Photo: Venla Helenius
Max Hannus
Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
Biography
Max Hannus is a Curator, working independently and at Kiasma Museum, Helsinki. Their research explores the interfaces of desire, human relationships and making of art, and aims at highlighting the subjective characteristic of curatorial practices, while still actively pursuing the ethical position of a curator and stressing the politics of representation. Their recent curated exhibitions include Essi Kuokkanen (2025), Sarah Lucas (2025) and Dreamy — Queer Imaginaries (2023) at Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma, as well as Moon in your Mouth (2023) at UKS, Oslo, which considered consent, intimacy and emotional labour in the realm of exhibition making.