She has performed and exhibited in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Portugal, Serbia, Libanon and Greece
EDUCATION
2025 Doctoral Candidate, Ph.D. in Creative Multimedia and Visual Arts/ University of Technology, Limassol, CYP, Expected completion: 2028
2021
Music Composition with New Media/Musicology department//
National and Kapodistrian University Athens, GR
2018 Music technology foundation/online course//university of Adelaide
Music for Wellness/certified online course// Berklee University
Anthropology of the current world/online course//Queensland
2017 Mediamatic, Amsterdam,NL
Bachelor of Fine Arts/Hanze University of Applied Sciences// Groningen, NL
2016 MediaLab Amsterdam/ Mediamatic cultural space Amsterdam
Internship at Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision//Amsterdam, NL
2012 Bachelor Art And Design/AKTO Art and Design college//Thessaloniki, GR
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/ PERFORMANCES
2026 Solo electronics, Audio Blast14/ Ateliers de Bitche, Nantes, FR
Exhibition Audioblast,Sound Sculpture Fugue in Low F/plateforme Intermedia, Nantes, FR
2025 Live electronics performance at echoraum/ Vienna, AUT
Live at Krama Festival 2025/ Plex, Athens, GR
Exhibition sound art: Dialogues in Sound, Materiality, and Spectromorphology, dotwipstudios, Athens, GR
Media()Messe audiovisual performance for PIKSEL24 festiva/ PIKSEL 24 – Geo- v(oid)(0)latility(∞)politics/ ØstreBergen, NO
Live with Athens3000 ensemble at Megaron The Athens Concert Hall, Athens, GR
Album Presentation “Scattering Theories# with Zappak Records, ovOffstudio, Athens, GR
2024 Live with the Athens3000 ensemble at Jazzhochburg Festival Austria, AUT
Summer Alchemy Festival Berlin, solo presentation live/ Tanzhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin, DE
Research grand for composition and artist residency from COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) and DaLab Foundation, Sofia,Bulgaria
Live performance & composition commission for MAZI PROJECTS,ART Athina2024, Athens, GR
Commissioned live performance for Athens Epidaurus Festival/ subset festival//Athens concervatoire, Athens, GR
Curational management, Head of communication at dot.wip studios, Athens, GR
Live concert w blackbody_radiation/ OvOff Studio/ Athens, GR
2023 Concert w Bethnal Greener/ Electroacoustic Music Festival// MOMus,Thessaloniki, GR
Sound Installation/"Stereoma" Electroacoustic Music and Audiovisual Arts Festival,//MOMus- Experimental Center for the Arts, Thessaloniki, GR
Solo live/ Ametric Festival/ San Salvatore Bastion, Chania Creta, GR
Live Performance /Fauna_Sauna//Romantso, Athens GR
Presentation of research and artistic work/ 9th Annual Conference: Body Knowledges: Praxis, Politics, Performance //University of Malta
Sound sculpture live performance/Orila Presents //TV control Center, Athens, GR
Curation and Communication Coordination of Xenakis Conference/ XNPM22: XenakisNetworked Performance Marathon 2022 //Athens Conservatory, Athens, GR
2022 Passport, With You, live performance/Borderline Festival 11//Onassis Foundation, Athens, GR
Passport, With You Performance/Irtijal International Festival of Experimental Music// BallroomBlitzbeirut, Lebanon
Interacting sound/dance performance//OnOffStudio, Athens, GR
6.8KOhm Presentation of research and artistic work/ Feedback Instruments Musicianship Network//KET, Athens, GR
2021 The aesthetics of the “polymorphic graphical notation” from Anestis Logothetis toward an autographic composition practise by Dimitra Kousteridou /Logothetis Centenary Symposium// Athens GR
6.8KOhm performance lecture/PostSENSORIUM RIXC Art Science Conference
I Can See Clearly Now, painting excibition/ ArtsStalker gallery//Berlin, DE
Surfaces/ Residency and performance installation//Footnote center,Belgrade,SB
Performance- Sound Installation/ Tsak BabFestival// Aigina, GR
2020
Electric Nights Experimental music Festival/Intermedia performance online
An-Exile radio piece/Movement (1920 – 2020) Beyond and between borders //Onassis Foundation, Athens,GR
