“I am drawn towards art that disrupts dualisms and fosters symbiotic world views”
In 2020, Ki co-founded, together with Anna-Kaisa Koski, the art commissioning and sustainability research platform entitled Punos. The same year, Ki co-curated the acclaimed online programme Care Practice: Recipes for Resilience, with curator Ceci Moss (Founder of Gas Gallery, Los Angeles).
Ki’s major curatorial projects include the contemporary art section of the 1st Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale, Beings with (2019); Reclaiming Vision by Marjolijn Dijkman & Toril Johannessen as part of Helsinki Festival (2019); and the group exhibition Fictional Frictions as part of the 12th Gwangju Biennale (2018).
In 2012–2018, Ki worked as a curator at HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme where they were planning multiple programmes and were in charge of curating the EACEA EU-funded international collaborative project Frontiers in Retreat – Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ecology in Contemporary Art (2013–2018). In 2019, they continued as the associate curator with the Post-fossil Transition Project which was run by HIAP in partnership with the Mustarinda Association (2018–2020).
Ki shares an artistic practice, Myriagon, with visual artist and musician Tuomas A. Laitinen (TAL) – that morphs into performative events, sonic and sculptural artworks as well as texts. Myriagon’s audio play on the effects of noise pollution on underwater communications, titled Atonal Atoll, is featured in the TBA21’s Ocean Archive.
Ki’s fields of specialisation include contemporary art that shares concerns with queer ecologies, feminist new materialisms, and critical posthumanist approaches. Ki currently conducts doctoral research in Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences (DENVI) at the University of Helsinki. They hold master’s degrees in Curating, Managing and Mediating Art, Aalto University (2013) and Sociology, University of Tampere (2010), with a focus on Gender Studies and Media Culture. They complemented their curatorial degree with studies in Art History at the University of Helsinki (2011/2012), and did international exchange studies at CUHK – The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2008).
Photo: Tuomas A. Laitinen.