12. 3. 2024 Seminar of Accidental Wisdom: Leevi Toija
seminar of accidental wisdom: Leevi Toija
12. 3. 2025
Born in Helsinki in 1998, Leevi Toija works between Helsinki and Zurich. In 2023 he graduated with an MA in fine arts from the ZHdK in Zurich and in 2021 with a BA from the department of photography in FAMU, Prague. Recently Toija has been awarded the Kiefer Hablitzel -award (2024, CH) and the Finnish Artists Society’s Young Artist grant (2023, FIN). His recent exhibitions include Doom Spa (2025, DE); Kunstmuseum Appenzell (2024, CH); and La Placette (2024, CH). He is also the co-founder of the Zurich/Helsinki based off-space ‘portland/sunnyside’.
“The basis of my practice relies on (moving)images, spatial installations, and organizational approaches. My projects aim to examine, (de)construct, and/or transform (un)known&(un)seen (infra)structures—both material and immaterial—which are built to serve the (general) public. Borrowing ideas from Keller Easterling’s studies of infrastructure spaces, Marc Augé’s non-places, and Aleksej Gastev’s (dys/u)topian thoughts of a universal (human)machine—I try to scrutinize how these spaces are(n't) experienced universally—at the end—coming to the question: How do these structures work as a setting for our daily existence?”