Jussi Koitela
Jussi Koitela (b. 1981) is an independent curator and Director at M-Cult (Helsinki, FI). His curatorial work intertwines art, embodied research methods, urban spatial contexts, collaboration, hospitality, and materiality in various forms of exhibitions and knowledge production. He is currently curator of the Pavilion of Finland at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia together with Yvonne Billmore (20 April - 24 November 2024). Between 2019 to 2023 they also curated “Rehearsing Hospitalities,” Frame Contemporary Art Finland’s public programme.
His selected curatorial work includes: Conflicting Relations at Vera List Center for Art and Politics (New York, USA), Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities at The Showroom (London, UK), Secured - Politics of Bodies and Space at Artsi Art Museum (Vantaa, FI), Performing the Fringe at Konsthall C (Farsta, SWE) and Pori Art Museum (Pori, FI), Entangling Matter and Meaning/Intra-Structures - Monster of the Seven Lakes at Treignac Projet (Treignac, FR), Mattering City at SixtyEight Art Institute (Copenhagen, DK), City Agents at Estonian Museum of Contemporary Art (Tallinn, EE), Skills of Economy Sessions at Finnish Theatre Academy (Helsinki, FI), Baltic Circle Festival and Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, and Untitled (two takes on crises) - You Must Make Your Death Public at de Appel Art Centre (Amsterdam, NL).
Photography by Andrejs Strokins