JURY 2020

kira o’reilly (iE/FI)

The Chair of Jury 2020 is Kira O’Reilly, an Irish visual artist based in Helsinki.

Her practice, both willfully interdisciplinary and entirely undisciplined employs performance, installation, biotechnical practices and writing with which to consider speculative reconfigurations around The Body.

She makes, writes, teaches, mentors and collaborates with humans of various types and technologies and non-humans of numerous divergencesincluding mosses, spiders, the sun, pigs, cell cultures, horses, micro-organisms, copper, salt, piss, blood, bicycles, rivers, landscapes, tundras, rocks, trees, shoes, food, books, air, moon and ravens.

Her first ever visit to Finland was at the invitation of ANTI Contemporary Art Festival, 2003.

JOÃO LAIA (PT/FI)

João Laia is the chief curator for exhibitions at Kiasma – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki. 

Recent projectsinclude Máscaras (Masks) co-curated with Valentinas Klimašauskas and 10000 Years Later Between Venus and Mars (2017-18) at Oporto City Hall Gallery,  In Free Fall (2019) at CaixaForum, Barcelona, Vanishing Point (2019) at Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, Drowning in a Sea of Data (2019) and Transmissions from the Etherspace (2017) at La Casa Encendida, Madrid, foreign bodies (2018) at P420, Bologna,  H Y P E R C O N N E C T E D (2016) at MMOMA – Moscow Museum of Modern Art and Hybridize or Disappear (2015) at MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art in Lisbon.

Together with Klimašauskas, Laia is co-curating the 14th Baltic Triennial at the CAC in Vilnius. (2021).

fiona winning (au)

Fiona Winning has worked across contemporary performance, theatre, dance and festivals. She is currently Director, Programming at Sydney Opera House and prior to that was Head of Programming at Sydney Festival 2012-17.

Fiona has worked as a dramaturge and producer in contemporary arts, curating the Australian Theatre Forum in 2011 and co-convening the Bundanon Trust’s annual art/environment/science 
Siteworks event in 2010-11. From 1999-2008, Fiona was Director of Performance Space, a national contemporary arts hub based in Sydney. She was instrumental in the development of Carriageworks, collaborating with the arts sector, Arts NSW and architects of Tonkin Zulaikha Greer.