Miša Skalskis is a multidisciplinary artist based in Helsinki, working across music, video, sculpture, and performance. Their practice explores how identity is shaped by outside forces—historical narratives, aesthetic movements, subcultures, and the ever-evolving landscape of mass media.

Henna is a multi-disciplinary artist of Finnish heritage with a participatory, and socially engaged practice. Her work explores the intimate and entangled relationships between humans and the natural world, intersecting with themes of migratory movement, climate change, heritage, and belonging.

Nastja Säde Rönkkö is an artist working with video, performance, installation and text. Rönkkö has exhibited and performed internationally in places such as Somerset House, London, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, and Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki.

Carmen Baltzar is a Finnish-Romani writer, artist and filmmaker living between Helsinki and Lisbon. Her work explores intersections of love and power, the experience of a woman’s body, embodied liberation, alternate feminine realities and Roma life and death.

Anssi Kasitonni is an artist and inventor, whose works draw from the fringes of popular culture, of a world of skateboarders and moped boys partly gone by. Anssi was awarded the prestigious Ars Fennica art prize in 2011, and he was the recipient of the Below Zero art award in London in 2025.

Marika Peura is a choreographer, dancer and performer based in Helsinki, Finland. She works multidisciplinary in the fields of dance and performance.

Outi Pieski is a Sámi visual artist based in Ohcejohka (Utsjoki) and Numminen, Finland. Pieski has exhibited in Sápmi and internationally, most recently at Tate St.Ives, 2024, Helsinki Biennial, 2021 and the 13th Gwangju Biennale, 2021.

Batist Van Baekel is a Belgian circus artist specialized in juggling and object manipulation.

Minna Henriksson is a Helsinki based visual artist working with a disparate range of tools including text, drawing, painting and linocut. Henriksson’s work relates to leftist, anti-racist and feminist struggles.

Hanna Tuulikki is a British-Finnish artist, composer and performer based in Scotland. Her multi-disciplinary projects investigate the ways in which the body communicates beyond and before words, to tell stories through imitation, vocalisation and gesture.

Sonya Lindfors is a Cameroonian - Finnish choreographer and artistic director that also works with facilitating, community organizing and education. Her performance works have been shown and supported by Beursschouwburg, Kampnagel, Spring Utrecht, Black Box Theater Oslo, among others.

Sepideh Rahaa is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist, researcher and educator based in Helsinki. Through her practice, she actively investigates and questions prevailing power structures, social norms and conventions while focusing on womanhood, storytelling and everyday resistances.

Maija Tammi is a Finnish artist and Doctor of Arts, who is known for her radical storytelling through the medium of video, photography and installations. Tammi’s work has been exhibited internationally, among others in Paris, Berlin, Rome, London, New York, and Tokyo, and she has five published books.

Ali Akbar Mehta is a Transmedia artist, curator, researcher, and writer, creating immersive and interactive archives on the crossovers of culture, technology and knowledge.

Eija-Liisa Ahtila is a Finnish contemporary visual artist and filmmaker based in Helsinki, Finland. Ahtila is well known for her multi-panel cinematic installations. In which she experiments with narrative storytelling.

Adrian is Artistic Director of the UK’s leading circus and arts centre, Jacksons Lane. As a venue director and programmer, Adrian has worked with the National Theatre, Stratford Circus, the Albany and Trinity amongst many others.

Bengi Ünsal is currently the Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK. Prior to this Ünsal was the Head of Contemporary Music and Director of Meltdown Festival at Southbank Centre.

Maija Nurmio is a Helsinki-based choreographer and dancer, who has been freelancing for two decades. She has a BA from Laban in London and an MA in choreography from the Theatre Academy in Helsinki.

Teo Ala-Ruona is an interdisciplinary artist based in Helsinki, working across performance art, contemporary theatre, and choreography. Ala-Ruona's work has recently been shown at venues such as Performa Biennial in New York, the Vilnius Biennial of Performance Art in Vilnius, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

Henri Kangas is a circus artist from Finland. Kangas has a Bachelor of Circus Arts from Codarts University for Arts in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Kangas has a passion for stage, where he uses his unique approach towards circus to create a wide variety of acts and shows suitable for all forms of audiences.

Kaisa Nieminen is a dancer-choreographer based in Helsinki, Finland.Her dance background is in street dance; mainly in hip hop and punking/whacking. This background is reflected in her artistic work and her relationship with the movement.