Nefeli Kentoni (b. 1998, Cyprus) is a London-based director, writer, and visual artist whose work responds to the remains of a world that endlessly collapses and rebuilds itself. Working across performance, film, and text, she explores the gaps between language and image, the implicit forces that shape the performer–viewer relationship, and the tension between lightness and gravity in existence. Weaving together tenderness, absurdity, and humour, she dismantles reality and reconstructs it within unpredictable landscapes.

 

Nefeli is a graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Central Saint Martins (UAL), where she was nominated for the MullenLowe NOVA Award. Her work has been showcased internationally at institutions and festivals including the Prague Quadrennial, Tate Modern, Barbican Centre, Cyprus State Gallery of Contemporary Art, The Place, Nicosia International Festival, Dance House Lefkosia, and the Chengdu–Chongqing International Theatre Festival, among others.

 

In 2020, she was Writer in Residence at Tate Exchange and part of Barbican’s Young Visual Arts Group for two consecutive years. Her short film Fragility of Language won the Screendance Short Film Competition at the 36th Leeds International Film Festival. Her performance Katabasis was a finalist at the Offies Awards 2025 and received the Best Director Award at the Chengdu–Chongqing International Theatre Festival in China, where her performance Wall of Babel was also honoured with the Best Play Award.

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