Egle Oddo is an artist living and working in Finland. Her work focuses on linear and non-linear narration as an art form. Interested in operational realism, meant as the presentation of the functional sphere in an aesthetic arrangement and its inter-relations, she combines photography, moving image, installation, sculpture, environmental art, and experimental live art. In her pieces industrial production morphs towards delicate handcraft, life forms appear and emerge out of sculptures and objects, film photography appropriate digital images, selected trash mix with fashion, precious edible minerals and ancestral recipes are served as part of ritual meals. Her practice is context-based, committed and based on long term research. Her work is present at international biennials, Museums and relevant institutions, as well as cutting edge and independent alternative spaces and events, to mention few: Manifesta12, Zilberman gallery, 3me Biennale Internationale de Casablanca, 54th International Exhibition Venice Biennale, Triennial Agrikultura, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Kunsthalle Exnergasse Vienna, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Transmediale, Pace Digital gallery New York, Loop Barcelona. Her work is part of private and public collections, among them the Archive of MAXXI Museum of 21st Century Art (Rome).
Her research is available in the following publications: Flash Art 68, 7–9/2023, Czech & Slovak Edition, cover and article; Performative Habitats, eds. Egle Oddo & Lori Adragna, Postmedia Books, Milano; Antennae, The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, #53 Vegetal Entanglements, ed. Giovanni Aloi, New York; RUUKKU, #16 Working with the Vegetal, eds. Annette Arlander, Jerry Mättä, Malin Lobell; CrossSections, ed. Basak Senova, published by De Gruyter & Edition Angewandte, Vienna.
On 24.4. at 8:00 Egle Oddo was on Radio Helsinki, interviewed by Lassi Varinen during his program Radio Helsingin Aamu.
She spoke about Another Story, a long term project she designed for Pixelache Helsinki and supported by Kone Foundation. Over the course of a three-year program, three invited curators will delve into international media art archives to curate annual exhibitions and public programme.
The first invited curator is Kisito Assangni who will present Who Goes Hunting Does Not Cough, a group exhibition at the Finnish Museum of Technology, and a screening with live performance at EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art. The project will see the light at the beginning of September 2026. Introducing the public to the works of fifteen international artists from different contexts who take on the concepts of power relations, decolonial aesthetics, affective spaces, resilient communities, and new technologies. They reflect about new visualities conducive to look towards the future of the museum as a lived experience.
Link to the recorded interview here!
