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Reality Research Center

2024
Helsinki

Annual report for a community centre for performance art and research

I was commissioned to design the annual report / Vuosikertomus for the Reality Research Center, which describes itself as "... a collective of artists engaged in performative adventures. Our shared aspiration is to observe, question, and renew reality by creating performances." The report employs visually rich metaphors, with abstract and fluid layouts that reflect the spirit of TTK's performance initiatives.

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Todellisuuden Tutkimuskeskus

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Todellisuuden Tutkimuskeskus
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Rehearsing Hospitalities

2021-23
Helsinki

Communication design, strategy and event production for a contemporary art public programme

Frame’s public programme Rehearsing Hospitalities has sought to ‘connect artists, curators and other practitioners in the field of contemporary art and beyond to mediate new practices and understandings with diverse hospitalities’. From 2019 to 2023, the programme has included commissions, exhibitions, discussions and bi-annual gatherings. The communication materials for the programme are tied together by the visual identity, designed by Elina Holey in 2019, which I expanded upon to create a range of diverse communication materials backed with a comprehensive communication strategy. To balance dynamism and change with familiarity and recognizability, certain aspects of the original Rehearsing Hospitalities identity were transfigured, while other elements were unchanged.

Visual Identity by Elina Holey | Comms: Laura Boxberg, Rosa Kuosmanen, Laura Jurmu, Stella Sironen | Curation & Production: Jussi Koitela, Yvonne Billimore , Dahlia El Broul, Lebohang Tlali, Mariliis Rebane, Annabelle Antas, Vilma Leminen | Photos by Sheung Yiu, Jo Hislop, Jonni Korhonen

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Frame Contemporary Art Finland

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Blog: Continuous evolution of the identity
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Consent of the Governed: Race/Gender, Constitution & Kink

2022
Delhi / Kassel

Design for a publication series exhibited at documenta15

I was commissioned to design the first two volumes in this ongoing publication series, which calls upon artists, organisers and kinksters to think about our positionality, desires and their relations to social strictures around us. Contributors come from multiple global locations; doing anti-racism work, anti-caste work, organising and thinking of Indigenous rights, Trans* rights, feminisms, BDSM, Sex Work and more.

Curated & Edited by: Vidisha-Fadescha and Shaunak Mahbubani | Contributors: Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Dhrubo Jyoti, Latoya Aroha Rule, MF Akynos, Jyotsna Siddharth, Khaleb Brooks, and Kinkinella

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Party Office & After Party Collective

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Party Office on Instagram
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Islands of Kinship

2023
Helsinki

Communication design for the annual gathering of a pan-European network of art organisations

Communication design for the annual gathering of ISLANDS OF KINSHIP, is a joint project by six European art organisations, aiming to instil more ecological and socially sustainable practices within contemporary art institutions.

Visual Identity by Von Saten

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Frame Contemporary Art Finland

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islandsofkinship.org
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#Stop Hatred Now

2024
Helsinki

Visual identity for an anti-racist art programme

Facilitator: Sonya Lindfors | Producer: Lisa Kalkowski | Communications: Milla Millasnoore

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UrbanApa

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stophatrednow.fi
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UrbanApa X Ateneum: In the Deep / On the Surface

2023
Helsinki

Visual Identity for a Contemporary Performance Festival

A dynamic visual identity centered around a texture in motion. An experimental video-based poster & event communications. The thematic landscape of the festival was in the deep / on the surface. The curators ask: What kinds of things are present and in motion? Already identifiable? What kinds of things are just taking shape? What is surfacing in different contexts? Or what kinds of things are under the surface or in the depths? How can working and doing be many things at once – deep, pleasurable, light, subversive? Playful, feminist and communal? Or utopian?

Curated by Emmi Venna and Sonya Lindfors.

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UrbanApa at Ateneum Museum

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Full programme
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Frame Contemporary Art Finland

2021-2023
Helsinki

Communication strategy, digital marketing and graphic design for a cultural institution and advocate for Finnish contemporary art.

Frame Contemporary Art Finland is an advocate for Finnish contemporary art. They support international initiatives, facilitate professional partnerships, and encourage critical development of the field. During my part-time role as a Communications Officer at Frame (2021-2023) I specialised in communication strategy and digital presence for contemporary art projects such as Pilvi Takala's Close Watch at Venice Biennalie and the public program Rehearsing Hospitalities in Helsinki.

Communication Team: Laura Boxberg, Rosa Kuosmanen, Laura Jurmu, Stella Sironen. Visual identity: Marina Veziko

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Frame's website
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Finnish pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale

2022
Venice

Communications and event photography for Pilvi Takala–Close Watch

In 2022, the Finnish pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale exhibited Pilvi Takala–Close Watch. The multi-channel video installation is based on the artist’s experiences during her six-month employment and research while working covertly for Securitas as a fully qualified security guard in one of Finland’s largest shopping malls.

