Sonja Jokiniemi

Sonja Jokiniemi (born in Kuopio, Finland) is an artist in the fields of performing and visual arts. Her works are situated in the cross-overs of performances, drawings and textiles in exhibition and stage formats. A lot of her work is rooted in the quest of storytelling, language systems and haptic relationality- calling towards alternative ways of speaking, knowledge formation and systemising the values and socialness of language and perception. Jokiniemi works with material installations on stage exploring the relationship between things and beings; their ordinary and uncanny relationships. More recently an increased investment in the research of manual labour, craft traditions and cross generational knowledge sharing, results in the intertwined production of textile and dance art.

Jokiniemi graduated from the Performing Arts programme at DAS Theatre in Amsterdam 2013 and with a BA degree in Contemporary Dance at Laban Centre in London. Additionally she has completed a study in Expressive Arts therapy from Inartes Institute in Helsinki 2020.

Sonja’s work has been supported by many performing arts venues such as STUK-A House for Dance, music and Image (BE), Zodiak Centre for Dance, Moving in November festival and Kiasma Contemporary Art museum (FI), MDT- Stockholm (SWE), BUDA Kunstzentrum (BE). She has recently exhibited at the Finnish Institute in Paris, HAM-Helsinki Art museum, Oulu Art Museum, Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art in Copenhagen and Dr. Guislaan Museum in Ghent.