Kassiani Goulakou aka Nanuki is a composer and media artist from Athens, Greece. She holds a BA degree in Art History and Theory from the Athens School of Fine Arts, a BA degree in Classical Piano from the Kodaly Conservatory of Athens and a MA degree in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts from the University of Arts Berlin.

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She works with music, sound and video.

As a pianist, she experiments with the sound of acoustic and electric pianos combining her classical training with jazz, and popular music arrangements. As a composer she loves working with drum machines and analog synthesisers creating fusion beats and immersive soundscapes.

In 2021, she started releasing her music under the alias Nanuki.

Besides writing music as a solo artist, she is also composing music for film and video installations, as well as working as a video producer and colourist.

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Her work have been shown and heard at Para Site (HK), Science Gallery London (GB), Haus der Statistik (DE), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (DE), Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt (DE), Modular+ Space (DE), SoundsAbout (DE), gallery Kunstarkaden (DE), gallery Kunstbau Lenbachhaus (DE), GOLD+BETON (DE), Circuits and Currents (GR). 

 

Her music is released by the independent label Ribbontail Berlin.

 

In 2019, she founded together with Fausto Mujica Underpaid Mantis an audiovisual studio focusing on documenting and producing artistic works.

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She is currently living and working in Berlin.

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Education

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2010-2015  Bachelor in Classical Piano, Kodaly Conservatory Athens, Greece

2011-2016    Bachelor in Art History and Theory, Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece

2015-2016   Survival Kit, artistic and educational research program with the support from the DAAD: Partnerships with Greek Institutions of                                 Higher  Education 2014 – 2016, A Cooperation between the Academy of Fine Art Munich (ADBK) and the Athens School of Fine                           Arts (ASFA), Athens

2017-2020  Master in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts, University of Arts Berlin, Germany

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Releases​​

​solo

2022   Nanuki feat. LFA - Κέντρο, single and music video, released by Ribbontail Berlin

2020  Kassiani Goulakou - Murmurs, independent release

2019    Kassiani Goulakou - Achronisms, independent release

 

collaborations

2023   Nanuki - Dromoi / Δρόμοι, EP, featuring LFA and Cievil Momo, released by Ribbontail Berlin

2024   Fausto Perez feat. Nanuki, LFA - Delulu, released by Ribbontail Berlin

2024   Fausto Perez feat. Nanuki, LFA - Closer, released by Ribbontail Berlin

2024   Fausto Perez feat. Nanuki, LFA - Portal, released by Ribbontail Berlin

2021    Cievil Momo feat. Nanuki - Temperance, EP, released by Ribbontail Berlin

2021    Cievil Momo feat. Nanuki - Handsome, single, released by Ribbontail Berlin

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Soundtracks

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​2025 Tang Han - Rhizoming Wind: Forecasting, two-channel video

2024 Tang Han - Ordinary Affects, two-channel video

2023 Christina Themeli - The Stranger Inside Her, short film, produced by underpaid mantis.

2022 Tang Han - Gingko and Other Times, video installation

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Exhibitions

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2022  Tang Han - Gingko and other times, part of the BPA exhibition, KW, Berlin

2021   Marios Pavlou – disarmed by three giant rosy pebbles, Gold+Beton, Cologne

2019   Let there be Wifi, group exhibition, SoundsAbout gallery, Berlin

2018   Presence at a Distance, group exhibition, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

2018   A/noesis, group exhibition, Modular+space, Berlin

2015   Reality Through Fiction, group exhibition, Circuits and Currents, Athens

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Grants

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2021    Akademie der Künste, INITIAL Special Grant, As part of NEUSTART KULTUR, a Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the                Media programme

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2023   Pop Stipendium, Bundesverband Popularmusik e.V.

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SPACES

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2018-2020  SoundsAbout, gallery, Berlin, Germany, organisation, events and space manager

2015-2017   Circuits and Currents, project space of the Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece, student assistant

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Talks/ events

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2019   Transmediale Student Forum, transmediale festival Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

2019   1821 Digital Archive conference, Research Center for the Humanities, National Hellenic Research Center, Athens

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Publication

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2016  Animal of the State, collective publication, with the support from the DAAD: Partnerships with Greek Institutions of Higher Education 2014 –            2016, A Cooperation between the Academy of Fine Art Munich (ADBK) and the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA), Athens