CV (Short version)
Soile Voima
Photography and performance artist
+358405494113
Date and place of birth: 20.2 1984 Vaasa, Finland
Member of: Finnish Darkroom Association, Bioart Society, Yö ry (artist run gallery in Helsinki), and Performance art society
https://www.instagram.com/soilevoima/
Installation and publication
- Weathering, work in progress photography installation, with Orfee Schuijt, at Davvi, Hammerfest, Norway, October 2026
- I need a Garden, photographs and thread, at group exhibition and happening With / Kanssa, Yö Galleria, Helsinki, October 2025
- Come to dust, photographs, lumenprints and a plaster cast, as part of the group exhibition Todellisuuksia / Realities, Vuotalo gallery, Helsinki August-Sept 2025
- Nights, Clouds and Sparrows, Halonen&Voima, photography installation, Yö Galleria Helsinki, January 2025
- Dirt and Bones, photograhy collage within group exhibition Realities / Todellisuuksia, at Amiraalistonkatu makasiini Turku, Finland, november 2024
- Deer, Dirt, Monkey and Bones, Halonen&Voima, photography installation created with Anttoni Halonen, Art Hall Vaasa, september-october 2024
- Valise, Halonen&Voima, photography installation created with Anttoni Halonen as part of Alethaia festival Raasepori, Finland, august 2024
-Snowy, multiartistic and site-spesific installation, photographic zine and performance, created with Anttoni Halonen, Heli Keskikallio and Jenni Laiti, Kilpisjärvi 2023, Kuusiluoto Helsinki, 2/2024
- Obscure Sorrows video work and photography installation, at Platform Artspace Vaasa Finland 2022, videowork at part of Yö Fest at Yö Galleria 2023
- With, risograph-printed photographs, polaroid-and analog photographs, Otherwise / Muun viisautta - installation, Yö Galleria 2022
- Layered landscape, 3 photography-textilework Digital Textile Art Exhibition Yö Galleria 2022
- Hämärä vol.2 part of Muunmaanmoon-exhibition at Vartiosaari artist house Helsinki 2021
- Hämärä vol.1, installation and work in progress-performance with scenographer Anttoni Halonen at contemporary art space Kutomo Turku Finland 2020
Research, curating and organizing happenings
- Master thesis on Photographic Art on coexistence with different environments and other than human beings: https://www.theseus.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/876455/Voima_Soile.pdf
- Curating and organizing Kanssa / With installation- and performance happening (with 14 invited artists) with danceartist Heli Keskikallio at Yö Galleria Helsinki, October 2025
- Curating and organizing Earth Talks - series of talks with different artists and scientists, at Kanssa / With happening, Yö Galleria Helsinki, October 2025
- Toisinajattelijat – artistic research project and platform of publications and conversations, which observes and investigates the intersection between new materialistic thinking and (performative) art 2020-2022
- Curating and organizing public conversation with artists Terike Haapoja and Jenni Laiti “Conversation about belonging” as part of OtherWise / Muun viisautta festival at Yö Galleria Helsinki 2022 and with Kriittinen korkeakoulu/Critical College Finland
- Facilitating and editing OtherWise / Muun viisautta art book with Toisinajattelijat, 2022
- Curating and organizing OtherWise / Muun viisautta art festival together with Toisinajattelijat working group at Yö Galleria Helsinki 2022
- Facilitating and organizing Bodily thinking and creative reading - seminar and workshop (with Chrysa Parkinson and Simo Kellokumpu) together with Toisinajattelijat working group and Zodiak-Center for New Dance at Helsinki and online 2021
Work as choreographer (and in most of the works as well as a performer)
- Deer, Dirt, Monkey and Bones, performance within installation co-created with Riina Kalmi and Anttoni Halonen, Art Hall Vaasa, Finland 2024
- Snowy, performance walk, with Heli Keskikallio, Anttoni Halonen, Jenni Laiti, Helsinki 2024
- Obscure Sorrows video work, photography installation and performance together with artists Riina Kalmi, Anttoni Halonen and Kristian Ekholm at Platform Artspace and as part of Ostrobothnia dancefestival at Vaasa Finland 2022
- Obscure Sorrows Kilpisjärvi, with Riina Kalmi, site-spesific performance and “conversation about ecological thinking and living” with artist Leena Valkeapää and Kilpisjärvi biological station at Kilpisjärvi Biological station 2022
- Hämärä, performance and installation with Anttoni Halonen, at Yö Gallery Helsinki 10/2021
-Clay conversations vol.1 and 2, score based sculptural performance, vol.2 happened with me, Heli Keskikallio, 300kg of clay and other materials at Yö Galleria 2022 and vol.1 happened with me, Laura Jantunen and 300kg of clay at Muunmaanmoon- exhibition at Vartiosaari Helsinki 6/2021. Also video work from the performance was part of the exhibition.
