Khrystyna Kirik is a Ukrainian sound and media artist whose practice moves between live performance, installation, field recording, found-object instrumentation, electronics, and voice. Her work approaches sound as a primary medium of investigation into what escapes direct perception — translating imperceptible phenomena into sensory experience and distributing agency across human and non-human materials, bodies, and environments. She terms this attentiveness to what territories hold and emit hyper-ambience.

She is a SHAPE+ 2024 artist and her recent EP State of Latitude was released on Standard Deviation in January 2026. Her work has been presented internationally at CTM Festival Berlin, Kantine am Berghain, Conflux Festival Rotterdam, Interstice Festival Normandy, UH Fest Budapest, Sonica Presents Glasgow, Skanu Mezs White Nights Riga, XJazz! Festival Berlin, Festival d'Avignon, and Le Phénix Valenciennes, among others.

Her key works include The Core — a live sound and vibration performance developed in collaboration with artist Mark Bain — and State of Latitude, a four-part audiovisual installation created with u2203 studio and ecologist Anna Kuzemko, which examines four natural territories in Ukraine affected by the full-scale invasion. Both works are developed within the Disturbed Ground project, supported by the Goethe-Institut and CTM/DISK. Other works include Sub-sur-face (2024), Sonic Climates (2024, with Elod Máté Janky and Peter Teller), Tree (2024), and Cube (2023, with Nick Acorn).

In parallel to her performance and exhibition practice, she has developed initiatives for collective sound-making including Sound-box and the Found Object Residency, and leads workshops in electro-acoustic improvisation across Europe. She works in collaboration with multimedia artist Emma Rubikaitė-Milašiūtė, with whom she developed Biophilic Vision — an audiovisual project exploring hyper-ambience and embodied listening, presented at Rewire 2026.