Education

2019-2022Master of Live Art and Performance Studies University of the Arts, Helsinki, FI 

2022  Six-month Professional dance training program, Outokumpu, FI                                   

2016-2017 Visiting Scholar of UC Berkeley conducting an individual research in St.Petersburg, RU (Telaboratoria)                                          
2014-2016Bachelor of Arts (Major in Interdisciplinary Studies, Minor in Performance Studies in Dance / University of California, Berkeley, USA                    

2016 Diploma of a semester of Master in Sociology of Gender / European University at St.Petersburg, St.Petersburg, RU                                                                                
2012 One-year program in devising solo and group performance work / Flying Actors Studio Physical Theater Conservatory, San Francisco, USA                                                                              
2002-2004 Bachelor of Journalism / Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, RU (unfinished)


Recent Artistic Work

October 2024  SpacingOut with Mean Time Between Failures at KissMyArss Gallery opening, Helsinki, FI/performance art piece
                                          
August 2024 ORGANS with Mean Time Between Failures and Oula Rytkönen at Drifts Festival, Helsinki, FI /performance art piece                                            

August 2024 This is Not a Show with Mean Time Between Failures at Other Side Vantaa. Myyrmäki, FI/ outdoor performance art piece                                    

June 2024 ORGANS with Mean Time Between Failures a International Riga Performance Festival, Riga, LV / performance art piece                                                                     

May 2024 DOWN BEAT with Mean Time Between Failures and Oula Rytkönen at Yö Galleria, Helsinki FI / dance performance                                          
November 2023 Bear, my Love at MIR Festival, Athens, GR with Anna Kozonina as a dramaturg / a performance art piece                                  
October 2023   FRACPTURING with Mean Time  Between Failures, Sini Henttu and Oula Rytkönen at Zodiak Center for New Dance, Helsinki, FI / a multimedia dance                                                                            
September 2023 M*otherland: a stack of rules and big collective feeling at New Performance Turku Biennale, Turku, FI / a solo live art piece                                                                              

May 2023 Handcraft for Warcraft at Seven of Seven Performance Art Festival at Mymälä2 gallery, Helsinki, FI /a durational performance art piece                                                                                         
February 2023 Patriotic Body: Training at Pop Up dance program at Svenska Theater, Helsinki, FI/ a solo dance piece with Anna Kozonina and Olga Spyropoulou as assisting dramaturgs                                                                                                                                    
September 2022 Queer Library at Anti Festival, Kuopio, FI / an invited performer in choreographer River Lin work                                          
Sept - November 2021 How to Like Finland and How Finland Can Like Me (too) in Helsinki, FI / performance triptych as part of MA thesis                                                                                 

February 2020   Future Parts: What Happens When It Stops at Exhibition Lab, Helsinki, FI / a solo dance                                         

Teaching Work (selected)

November 2024 Visiting teacher in Skådespelarens varierande praxis-course with Mean Time Between (upcoming) Failures at Swedish Acting MA program, Theater Academy, Helsinki, FI

July 2024 Choreographing Humor? one-day workshop as Mean Time Between Failures at Joki Studios, Turku, FI

March 2024 Performance and Text one-month intensive course at Kankaanpää Art School, BA level, Kankaanpää, FI

January-February 2024 Introduction to Performance course at Maa Art School, Helsinki, FI

May 2023 Stranger Soil Bodies one-week workshop at Spring Season 2023 FO.R.E.ST at Massia art residency, EE

November 2022 Performance and Sculpture one-month course at Katerina Sokolovskaya Sculpture School, online

July 2021 The poetics of a street bench and a walk into (un)known two-week performance laboratory on belonging and place, Izhevsk, RU  

2017-2019 Telaboratoria, founded and facilitated intensive dance and theater improvisation program for LGBTQ Russians in St. Petersburg, RU    
 

Artistic Residencies (selected)

November 2024 STUCK dance residency. Mean Time Between Failures with Oula Rytkönen. Leuven, BE

December 2023 TanzHaus dance residency. Bear, my Love solo development. Switzerland, CH 

February 2023 Ehkä dance residency. Mean Time Between Failures with Oula Rytkönen and Sini Henttu. Turku, FI

November 2022 Live Art Society. Mean Time Between Failures with Oula Rytkönen and Sini Henttu. Helsinki, FI

May 2022 Zodiak Laboratory residency with Mean Time Between Failures. Helsinki, FI

May 2021 Outokumpu Old Mine residency. Mean Time Between Failures. Outokumpu, FI

June-August 2020 HIAP Summer residency. Mean Time Between Failures. Helsinki, FI

August 2019 SDVIG dance residency. St. Petersburg, RU

December 2017 QuartaRiata residency. Peterhof, RU  
 

Recent Grants

2024 Taike working grant (working group)

2024 TelepART travel grant

July 2023-May 2025 Kone Grant for What Would Skomorokh Do?! with Mean Time Between Failures

2023 Taike working grant (working group)  

2022 City of Helsinki Microgrant for small scale art events

2022 Taike Artist Covid Grant

2021 Taike Artist Covid Grant

2016-2017 Stronach Baccalaureate Prize / 25,000 $