6.8KOhm+dance/Performance Promenade//Athens Video Dance Festival,GR
Never Below Zero/GroupShow//SNEHTA Gallery. Athens, GR
Unusual Self-Portraits/ sound painting and performance//Project gallery, GR
2019
SPATIAL PERFORMANCES Festival/kinesthetic performance//Romanzo,Athens,GR
Evolution of a garden.Digital Arts Festival/sound installation//exfokas,Athens
ARC for dance festival/kinesthetic performance with"Verge"//OLVIO Theater
OnMaterials/sound performance//Kassandras,Athens,GR
CTRL+T Dimitra Kousteridou /open studio solo exhibition//TAF Gallery,Athens,GR
Cross Attachments Sound Installation/ :Base Gallery// Athens, GR
2018 Promitheus 2.0/ Group Show//Michael Cacogiannis Fundation//Athens,GR
6.8KOhm Imrovistion series tour //DeRuimte,Amsterdam,NL/ AtelierIlSoleCantine,Gronigen,GR/TwixtLab/KET/Chimeres Athens,GR/
ComeetCreativeSpace,Creta,GR
Never Below Zero/ Group Show//SNEHTA Galery//Athens, GR
ElektraGramm, Op.58/ National Greek Opera//Athens, GR
Under the paving stones, the river/Snehta gallery//Athens, GR
2018
6,8 K Ohm Installation/Platforms Project, Independent Art Fair//
Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, GR
Exploring spaces/Communism vol.III: Europe was taken by a Bull//Athens, GR
Audible creations/Spacelab//Thessaloniki, GR
In Between/Solo exchibition//Home Gallery Hosting//Amsterdam, NL
Instruments make play@SoundLab/Muziekgebouwaan‘t IJ//Amsterdam,NL
Freakatoni Witchy Weekends/Improvisation Festival 2017 OT301//Amsterdam, NL
2017
Multirealities/Finals Exhibition//Praedinious Academy Minerva//Groningen, NL
Something in particular/sound piece of Music Ethnography//Steim, Amsterdam,NL
2016 DataVrij prototype/Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision//Hilversum,NL
I miss you forever and ever Norway xoxo/blip blip blip gallery//Leeds,UK
For the Benefit of All Humans/Group Exhibition/Theater de Kapel//Groningen, NL
2015 Parrhesia project/Sign Gallery//Groningen, NL
Hans Brinker Budget Trophy/Hans Brinker Gallery//Amsterdam,NL
Tall Ships/Leidsevaart//Haarlem, NL
12 hours perfoemance/Academy Minerva livestream//Groningen,NL
tsssskkrrkrk/rembrandt continues/SKPN//Groningen,NL
The Stranger In Me/Performance for Joseph Semah//
Stedelijk Museum Assen Hedendaagse Kunst//Assen, NL
EEA Nordic Artists Center//Dale i Sunnfjord, Norway
Catch 22/Group exhibition at KABK//Den Hague, NL
2014 TCHIP HOPZZ audiovisual Performance/Atelier il sole in cantina//Groningen,NL
Traum Tumult/Visual arrangements-collaborations//Grand Theater//Groningen,NL
Untitled/Kunstfabrik Am Flutgraben//Berlin, DE
White Noise/Minerva Academy//Groningen, NL
Open Dag//Praediniuss//Groningen, NL
RESIDENCIES
2026 Experimental research and production residency/APO33, Nantes FR
2025 Research residency practice based//DA LAB Sofia, Bulgaria
2023 Curation two years at dot.wipstudios/Athens, GR
2021 Footnote center// Belgrade,Serbia
2018 SNEHTA residency//Athens,Greece
2017 Dalmatia events//Peniche,Portugal
2015 EEA Nordic Artists’ Centre//Dale, Norway
CONFERENCES//WORKSHOPS//SEMINARS
2024- Exploring Sonic Practices Workshop/ dot.wipstudios,ongoing locations, Athens, G
Quest Lecturer and workshop leading/ Digital Arts and Cinema Department Univercity of NKUA, Evoia,GR
2023 Paper presentation,9th Annual Conference: Body Knowledges: Praxis, Politics, Performance, University of Malta
2022 Curation and head of communication, XNPM22: Xenakis Networked Performance Marathon 2022 //Athens concervatory, Athens, GR
2021 Anestis Logothetis Centenary Symposium/ Paper presentation at Music department school of Philoshophy, Athens, GR
2019 (-)FEmaleBar Performance Art Festival and (-)FEmaleHome online Art Festival/
Curation and direction,Athens,GR
2018 Audiable creations/Hosting a workshop series about performative painting and sound at Mediamatic, Amsterdam, NL
SpaceLab, Thessaloniki GR
Communitism, Athens GR
Impact Hub, Athens, GR
2017 Aural perceptions/Hosting a workshop about sound exploration of space and collective performance
Dalmatia, Lisboa, PG
Privet gallery, Amterdam, NL