Anna Nykyri (b.1981, Finland)
Visual artist, film director and screenwriter. Lives and works in Helsinki.
Nykyri holds an MFA from the Finnish Academy of Fine Art in 2011 and an MA in Choreography from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London in 2017. Nykyri uses moving image to create short films, video installations, and choreographic environments.
Her works often explore political, environmental and corporeal themes, covering questions of gender, power and control.
Nykyri has participated in a number of residencies such as ISCP, New York; Barbican Center, London; SIM, Reykjavik; Citè des Arts, Paris.
Nykyri's cinematic works have been screened at over hundred international film festivals, galleries and museums, such as the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland, Belgrade City Museum, Serbia and Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
where her film "Five Fragments of the Extinct Empathy" won the main prize in short documentary film category in 2012.
Nykyri has also worked in collaboration with NGO’s such as Amnesty International and UN Women.