Daria Redkina is a Berlin-based sound and multimedia artist with academic background and experimental approach, specialising in conceptual sound art, sculpture and audiovisual productions, such as multichannel audio and compositions for theatre and choreography. Her recent research and practice explores environmental issues informed by theoretical and scientific studies, represented artistically in the form of performative sculptures and interactive objects.
Daria creates physically experiential environments where sound, material, the human body, and computational systems engage in a dynamic exchange. Human and non-human bodies share narratives, allowing a dimension where sonic spaces are mutually experienced, bringing awareness to our shared presence and evoking empathic responses.
She has performed , recorded and released music as solo and in collaboration with other artists – as one half of electronic folk duet Cotenius X and founder/leading member of a music collective Augmented Aural.
Since 2016 she has performed as a fictional character named Zoya Zerkalski using deconstructed accordion reeds and various electro-mechanical applications. By using innovative instruments and electronic processing techniques she explores the relationship of technology and aesthetic experience.
Exhibitions:
Feb 2025 ,
Kunstquartier Bethanien , Berlin – 8 channel sound installation ‘AIR’FINITE’
Dec 2024
Frei-Raum.Berlin – 8 channel sound installation ‘AIR’FINITE’
July 2024
Gropius Bau ‘Radical Playgrounds’ by Berliner Festspiele – sound installation ‘Solar Bugs’
March 2023
Frei-Raum Berlin – sound installation and performance ‘Uji’
Aug 2021
Outline Festival, Moscow – sound installation and performance ‘Cotenius X – ballooning’
Dec 2020
Sounds About, Berlin – presentation of electronic wearable mask object in a feedback system
Performances:
Jan 2024
CTM partner event at Berlin Open Lab : Ligeti 100.101 – sound composition and performance (D.Redkina & M.Johmann ‘VoluuuminA’)
Dec 2023
House of Music , Budapest : Ligeti 100.101 – sound composition and performance (D.Redkina & M.Johmann ‘VoluuuminA’ )
Nov 2023
Klangtheater , Vienna: Ligeti 100.101 – sound composition and performance (D.Redkina & M.Johmann ‘VoluuuminA’)
Sep 2023
Do You Be , Sameheads Berlin – Air Opera (extension) – live electroacoustic solo
June 2023
Codex CLub, Panke Berlin – live electroacoustic solo
April 2023
Raster.Alphabet at RSO, Berlin – live electronic solo with visuals by Tim Novy
Sound for theatre / choreography:
October 2024
Staadliches Theater Chemnitz – sound composition for theatre play ‘Punkt Punkt Komma Strich’
July 2023
Tanzfabrik, Berlin – Sound Design for choreographic work ‘RIVER’ , dir.Ari Adamski
Dec 2021
Ernst Busch Academy, Berlin – sound design and live performance for theatre group ‘Irrspiel’
Publications:
2023 – Cotenius X – Plastic Bag , ARMA Records (LP & digital release)
Residencies:
Oct – Dec 2023
House of Music, Budapest, Hungary
June 2019
Monom Studios, Funkhaus, Berlin
Grants:
2024 / 2025 – Deutschlandstipedium for outstanding artistic performance.
2023 – DAAD Stibet III Grant for Ukrainian scholars in Berlin
Education:
MA Sound Studies and Sonic Arts, Universitat der Kunst, Berlin (2025)
BA Sound for Film, Metropolitan University of London, UK (2010).
BA Art History , Nottingham , UK. (2005)