Kristina Kapilin is a Danish-Faroese artist and educator based in London.
Grounded in ecological and embodied listening, Kristina’s practice spans sound composition, field recording, text, voice, performance, and documentary storytelling. Her works explore how sound and language shape relationships between place, memory, and perception, approaching sound as a multi-sensory, spatial material.
Kristina’s sound works have been presented at venues including Iklectik (UK), Sound Kitchen, Prague Quadrennial (CZ), and IRCAM Forum (FR). Broadcasts include Radiophrenia (UK) and Resonance FM.
Trained in design-led performance making, Kristina has designed sound for theatre productions including Trade (The Pleasance), I Can’t Hear You (Theatre 503), and But When? (The Hat Factory). In 2021, she was selected as a mentee for composer and sound designer Nicola T. Chang as part of the Jermyn Street Theatre x Masterclass mentorship programme. Her background in theatre continues to inform her work through a dramaturgical sensitivity to the spatial and narrative qualities of sound and listening.
Kristina is a graduate of MA Digital Direction at the Royal College of Art, London; her MA studies were generously supported by the Augustinus Foundation (DK). She also holds a First Class BA (Hons) in Performance: Design and Practice from Central Saint Martins and a BA in English and Digital Design from Aarhus University.
Kristina is an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins and has delivered sound design and listening workshops across the college’s Performance Programme.
Group Exhibitions and performances
2025 Woven Words, Sands End Arts and Community Centre, London [Exhibition, with Linnéa Duckworth and Laura Selby]
2025 Transient, Gégend Gallery, London [Exhibition]
2025 Present Voices, Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonards on Sea [Exhibition]
2023 Sound Kitchen, Prague Quadrennial Festival of Performance Design and Space, Divadlo Inspirace, Prague, CZ [Multichannel performance]
2023 Temporal-Space-Spatial-Time, Iklectik, London [Multichannel performance]
2023 Degradation, White Noise album launch, Iklectik, London [Multichannel performance]
2023 The Arrival of a Train, Cromwell Place, London [Exhibition]
2023 BRINK, Hangar Building, London[Exhibition]
2023 Intertwine, Royal College of Art, London [Degree show]
2019 Sound, Effects, Central Saint Martins, London [Performance]
2019 V&A Performance Festival, Victoria and Albert Museum, London [Performance]
Conferences and Symposia
2024 Association of Sound Design and Production Winter School Symposium, Central School of Speech and Drama, London [ Presenter/multichannel performance]
2023 Audio Spatialization, Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music (IRCAM) Forum, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR [Presenter/multichannel performance, with Ojasvani Dahiya]
Academic Teaching
2026 Visiting Lecturer, MA Performance: Screen, Central Saint Martins
2026 Visiting Lecturer, MA Performance: Design and Practice, Central Saint Martins
2025 - 26 Academic Support Lecturer, Performance Programme, Central Saint Martins
2023 - 24 Associate Lecturer, Creative Unions, Central Saint Martins
2023 - 24 Visiting Lecturer, MA Performance: Design and Practice, Central Saint Martins
2023 Visiting Lecturer, BA Performance: Design and Practice, Central Saint Martins
2020 - 22 Graduate Teaching Assistant, BA Performance: Design and Practice, Central Saint Martins
Community and Outreach work
2024 - 25 Woven Words, Sands End Arts and Community Centre, London [Workshop series, with Linnéa Duckworth and Laura Selby]
2023 Making Worlds with Others x For Brian, Royal College of Art, London [Workshop]
2022 - 23 CSM Insights Winter School, UAL Outreach programme, Central Saint Martins, London [Workshop series]
2022 CSM Insights Summer School, UAL Outreach programme, Central Saint Martins, London [Workshop]
Selected Theatre Sound Design credits
2024 Duet, Dir.Ludovica Villar-Hauser, Tabard Theatre, London
2023 Trade, Dir. Maddy Corner, The Pleasance, London and UK Tour
2022 Juniper and Jules, (Associate Sound Designer to Nicola Chang), Dir. Beth Pitts, Soho Theatre Upstairs, London
2022 I Can’t Hear You, Dir. Jess Millward, Theatre 503, London
2022 Hasbian, Dir. Chloe Kennedy, The Pleasance, London
2021 Outside, Dir. Laurel Marks, The Pleasance, London
2021 But When?, Dir. Munotida Chinyanga, The Hat Factory, Luton
2021 Fever Pitch, Dir. Kennedy Bloomer, The Hope Theatre, London
2021 Tier Three Sisters, Dir. Matt Strachan, The Hope Theatre, London
2021 SOLUS, Dir. Maya Ross Russel and Jida Akil, The Platform Theatre, London
2021 MA Directing Showcase, Drama Centre at Central Saint Martins, London
2020 Space Plague, Dir. Wynn Griffiths/SMASHfestUK, Deptford Lounge, London