Mia Wennerstrand
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Audiovisual
Performance works
2023–2025
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Moving image works
2012-2025
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NATO Diary
A one-year exhibition that ran from June 2023 to autumn 2024 at Alkovi, Helsinki. Mixing diary entries, posters, and hasty printouts with a memetic takeover of Alkovi’s Instagram, the exhibition was a platform to comment on anything from trans lives to Joe Biden visiting Helsinki.
All images by the author: exhibition documentation and posts made for Alkovi’s Instagram page. Click to enlarge.
Water
2015
.gif video loop, no sound
Made for Utopia Internet Dystopia Pavilion at the Wrong Biennale, 2015. Curated by Valentina Fois.
Artists' grants guide
2015
Audio
A guide for writing artists’ grants. Created for the digital platform Svilova, curated by Oscar Ramos (2015).
6 Minutes (for Morehshin & Myriam)
2014
10 audio files
Created for the APPART exhibition at Dar-ol-Hokoomeh Project, Shiraz, and Darbast gallery, Iran, December 2014, and Babycastles Gallery, New York, May 2015. Curated by Morehshin Allahyari and Myriam Vanneschi. The work was re-named “2 mins of Northern European .wavs” for the Babycastles exhibition. Below, two samples from the 10-track collection:
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Contact
Current
Currently at Konstepidemin, Göteborg; Artist talk and a reading with Marit Kapla on the 16th of November, 2026.
More info coming up.
I worked as a dramaturg for JUMALA=RAKKAUS, a performance directed by Saana Pohjonen & Henia Nikkilä. Premiered at Kiasma theatre, 24th of September, 2026.
More info: kiasma.fi
With Melanie Jame Wold, we had two readings of our script, DEATH/WOMAN: an augury at Pori Art Museum. The last one was on Sunday, 30th of August, 2026. The work was commissioned as part of the de se Attitude group exhibition, curated by Miina Hujala.
More info: poriartmuseum.fi
About
For the past 15 years, Mia Wennerstrand (b. Finland) has created works around intimacy, whether between herself and audience, or the EU and its citizens. Her visual works have been shown at e.g. Assembly Point, London, and Babycastles, New York. Her writing has appeared in DIS magazine, AQNB, and in exhibition catalogs, and art & academic publications both in Finland and internationally. Onstage, she creates temporary sites of thinking differently, or reprieves from “the crisis ordinary”, following Lauren Berlant. She received the Finnish State Prize for Media Art in 2022. Wennerstrand is currently pursuing a PhD in Performance Practices at Gothenburg University, Sweden. She is sun in Cancer, moon in Capricorn, with Virgo ascending.
