The Museum of Impossible Forms: Talk with Giovanna Esposito Yussif

Giovanna Esposito Yussif, artistic director of the Museum of Impossible Forms will talk about institutional possibilities beyond traditional forms.

Located in East Helsinki, the Museum of Impossible Forms – MIF is a cultural center and the coming together of communities of art and cultural workers working to build anticolonial, anti patriarchal, and non-fascist commitments and futures. In the past years the Museum of Impossible Forms has developed numerous events and significant interventions in cinema, performance, music, spoken word, theory, visual arts, socially engaged and activism-based practices, and pedagogy, engaging with experimental, marginal, and migrant forms of expression.

Giovanna Esposito Yussif is a curator with a background in art history, museology and critical theory, practising since 2003. Giovanna has a long-standing commitment to nondominant praxes, dissentient imaginations, epistemic plurality and epistemologies in resistance. Among recent projects, she curated the Pavilion of Finland at the 58th Venice Biennale with the Miracle Workers Collective (2019), served as co-artistic director of Drifts Festival (Ghosts 2022, and Ungoverned Lives 2023), curated M_itä biennale 2023, co-curated Helsinki Biennial 2023, and has been the artistic director for the Museum of Impossible Forms since 2021.