EDUCATION
2017 – … Doctoral Candidate in Theater Academy, University of Arts, Helsinki
2007 – 2014; MA STUDIES IN THEATER ACADEMY, PERFORMANCE ART AND THEORY, HELSINKI
1998 – 2004; MA STUDIES IN POZNAN ART ACADEMY, POZNAN, POLAND
2003 – SCHOLARSHIP AT ALU, LJUBLJANA ART ACADEMY, SLOVENIA
DIRECTIONS
2023 – 2024 We Bites Us – short film in co-production w/Kenno Filmi, premiered and awarded at the BPFF’18, presented in HFF Love&Anarchy, SubTropical Independent Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan; 4ta. Edición de nuestra Muestra de Cine Erótico Posporno de Bogotá, Columbia; HPFF – Rome, Satyrs and Maeanads: APFF, Athens; San Francisco PFF.
2019 – Out-Of-Work, performance, Kutomo, Turku
2015 – Perfect Shipwreck #2” video collection, co-directing with Elisa Band.
2013 – Perfect Shipwreck Tour”, performance, SESC Pinheiros, São Paulo, co-directing with Elisa Band
2010 – Oops!”, performance, Theater Academy, Helsinki (concept and direction)
PERFORMANCES/EVENT SETTINGS (selection)
2025 – performance – ‘We’s and Us’s’, performance/workshop in Kiasma, Moving in November Festival, November 2025
2022 OOPS! DID SOMETHING GO WRONG? Very Second Sensorium, Trömso Art Academy
2022 Imagine, that for some reason you cannot get in, The Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki
2021 Department for Playing Stupid, Myymälä2, Helsinki, Festival: Seven of Seven
2020 -2021 Monsterrers&Hurrors – performance/workshop, Finnish Cultural Centre in Paris; Eskus (Helsinki)
2020 The Story of Leaving, Mad House, Myymälä, Helsinki
2018 ABC of Hard Work, Putki Festival, Fiskars, 2018
2017 Installation/Settings for SAR Seminar of Artistic Research, presentation of “How to do things with performance” research Group Presentation; April 2017
2016 Installation/Setting and furniture for NO PLAY, The Feminist Training Camp”, nGbK Gallery, Berlin
2015 Performer, Mental Hotel and Life in the Gallery, performative installation, 10th Mänttä Art Event, Mänttä
2013-2014 Parasitic Performance, Mad House Helsinki, Helsinki; Interactions Festival, Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland; SESC Pinheiros, São Paulo and La Muga Caula, Festival, Les Escaules, Spain
WORKS IN PROGRESS
2024 – … ‘PARASITIC GUIDE or THE COMMENSALIST’S MANUAL to REINVENTING THE TABLE’ – an artbook
2025 – … ’Monstrous Landscape’ w/ Malgorzata Mazur, Tero Nauha and Lukasz Jastrubczak – group exhibition
EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2025 ‘Summer Rain’, Taidehalli Helsinki
2021 – 2022 Nadmidupa in the Institution – Posture of Impermanence in Vantaa Art Museum, Artsi;
2019 Logical Revolts, w/ Panos Balomenos, Hanna Ouramo and Ivana Momcilovic, Myymälä2, Helsinki
2018 Stories We Tell, Maa-Tila, Helsinki
2017 Bug Bed, Third Space, June-July 2017
2014 Your City is a Battleground, Warsaw Under Construction Festival”, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw
2014 – Parasitic Project, Huuto Gallery, project room, Helsinki
2013 Workers of Artworld Unite”, group exhibition, CSW Kronika, Bytom, Poland
CURATING, ORGANIZING AND PRODUCTION (selection)
2025 Kattila – hot pot for performing experiments, series of events (Mad House, Yö Gallery, Helsinki)
2020 Monsterference, Theatre Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki
2019 De-visions in “We”-sions. Collectivity, what is that? Seminar, Maa-Tila, Helsinki
2015 Finacialisation as Place for Creation, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart Branching Out, Hiap, Suomenlinna, w/Essi Kausalainen
2012 Seminar-encounter with Bracha Ettinger, Kafka Machine – film by Kafka,
2011 Exhausted subject, Impossible community II, workshop with Peter Pál Pelbart.
2010 Exhausted subject, impossible community, workshop with Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Turku and Helsinki.
