
Nefeli Kentoni (b.1998, Cyprus) is a London based director, writer and visual artist, currently navigating herself and creative practice in an ever-changing world. She is fascinated by the intersections between different disciplines, by the spaces where scenography and philosophy, aesthetics and theatre, filmmaking and poetry meet. The theatrical and cinematic form have been the platform in which she negotiates and experiments the gaps between language and image, the implicit exertions that sustain the performer-viewer relationship, and the performativity of space.
Nefeli presented her work in Prague Quadrennial, Tate Modern, Barbican Centre, NiMac, and the Alternative Cinema Film Festival of Cyprus. She was Writer in Residency at the Tate Exchange, and part of the Young Visual Arts Group at the Barbican. Her short film FRAGILITY OF LANGUAGE won the Screendance Short Film Competition at the Leeds International Film Festival.
EDUCATION
2020-2022 MA Performance Design & Practice Central Saint Martins, UAL
Nominated for the MullenLowe NOVA Awards.
2017-2020 BA Drama, Applied Theatre & Education: Royal Central School of
Writing for Performance Speech and Drama
THEATRE/PERFORMANCE
2023: I am Going Away Now – Performer
dir. Ken Nakajima, Fuga Festival, Slovenia
2023: The Wall of Babel – Writer/Director
Resolution Festival at The Place, London
2023: The S is Silent – Assistant Director/Tech Operator
dir. Marina Cusi at The Pleasance, London
2023: Bach in the Clouds – Performer
dir. Tomio Shota, Platform Theatre, London
2023: Porto Seguro – Performer
dir. Carlotta dos Santos, Platform Theatre, London
2023: HOME – Dramaturg/Scenographer
by Azza-har Theatre at the Vaults Festival, London
2022: A Deer in the Headlights – Assistant Director/Camera Operator
by The Collective dir. Peter Brooks, CSM Operator
2022: KATABASIS minor – Writer/Director
Commissioned for Images & Views of Alternative Cinema Festival, Nicosia
2022: Beyond the Stage – Dramaturg/Text
Audiovisual Performance conducted by Manos Stratis at Museu de les Ciéncies, Valencia
2022: Chaos – Set & Costume Designer
dir. by Maya Kyriazi, Studio Theatre, London
2022: KATABASIS – Writer/Director
Platform Theatre CSM, London
2022: Archive 2.0 – Dramaturg/Scenographer
Dance Performance by Marita Anastasi at The Place, London
2022: If I Ever Get Around to Living – Performer
Devised movement performance dir. Ken Nakajima
2021: Liminal – Writer/Director/Editor
Video Performance for Cyprus Choreography Platform
2021: An Adaptation – Writer/Performer
Video Performance commissioned by Freiraum Festival
2021: Psycho-ish – Camera Operator
Live Cinematic Performance dir. Peter Brooks
2021: A DifficultUncomfortable Place to Die in – Co-creator/Writer
Devised Performance by MA PDP Performer
2021: A Short Life – Co-creator/Performer
Devised movement Performance, White Lab CSM
2020: A Real £100 Performance – Writer/Performer
Zoom Performance commissioned by Platform Journal
2020: Pigeonne, Paloma, Piccione – Co-Writer/Scenographer/Performer
Devised Performance, CSSD Performer
2020: ‘UNTITLES’ – Writer/Director
Site Specific Performance at Tate Exchange in Tate Modern
2019: Fragility of L – Writer/Scenographer/Performer
Solo Performance CSSD, London
2018: Into the Blue – Performer
Devised Children’s Performance dir. Tom Cornford
2016: The Little Prince – Composer/Assistant Director/Scenographer
Musical Theatre dir. Eleni Cosma Scenographer
2015: Alice...or something like that – Composer
Musical Theatre dir. Eleni Cosma
2015: Orpheus & Eurydice V2 – Writer/Director/Composer/Performer
Nicosia Youth Arts Festival
FILM/VIDEO WORK
2023: FAREWELL – Director/Editor
Commissioned by the Barbican Centre for Carrie Mae Weems Exhibition
2022: What happens to me is written up there – Video Production/Editor/Animator
For Maria Loizidou’s exhibition /Editor/Animator
2022: Echoeing the Colouring of Grains – Editor/Colourist
Documentary dir. Efi Savvides
2022: The Self of the Edge of the Self – Text
Directed and Animated by Mo Naan
2021: Liminal – Writer/Director/Editor
Video Performance for Cyprus Choreography Platform
2021: HIRAETH – Capsule Collection – Videographer/Editor
Fashion film by Art Director/Fashion Designer Serena Paris
2021: Fragility of Language – Writer/Director/Editor
Winner of Screendance Short Film Competition at Leeds International Film Festival 2022
Commissioned by NIMAC
2020: UnT(h)amed – Co-director/DOP/Editor
2020: Mal de Mer – Director/DOP/Editor
Moving Images International Video Dance Festival 2020
2020: T – Writer/Director/Editor
EXHIBITIONS
2023: Repair Redux curated by Karina Sellars-Hardy- Hypha Studios, London UK
2023: Through the Green Fuse - Lot Projects, London UK
2022: Platforms Project - Athens, Greece
2022: Age of Many Posts curated by Abbas Zahedi – Barbican Centre, London UK
2022: Re:Repair – Barbican Young Visual ArtsGroup, Barbican Centre, London UK
2022: Lilian Sear Edition of Darts and Shafts – online exhibition
2021: Regenerate – Barbican Young Visual Arts Group, Barbican Centre, London UK
2021: Seeking Roots curated by Ioulita Toumazi NiMAC [Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre] Cyprus
2019: Emergence – Prague Quadrennial
2019: Living Heritage/Reframing Memory – V&A, London UK
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2023: Theatre in Palm Digital Residency organised by Turku AMK/supported by THOC.
2022: Winner of Screendance Short Film Competition at Leeds International Film Festival
2022: Nominated for the MullenLowe NOVA Award
2020-22: Barbican Young Visual Arts Group
2021: REMOTE SENSING The Yard Residency at Centre of Performing Arts MITOS with Seta Astreou Karides
2019: Writer in Residence at Tate Exchange/Tate Modern, London
2019: Emergence Scenography Residency in Nicosia organized by THOC / supported by Prague Quadrennial
2018: Emergence Scenography Residency in Håøya, Norway, organized by THOC and Norwegian Theatre
Academy / supported by Prague Quadrennial
PRESS/ARTICLES
2022: Η «Κατάβασις» της Νεφέλης Κεντώνη by Eleni Papadopoulou
2021: A Post-Memory; To Reflect on the Forgotten article by Nefeli Kentoni for ASCENDING
2021: Review of Fragility of Language and Seeking Roots Exhibition by Rony Junior El Deccache.
2020: Fragility of Language poem published in This Unreal Country
2018: Published photos for HUCK X Vans: How to Make it in Photography