Aura Seikkula

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Aura Seikkula is an independent curator and researcher based in Stockholm, where she is the Curator for the SVT Studio Verksamma Tillsammans artist studio program. Her extensive international practice, currently based in Europe and West Africa, comprises of process, production and theory. Using narrative analysis as her tool, Seikkula’s current PhD research in philosophy discusses the social and cultural sustainability of artistic practices from a process perspective. Recent projects include Reaching Re-birth for the 4th Athens Biennale AGORA (2013); KOPIOITU a residency and exhibition program with Komplot Brussels and SIC Helsinki (2013); Show Your Sisu TV parody and performance event at the Baltic Circle Theater Festival (2012); the 6th Momentum Biennial Imagine Being Here Now, Moss Norway (2011); J.D. Okhai Ojeikere: Moments of Beauty survey exhibition for the Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos and ARS 11 Kiasma Helsinki (2011); Nordic Art Today, Loft Project Etagi, St Petersburg Russia (2011); Urban Studies event series and residency program in Shanghai (2010-2011); On Independence and the Ambivalence of Promise residency and exhibition program, Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos (2010). Seikkula has worked in curatorial positions at the Künstlerhaus Bethaninen, Berlin; NIFCA Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art and the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki. Additionally, she has acted as guest curator and curatorial advisor in various organizations including CCA,Lagos, santralistanbul, the European Economic and Social Committee and European Peace Museum. She is the co-founder of SKY Finnish Society for Curators and contributes to Kunstkritikk and NextLevel.

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Crossroads - London 2016

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Art/Marbella

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