ARTISTS BIOS

Harold Offeh is an artist working in a range of media including performance, video, photography, learning and social arts practice. Offeh is interested in the space created by the inhabiting or embodying of histories. He employs humour as a means to confront the viewer with historical narratives and contemporary culture. He has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally including: Tate Britain and Tate Modern; South London Gallery; Turf Projects, London; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Wysing Art Centre; Studio Museum Harlem, New York; MAC VAL, France; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark; and Art Tower Mito, Japan.

He studied Critical Fine Art Practice at The University of Brighton, MA Fine Art Photography at the Royal College of Art and in 2020 completed a PhD by practice exploring the activation of Black Album covers through durational performance at Leeds Beckett University. He lives in Cambridge and is currently a Tutor in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art, London.

Eugenia Lim is an artist of Chinese-Singaporean ancestry who works across body, lens, social and spatial practice to explore how migration, capital and encounter cut, divide and bond our interdependent world. Based in Melbourne, Australia, on unceded Wurundjeri lands in the Kulin Nation, Lim has shown at the Tate Modern (GBR), LOOP Barcelona (ESP), Recontemporary (IT), Kassel Dokfest (DE), Museum of Contemporary Art (AU), ACCA (AU), FACT Liverpool (GBR), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (DK) and EXiS (KR). She co-founded CHANNELS Festival, co-wrote and hosted Video Becomes Us on ABC iView and is a former co-director at APHIDS. Lim has been artist-in-residence with the Experimental Television Centre (NY), Bundanon Trust, 4A Beijing Studio, and Gertrude Contemporary. Lim is a 2022 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow and winner of Charlottenborg Spring’s 2022 Deep Forest Art Land Award.
Eugenia is represented by STATION, Australia.

Atheer Soot aka Mohammed (Moe) Mustafa was born in Kuwait in 1985 to Palestinian parents, brought up in Jordan, and is currently based in Finland. He is proud of his mixed cultural background and heritage, considering himself an artist at once Palestinian, Jordanian, and Finnish.

Moe Mustafa is a multidisciplinary artist. His works vary from visual art, theatre, and performance to sound and sculpture. He deals with themes such as queerness and homosexuality, social interaction, and relationship.

Joseph Kamaru, aka KMRU, is a Nairobi-born, Berlin-based sound artist whose work is grounded on the discourse of field recording, noise, and sound art. His work posits expanded listening cultures of sonic thoughts and sound practices, a proposition to consider and reflect on auditory cultures beyond the norms. An awareness of surroundings through creative compositions, installations, and performances. He has earned international acclaim from his performances in far-flung locales such as the Barbican, Berlin Atonal, CTM festival, Dekmantel, Le Guess Who, and his profound releases on Editions Mego, Subtext, Seil Records, and Injazero. 2022 saw him supporting Big Thief in the UK/EU and touring with Fennesz in the US. KMRU has carved out a serious and definitive space on the list of essential authors in ambient-experimental music––one of the most prolific and innovative artists in his field.

Noor Abed (b. 1988, Palestine) works at the intersection of performance, media and film. Through a process of image making, her works create situations where social possibilities are both rehearsed and performed. Abed’s work has been screened and exhibited internationally at Anthology Film Archives, New York, Gabes Cinema Fen Film Festival, Tunisia, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, The New Wight Biennial, Los Angeles, Leonard & Bina Gallery, Montréal, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Ujazdowski Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, The Mosaic Rooms, London, and MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome. In 2020, she co-founded, with Lara Khaldi, the School of Intrusions, an independent educational platform in Ramallah, Palestine. Abed is currently a resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam 2022-24 and was recently awarded the Han Nefkens Foundation/Fundació Antoni Tàpies Video Art Production Grant 2022.

Shubhangi Singh’s practice often draws upon existing knowledges to address movement, identity, queries related to the body and its relationship with the environment. Singh considers ideas of absence and absenting in her work as a way of reflecting upon what is visible, particularly in relation to history, memory and the labour of memorialising. Working across media, from text to moving image and site-specific installations, Singh’s works are routinely suspended between fiction and non-fiction, often adopting the position of an unreliable narrator.

Singh’s works have shown at the Whitechapel Gallery (London, UK), 33rd Rakkautta ja Anarkiaa (Helsinki, Finland), 8th Artishok Biennial (Tallinn, Estonia), Third Space (Helsinki, Finland), 28th Festival Les Instants Video (Milan, Italy), BideoDromo, International Experimental Film and Video Festival (Bilbao, Spain), 8th Cairo Video Festival (Cairo, Egypt), Experimental Film, Audio and Performance Festival (Florianópolis, Brazil), IDSFFK (Kerala, India) and Athens Digital Art Festival (Athens, Greece) amongst other venues.

Singh holds a Master’s degree in Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art from Aalto University and is the co-founder of New City Limits, an initiative to facilitate creative viewing and practice in Navi Mumbai, India. She currently lives and works in Helsinki.

Sepideh Rahaa (1981, Iran) is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher and educator based in Helsinki. Through her practice she actively investigates and questions the prevailing power structures, social norms and conventions while focusing on womanhood, storytelling and everyday life and resistances. And at best to initiate methods within contemporary art to create space for dialogue. Currently she is pursuing her doctoral studies in Contemporary Art at Aalto University. Her research interests include matter of representation, collaboration as practice, decolonisation and feminist politics.

Rahaa’s artistic practice combines different disciplines including film and video, installation, performance art, painting, poetry and photography. Her work has been exhibited and screened in Europe, East Asia and West Asia (politically and colonially known as the Middle East): Iran, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Germany (Berlin), Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands and Finland. Rahaa’s work has been distributed by AV-arkki the Centre for Finnish Media Art and supported by Finnish Cultural Foundation (Suomen Kulttuurirahasto), Taike (Arts Promotion Center Finland), Frame Contemporary Art Finland, AVEK (The Promotion Center for Audiovisual Culture), Nylands Svenska Kulturfonds and Visek Kuvasto (copyright society for visual artists).

Since 2015, Rahaa has been actively participating actively regarding role of art institutions and collectives in Finnish art scene. She has been a member and co-founder at Third Space Collective (2015-), board member of Globe Art Point (2016-2021) as well as Culture for All (2017-2021), and Nordic Network for Norm Critical Leadership (2018-), among other collaborative and collective works.

Anu Pennanen is an artist and filmmaker based in Helsinki. Her work explores the way we deal with urbanisation and the effects of globalisation on the way we live. At the intersection of visual art, film and architecture, it features people who question the built environment they are part of. Pennanen’s creations always start with a concrete and real space, a territory close to her: it allows her to practise something very close to life, which has to do with history, anthropology, archaeology and existential problems. Her works have been exhibited extensively: CCA Glasgow (UK); Frankfurter Kunstverein (DE); White Box New York (US); Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland (NZ); Grand Café Saint-Nazaire (FR); KunstenFestivaldesArts Brussels (BE) Frans Hals Museum (NL); Liverpool, Istanbul, SCAPE, Manifesta, Momentum and Moscow Biennials and Kiasma Museum Helsinki (FI) among others.