Jussi Koitela
07.10. — 14.10.2024
→ Bucharest
Jussi Koitela (he/him, born 1981) is working as an independent curator and Director of M-Cult in Helsinki. Between 2019-2024 he was Head of Programme at Frame Contemporary Art Finland, where he curated Rehearsing Hospitalities public programme together with Yvonne Billimore. His curatorial work entangles art, embodied collaborative research methods, hospitality and materiality in various forms of exhibitions and ways of producing knowledge.
He is currently curator of "The pleasures we choose" Pavilion of Finland at the 60th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia in 2024 with Yvonne Billimore and Survival Kit “Measures” organised by Latvian Center of Contemporary Art, Riga, 2024. Selected earlier curatorial work include: Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities at The Showroom, London, Secured - Politics of Bodies and Space at Artsi Vantaa Art Museum, Vantaa. Performing the Fringe at Konsthall C and Pori Art Museum, Entangling Matter and Meaning/Intra-Structures - Monster of the Seven Lakes at Treignac Projet, Mattering City at SixtyEight Art Institute, City Agents at Estonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Skills of Economy Sessions at Finnish Theatre Academy, 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.
He has edited Rehearsing Hospitalities Companions 1-4 published by Archive Books with Yvonne Billimore, and The pleasures we choose published by k.verlag, 2024. Falling In — Movements and Becoming in Curatorial Research with Dahila El Broul and Ksenia Kaverina, published by Mousse Publishing, 2024. In 2015/2016 Koitela participated in the De Appel curatorial programme.