Paulina Miu Kühling is an interdisciplinary vocal artist and composer of Polish origin, currently based in Yerevan, Armenia. Her work explores the voice as a raw, embodied instrument shaped by land, ancestry and collective experience. She has travelled across the Polish–Lithuanian–Belarusian borderlands, where she collected and studied traditional songs of her ancestors, learning rural singing techniques and listening to elder singers and local tradition keepers. Over the years, she has been building her own archive of stories, folk songs and field recordings.

In her compositions and performances, Paulina often works with open-throat vocal technique rooted in rural soundscapes, physical labour and communal life. She moves between traditional singing, experimental sound practices and contemporary composition, seeking ways to reimagine ancestral voices in a modern context.

She holds an M.A. in Intermedia from the University of the Arts in Poznan and a B.A. in Music Therapy from the Academy of Music in Lodz.

Paulina is the founder of the Berlin-based Otucha Collective, a vocal ensemble and research platform bringing together FLINTA+ practitioners with immigrant backgrounds. The collective explores shared voice practices grounded in rural Eastern European singing, deep listening and somatic awareness. Today, Otucha creates vocal performances, public interventions, workshops and regular singing circles in Berlin and beyond.

Currently, Paulina is studying the sounds of ancient Armenia and the local vocal traditions of the region, expanding her research into new cross-cultural and historical contexts of singing.

She has performed and led workshops internationally, both as a solo artist and in various artistic collaborations. Her work has been presented at venues and institutions such as Sort/Hvid, Copenhagen (DK), Hay Art Center, Yerevan (AM),  Metropolis / Københavns Internationale Teater (DK), Fundacion Mar Adentro, Santiago de Chile (CL), Uferstudios, Berlin (DE), Freiburg Theater (DE), Radialsystem, Berlin (DE), Berliner Festspiele, Berlin (DE), Institut for (X), Aarhus (DK), Netzwerk IMPULS, Halle (DE), Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule, Halle (DE), Jatiwangi Art Factory, Java (ID), Teatr Wegajty, Wegajty (PL), Arko Theatre/ Mullae Arts Space, Seoul (KR), Between Sky & Sea, Herdla (NOR), Binaural/Nodar, Vouzela (PRT), Contexts, Sokolowsko (PL).

Photo: Martin Rosie