Jenna Sutela

Jenna Sutela (1983 in Turku, FI) explores open systems in biology, computation and language to create 'living sculptures', image and sound works. Seeking patterns, signs and meaning within what might generally be considered random or chaotic, she probes the relationship between consciousness and the material world. Through collaborative practice, Sutela traces decentralised forms of organisation and interrelationships at scales from microbial to cosmic. In her procedural works, she draws on the latest scientific research, reflecting its socio-political impact and advocating a symbiotic network while expanding from an anthropocentric worldview. Her oeuvre illustrates that humankind does not exist in a vacuum, but in an interdependent ecosystem with bacteria, algorithms and many other elements, some of which remain incomprehensible to us.

Sutela's work has been presented internationally, including at Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2025), Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève (2024), Swiss Institute in New York (2023), Helsinki Biennial (2023), Haus der Kunst in Munich (2022), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki (2022), Shanghai Biennale (2021), Liverpool Biennial (2021), Kunsthall Trondheim (2020), Serpentine Galleries in London (2019) and Moderna Museet in Stockholm (2019). Based in Berlin, Sutela has been a visiting artist at La Becque, MIT, Somerset House Studios and Callie's Berlin, and is a Jane Lombard Fellow at the New School. Sutela will exhibit in the Finnish Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026.

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