2026
February 19th - 23rd
Behind The Lidless Eyes video and experimental craft item. First part of a new multichannel video and sound work including Skolt Saami craft materials.
Barents Spektakel festival, Kirkenes (Norway/Sápmi)
https://barentsspektakel.art/exhibition/?from=en
June
Kollʼješkuätt outdoors sound installation path with seven speakers covered with birchbark and wood.
Collaborators: Aimo Aikio, Tero Harju, Erja Taskinen.
ARToulu Art Area, Oulu
https://artoulu.fi/en/tuuli-malla-co/
2025
Saari residence
Creating a new multichannel video and sound work including experimental elements using Skolt Saami craft materials.
Collaborator: Erja Taskinen.
Kue'tt textile and wood installation in shape of a den with audio and animation inside.
Collaborators: Tero Harju, Erja Taskinen.
Kunst Halle Helsinki, Summer Rain (Kesäsade) exhibition
Oulu Museum of Art, MAJA (DEN) exhibition
Pie'ss series of outdoors den installations in three villages.
Collaborator: Tero Harju.
Ä'vv Skolt Saami Museum, Neiden (Norway/Sápmi)
Sevettijärvi beach, with Skolt Saami Cultural Foundation
Keväjärvi playground, Inari Viikot festival
2024
Ibuki performance exploring cyclical processes through dance and Japanese calligraphy.
Collaboration with Yukina Yamamoto.
Japan Days WA Festival, Kaunas (Lithuania)
Kue'tt installation opening at Oulu Museum of Art.
2023
Kollʼješkuätt outdoors exhibition. Sound installation path with seven speakers covered with birchbark and wood. Animation in a lávvu with animation by Erja Taskinen.
Collaborators: Aimo Aikio, Tero Harju, Erja Taskinen.
Ä'vv Skolt Saami Museum, Neiden (Norway/Sápmi)
2022
Condordia - Butoh in the museum dance performance created in relation to EMMA museum’s exhibition.
Collaborators: Ken Mai, Aino Aleksandra Johonsson, Katia Skylar, Laura Martin.
Espoo Museum of Modern Art - EMMA (Fi)
Version performed at Helsinki Butoh Festival, Helsinki
2021
Jodo - Silence of Movement performance combining dance and Japanese calligraphy.
Collaborators: Yukina Yamamoto, Mari Mäkiö.
Helsinki Butoh Festival. Jyväskylä Butoh Festival
Šäigg - Root Echo (touring version) sound installation: three wood and audio pieces.
Stories about home, roots and culture in Skolt Saami homelands.
Tuomiokirkko Crypt, Helsinki
Ä’vv Skolt Saami Museum, Neiden (No)
Porsanger Museum, Porsanger (No)
Sámiid Vuorká-Dávvirat, Karasjok (No)
2020
Art and Evolution: Forest summer school for artists.
Collaborator: Riikka Lakea
Performing Arts Centre – Eskus
Jodo - Silence of Movement performance combining dance and Japanese calligraphy.
Kunsthalle Turku
Listening as Research lecture at Helsinki University, hosted by Femma Planning.
~ Dance for Long Distance Love ~ live streamed dance, event hosted by
L.T. Leif >> documentation
Kaukorakkaudesta text, Ars Moriendi http://arsmoriendi.fi/2020/05/13/1468/
2019
Imagine water rising performance.
Huuto gallery, MYÖ exhibition by
Inari Virmakoski and Ilkka Pitkänen
Open Projector night of artists' films, hosted with Joseph Campbell and
Laura Böök at Grey Garden Studios
Keskuspuisto dance performance choreographed in Central Park, Helsinki. Butoh
Festival Helsinki & Grey Garden Studios
Kirstu performance in collaboration with Lauri Jäntti and Inari Virmakoski,
Ars Moriendi Festival, Helsinki
Solar Trace, July 15th 2019 at 16:33 installation, Rajatalo, Keuruu Eco Village
https://www.rajatalo.fi/en/artists-and-works/malla-tuuli/
Memories in the Skolt Sámi Area - Notes from a Visiting Artist lecture at
Cambridge University: . Departmental Seminar, Department of Architecture and
Geography.
Šäigg - Root Echo sound installation on home, roots and culture. In the forest of
Skolt Sámi Heritage House, Sevettijärvi and at Darja's cottage, Nellim, Sápmi.
In collaboration with Tauno Haltta, Ketri Jefremoff, Hanna-Maaria Kiprianoff,
Teemu Titola, students and teachers of Sevettijärvi school.
With: Skolt Sámi Cultural Foundation and Sámi Museum Siida
2018
10.8. & 14.9.
Mermeal performances, in collaboration with Harold Hejazi. Museum of Impossible
Forms, Helsinki
Human Cat Café, International Theatre Festival - Hradec Králóvé, Czech Republic
Curated by Tereza Silon.
