Selected artistic work

2025/11 DOWN BEAT with Oula Rytkönen at Moving in November (as a part of Focus on the Local Landscape program), Helsinki, FI
- upcoming

2025/8 Kaikki Suomen Mestarit with Oula Rytkönen at ERROR:gender festival, Muhos, UrbanApa x Stoa festival, Helsinki and SLURPS festival, Helsinki, FI/performance art piece

2024/10 SpacingOut with Mean Time Between Failures at KissMyArss Gallery opening, Helsinki, FI/performance art piece
                                          
2024/8 ORGANS with Mean Time Between Failures and Oula Rytkönen at Drifts Festival, Helsinki, FI /performance art piece                                         
2024/8 This is Not a Show with Mean Time Between Failures at Other Side Vantaa. Myyrmäki, FI/ outdoor performance art piece                                    
2024/6 ORGANS with Mean Time Between Failures a International Riga Performance Festival, Riga, LV / performance art piece                                                                     
2024/5 DOWN BEAT with Mean Time Between Failures and Oula Rytkönen at Yö Galleria, Helsinki FI / dance performance                                          
2023/11 Bear, my Love at MIR Festival, Athens, GR with Anna Kozonina as a dramaturg / a performance art piece 
                                  
2023/10 FRACPTURING with Mean Time  Between Failures, Sini Henttu and Oula Rytkönen at Zodiak Center for New Dance, Helsinki, FI / a multimedia dance                                                                            
2023/9 M*otherland: a stack of rules and big collective feeling at New Performance Turku Biennale, Turku, FI / a solo live art piece                                                                              
2023/5 Handcraft for Warcraft at Seven of Seven Performance Art Festival at Mymälä2 gallery, Helsinki, FI /a durational performance art piece                                                                                         
2023/2 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                                                                                                   
2022/9 Queer Library at Anti Festival, Kuopio, FI / an invited performer in choreographer River Lin work
                                          
2021/9-11 How to Like Finland and How Finland Can Like Me (too) in Helsinki, FI / performance triptych as part of MA thesis                                                                                 
2020/2 Future Parts: What Happens When It Stops at Exhibition Lab, Helsinki, FI / a solo dance                                         

Selected teaching work

2024/4 Choreographing Humor? 3-day workshop as Mean Time Between Failures at Reality Research Center, Helsinki, FI

2024/11 Visiting teacher in Skådespelarens varierande praxis-course with Mean Time Between (upcoming) Failures at Swedish Acting MA program, Theater Academy, Helsinki, FI

2024/7 Choreographing Humor? one-day workshop as Mean Time Between Failures at Joki Studios, Turku, FI

2024/3 Performance and Text one-month intensive course at Kankaanpää Art School, BA level, Kankaanpää, FI

2024/1-2 Introduction to Performance course at Maa Art School, Helsinki, FI

2023/5 Stranger Soil Bodies one-week workshop at Spring Season 2023 FO.R.E.ST at Massia art residency, EE

2022/11 Performance and Sculpture one-month course at Katerina Sokolovskaya Sculpture School, online

2021/7 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    


Education

2019-2022 Master 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)                                          
2014-2016 Bachelor 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)
 

Selected artistic residencies

2024/11 STUCK dance residency. Mean Time Between Failures with Oula Rytkönen. Leuven, BE

2023/12 TanzHaus dance residency. Bear, my Love solo development. Switzerland, CH 

2023/2 Ehkä dance residency. Mean Time Between Failures with Oula Rytkönen and Sini Henttu. Turku, FI

2022/11 Live Art Society. Mean Time Between Failures with Oula Rytkönen and Sini Henttu. Helsinki, FI

2022/5 Zodiak Laboratory residency with Mean Time Between Failures. Helsinki, FI

2021/5 Outokumpu Old Mine residency. Mean Time Between Failures. Outokumpu, FI

2020/summer HIAP Summer residency. Mean Time Between Failures. Helsinki, FI

2019/8 SDVIG dance residency. St. Petersburg, RU

2017/12 QuartaRiata residency. Peterhof, RU  
 

Recent Grants

2024 Taike working grant (working group)

2024 TelepART travel grant

2023-2025 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