- A Practice of Desire, solowork for Riina Kalmi, chor. Soile Voima at Vaasa Finland 1/2021, together with Regional Dance Centre of Ostrobothnia
- Planty, Aww-working groups multi artistic work and performance walk , Meri-rastila forest Helsinki 6/2020
- Spring/Fall soolo-demo, Regional Dance Centre of Ostrobothnia Vaasa Finland 2018
- Garden of vigilance, performance for 4 dancers and one musician, Festival Norpas Taalintehdas Finland, 8/ 2017
- Jäljet-poimintoja piispankadulta, working group Kadun pakina & Turku Citytheatre moving performance walk, Piispankatu Turku Finland summer 2016
- A hand is a hole is an eye, with Orfee Schuijt Le Spacè Helsinki 2015, PTAK Vaasa 2015, Kutomo Turku 2016
- Matkauhrit, multiartistic, site-specific performance with artist Marja Kolu and violist Maano Männo, Bothnia Biennale happening Vaasa Finland 9/2014
- Assistant for the choreographer Heddy Maalem in Theatre du Centaure Marseille France 2009
- From the new world, as a dancer and assistant of the choreographer Heddy Maalem, International Waterfront Festival, Burlington, Vermont, USA, summer 2009
Work as dancer / performer
- 12 - 2 versiota kauneudesta, chor. Liisa Risu and working group, Stoa, December 2025
- Thing power, chor. Orfee Schuijt and working group, premiere 11/2020 Rimi/Imir Stavanger, Kutomo Turku Finland 3/2023, Rosendahl Theater Trondheim 2022, work-in progress performances; Blackbox Theater Oslo Norway 9/2020, Kutomo Turku Finland 8/2019
-Working group Precarious Practices, rehearsals and open nights at Höyhentämö and Zodiak 2019 and at Madhouse Helsinki 2020-21, HAM Helsinki 2022
- Music +, chor: Liisa Risu, Mirva Mäkinen and Sonja Jokiniemi, at Zodiak Helsinki 2019
- DANCE, as dancer and assistant of the chor, chor Anna Maria Häkkinen, Zodiak Helsinki 2018
- Choreographer Liisa Risus performances: Rhythm study Helsinki 2016, Heavy light Zodiak/Helsinki 2015, Soiva/WKL Lumo Vantaa 2016, Kallion pallohalli 2016, Tanssivirtaa Tampere festival 2014 and Music house Helsinki 2014, Huono Zodiak/Helsinki 2012
- Choreographer Francesco Scavetta/Wee Company's performances: On the moon and the day afterSweden, Mallorca, Norway, 2012-2013, Sweden 2014 and Palestine and Israel 2015, Surprised body project as dancer and assistant from 2010, touring around the world 2010-2013
- Choreographer Heddy Maalem/Cie Heddy Maalems performances: video dance portret Helsinki 2015, Mais le diable marche a nos cotes,France,Austria, Italy 2010 touring 2010-2012, Un Champ de Forces, France, Italy 2006 and touring 2006-2009 and working as an assistant of Heddy Maalem, teaching company workshops with Heddy 2009-2012
- Choreographer Jenni Kiveläs performances: Kleine monster Zodiak/Helsinki 2015, Varastettuja asioita Helsinki/Oulu 2012
- No one escapes the spectacle of happiness, chor Milla Koistinen, Uferstudios Berlin and Leverkusen, Germany 2011
- Closer to heaven, chor Sanna Myllylahti Zodiak/ RoutaCompany, Helsinki, Kajaani, Amsterdam, 2009 Dansens Hus Stockholm 2010
- Softandhard Helsinki City theater dance company, chor Anton Lachky Helsinki 2008
Podcast
OtherWise- podcast and talking series with invited artists and researchers organized with Toisinajattelijat-working group: Heli Keskikallio, Taru Koski and Soile Voima. The series explores the significance of new materialist and artistic-research-based thinking—as well as the nature of artistic work—while reflecting on the human position and questions of responsibility in a world shaped by the ecological crisis. https://www.toisinajattelijat.com/podcast
As a teacher for example
- Contemporary dance, Aalto University of Helsinki, dancer program fall 2019
- Improvisation workshop at Zodiak Helsinki 2019
- Contemporary dance for professional, Tanssille ry, Helsinki Finland, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2012
- Floorwork/contemporary dance, Burlington, Vermont, US, june-july 2009
Education
- Master of Fine Arts, Photographic art, Turku University of Applied Sciences /Arts Academy, Finland 2023- 2024
- BA, ModernTheaterDance (MTD), Amsterdamse Hoogeschoolen voor de Kunsten 2005-2009
- Iceland Academy of the Arts, Contemporary dance, Reykjavik Iceland, fall 2007