Kerrie O'Leary

Kerrie O'Leary is an Irish artist and producer based between Dublin and London. Her practice leverages technology to bring data and abstract information to life, using field research and interdisciplinary collaborations to create kinetic sculptures and immersive installations that make nature's complexities more tangible.

With a background in Management Science and Information Systems from Trinity College Dublin, O'Leary has developed a unique, systems-driven approach. Her MFA in Computational Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, deepened her exploration into environmental systems, the sublime, and hyperobjects.

During her residency in Berlin, she will explore ways of translating quantum phenomena to resonate with diverse audiences, aiming to make these concepts more accessible through art.

Her installations and public artworks have been featured at Somerset House and the V&A in London, as well as internationally in New York, China, and Dublin. Past residencies include Makerversity in London and the Tides Institute and Museum of Art in Maine, USA.


Kerrie O’Leary met Petja Ivanova during her residency at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, allowing for collaboration and idea exchange. Petja Ivanova (born in Bulgaria) is an artist, performer, and lecturer whose interdisciplinary practice blends speculative design, bio-materials, and embodied knowledge with computational art. Through her "Studio for Poetic Futures and Speculative Ecologies," she creates immersive installations that engage audiences with relational, metaphysical experiences. Drawing on mycelial networks, psycho-spiritual practices, and cyberfeminist and hydrofeminist theories, her work challenges binary thinking and introduces non-dualist perspectives on ecology, technology, and consciousness.

Ivanova’s art foregrounds the body, intuition, and relational experiences, offering alternative modes of knowing that resist exploitation. Using bio-materials like chitosan and wound-healing fabrics, she explores the fragility and resilience of both the living world and human consciousness. Her practice engages with urgent cultural questions around the Anthropocene, new materialism, and ecofeminism.

Her work has been exhibited at major institutions such as Museum Folkwang, Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Museum of Modern Art Antwerp, and ZKM Karlsruhe. Ivanova has taught speculative design at Linnaeus University in Sweden and Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and is a 2023 Human Machine Fellow at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin.


This residency is supported by Zeitgeist Irland 24 and Akademie der Künste, Berlin.