Join artist Mikhail Karikis for a screening featuring some of his short films, followed by an in conversation with writer, poet and fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Cherry Smyth.
For more information on Songs for the Storm to Come, Mikhail’s current solo exhibition in HOME’s main gallery, see here.
More about the artists
Cherry Smyth
Cherry Smyth is an Irish poet, novelist and art writer, living in London. Famished (Pindrop Press, 2019) a book-length poem, explores the Irish Famine and how imperialism helped cause the largest refugee crisis of the 19th century. If the River is Hidden (Epoque Press, 2022) with Craig Jordan-Baker, is a prose-poetry collaboration based on the ecology of the River Bann, Northern Ireland. Her latest collection One Mountain: Sold (forthcoming, 2025) responds to the threat of a multinational gold mine destroying an area of outstanding beauty in the Sperrin Mountains.
Mikhail Karikis
Mikhail Karikis exhibits internationally. In his most recent work for the stage, ‘Universe of Solutions’, he was artistic director for UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network inaugural cultural event for which he collaborated with 150 young people. Solo presentations include Sounds of a Revolution, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, PT (2024); Voices, Communities, Ecologies, Cukrarna Centre for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, SO (2024); Because We Are Together (2023), National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens GR; Ferocious Love, Tate Liverpool (2020); For Many Voices, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), UK (2019-20); Children of Unquiet, TATE St Ives, UK (2019-20); I Hear You, De la Warr Pavilion, UK (2019-20); Mikhail Karikis, MORI Art Museum, Tokyo, JP (2019); No Ordinary Protest, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2018); Ain’t Got No Fear, Turku Art Museum, FI (2018); The Chalk Factory, Aarhus 2017 European Capital of Culture, DK (2017) and Love Is the Institution of Revolution, Casino Luxembourg Forum d’art Contemporain, LU (2017).
Group exhibitions include 54th Venice Biennale, (2011), IT; Manifesta 9, Ghenk, (2012); 19th Biennale of Sydney, (2014); Kochi-Muziris Biennale, IN, (2016); Media City Seoul, KR (2015); British Art Show 8 (2016-7); 2nd Riga International Biennale of Contemporary Art, LV (2020), 2nd Saitama Triennale (2024), JP and others.
Karikis’s creative endeavours include music performances at Royal Opera House Covent Garden and Barbican Theatre, and musical collaborations with Björk, DJ Spooky and the Belgian record label Sub Rosa.