Performed with: Tereza Vieno Mar, Tereza Silon, Amelie Trahard.
3-5.6.
Water Bodies School of Evolution series of events, Whitstable Biennale.
In collaboration with Sarah Blissett, Zoe Czavda Redo, Rosie Lonsdale,
Julian Weaver.
3.6. Open Day at the Water Bodies School of Evolution: Drop-in tasters, Sea
Cadets' Hall
https://whitstablebiennale.com/project/open-day-at-the-water-bodies-school-of-evolution-3-drop-in-tasters/
School of Evolution: Lecture Performance
https://whitstablebiennale.com/project/open-day-at-the-water-bodies-school-of-evolution-2-lecture-performance/
5.6. Water Bodies & Political Animal Reading Group: Critical Swimming, by and
in the sea https://whitstablebiennale.com/project/water-bodies-political-animal-reading-group-critical-swimming/
Our need for consolation is insatiable, residency / workshops
Hosted by Vision Forum - Per Huttner, Carima Neusser
Participants in the project: Vanessa Virta, Sara Gurevitsch, Tuuli Malla,
Emmi Venna, Alex Rosa, Karon Jonson, Ann-Christin Berg Kongsness, Agnes Due,
Simone Bang Jørgensen, Emil Krog, John Andrew Wilhite, Gry Tingskog and Stine
Frandsen.
Domestic Cat Visits performance: performances at homes in Copenhaguen,
in collaboration with Human Hotel.
Site Reading workshop, on the streets of Copenhaguen.
Collective drift performance at Bennäs railway station and its surroundings.
Consolation, curation of collective video installation with works by Emil Krog,
Per Huttner, Carima Neusser, and Karon Jonson & performance with screening by
Tuuli Malla, c.off, Stockholm
2017
17.12.
Waterbabies Dreamboat Cocoon
The water is rising. It is time to do as little as possible.
Dreaming together on a retired lifeboat.
Unison, River Lea, Clapton
https://younite17or.tumblr.com/
2.12.
Water Bodies at LADA
A mini performance lecture about the wonderful world of
Water Bodies with Zoe Czavda Redo. Photos by Rosie Lonsdale.
LADA - Live Art Development Agency
DIY Picnic where all the artists-to-artists workshops are shared
https://diywaterbodies.wixsite.com/blog
29/30.11.
Empathetic drift / critique of psychogeography
Performance lecture with Anna Kholina and Lauri Jäntti
Art of Research
Aalto-university, Helsinki
paper available at:
http://artofresearch2017.aalto.fi/selected_papers.html
4-14.11.
Paint-Trace video
A performance video following traces left by painters
in a studio during a residency in which no one was painting
although that is what the place was originally intended for.
A body followed paint, the camera followed the body.
We had heard stories about those who worked in the studio.
In collaboration with William Card
Artisterium, Tbilisi History Museum, Georgia
28.10.
A gig
Gig at afterparty of Anarchist Book Fair.
Played electric guitar, audience barking.
With Natalie Wearden
Squat Kumma, Helsinki
21.10.
Maria Inkoo
Gig at FemF.
Between performance art and a band.
Random notes with confidence and human cake baking.
With Shelley Etkin, Zoe Tsavdarides,
Vishnu Vardhani and Natalie Wearden
FemF (Feminist Forum) afterparty,
Cable Factory, Helsinki
16-18.10.
Maria Inkoo's instant humanimal band
Improvisation of movement and voice. Letting loose.
Generating words, using insane repetition and finding rhythm.
Discovering Maria Inkoo.
24.9.
Encountering bodies
Urban Hitchhiking at Pixelache
Workshop focuses on the embodied level of encounters.
What happens in the non-verbal communication when you
offer a stranger the possibility to meet you.
Pixelache festival, Suvilahti, Helsinki
23.9.
May I dance with you for a while?
An improvisation space, a leaving party, an open
invitation into a gallery space that is like an aquarium
when the night falls.
With Lauri Jäntti
HAM-kulma
22.9. 15.00
When inspirational methods start to fail
Talking and showing images about social drifting, critique
of male gaze in pyhchogeography. Attempt in non-hierarchical
talk structure, saying no to projections on the wall.
Part of System and Error
Visual Culture and Contemporary Art
Aalto university
3-7.8.
Water Bodies evolutionary symposium
Evolving into sea creatures as the water rises.
13 creatures living together, exploring the
transition into aquatic dwelling.
Movement in dry, in pool, in sea.
Walking, reading, talking, thinking.
Evolving.
photo: Rosie Lonsdale
www.rosielonsdale.com/water-bodies-2017.html
July 2017
Maria Inkoo on tour: Hungary
Played at Bankito Festival
Golyá, Budapest
Humans and dogs, insane repetition.
