Ville Laurinkoski

Ville Laurinkoski is a visual artist based in Copenhagen. Working with both literature and voice, objects and space, with and through exaggerated speech, screaming and singing, Laurinkoski denounces the given order and enhances the negative and the oblique. Laurinkoski’s artistic practice is a form of critique that produces an aesthetic that exposes and subverts social and economic systems, revealing the broken and unwanted side of the contemporary. These non-consumable objects and spaces carry a trace of the divisions that constituted them (such as labour, sexuality, and class), while simultaneously being reminiscent of consolation, bliss, and pleasure. Alongside studying at Ed Atkins’ class at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts (BFA, MFA), Ville Laurinkoski has attended classes at the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of the Arts Helsinki (MFA), and completed the Maumaus Independent Study Programme in 2021.