Josef Ka (b. Western Siberia; based in Finland) is a performance, visual, and sound artist whose bold, site-specific works merge Butoh dance, cinematic theory, and nomadic world travel. Since 2011, her practice has explored the body as both a lived and symbolic system, navigating tensions between human and post-human existence. Her participatory performances invite audiences into intimate zones of ritual and reverie.
She has presented works at the 6th Moscow Biennale (2015), Venice Biennale (2017), Parallel Vienna (2021), Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm (2021), Documenta 15, Kassel (2022), Vox Populi, Philadelphia (2023), Grace Exhibition Space, New York (2023), and the Hermann Nitsch Foundation, Austria (2024). Ka has also collaborated with Marina Abramović and has curated Sauna Gallery in Helsinki since 2021.