Invitation for media: Press conference for Dafna Maimon's exhibition Symptoms on Thursday, 24 April
Dafna Maimon’s exhibition at Kiasma opens up the human body, inviting its varied components and symptoms to sprout up and sprawl out around us. Maimon creates quietly humorous depictions of human beings who are not always aware of their own bodies’ needs amid the demands of contemporary existence – a state viewers may recognise from their own lives.
Welcome to the press conference for Dafna Maimon's exhibition Symptoms at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma on Thursday, 24 April 2025. Please register: kiira.koskela@kiasma.fi
The press conference starts at 11:00. Before that, media representatives have the opportunity to explore the exhibition from 10:00. The exhibition will be open for preview until 13:00.
The artist will be present at the conference.
More information: Communications Officer Kiira Koskela, kiira.koskela@kiasma.fi, +358 50 4786 861
Arrival: The doors of the museum open at 10:00. The address is Mannerheiminaukio 2, 00100 Helsinki.
About the exhibition
In her artistic process, Dafna Maimon (b. 1982, Porvoo, Finland) explores how and to what effect bodily knowledge is ignored in today’s society. She thinks of our bodies as carrying the joys and sorrows of being human and manifesting them in a diverse range of symptoms. In her work, these symptoms are considered signs of bodily wisdom that, if listened to, can provide us with tools for living more meaningful lives.
The exhibition includes video installations, paintings on velvet, sculptures and drawings. Three video works follow fictional characters immersed in modern-day lifestyles whose bodies communicate different signs and symptoms. Maimon’s most recent video installation, Homebody, premieres at Kiasma. In addition, a live musical expanding on Homebody’s themes and characters will be staged at Kiasma Theatre in August 2025.
Artist's biography
Dafna Maimon’s work has been shown at institutions and art spaces such as Helsinki Biennial (Helsinki), Kunst-Werke (Berlin), PS1 Moma (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (Antwerp), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki), Mahj Jewish Museum (Paris), Kim Center Contemporary Art (Riga), 1646 (Den Haag), BOAN1942, (Seoul), Center for Maine Contemporary Art (Rockland, Maine), and Gallery Wedding (Berlin). Maimon holds a BFA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and an MFA from the Sandberg Institute Amsterdam. She lives and works in Berlin.
Dafna Maimon
Symptoms
25.4.–21.9.2025
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Kiira Koskela, Communications Officer, kiira.koskela@kiasma.fi, +358 294 500 631
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Mannerheiminaukio 2,
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Helsinki, Finland
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