Giovanna Esposito Yussif

Giovanna Esposito Yussif is a curator with a background in art history, museology and critical theory, practising since 2003. Giovanna has a long-standing commitment to nondominant praxes, dissentient imaginations, epistemic plurality and epistemologies in resistance. Among recent projects, she curated the Pavilion of Finland at the 58th Venice Biennale with the Miracle Workers Collective (2019), served as co-artistic director of Drifts Festival (Ghosts 2022, and Ungoverned Lives 2023), curated M_itä biennale 2023, and co-curated Helsinki Biennial 2023. Currently, she is the artistic director for the Museum of Impossible Forms (since 2021) and a jury member for Office for Contemporary Art Norway - OCA (2023-2025).

Giovanna has collaborated with diverse institutions such as Helsinki Biennaali, ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival, Office for Contemporary Art Norway - OCA, Museum of Impossible Forms, Archive, Goethe Institut, Savvy Contemporary, Manifesta Foundation, SOMA, Sinne Gallery, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Baltic Circle, Helsinki International Artist Program, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, RabRab Press, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Galería OMR, Fundación/Colección Jumex, among others.

She edited A Greater Miracle Of Perception with Archive Books (2019) and Polyphonic Texts and Toolkit with Night Schoolers (2019), and has written for diverse contemporary art publications. She has been guest Lecturer for Kuvataideakatemia (Art Academy) in diverse seminars, Lecturer at Taidekoulu Maa, Mentor for Live Art and Performance Studies-Theater Academy in Helsinki, and Mentor for Curatorial Practice at University of Bergen. She actively contributes to diverse collectives, networks, boards and juries, including the ANTI Live Art Prize 2023.