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Artist BIO
Nikita Berezko
(he/they, b. 2001) is a Lithuanian artist based between the Netherlands and
Lithuania, working across performance, VJing, coding, choreography, and sound.
Their practice engages with failure, noise, and the unstable processes of
meaning-making through glitch, bodily exhaustion, text, and misused
technologies.
After studying
philosophy and classical philology at Vilnius University, Nikita continued with
a BA in Dance at ArtEZ University of the Arts (NL), where they developed a
research-driven artistic practice. Until now, they have mostly worked as a
performer and sound designer, participating in works presented at venues and
festivals such as the Vilnius Biennial of Performance Art (LT), The Sound of C (BEL), Uitnacht Arnhem
(NL) and De Pont Museum (NL) among others.
Since 2024, Nikita has
shifted focus towards developing their own work. Their process prioritizes
research and slow forms of art-making, resisting coherence and linearity in
favor of improvisation and choreo-acoustic experimentation.
Currently, Nikita is
an artist-in-residence at the Future Storytelling Lab (Zwolle), where they are
pursuing a techno-somatic research on mourning, techno-nostalgia, and ruin
pornography.
Residencies
2024 - Performing Arts Forum (PAF SU24)
2025 - Performing Arts Forum (PAF SU24)
2025 - Platform Nexus
2025 – 2026 Future Storytelling Lab (FSL), Zwolle, Netherlands.
Education
ArtEZ University of the Arts, Bachelor of Dance, Arnhem, Netherlands 2022 - 2026 (ongoing)
Vilnius University, Bachelor in Philosophy, Vilnius, Lithuania 2019 – 2022
National M.K.Ciurlionis School of Art (specialized in contemporary dance), Vilnius Lithuania 2016-2019
Own Work
03/2025 – narcosonic drone gangbang, solo audiovisual noise set. Presented for collectief wasem at Willemeen, Arnhem, Netherlands.
09/2024 – autoerotic cacophonies, solo audiovisual performance by Nikita Berezko. Presented for Overture Carnival at 187 nights, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
08/2024 - variations on grieving, duet performance by Mikhail Kazakov & Nikita Berezko. Created and performed in Performing Arts Forum (PAF), France.
06/2024 - a place of silent contemplation, duet performance by Nikita Berezko & Inci Gül Civelekoglu. Performed in Museum Arnhem, Netherlands.
02-2022 - Farewell, performance by Nikita Berezko and Elmyra Ragimova. Performed in Studium P, Vilnius.
SOUND DESIGN/AUDIOVISUAL WORK
08/2025 - Temptation, unreleased, dance performance by Mikhail Kazakov, sound design by Nikita Berezko.
05/2025 VJ for
sSSsSSss (
Laboratory of QTBIPOC Nightlife Practices) at Ruigoord Palace (Amsterdam)
09/2024 – WORK TO EARTH OUR HEARTS, performance by Inci Gül Civelekoglu, sound design by Nikita Berezko. Performed as part of “The Sound of C” at C-mine Genk, Belgium.
RESEARCH
2025-2026
a/v research on
ruin pornography, nostalgia and the digital materiality [ongoing]
2024-2025 a/v research on plurality of noise(s): politics and poetics of the abject
IN WORKS BY OTHERS
03/2025 – Gut Feeling, installation/performance by Wessel Verrijt, Stroom Gallery, The Hague (NL)
01/2025 - For War and Peace, performance by Anthony van Gog, Museum De Pont x DANSBRABANT, Tilburg (NL)
04/2024 - Wild Dogs, dance performance choreographed by Julio Cesar Iglesias Ungo, ArtEZ, Netherlands
07/2023 – The Cat Practice, performance by Pontus Pettersson. Performed as a part of Vilnius Biennial of Performance Art 2023
04/2023 – Surge, choreographed by Anouk van Dijk, ArtEZ, Netherlands - dancer
01/2023 – Red, Green and Blue, by Amit Palgi. Performed at Musis theater Arnhem for Uitnacht Arnhem 2023
05/2022 – Sietys, performance by Saule Noreikaite. Performed as a part of Putvinskis Street Day 2022, Kaunas
11/2021 – Electronic opera Echopraxia, performance by international collective INФOPSIN. Premiered in Gallery 1986, Vilnius
IN FILM
2023 - Odysseus : Odysseus, directed by Koen ter Braak. Premiered in Het Nationale Theater, Den Haag and Nederlands Film Festival 2024 – choreographer/dancer/actor
2022 - Tell Me – Де Ти?, dance film directed by Sandro Garibashvili and Maria Koreneva. Film is part of the official selection of Tanzahoi International Dance; Festival (HAMBURG); On Art Dance Fest (WARSAW); In Shadow (LISBON); Wicklow Screendance Lab; Puga Dance Fest (VILNIUS) – dancer/actor
Last Updated 24.10.31