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Aistit / coming to our senses

Paris, London, Berlin, Helsinki and Ghent
From March 2021 to mid-2022

Maryan Abdulkarim
London

  • Sonya Lindfors & Maryan Abdulkarim's piece We Should All be Dreaming. Photography by Essi Maaria Orpana.
    Sonya Lindfors & Maryan Abdulkarim: We Should All be Dreaming. Photography by Essi Maaria Orpana.
  • Sonya Lindfors & Maryan Abdulkarim's piece We Should All be Dreaming. Photography by Essi Maaria Orpana.
    Sonya Lindfors & Maryan Abdulkarim: We Should All be Dreaming. Photography by Essi Maaria Orpana.
  • Sonya Lindfors & Maryan Abdulkarim's piece We Should All be Dreaming. Photography by Essi Maaria Orpana.
    Sonya Lindfors & Maryan Abdulkarim: We Should All be Dreaming. Photography by Essi Maaria Orpana.
  • Sonya Lindfors & Maryan Abdulkarim's piece We Should All be Dreaming. Photography by Essi Maaria Orpana.
    Sonya Lindfors & Maryan Abdulkarim: We Should All be Dreaming. Photography by Essi Maaria Orpana.

b. 1982 in Somalia,

based in Helsinki, Finland

 

Abdulkarim is a social speaker, writer, and activist interested in themes relating to freedom. She participates actively in public discussion as a political commentator and a columnist.

She collaborates regularly with choreographer Sonya Lindfors and is a member of Miracle Workers Collective that represented Finland at the 58th Venice Biennale. Abdulkarim is also a  founding member of the Nordic Feminist Network, including policymakers from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Sami regions. Abdulkarim’s and Eeva Talvitie’s book, About ten myths on feminism was published in Finnish in 2018. Her second book will be published in collaboration with photographer Uwa Iduozee. She made her debut as a screenwriter in the short film Dream Job produced by Tuffi Films.

Abdulkarim received the Minna Canth prize in 2019, awarded annually to a person shaking the Finnish society. She is a member of the Obama Foundation Network.