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Frame Contemporary Art Finalnd

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Pilvi Takala–Close Watch
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Moon in your Mouth

2023
Oslo

Mini-campaign for a contemporary art exhibition and parallel summer school

For the final collaboration of the season in June 2023, Frame partners with UKS–Young Artists’ Society in Oslo to put forth the exhibition Moon in Your Mouth considering consent, intimacy and emotional labour in the realm of exhibition making. Thinking of consent in artist-curator relationships, curator Max Hannus asks how to think about consent as a methodological tool. As a parallel to the exhibition, both partners along with Bedside Productions come together to co-host I CONSENT, a three-day summer school convening these investigations.

Contributors: Thora Dolven Balke, Tarek Lakhrissi and Inari Sandell. Curators: Max Hannus , Jussi Koitel, Yvonne Billimore. Communications: Rosa Kuosmanen, Stella Sironen

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Young Artists' Society / Frame Contemporary Art Finland

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Full programme
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Advocacy Campaign: #Kuvataiteen Vuoro

2023
Helsinki

It's time for Visual arts: Campaign lobbying against proposed budget cuts in the Finnish arts sector

The joint parliamentary election program of Frame, the Society of Finnish Artists and Kuvasto aims to increase the funding of visual arts by 15 million euros, to a total of 30 million euros. This would bring the visual arts closer to an equal status with other art fields, while strengthening the creative fields as a whole.

Illustration: Juliana Hyrri | Comms: Rosa Kuosmanen

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Frame Contemporary Art Finland | Artists’ Association of Finland | Kuvasto

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Read about the campaign
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Conflicting Relations

2023
New York

A hybrid visual identity for a day-long public talks programme at The New School.

The second collaboration of the 2023 season of Frame Contemporary Art’s Rehearsing Hospitlities was co-presented with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics and the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York. Conflicting Relations was a day-long program that brought together artists, curators, and institutions whose practices go beyond hospitality and act as correctives to prescribed host and guest hierarchies, on intimate and infrastructural levels.

Comms: Rosa Kuosmanen, Stella Sironen. Curators: Jussi Koitela, Yvonne Billimore, Eriola Pira, Carin Kuoni. Contributors: Matti Aikio, Emily Johnson, Elina Waage Mikalsen, Wanda Nanibush, S.J Norman, Ali Rosa-Salas, Ana Beatriz Sepúlveda, Karoline Trollvik

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Vera List Centre at the New School

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More about the Programme
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Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities

2023
London

Poster and communications material for an exhibition showcasing diverse publishing practices

A collaboration between Frame Contemporary Art Finland, The Showroom (London) and the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland. As described by the curators, the programme “celebrates the production and dissemination of knowledge through the act of experimental and artist-led publishing, with a focus on intersecting feminist and decolonial perspectives.” The Showroom is a not-for-profit art gallery in Marylebone, London, which displays site-specific works by emerging artists. The visual identity highlights the collaborative nature, the cross-currents between practices, and the idea of the exhibition as a lively, interactive space. It also takes into account the local context and audiences, reflecting the neighbourhood's diversity and the distinct visual presence, which stands out in the neighbourhood.

Curators: Yvonne Billimore, Lily Hall, Jussi Koitela. Gallery image: Daniel Weill

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The Showroom

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Exhibition Programme
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UA mini residencies

2022
Helsinki

Visual identity & communication design for short artists’ residencies in Finland.

The visual identity is rooted in the idea of smallness, nurture, care and growth. The main idea is simple: tiny houseplants growing out of tiny cups that act almost like a mini-residency–a small place for nurture and growth. The houseplants are blooming and thriving in their tiny cups, alluding to the resident artists in the mini-residencies.

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Urban APA

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Urban APA website
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I must alter myself into a life-form which can exist on this planet

2021
Tampere

Posters for a contemporary art exhibition by Laura Rämö

Laura Rämö is a Finnish media artist & cultural worker currently focusing on stop motion animation, installation, photography, filmmaking, community projects and events. These are a series of posters for their recent exhibition in Tampere, which they describe as being "about imagining life, water element/the sea, time and some sort of shapeshifting, I guess. :-)"

Stills provided by Laura Rämö

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Laura Rämö's work
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Talk kallio

2018
Helsinki

Event identity for a series of public conversations

Talk Kallio! Do You Have A Say? is a series of monthly unconference happenings designed to encourage people to talk about the issues that matter to them in a local urban context. The series is curated by MiklagårdArts, a platform for promoting artistic exchange between the Nordic countries and dynamic art scenes in the rest of the world. They partnered with Caisa, a cultural centre which promotes artistic diversity in Helsinki

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Miklagård Arts OY

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