This presentation and conversation engages with Giovanna’s approach to exhibition practices as potential sites to articulate epistemologies in resistance and nondominant praxes, and asks how broadening notions of "we" might help reconfigure and rehabilitate relationships and share struggles.

Giovanna Esposito Yussif engages with curatorial praxis and research. Her background is in art history, museology, and critical theory. Giovanna has a long-standing commitment to nondominant praxes, dissentient imaginations, and epistemologies in resistance. In 2019 she curated the Pavilion of Finland at the 58th Venice Biennale with the Miracle Workers Collective. She is current Artistic Director of Museum of Impossible Forms –MIF, Co-artistic of Drifts, curator for M_itä biennale 2023, and co-curator for Helsinki Biennale 2023 (with MIF).

Giovanna has collaborated with diverse institutions such as Archive, Goethe Institut, Savvy Contemporary, Manifesta Foundation, SOMA, Sinne, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Baltic Circle, Helsinki International Artist Program, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, RabRab Press, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Galería OMR, Fundación/Colección Jumex, among others. She edited A Greater Miracle Of Perception with Archive Books (2019), and Polyphonic Texts and Toolkit with Night Schoolers (2019); has written for diverse catalogs and contemporary art publications. She has been guest Lecturer for Kuvataideakatemia, Taidekoulu Maa, Mentor for Live Art and Performance Studies-Theater Academy in Helsinki, and Curatorial Practice at University of Bergen, and an active contributor to diverse collectives, networks, and boards.