Marita Muukkonen
Co-Founder and Co-Director of Artists at Risk (AR), Ecologists at Risk (ER) and Perpetuum Mobile (PM)
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Marita Muukkonen is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Artists at Risk (AR), Ecologists at Risk (ER) and Perpetuum Mobile (PM).
Marita has been a curator at FRAME – Contemporary Art Finland, an editor of FRAMEWORK: The Finnish Art Review, Chairperson of the Helsinki International Artists-in-Residence Programme (HIAP) and held key functions at the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (NIFCA). She has curated exhibitions, seminars and events at museums such as MoMA in New York, ZKM in Karlsruhe, Ludwig Museum in Budapest, Moderna Museet in Sweden, Kiasma in Finland and in biennials including the Perpetual Romani/Gypsy Pavilion (Venice 2009), The Finnish Pavilion (2009), The Arts Assembly (Manifesta 8, 2010), the Nordic Pavilion at Dak’art Biennale (2012), the School of Displaced Persons (Kiev Biennial, 2015) and the Athens Biennial (2015-17). As Co-Director of Perpetuum Mobile, she has Co-Founded long-term thematic projects such as The Raw, The Cooked and The Packaged, Re-Aligned Project, The Arts Assembly, Pluriculturalism and PLURIversity, with several iterations in museums, biennials and artist-run spaces and festivals. Marita has also served as a member of several juries, such as the State of Artist(ist) Prize in ArtElectronica. Additionally, she is a contributor to art publications and a regular speaker at international seminars and conferences. Previously, she worked as a Special Advisor in the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture and in the Arts Council of Finland