Nastja Säde Rönkkö, who works with media art, text, installations, performances and many different communities, received the third Below Zero prize awarded by the London-based Beaconsfield Gallery, Serlachius and the Finnish London Institute.
A single-channel version of the piece has been cut this year, which can be seen in the Forum Box. The prize exhibition presented in the Beaconsfield gallery with sculptures and as a three-channel video installation will be presented in its entirety at the Serlachius museum from September 7, 2024 to March 23, 2025.
Nastja Säde Rönkkö is an artist from Helsinki who works with video, performance, installation and text. Rönkkö has shown his works and performed internationally in places such as Somerset House, London, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, SXSW, Austin, TX, Royal Academy of Arts, London, FACT, Foundation for Art and Technology, Liverpool, Museum of Moving Image, New York , Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki and BMoCA Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO. Recent solo exhibitions include Those Who Kept the Light, Rønnebæksholm Kunsthall, Denmark (2022) and Salt in Our Blood, in Our Sweat, In Our Tears, Beaconsfield Gallery, London (2023).
Recent residencies include Somerset House Studios, London (2018-2019), Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (2018) and Matadero Madrid (2016). Recent film festivals include fp25, Zagreb, Croatia, Lago Film Festival, Italy (2023), Tampere Short Film Festival, Finland (2023), Helsinki International Film Festival (2017, 2021, 2022) and Ivy Film Festival, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA (2018).
Rönkö’s works have won several awards, such as Best Short Film and Best Director of a Short Film at the Marietta International Film Festival and the Seeing the Bigger Picture Award at the American Documentary Film Festival and Film Fund (2018). He is a 2019 Young Artist and recipient of the Below Zero Art Prize (2023). His works are on display in The Irreplaceable Human exhibition at the Louisiana Art museum in Denmark (2023-2024 ).
