Maria Villa Largacha

Curator, educator, and researcher based in Finland. She is co-curator for the New Performance Turku Biennale and currently develops her doctoral research in education on the interactions of embodied practices, political agency, and society. She belongs to the Spatial Socialization and Environmental Citizenship Research Collective (SPECS) at Tampere University. In 2019, she created the Embodied Knowledge Workshop as basis for her research on experimental and somatic pedagogies with an intersectional decolonial approach. She has a MA in Mediating, Curating and Contemporary Art, and BA and MA studies in Practical Philosophy. After working many years as art editor, she has focused in the last decade on designing spaces for discussion, collaboration and socio-ecological practices with participatory art methods. She has taught creative writing and curatorial practices at the MA level, and organizes activist spaces of dialogue with varied practitioners in Helsinki.

“Make the Impossible Attainable. The Crafting of Yasen Vasilev’s Impossible Actions.” (2024), 
“Venus, on the threshold of the screen”, with Janina Rajakangas (2023) 
“Transdisciplinarity in Higher Education: Wicked Problems, Dreams, and Nightmares” (2022).