Yassine Khaled
Visual Artist
Biography & CV
Yassine Khaled
I am a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Helsinki. My practice is situated at the intersection of artistic experimentation and socio-cultural inquiry, utilizing a diverse range of media— performance, sculpture, installation, painting, and film making—to interrogate the complexities of contemporary life. Through these mediums, I explore communication and systems of cultural power shape both the individual and collective psyche in a hyperconnected, globalized world. My work arises from a sustained curiosity about the present: the ideologies, infrastructures, and invisible codes that silently inform how we think, act, and relate to one another. I approach art as a space of disruption—a way to resist cultural conformity and question the “givens” of our social reality. Central to my practice is a commitment to revisiting and unmaking dominant narratives, while proposing alternative ways of seeing and imagining the world.
As an artist based in the west I conceptualize interpersonal communication as inherently cultural, reflecting broader tensions between autonomy, identity, and control. My areas of exploration include spirituality, virtuality, environmental and identities transformation, mental health, human values, artificial intelligence, cultural homogenization, and precarious labor. These themes converge to address the core question: what defines our conditions of existence, and how can we collectively reimagine them? In this way, my artistic research aims to cultivate spaces of critical reflection and radical possibility—where speculative cultural visions are not only imagined but made tangible. I view the role of the artist as both witness and agent, capable of shaping future imaginaries through acts of aesthetic and ethical intervention.
My works have been represented internationally in galleries, art fairs, biennales and museums including: National Museum of Finland, Helsinki (2022), Museum of Central Finland (2022), Seoul International ALT Cinema Media Festival, South Korea (2021)Together Alone project screen on Musikkintalo, Helsinki (2020), Criatek, Digital Creativity & Technology Festival, Aveiro, Portugal (2019), Expanded Media -exhibition at Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival, Stuttgart, Germany (2019), Prix Ars Electronica, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria (2018), SALTS Group Exhibition, Birsfelden, Switzerland (2017-2018), Chart Art Fair (2017), Copenhagen, Denmark, Haihara Art Centre, Tampere, Finland (2017), SUPERMARKET Art Fair, Stockholm (2017), Art Fair Suomi, Helsinki (2017), CMOOA - Collection’s Auction, Palace Es Saadi, Marrakech (2016), Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki (2016-2017), 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London (2015), GVCC, Casablanca (2012-2017) and ”Luxures”, RonchauxRoom, Besançon, France (2014), Biennale OFF 4 Marrakech (2012) and Contemporary Art Fair of Africa and the Mediterranean, Casablanca (2011).
EDUCATION
2019 MFA - Academy of Fine Arts: Time and Space Studies, University of Arts Helsinki
2011 BFA - National Institute of Fine Arts Tétouan, Morocco
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Solo Exhibition, Forum Box, Helsinki
My Long Pink Spring, at Culture House Laikku, Studio -space
2020 Monitor Man in the Time of Pandemic, MAA-tila, Helsinki
2019 Disconnecting, GVCC Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
2017 ForHidden, Galleria Huuto, Helsinki, Finland
A Territory Under the MaMa, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland
2011 The Good Zero, Institute of Fine Art Space, Tétouan, Morocco
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 National Museum of Finland, Helsinki
Museum of Central Finland
If I Will Be You -two person exhibition, Kunsthalle Turku: 6.5.-4.6. 2022
2020 Language of Belonging, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, curated by Linda Ciesielski
2019 Monitor Man -video in Criatek, Digital Creativity & Technology Festival, Aveiro, Portugal
Art Fair Suomi -festival, Cable Factory, Helsinki
Expanded Media Exhibition at Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival, Germany
2018 Human Factors, Watermans Arts Centre, London, curator Irini Papadimitriou
CyberArts 2018 - Prix Ars Electronica, OK Center for Contemporary Art, , Austria
Hive Mind -Group Exhibition, Kunstihoone - Tallinn Art Hall, curator Stacey Koosel Galleria Lapinlahti, Helsinki
New Normal, Saariaho Järvenpää, Helsinki, Finland
