Mariam Gviniashvili
Role at the ZKM
- Guest Artist
Biography
Based in Oslo, Norway, Mariam Gviniashvili works as a sound artist and composer - combining electronics, electroacoustics and 3D sound technology with visuals, dance and live performances to dig deeply into the physical and emotional essence of sound and space. Since early childhood, music has followed Gviniashvili through her life. She grew up in East Georgia, where she sang and played the piano. While studying composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music, she gradually found her way as a creative composer and visual artist. This also explains her divers and unexpected subject matters - distractions during online meetings, as in her piece »Daydreaming« (2022), the strange cosmic ballet of the audiovisual »Revelation« (2021) or the stereo/ambisonics piece »Deconstruction« (2020, awarded with an honorable mention at the Prix Ars Electronica) reflecting on a virus spreading patterns.
A variety of festivals, major venues and radio programs presented Mariam Gviniashvili's music, including the New York Electroacoustic Music Festival (USA), BEAST FEaST (UK), Transitions at CCRMA (USA), MA/IN (Italy), ICMC (Korea), Mixtur Festival (Spain), ARD Hörspieltage at ZKM | Karlsruhe (Germany), BBC Radio (UK), Prix Ars Electronica (Austria), Klingt Gut (Germany), In Situ Festival (Denmark), Heroines of Sound (Germany) and Ultima Festival (Norway).