
Dr. Joonas Lahtinen
performance//installation//research
recent & coming up next:
Feb 23 Tutke Lecture for Doctoral Students (UniArts Helsinki/Theatre Academy)
Sept 22 Tactics for a Collective Body (performance, Het Bos, Antwerp)
May 22 Soup Session/Love Letters (installation/talk, AP Arts, Antwerp)
Nov 21-Jan 22 From nowhere to now-here (lab, Schauspielhaus Wien)
Aug-Sept 21 Earth and Water (group exhibition, MUDS/La Contrada Trieste)
– website currently being updated –
meanwhile, you might like to visit:
http://joonaslahtinen.wordpress.com

participatory performance/installation
WUK performing arts Vienna 2019
URB 16 Festival / Kiasma Theatre / Finnish National Gallery 2016
performance and installation artist, researcher
Lecturer-Researcher at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
PhD Theatre Research
(Univ. of Helsinki, January 2021)
MA Theatre Research
(Univ, of Helsinki 2010)
MA Performance
(Queen Mary, Univ. of London 2009)
BA Theatre Research
(Univ. of Helsinki 2007)
International publications + advisory and review activity in the fields of performance, practice-as-research, theatre studies, and exhibition studies



performance/installation
brut Wien, Vienna 2015
URB 14 Festival / Kiasma Theatre / Finnish National Gallery 2014
HomeFest Festival Bucharest 2015
in the photo: performer Mikko Niemistö

performance/installation
Freischwimmer performance festival 2012-2013: Sophiensaele Berlin, brut Wien, Gessnerallee Zurich, Mousonturm Frankfurt, FFT Dusseldorf, Kampnagel Hamburg
STAGE Helsinki Theatre Festival 2013
SOHO in Ottakring Festival Vienna 2016

Artist lab / installation on resources and care in art practice
with students of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
at Schauspielhaus Wien, Vienna

exhibition series in public space
by Laussegger/Lahtinen
Altes Landgut, Vienna 2019
commissioned by SHIFT/City of Vienna

artistic research project/ installations/performances
part of the “Soup Session” at the
Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
(RAFA) in May 2022,
short videos featured in the
WUK performing arts Facebook
Lockdown Calendar in Spring 2021, participatory installation in public space in Vienna planned for Autumn 2023

performance / live audio play
Kiasma Theatre/Finnish National Gallery 2016
imagetanz Festival/brut Wien, Vienna 2014
in the photo: performer Harald Jokesch

University of Helsinki
Public Defence in December 2020
Graduation in January 2021