The How to care for connection? On working with trans, non-binary and gender diverse people in art institutions workshop facilitated by H Ouramo and Orlan Ohtonen as part of #StopHatredNow 2026 program.
The workshop is held on Monday 11 May 2026 at 17:00–18:30. The workshop can host up to 30 participants, the places are filled in order of registration. The workshop will be held online on Zoom.
As the cultural landscape is changing, the questions and perspectives around what it takes for institutions to work with minorities is also shifting and expanding. In the aftermath of many useful tools and checklists that have circulated the Finnish art field, this workshop offers a chance to reflect further on what individuals within institutions may consider in their personal attitudes and working methods when engaging with gender minorities.
How could we collectively move towards a shift from identity politics to shared equity in working conditions? What kind of things need to shift in institutions for minority artists to have space to focus on creative processes instead of conversations around safety? What so called small things can be done on an individual level to move the emotional labour around safety from minorities to institutions?
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H Ouramo (they/them) is an artist, performer and educator based in Helsinki. Their work revolves around movements of the singular and the collective body. Their practice engages questions of access, continuity, and recognition: whose work and lives are celebrated, whose are remembered, and whose become the foundations for others to build upon. They currently work at Art School Maa, an artist-led and community-based alternative art school.
Orlan Ohtonen is a curator and writer based in Helsinki, Finland, currently holding the position of Chief-Curator of Exhibitions at the Finnish Museum of Photography. Ohtonen has been building self-organised platforms for intersectional curatorial practices as part of the collective ‘nynnyt’; as Co-Founder of feminist and anti-racist workspace Poimu; as Co-Founder and Co-Director of Feminist Culture House; and as Co-Founder and Co-Organiser of trans cultural sauna event series Sweat and Tears. His curatorial practice and research are focused on investigating how trans and queer temporality, abolitionist politics, and activist curatorial praxis can generate transformative models of institutional change within contemporary museums. Ohtonen is the Lead Editor of the publication, Curating & Repair, published in 2026 by 1000Words, and has written about the relationship between activism and cultural politics for several art publications.