“I am drawn towards art that fosters symbiotic world views”
Since 2022, Ki has been in charge of the long-term public art commissioning project for the Laakso Hospital, the largest psychiatric-somatic hospital campus in Finland. The new hospital and its art programme, Cycles of Life, is set to be completed in 2030.
In 2020, Ki co-founded, together with Anna-Kaisa Koski, the art commissioning and sustainability research platform Punos. The same year, Ki co-curated the acclaimed online programme Care Practice: Recipes for Resilience, with curator Ceci Moss.
Ki’s large-scale exhibition projects include Abundance, the 45th Tendencies Biennale of Contemporary Crafts (Galleri F15, Norway, 2023), Beings with, the contemporary art section of the Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale (Finland, 2019); and the group exhibition Fictional Frictions as part of the 12th Gwangju Biennale (South-Korea, 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 also shares an artistic practice, Myriagon, with artist Tuomas A. Laitinen (TAL) – that morphs into performative events, sonic and sculptural artworks, and texts. Myriagon’s art has been exhibited in Japan, South Korea, and Finland, and their audio play on the effects of noise pollution on underwater communications, titled Atonal Atoll (2019) 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 their international exchange studies at CUHK – The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2008).
Photo: Tuomas A. Laitinen.