Combining different media, embodied practices, and ceremonial elements, I design experiences of self-exploration. I create dreamlike environments to play with our perceptions of reality and explore our relationship with our bodies and the world around us.
I am called by the intimate and imaginative state that can emerge when we take a moment to tap into our sensory awareness and inner psyche. I delve into the liminal spaces between the physical and the spiritual, and invite people to experience their own bodies, thoughts, dreams and desires.
My body of work ranges from video pieces to immersive room installations where I perform and interact with visitors. My installed pieces invite visitors to slow down and tune into their experience, immersing in worlds that are surreal, mystical and perhaps magical.
- All
- Installation
- Performance
- Video
- Interactive
DJINN
2023
An installation creating a space to reframe and reconstruct wish making.
CHEST OF MIRRORS
Ongoing
Series of cards and video works presented in an interactive performance within an installation. A game of mysteries.
GIFTS
2021
A series of nine short videos investigating yin qualities as gifts, such as contemplating, reposing, and emptying. Also exhibited via AR in "Alive".
SILENCIO
2022, 6 minutes
A video installation exploring silence and what it may have to share. Fluorescent jellyfish and abstract images float in space.
LIMBO
2022
Art experience with interactive performances within a series of immersive installations. A journey into the realms between life and death.
RETUNE
2022, 6 minutes
A journey through our lives from the first to the last breath.
FOCUS
2022, 7 minutes
An immersive video installation exploring the colors of our inner states while lying in a soft, grey space and gazing at eyes looking back.
ALIVE
2022, 15 pieces of 1 minute each
Fifteen pieces on canvas that become alive when visitors point their phones at them.
VISION
2019, 12 minutes
A video performance exploring the experience of seeing, looking at light with new eyes, and illuminating inner spaces.
PRESENCE
2018, 9 minutes
A video exploring the feeling of spaciousness and containment in the sensed body. A meditation on dissolving into an oceanic presence.
BREATH
2018, 9 minutes
A video installation exploring poetic, philosophical, performative and audiovisual approaches to breathing and experiencing the breath.
DIVE
2018, 9 minutes
A video on the process of diving inwards, tasting sensations and venturing within without knowing.
TEMPLE OF TRANSMUTATION
2022
Spiraling willow branches point the way to the altar in the center, where a ceremony of transmutation is initiated.
ALONENESS
2021
Series of six installations reflecting on the relationship we cultivate with ourselves in solitude.
THE COVEN
2021, 1 hour video loop
Immersive video installation inviting visitors to lay down, relax, and sense their living bodies while letting images and sounds land inside them.
FIRE BLESSING
2022-23
Performative blessings with fire.
DREAM NEXUS
2023
Interactive performances delving into dreams, dream transmission and upload.
GOLD
2022
A series of interactive performances where participants choose a so-called 'treatment' and are guided into an exploration of their 'inner gold'.
DREAM TEMPLE
2020
A fantasy room made of fluffy white cotton and a magical tree of lights inhabited by Luma. A ritual to delve into one's dreams and embody them.
THE WAITING ROOM
2019
A site for the suspension of reality and an entrance into the numinous, where participants are induced into dream state through various poetic means.
SPACES FOR SILENCE
2022
Where does my inner silence meet the silence of the universe? A series of performances exploring the moments between sounds and their resonances.
WEAVING
2019
A soft, dark space to weave sensations, thoughts, meaning, or do nothing... Rest in one's own fabric. Maybe share reflections onto the web.
SOMA BATH
2019, 1 hour video loop
A video installation researching the living, pulsing body as experienced from within.
WAKE
2017, 4 minutes
Experiments on waking and awakening.
GATHERING
2016, 8 minutes
How does a mundane action become a ceremony into the numinous? A visual ritual starting with the movement of combing my hair after a shower.
REFLECTOR
2015, series of 6, 2 minutes each
A series of six videos creating sanctuaries for reflection. Nature merges with the body in mirrored compositions that invite new images to arise.
DO IT
2014, 3 minutes
A video instructing to ask oneself a question and breathe in and out fifteen times before going back to the question.
INFLOW
2014, 12 minutes
A video installation inducing into deeper and calmer states of consciousness.
CLEANSING
2014, 8 minutes
Video installation orchestrating a cleansing ceremony to engage viewers in a ritual experienced in intimacy.
HUG BY THE SEA
2014, 3 minutes
Personal exploration dealing with the death of a friend, juxtaposing the observing, living body and the observed, past memories.
