Photo: Venla Helenius
Orlan Ohtonen
Curator, Finnish Museum of Photography
Biography
Orlan Ohtonen is a curator and writer based in Helsinki, Finland, currently holding the position of Chief-Curator of Exhibitions at the Finnish Museum of Photography. They have been building self-organised platforms for intersectional curatorial practices as part of the collective ‘nynnyt’ (2014-2021); as Co-Founder of feminist and anti-racist workspace Poimu (2018-2022); as Co-Founder and Co-Director of Feminist Culture House (2019-2022); and as Co-Founder and Co-Organiser of trans cultural sauna event series Sweat and Tears (2022-). Ohtonen has written about the relationship between activism and cultural politics for many art publications such as EDIT, Mustekala, NO NIIN and Taide. He holds an MA in Curating, Managing and Mediating Art (2015) from Aalto University; and MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins in London (2006).
