Paola Jalili

Paola Jalili

she/her

About

Paola Jalili is an independent publisher, artist, and cultural worker currently based in Helsinki.

Contact

Website
Instagram

Education

2017 — 2019
Master's in Visual Culture, Curating, and Contemporary Art at Aalto University
Helsinki, Finland
2011 — 2015
Bachelor's in Latin American Literature at Universidad Iberoamericana
Mexico City, Mexico

Exhibitions

2023
Sotkamo, Finland

Curated by Porin kulttuurisäätö

2022
Turku, Finland

Co-curated with Gladys Camilo / Feminist Culture House
With works by Özgü Gundeslioglu, Natalie Hamada, Sara Moayed, and Haliz Yosef

Titanik Gallery

2022
Flower, Stain, Kiln, Pigment
Riga, Latvia

Co-curated with Gladys Camilo / Feminist Culture House
With works by Özgü Gundeslioglu, Natalie Hamada, Sara Moayed, and Haliz Yosef

Low Gallery

2022
Mexico City

Group show and open workspace around publishing processes
Curated by Piedra ediciones / Alfonso Santiago

2021
Belgrade, Serbia

Curated by An Paenhuysen

2021
Kosminen Spring Salon at Kosminen Galleria
Helsinki, Finland
2021
Helsinki, Finland

Curated by Feminist Culture House

2020
Finland

Curated by Porin Kulttuurisäätö

2019
Can You See Work?
Espoo, Finland

Curated by Naya Magaliou & Shubhangi Singh

2019
Mainostauko
Vantaa, Finland

Curated by Street Art Vantaa

2018
Monument Worthy at John Nicolas Brown Center for Public Humanities & Cultural Heritage
Rhode Island, United States
2018
Helsinki, Finland

In collaboration with James Prevett and 
The Counter Department

2018
Sharing Control at Marek Gallery
Wolkersdorf, Austria
2018
Whose History is it Anyway? at Harald Herlin Learning Centre
Espoo, Finland

Work Experience

2022 — Now
2022 — 2022
Co-curator at Vuosaari Art Sale
Helsinki, Finland
2021 — 2021
Helsinki, Finland

Peer Support Group for non-EU artists and art workers

2018 — 2018
2015 — 2017
Editor at Penguin Random House
Mexico City, Mexico

Projects

Ongoing
Ei Mainoksia, Kiitos!

Publishing platform
Founder

Ongoing

Artistic research project

Speaking

2022
Feminist Tools for Collaboration
Riga, Latvia

With Feminist Culture House
Low Gallery

2022
Feminist Tools for Collaboration
Vilnius, Lithuania

With Feminist Culture House
CAC Reading Room

2021
Work/Unwork: Contemporary Labor & Artistic Resistance at Tutkijaliitto Summer School
Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland

Lecture-performance / With Saara Mahbouba & Shubhangi Singh

Writing

2022

Published by AAAAA PPPPP Publishing (Berlin)

2022

For Shia Conlon and Minjee Hwang Kim’s exhibition "When I Was Done Dying" in Titanik, Turku (Finland)

2021
“I couldn’t get the word butterfly so I tried to get the word moth” - writing workshop

BOOKED art book fair / Organised by MUU Ry
Helsinki, Finland

2021
Office Aesthetics: Narratives Around Contemporary Labor through Representations of Office Spaces, Popular Inquiry Journey
2020
Home Office, Mirrors I / Nexo Creative Writing
2018
ViCCA Journal - The Home Issue

Co-editor
Published by Aalto Arts

Awards

2021
Working grant from Kone Foundation
2021
Project grant from Frame Contemporary Art Finland
2020
COVID-19 grants, II, III, V from Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike)
2018
ARTS scholarship from Aalto University
2017
Grant for mobility from Secretaría de Educación 
Pública México (SEP)