2009 Ecologies of Resistance, Workshop with Franco Berardi, Bracha Ettinger, Erin Manning and Brian Massumi
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (selection)
2023 – The International Network of Experimental Fiction Filmmaking, Festival and Conference, University of Manchester/Salford, MediaCity UK
2023 Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts CARPA8: SOLVITUR AMBULANDO ‘solved by moving’, UNIARTS Helsinki
2021 CARPA7, Elastic Writing in Artistic Research, UNIARTS Helsinki
2019 CARPA6, The 6th Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts; UNIARTS Helsinki
2018 9th SAR – International Conference on Artistic Research, University of Plymouth – Cultural Mobility Of Performance And Performativity Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
2017 Presentation on New Materialism Conference: Performing Situated Knowledges: Space, Time, Vulnerability, 7th Annual Conference on the New Materialisms, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
2015 Performance/Paper at the “Transversal Practices: Matter, Ecology and Relationality VI Conference on New Materialisms, The Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
PARTICIPATION IN WORKSHOPS (selection)
2014 New Communities, Aalborg, Denmark and Nordic Performing Art Days, Aarhus, Denmark
2013 MOVEMENT, AESTHETICS, ONTOLOGY IV, Annual Conference on the New Materialisms, University of Turku, Finland
2012 Creation of New Social Forms – The Rise and Entanglement of General Intellect, with Franco Berardi, Augusta Gallery, Helsinki
PUBLISHED TEXTS (selection)
2025 – article: “Bestiary”, in Tidsskriftet Replikk Journal for Social Sciences and Humanities
2024 – article: ON DOING THINGS. An essay on the New Performance Turku Biennale “Coming Together”, Kritiikin Uutiset 7/2024
2023 “Bestiary”, in Kiila (The Wedge) Album 2023, ed. Minna Henriksson, Martta Tuomaala & Nine Langinauer
2020 The Story, comic book in Kutikuti Magazine
2018 “Situated Knowledge, Transmissions of Practice and Parasitic Endeavors”, w/ J. Foley, V. Hunter, H. Palmer. RUUKKU Studies in Artistic Research, NR 9, AESTHETIC INTRA-ACTIONS
2015 “Kultaseni”, Esitys Lehti, #4
2014 “Parasitic”, Inflexions: A Journal for research creation, No. 8 Radical Pedagogies | edited by Gerko Egert, Ilona Hongisto, Michael Hornblow, Katve-Kaisa Kontturi, Mayra Morales, Ronald Rose-Antoinette, Adam Szymanski p. 333-335,
2009 “On Return to Remnant – Home”, Essay about Oreet Ashery, Episodi 2, Helsinki: Yliopistopaino
GRANTS AND AWARDS (selection)
2023 Best Experimental Short Film in 18th Berlin Porn Film Festival,
2022 – 2023 Finnish Cultural Foundation – research grant
2018 – 2022 Koneen Säätiö – research grant
2017 The Finnish Cultural Foundation, one year working and project grant for OOW! – group performance
2014 – 2016 working grants from The Arts Promotion Center, Finland
2013 6 Months Fellowship at Schloss Solitude Academy, Stuttgart
2013 6 months working and project grant for Parasitic Project from KONE Foundation,
2013 group working and project grant for Fin! La! La! La! Finlândia- Brasil KONE Foundation,: Experimento Live Art: Sesc Pinheiros and The Museum of Modern Art (MAM), São Paulo
2004 Maria Dokowicz Prize for the best diploma work of Poznan Art Academy
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
2025 – 2026 Administrative Manager, Producer at the alternative Art School MAA.
2017-2019 employed doctoral candidate at Performing Arts Research Centre, TUTKE at University of The Arts Helsinki
2013 – 2015 Vice CEO at Robin Hood Minor Asset Management Cooperative
2011-2013 producer at Future Art Base, Economic Art, research group at Aalto University, Helsinki.