Taija Jyrkäs is a producer and curator for visual and performing arts based in Oulu, Finland. Currently she works as a producer at the Northern Photographic Centre. The mission of the photographic centre is to promote and develop photographic art and culture in the region of Oulu, Kainuu and Lapland and Baltic. The centre organizes exhibitions of Finnish and international photographic art and coordinates photography workshops, seminars and coordinates Nothern Photographic Network. She leads the public art program at The Northern Ostrobotnia Regional Fund.  The Northern Ostrobothnia Regional Fund is one of the Finnish Cultural Foundation’s 17 regional funds.

 

As a member of Culture Association Kulttuuribingo and Northern Underground Art Network NUAN65° she has been building connections to artists and artist run organizations around Nordic Countries. She has been coordinating Art Vehicles immersive bus tours to Art Festivals organized in Northern parts of Sweden and Norway and North West Russia. Art Vehicles Art journeys gather together artists of visual, performing and sound art and take them to a journey together with the audience and take them to Art Festivals in periphery.

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Photo: Emilia Ponkala