Kara Kuckoo

Kara Kuckoo is a multidisciplinary artist working with body-based performance, immersive installation, and visual storytelling.

Her practice explores liminality, decay, mortality, and transformation — using the human body as both medium and threshold. Through paint, costume, mask, sound, and light, Kara creates atmospheric works that exist between ritual and narrative, presence and disappearance.

Originally from Ohio (USA), Kara studied fine art, crafts, and ceramic arts at Columbus College of Art and Design and Kent State University. Her early background in material-based practices continues to inform her tactile, process-driven approach.

Alongside her visual work, Kara maintains an active music practice rooted in dark electronic and avant-pop soundscapes. This sonic work often functions as an extension of her installations and performances, shaping emotional space through voice, texture, and distortion.

Since relocating to Germany in 2009, Kara has developed an international practice, working across Europe and beyond. Her body-based works have taken her to multiple countries, where she creates immersive environments and performs in live contexts that blur the line between art, sound, and embodied presence.

In addition to her visual and performance work, Kara is a certified yoga teacher and breathwork facilitator, with training in movement and physical expression — disciplines that deeply inform her understanding of the body as a site of communication, vulnerability, and transformation.

She is also the creator, singer, and songwriter behind the dark electronic music project Moons In Retrograde.