ANTTI AHONEN VS. JOSEF KA – PHOTO EXHIBITION // SAUNA GALLERY // JANUARY 2023 // HELSINKI
Since 2019, I have been collaborating with Antti Ahonen(Finland), a renowned superstar of the performance art scene and a dedicated documentarian of performance art for several decades.
Our collaboration reached a major milestone with the big photo opening at Sauna Gallery in 2023, which marked the first large-scale presentation of our work together since 2019.
This collaboration reflects a long-term exchange of ideas, performance experimentation, and artistic documentation, highlighting our shared vision in the field of performance art.
Between 2019 and 2023, we realized more than 10 performances in Helsinki, culminating in the publication of a limited-edition zine documenting the project.
International performance, visual and sound artist Josef Ka blends richly varied influences – everything from Butoh dance to cinematic theory – with her decades of nomadic world travel to create bold, highly personal site-specific art.
Josef Ka’s themes range from investigating the place of the human body in contemporary reality to exploring the inner body as a representative system of our human and post human kind.
Her artistic practice often actively invites the audience inside a sort of private reverie, making it is a deeply participatory one; she actively engages with both her audiences and with a wide diversity of other experimental artists.
In addition to her own work, Josef Ka curates a regular series of events and exhibitions at her Helsinki underground space – Sauna Gallery – and teaches classes on the theory and practice of performance art. She is also the inventor of the WORST THEATRE and her yogic training system, KA-YOGA.
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