One spirit in five bodies - Maria Inkoo.
7.7. 18-20.00
Urban Hitchhiking exhibition opening
Urban Hitchhiking applies the idea of traditional hitchhiking
in urban space. Instead of waiting for a ride, the urban
hitchhiker waits for a lift from a fellow walker to share a
moment or two with an occasional passerby.
The installation presents photographs, sound recordings and
maps of routes travelled, which have been gathered during a
hitchhiking period in June 2017. Simultaneously, the installation
is an invitation and a starting point for trying out hitchhiking
for yourself.
Encounter Arts - Tuuli Malla and Lauri Jäntti
HAM-kulma, Helsinki
www.hamhelsinki.fi/exhibition/urban-hitchhiking/
26-27.5.
Urban Hitchhiking panel discussion
19.00
Taiga, St Petersburg
Urban Hitchhiking workshop
streets of St Petersburg
with Lauri Jäntti and Katarina Sjöblom
Art4City
St Petersburg
https://arts4city.timepad.ru/event/481885/
26.4. 17.00
A letter to a young performance artist from Afghanistan
whose current location is unknown.
Writing a letter to a lost collaborator who went missing
before the collaboration started, with Farsi
interpretation by Mohammad Javid.
thanks to Amir Jan
Stop Deportations event hosted by Liina Kuittinen
Vapaan taiteen tila, Helsinki
25.4. 19.00
I am a Cat
Three bodies with two ways:
Two are being cats.
One moves in slow motion through nine
representations of cats in history of art.
photos: Benedict Johnson, Nahmad Projects
with Shelley Etkin, Mira Kautto
PERFO! Beginner's Night hosted by Leena Kela
Telakka, Tampere, Finland
8.4. 12.00
Urban Hitchhiking
As opposed to traditional hitchhiking, you wait
for the company of a fellow walker.
No previous experience needed.
We provide the signs, you bring yourselves.
Rest will follow. We'll help you to get started.
in collaboration with Lauri Jäntti
Lappeenranta library, Finland, near Russia
www.facebook.com/groups/urbanhitchhiking/
12-26.2.
Residency at Ricklundgården
open house on 23.2.
Snow happening
photographs by Grace Gelder
Paint-trace performance video
with William Card
I am just a visitor - Dancing memories
in collaboration with residents of Saxnäs,
Marshfjäll, Klimpfjäll
photographs by Grace Gelder
photo: Grace Gelder
Ricklundgården, Saxnäs, Sápmi
11.2.
I am just a visitor, Saxnäs
Story told by Gerd Ulander, movent responding to
the story after hearing it for the first time.
Nordic Summer University symposium
Ricklundgården, Saxnäs, Sápmi
21.1. 12.00
Urban Hitchhiking
Lifting up a thumb and joining a stranger for
a walk. Encountering, following. Participants
get a sign for hitchhiking too.
In collaboration with Lauri Jäntti.
Kiasma, Helsinki
www.facebook.com/groups/urbanhitchhiking/
2016
23.11.
Into the Emptiness: The Art of Walking
Performing in
Marie Gabrielle Rotie's
Into the Emptiness: The Art of Walking -
a lecture/demonstration
Performance Research Forum
Goldsmiths College: George Wood Theatre
image: Rotie - Wake Butterfly, it's late,
we've got miles to go together
18.11.
Maria Inkoo - Our First Gig
Three songs, non-binary girlband,
Humans and Dogs, compatable species
- companion species. Thank you Donna
Haraway. With Sian Youngerman.
#nonbinarygirlband
The Batcave
Experience Bar, Brixton, London
12.11.
Hat Party
Video projections of performances
made during MA in Performance Making.
Performance by Ignacio Perez. All the
guests wearing hats to celebrate Master's
degree.
Galleria Kajaste, Helsinki
2.10.
Nice to meet you, plant
Improvised performance with available
house plants with a prologue from a
plant documentary.
Saskia's livingroom, London
image: BBC How Plants Communicate
and Think
9.8.
Nice to meet you, rock
Performing with geology of Iceland
in collaboration with volcano researcher
Uta Reichardt.
Embassy of Rockall, Reykjavik
image: The Travelling Embassy of Rockall
26.8.-6.8.
Saga Residency, Eyrarbakki - Iceland
Collaboration with residents of Eyrarbakki,
a small fishing town in South Iceland.
- Under the table dinner in collaboration
with Arnar Ingvarsson and Halldóra Mark
- I am just a visitor, meeting with strangers
image: Saga Residency
3.7. and 8.7.
I am NOT Tino Sehgal - I am a cat
A durational choreography for three bodies asks:
What is the potential of inhabiting non-human movement
vocabulary? Come join cats throughout history of art.
