Bio/CV

Jussi Koitela — Visual Artist/Curator
Email: koitela.jussi (at) gmail.com

Jussi Koitela is a visual artist and curator based in Finland, whose practice moves between curatorial projects, made works, and critical writing on contemporary art. This bio and curriculum vitae page gathers the threads of that activity into a single document, presenting the profile alongside a chronological account of exhibitions, projects, publications, and writing. The framing is deliberately modest and editorial, treating the CV as a text object rather than a marketing document, and letting the breadth of the practice speak through the sequence of entries rather than through claims or adjectives.

The curatorial projects listed span long-running series and one-off situations, including Not Another Public Process, Work It Out (Act 2), Floating Ghost, New Arrangements, Dissolving Frontiers, the Skills of Economy series, Featherweight Portable Museum, MediaPyhät, and Circle – New Paintings from Tampere, along with Ars Kärsämäki “Experimental Life.” Taken together they suggest an interest in public process, institutional critique, and the conditions under which art is produced and circulated. The writing texts extend the same concerns into reflective, essayistic form, often circling around melancholy, ethics, and the working life of the artist.

Beyond the curatorial side, Koitela's own works and projects include Class War Room and related institutional arrangements, treating space, display, and rhetoric as material to be tested. Recurring motifs in the wider body of work — models, ore refineries, capital, health, and the slow building of time — appear as subjects for paintings and installations as much as for textual reflection. The overall practice is best read as a single investigation into how economies, institutions, and public processes shape artistic labour and the images that result from it.

The page also registers a scattering of activity beyond the studio: activist engagements, summer and autumn residencies, and travelling engagements in cities such as Tallinn, Copenhagen, and elsewhere in the region. These entries sit in the CV as a reminder that the practice is embedded in networks of exchange, teaching, and debate rather than produced in isolation. The residency and research periods function almost like extended studies, each feeding back into the curatorial and critical writing that forms the other half of the output.

Read as a whole, this document carries the tone described elsewhere on the site: understated, literary, and text-driven, with serif typography and generous white space doing as much work as any image. The emphasis falls on description and sequence rather than evaluation, which suits a practice that spans organizing, making, and writing. Visitors are invited to move through the profile and the project history at their own pace, treating the CV less as a conclusion than as an open, still-unfolding record of ongoing work.