Nastja Säde Rönkkö

Nastja Säde RÖNKKÖ is an artist and director working with video, moving image, installation and text. Her projects investigate the relationship between the digital era, power, humanity and the future of our planet. She is particularly fascinated with how concepts such as love, slowness or affection can be silent yet radical ways to be and act in the world. In her practice she dreams about the future and explores presence through the politics and poetics of emotion. Rönkkö has exhibited and performed internationally in multiple places. Recent nominations and festivals include International Competition Lago Film Festival, Italy and Tampere Film Festival National Competition (2023). Her work has won several awards, including Best Experimental Film at Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival, Best Editing at NYC Indie Film Awards, Best Short Film and Best Director in Short Film at Marietta International Film Festival and the Seeing the Bigger Picture Award at American Documentary Film Festival and Film Fund (2018). She was awarded the Young Artist of the Year 2019 title and award in Finland and received the Below Zero Art Prize in 2023. She is currently showing work at HAM Helsinki (2024), Finland; Enter Woodland Spirits, European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024, Estonia; Seinäjoki Kunsthall, Finland; and Turku Art Museum, Finland.

Filmography

Take Me Anywhere (2016), 6 months without (2019), Altered Breaths, Future Feelings (2019), ICELAND (Nighttime) (2019), Milk & Decay (2019), Those Who Kept the Light / Seaweed (2022), Survival Guide for a Post-Apocalyptic Child (A-Z) (2022),  salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears (2024), Soovana (2024)