I am a researcher-artist and scholar of visual culture, working at the intersections of feminist studies, socially engaged art, and art activism. I serve as an Associate Professor at the University of Lapland and hold the title of Docent at the University of Jyväskylä.

My work moves across visual culture, gender, and lived environments, often unfolding through collaborations with communities, scientists, and activists. I am interested in how we see, inhabit, and shape the worlds around us—and how these processes are entangled with power, care, and resistance. My research has been supported by several competitive grants, including funding from the Academy of Finland and the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

I currently work as the Principal Investigator of the project Artivism on the Edges: Art, Activism and Gendered Violence (2022–2026), funded by the Kone Foundation. I am a member of the editorial boards of Ruukku – Studies in Artistic Research and Tahiti – A Scientific Journal in the Field of Art History. I am also part of the Association of Photographic Artists and the Artists’ Association of Lapland.

Within an art collective, I engage in artivist practices that attend to gendered violence and the slow, often unseen destruction of ecosystems, especially in Arctic contexts. Alongside this work, I seek spaces of stillness—resting, wandering, and listening to the subtle, shifting rhythms of forests and hills.

Photograph by: Santeri Happonen, 2026