SUVI TUOMINEN CV
Education
2025- Doctoral researcher (Live Art and Performance Studies) University of the Arts Helsinki
2021 Master of Arts (Live Art and Performance Studies) Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki
2021 Master’s studies in choreography 3 month Erasmus Danish National School of Performing Arts
2019 Master of Arts (archaeology) University of Helsinki
Thesis: Archaeology and the Choreographic Method (eximia cum laude)
2017 Dancer’s vocational degree North Karelia college Outokumpu
2014 Bachelor of Arts (archaeology and anthropology) University of Helsinki
Performances & Exhibitions
2026 February-May FRAGMENTS OF A LANDSCAPE as part of Waterways- group exhibition at Lappeenranta Art Museum Finland. included performances.
2025 November DOWN BEAT performance at Moving in November Helsinki
2024 August ORGANS performance at Drifts Festival Helsinki by Mean Time Between Failures
2024 August THIS IS NOT A SHOW performance at Why So Myrtsi? Vantaa by Mean Time Between Failures
2024 May ORGANS performance at Riga Performance Art festival by Mean Time Between Failures
2024 May DOWN BEAT performance at Yö-gallery Helsinki by Mean Time Between Failures
2024 March FUTURE PAST IN LINNANIEMI performance at Nordic Theoretical Archaeology conference Turku
2024 April DANCE, HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE performance at Pas sí Fragile festival Brussels
2023 October FRACPTURING at Zodiak - Center for New Dance, Helsinki by Mean Time Between Failures
2023 September FUTURE PAST IN LINNANIEMI performance at New Performance Turku Biennale
2023 March ORGANS exhibition and performance at MAA-tila Helsinki by Mean Time Between Failures
2023 January MELT/POOL group exhibition at Sím gallery Korpúlfsstaðir
2022 August-September MESH choreography: Maija Hirvanen, role: dancer Tanz im August Berlin & Zodiak
2022 February CONJOINED FUGUES concept: Nicolina Stylianou, role: performer. Tiivistämö, Helsinki
2021 September PERFORMANCE PROPOSALS ON CULTURAL HERITAGE at The Finnish National Museum
2020 October SH-IFT SCAPES solo exhibition at Soukka Art’s association gallery Espoo
2020 September PERFORMING PARADOX at Kuninkaansaari island Helsinki
2020 March AUDACTIV at Santo Tirso museum of Contemporary Sculpture
2019 September ONE OBJECT DIFFERENT STORIES at Tallinn City Museum
2019 until 2021 part of GROUND BENEATH HER FEET collective with media artist Sara Pathirane, dancers
Laura Pietiläinen and Iina Taijonlahti. Media Exhibitions at Palazzo Luccarini, Oodi-library, Art hall Turku,
Galleria Sinne, Valokuvataiteen Museo K1
Voice over performances
2024 Voice over performer for film nEarth by Stephen Cornford
2023 Voice over performer for film Spectral Index by Stephen Cornford
Grants
2024 Arts Promotion Center Finland (travel and material for working group)
2023 Arts Promotion Center Finland (material for working group)
2023 Kone Foundation (for Mean Time Between Failures 2-year working grant)
2022 Arts Promotion Center Finland (Work and travel grant)
2021 Finnish Cultural Foundation (working grant for working group)
2021 Vivicas Vänner Stiftelse (working grant for working group)
2021 Arts Promotion Center Finland (working grant)
2021 Arts Promotion Center Finland (working grant)
2020 City of Espoo (working grant and material)
2019 Oskar Öflund Foundation (travel grant)
2019 Arts Promotion Center Finland (travel grant for working group)
Residencies
2024 November STUK residency for Mean Time Between Failures in Leuven
2023 February EHKÄ residency for Mean Time Between Failures in Turku
2023 January Sím residency for solo work in Reykjavik (funded by Nordic Culture Point)
2022 November Live Art Society residency for Mean Time Between Failures in Helsinki
2022 June Sím residency for solo work in Reykjavik
2022 May Zodiak - Center for new dance Laboratory residency for Mean Time Between Failures in Helsinki
2021 May Outokumpu Old Mine residency for Mean Time Between Failures
2021 July Kone Foundation Saari residency for working group
2020 June-August Helsinki International Artists Programme for for Mean Time Between Failures
2019 May Palazzo Luccarini residency stay for working group in Trevi
2017 July Liikelaituri residency for working group in Tampere
Curation & other trusted roles
2021-2023 Curator of contemporary performance at Helsinki City Theatre with Riikka Thitz and Tuomas Laitinen
Publications
2026 (forthcoming) Tint, K. & Tuominen, S. One object, many stories: a collaboration between dance and
archaeology in Tallinn City Museum. in Art and Archaeology. eds. John Jameson.
