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Jenna Sutela
Jenna Sutela is a Finnish artist based in Berlin. She works with biological and computational systems, including the human microbiome and artificial neural networks to create sculptures, images and music. Sutela works with words, sounds, and other living media. She engages with both futuristic and ancient materials in audiovisual pieces, sculptures, and performances. Sutela’s work seeks to override aspects of culture based on a survival-of-the-fittest narrative in favor of symbiotic relationships between all life forms, both organic and synthetic.
Neuro-Fuzzy, 2022, Thermographic imaging, waxed inkjet print, custom maple frame, 120 x 90 cm. Courtesy the artist.
No central creatures are fixed, 2020, unique c-print photogram mounted on Dibond, 170 x 120 cm. Courtesy the artist.
Exhibition view, « NO NO NSE NSE », Kunsthalle, Mainz, Germany, 2020.
Exhibition view, « What Is It Like To Be A Bat? », Kunsthalle, Mainz, Germany, 2023.
Exhibition view, « What Is It Like To Be A Bat? », Kunsthalle, Mainz, Germany, 2023.
Exhibition view at the Lush Building, Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2023. © Stuart Whipps.
Gut Flora (Glossococcus), 2022, fired mammalian dung glazed in breastmilk, 90 x 60 x 10 cm. Courtesy the artist.
Gut Flora (Lactogalaxius), 2022, fired mammalian dung glazed in breastmilk, 90 x 60 x 10 cm. Courtesy the artist.
kérénibria tiche nénê, 2022, plasma cut and bent copper, 92.3 x 400 cm. Courtesy the artist.
Sutela’s work has been presented at museums and art contexts internationally, including Haus der Kunst, Munich (2022); Castello di Rivoli (2022); Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2022); Shanghai Biennale (2021); Liverpool Biennial (2021); Kunsthall Trondheim (2020); Serpentine Galleries, London (2019); and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2019). She was a Visiting Artist at The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) in 2019-21.