imagine., MUU Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2017-2018 I AM OUR COMMON PRONOUN, Birsfelden, Switzerland, curated by Helga Christoffersen
2017 Research Pavilion, Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, related to 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
I AM OUR COMMON PRONOUN, CHART EMERGING, CHART Art Fair in Copenhagen, Denmark, curated by Helga Christoffersen
Kaupunki -group exhibition, Art Centre Haihara, Tampere, Finland
Silence, Please -two person exhibition, Gallery Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki, Finland
KuvAn Kevät, Helsinki, Finland
2016 Carte Blanche of Villu Jaanisoo, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland
Non Parallel Process, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland
2015 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, England March, Group Exhibition, GVCC, Casablanca, Morocco
2014 Luxures/ ﺕﺍﻮﻬﺷ, RonchauxRoom, Besançon, France 2012 Biennale OFF 4 Marrakech, GVCC, Morocco 2011 Contemporary Art Fair of Africa and the Mediterranean, Casablanca, Morocco
PERFORMANCES
2019 Monitor Man -performance and video in Criatek, Digital Creativity & Technology Festival, Aveiro, Portugal
2018 Monitor Man -performance at Digital Weekender Festival, Watermans Arts Centre, London
Monitor Man -performance and video of the performance at Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition,
OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
Monitor Man -performance, Platform in collaboration with Filmverkstaden and Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art Vaasa, Finland
2017 Monitor Man -performance and video of the performance presented at Research Pavilion, Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, related to 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Monitor Man -performance and video of the performance presented at Chart Art Fair in Copenhagen, Denmark, curated by Helga Christoffersen
Monitor Man -performance and video of the performance presented at Supermarket 2017 Art Fair Stockholm, Sweden
2016 Monitor Man at Baltic Circle, International Theatre Festival, Helsinki
RESIDENCIES
2021 SPACE Art + Technology, London
2020 Finnish Cultural Institute in New York
2018 Residency in Saaren kartano, Kone Foundation, Finland
2014 Institut of Fine Arts, Besançon, France 2014 La Cité International Des Arts, Paris, France 2013 Air.café, Tissardmine, Morocco
FILM FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS
2020 Monitor Man in The Time of Pandemic -short film on Helsinki Music Centre’s big outside screen as a part of Together Alone -program, organized by Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes
2017 Monitor Man Kettupäivät -Short Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland
TEACHING & TUTORING EXPERIENCE
2023 Social psychology therapy and cultural clinical society for mental health, workshop.
2022 Lecture (Artist Talk) Forum Box, Helsinki
2021 Lecture (Artist Talk) MAA-tila, Helsinki
2020 Lecture (Sense in Arts), Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, USA
2016 Intervention on Equality and Aesthetics of Knowledge, with Jacques Rancière, Ivana Momcilovic (People Coming from Nowhere -collective), Gregoire Rousseau, Sezgin Boynik (Rab-Rab Press) and Minna Heikinaho
2012-2013 (Teaching in conceptual art and technics of sculpting) National Institute of Fine Arts Tétouan, Morocco
2011 Lecture (Artist Talk) National Institute of Fine Arts Tétouan, Morocco
GRANTS AND PRIZES
2023 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, three year working grant
2022 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, one year working grant
2020 Finnish Cultural Foundation, 6-month working grant
2020 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, project grant
2020 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, grant for mobility
2019 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, one year working grant
2018 Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica 2018 (Austria), Interactive Art +, for the work: Monitor Man 2018 Kone Foundation, 6 month working grant
2018 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, 6 month working grant
2017 Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2017 Arts Promotion Centre Finland (for a group of two)
2016 Kone Foundation, for making a performance for Baltic Circle - International Theatre Festival 2014 2nd Prize for The Artist of the New Generation in Morocco, Ministry of Culture Morocco