Routledge.
2024 Tuominen, S. & Che, D. What Would Skomorokh do?! On Humor and Performance making. in
Kaivolla Blog. Kone Foundation.
2020 Tuominen, S. & Che, D. Processing Practice. in In Between. eds. Ali Akbar Mehta & Marianne
Savallampi. Helsinki International Artists Programme.
2020 Tuominen, S. Performing Paradox. In Variables - Kuninkaansaari. eds. Riikka Thitz. University of
the Arts Helsinki - Kuvataideakatemia, Praxis Master’s program Uniarts Helsinki.
2020 Tuominen, S. Collaborative bodies in the (un)making - Audactiv. In Creative Unmakings:
Disruptions in Art/archaeology. eds. D. Bailey. Santo Tirso Museum of Contemporary Sculpture.
2020 Tuominen, S. and Marila, M. I Shed Tears, Left, and Forgot. The Common Frog, Mosquitoes, and
Grandmother Pine stayed. in Heritage Ecologies. eds. Þora Pétursdóttir and Torgeir Rinke
Bangstad. Routledge.
2019 Tuominen, S. Sensing within: Somatic Practice and Archaeological Objects. In Interarchaeologia
5. eds. Marko Marila, Marja Ahola, Kristiina Mannermaa and Mika Lavento.
Conference talks
2026 A Museum for All? Tension in the aestheticization of socioeconomic class at Nordic Theorethical Archaeology Group, Kalmar.
2026 Knowing through weight shifting a participatory presentation at Nordic Theorethical Archaeology Group, Kalmar.
2024 Future Past in Linnaniemi a performance-talk at Nordic Theorethical Archaeology Group, Turku.
2022 Performance Proposals On Cultural Heritage at Nordic Theoretical Archaeology Group, Oslo.
2020 Collaborative bodies in the (un)making at Creative (un)makings - conference, Santo Tiro
Museum of Contemporary Sculpture.
2020 Glitches, Disruptions and Material re-articulations with Marko Marila at Helsinki Archeology
Seminar 28.2.
2020 Wild Speculations: Future(s) of Archaeology Materialised through Performance and Fictioning at
European Association of Archaeologists conference.
2019 Movement, Dance and Public Art/Archaeology: the Case of Tallinn City Museum at Arkeologian
Iltapäivä, Tiedekulma.
2019 Future stages for museum objects: the Case of Tallinn City Museum with Küllike Tint at European
Association of Archaeologists.
2019 Speculation and Somatic practice: a field experiment with Marko Marila at Theoretical
Archaeology Group, Syracuse University.
2019 Speculation as Somatic Practice: The Case of Second World War German military occupation
sites in the Finnish Lapland presentation with Marko Marila at Ethnography with a Twist,
University of Jyväskylä.
2018 Art-archaeological research: The Case of Second World War German military occupation sites in
the Finnish Lapland at Arkeologian Iltapäivä, Tiedekulma.
2018 Speculation as Somatic Practice: The Case of Second World War German military occupation
sites in the Finnish Lapland at Unruly Heritage - Object Matters conference, University of
Tromsø.
2018 Liike empaattisena menetelmänä with Marko Marila at Arkeologian iltapäivä, Tiedekulma.
2018 Sensing within: Somatic Practice as archaeological analogy at The 8th Baltic Archaeological
Seminar