BELOW
2014
A video exploring with borrowed audio samples and inviting the viewer to sink below the surface of the images.
BRING TO LIFE
2011, 8 minutes
A video about two sentient ideas locked in a dark dimension, on their journey into bringing themselves to life. Who becomes the host?
ALCHEMIST
2019, 3 minutes
One of the videos of the Chest of Mirrors series. Alchemy, masks, veils, process.
GUIDE
2019, 3 minutes
One of the videos of the Chest of Mirrors series. Guidance, nature, health, integration.
MAGICIAN
2019, 3 minutes
One of the videos of the Chest of Mirrors series. Light, multiplication, chains, liberation, connections.
HERMIT
2019, 3 minutes
One of the videos of the Chest of Mirrors series. Source, transition, pause, devotion, contrast, understanding.
JUDGE
2019, 3 minutes
One of the videos of the Chest of Mirrors series. Orientation, judgement, perspective, outlet, balance.
DREAMER
2019, 3 minutes
One of the videos of the Chest of Mirrors series. Innocence, blind, creation, receptivity, play.
CREATOR
2019, 3 minutes
One of the videos of the Chest of Mirrors series. Creation, softness, patience, fertility, nourishment, listening.
UNLOCKING
2021
Gift I, part of a series of nine videos exploring yin qualities.
EMBRACING
2021
Gift II, part of a series of nine videos exploring yin qualities.
ALLOWING
2021
Gift III, part of a series of nine videos exploring yin qualities.
REPOSING
2021
Gift IV, part of a series of nine videos exploring yin qualities.
LONGING
2021
Gift V, part of a series of nine videos exploring yin qualities.
CONTAINING
2021
Gift VI, part of a series of nine videos exploring yin qualities.
NURTURING
2021
Gift VII, part of a series of nine videos exploring yin qualities.
EMPTYING
2021
Gift VIII, part of a series of nine videos exploring yin qualities.
CONTEMPLATING
2021
Gift IX, part of a series of nine videos exploring yin qualities.
FIRE
2014
Reflector I, part of a series of six videos creating sanctuaries for reflection, merging the body with mirrored compositions.
EARTH
2014
Reflector III, part of a series of six videos creating sanctuaries for reflection, merging the body with mirrored compositions.
WATERFALL
2014
Reflector II, part of a series of six videos creating sanctuaries for reflection, merging the body with mirrored compositions.
GEYSER
2014
Reflector IV, part of a series of six videos creating sanctuaries for reflection, merging the body with mirrored compositions.
CAVE
2014
Reflector V, part of a series of six videos creating sanctuaries for reflection, merging the body with mirrored compositions.
LAKE
2014
Reflector VI, part of a series of six videos creating sanctuaries for reflection, merging the body with mirrored compositions.
Short Bio
Kia Kali is a video, performance and multidisciplinary artist born in Buenos Aires and based in Berlin. She studied arts internationally and holds an M.F.A. from the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg. She combines media, the sensed body and ceremonial elements to explore altered states of consciousness and our perceptions of reality. Her works have been supported by public funds like Stiftung Kunstfonds and shown in galleries and project spaces in Germany and abroad.
My Work
I combine different media, the sensed body and ceremonial elements to design experiences. My multidisciplinary practice encompasses video, performance, sound, text, immersive installations and AR/VR technologies. My body of work ranges from single video-performance pieces to installations where I perform and interact with visitors.
In my ongoing work Chest of Mirrors, I invite people to draw a card from a deck I created and then show them a video connected to the card they selected, evoking associations and encouraging personal interpretation. In Limbo (2022), visitors journeyed through multiple room installations into a dimension between life and death, where I guided them into ceremonies honoring death. My exhibit Silencio (2022) presented two series of short video works accessed via AR and a series of solo and duo performances I created on the concept of silence.
In each work, I create dreamlike environments to explore our perceptions of reality and our connection with our bodies. What permeates my practice is a search for the intimate and imaginative states that can emerge when we blur out distractions, sharpen our senses and let ourselves be taken on a journey.
I am particularly fascinated by the liminal spaces between the real and the imaginary, the seen and the unseen, the visible and the hidden. By tapping into my sensory awareness and dreamlike psyche, I investigate how we can connect with our inner selves, our imagination and our environment to create new realities and feel more alive. My artistic practice revolves around creating immersive experiences of self-exploration, inviting introspection and shifting conscious perceptions.
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What if the boundaries
between the physical and spiritual worlds
were more porous than we think?