Bio

Jenni Honkamaa (she/her) is a Finnish dance artist, performer, choreographer, and multidisciplinary artist working at the intersections of dance, contemporary art, and the performing arts. Her practice moves between dance, choreography, photography, video, digital media, materials, sound, and installation. With a background in dance, she approaches other media through an embodied and choreographic perspective, exploring relationships between the body, movement, image, material, and space.

Honkamaa's artistic practice explores transformation, coexistence, and the human condition through embodied, sensory, and collective experiences. She is interested in what happens in-between: in liminal spaces, shifting relationships, and moments of change. Her recent work has focused on the metamorphosis of artistic processes, sustainability, and the possibilities of recycling and transforming existing material. She is particularly interested in how artworks can remain alive and continue to change over time.

Her work often takes the form of performance, movement installation, or immersive environments where different artistic elements exist alongside one another. Rather than seeking clear boundaries between disciplines, she allows them to overlap and influence one another. Dance remains at the core of her practice, while choreography increasingly extends beyond the moving body into image, material, sound, and space.

Alongside her artistic practice, Honkamaa works as a dancer, performer, choreographer, teacher, facilitator, producer, community artist, and project coordinator. She is the artistic director of the Tiloissa concept and the leader, producer, and performer of the Välissä contemporary dance group. Through these practices, she develops experimental formats and collaborative structures that bring people together through movement, artistic exchange, and shared experiences.

Honkamaa's artistic approach is rooted in sensitivity, openness, curiosity, and a belief in dance as a way of creating connection and imagining alternative ways of being. She understands this as a form of soft activism: not an attempt to convince, but an invitation to pause, encounter, and see differently.