Taru Elfving

Taru Elfving is a Helsinki-based curator and writer focused on nurturing undisciplinary and site-sensitive enquiries at the intersections of ecological, feminist and decolonial practices. As co-founder and artistic director of CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago she currently leads a research residency programme on the island of Seili in the Baltic Sea in collaboration with the Archipelago Research Institute, University of Turku (FI). She is also affiliated as a curatorial researcher in the transdisciplinary Centre for Sustainable Ocean Science (SOS) at Åbo Akademi University (FI). Previously she has worked as Head of Programme at Frame Contemporary Art Finland and HIAP Helsinki International Artist Programme. Her curatorial projects include Research Pavilion (Uniarts, Helsinki, 2023), Earth Rights (Kunsthalle Turku 2019), Hours, Years, Aeons (Finnish Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015), Frontiers in Retreat (HIAP 2013-18), Contemporary Art Archipelago (Turku 2011 European Capital of Culture), and Towards a Future Present (LIAF Lofoten International Art Festival 2008). She has published internationally and co-edited publications such as Contemporary Artist Residencies. Reclaiming Time and Space (Valiz, 2019). Elfving has a PhD from Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths University of London.