11am-5pm on 3rd July
noon-6pm on 8th July
2 Cork Street, Nahmad Projects gallery
images: Benedict Johnson
22.6. and 22.6.
The Way It Melts
A sound and movement composition in Ravensbourne River.
In collaboration with Dominika Kieruzel.
Walking with the stream
Stones breath still with the shadows
Time screams into past
In mythology rivers mark a coming together of realms.
The other side is unknown to us. A guide only knows the way so far,
then their words fail. Objects speak as the water moves on.
The river is a procession.
Ladywell Fields, London
The Masters Festival - times and booking:
https://themastersfest.com
1-3.4.
Playing Up
A game of Live Art by Sibylle Petersen
Assisting with DIY performance based on history of live art
Tate Modern, London
image: Playing Up
11-13.2.
Root Echo (Juurikaiku)
Sound installation - acoustic sculptures
with voices telling about home, roots
and Sami culture. Seven birch wood pieces.
In collaboration with narrators.
Woodwork: UUP - Yoshimasa Yamada
Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Helsinki
artArctica
http://www.artarctica.com/
23.1. 18.30
Improvisation for a room
Movement performance with photographs responding to the space of
the Finnish Church in London
Rotherite, London
Organised by Bilingual Potential
****
2015
26.11.
Seeing the shadow of the wind
A performance video about drifting
with the wind.
Filmed at various locations by the
sea and in the urban, sensing the
shadow of the wind.
In collaboration with Jaime Culebro
and Marcel Jaentschke
Presentación del libro 'Anotaciones a la Banana Republic'
Kino 13, Katajanokka
Kanavakatu 12, 00160 Helsinki
5.9.
Can you see what I see?
A performative journey into someone else's
perception.
Explorations on details around us that start
performing for us. All participants are part
of the audience as well as performers.
Konttori 7, Suvilahti, Helsinki
20-26.8.
Root Echo (Juurikaiku)
An outdoors sound installation on
home, roots and Sami identity in
Helsinki. Seven recorded voices and
acoustic sculptures made out of
birch wood.
In collaboration with narrators
Woodwork by UUP: Yoshimasa Yamada
Töölö Bay park, Helsinki
https://kuuntelekaikuja.wordpress.com/
26.6. and 28.6. 12.00-18.00
Colour of Hospitality (Vieraanvaraisuuden väri)
- Metro performance
Orange is the iconic colour of Helsinki metro and the colour
of hospitality. Encounters with strangers. Excellent
service for all passengers equally.
In collaboration with Lauri Jäntti, David Frankovich, Heru
Raha, Manolo Casagrande, Mark Lepre, Vishnu Vardhani
Helsinki metro
Taidelinja art program for public transport
http://www.taidelinja.fi/fi/Oranssi_kutsuu_kohtaamaan
28.5.
Marks of time in space
Site specific performance for a black box
studio space. Improvised movement follows
scratches on the floor - inspired by Butoh
practice and dialogues with stones.
Live Art and Performance Studies Festival
Theatre Academy, Helsinki
http://lapsody.tumblr.com/
17.5. - times organised with participants
Workshop for a site-specific sound installation
on roots and home, sami culture and urban life
Töölönlahti, Helsinki
https://kuuntelekaikuja.wordpress.com
6.3. 7pm till late
Identity Construction: part 4
Installation and one-on-one performance on
identity politics
Carnival Revolution, London
carnivalrevolution2015.wordpress.com/2015/01/20/the-event/
19.2. 20.00-23.00
Alphabet Blocks for Adults: part 2
Interactive installation on identity labels
Kettulavatanssit Goes Queer
Pacifico, Helsinginkatu 15, Helsinki
https://www.facebook.com/events/1592005831029600/?ref=ts&fref=ts
24.1. 16.15-18.00
(Kaupunki)saamelaisia mielenmaisemia
Työpaja / Workshop on urban Sami landscapes
Kulttuurikeskus Caisa, Helsinki
Radio interview: http://areena.yle.fi/radio/2623997/
caisa.fi/tapahtuma/_Kaupunki_saamelaisia_mielenmaisemia_-_tyopaja
2014
29.10.
Identity Construction (part 3: untitled)
Installation and one-on-one performance
Mad House Helsinki, Suvilahti
19.00-22.00
www.madhousehelsinki.fi
14.9.
Decay
Curation and photo installation
"Second exposure"
Performances and installations by six artists
1-3pm by the Thames in front of OXO Tower
For more details, click on the flyer:
June-August
Prisms of Isis summer tour
Site specific dance performances
around the UK
Details:
http://www.prismsofisis.com/
17.5.
Archaeology of Loosing Memory
Site specific participatory performance:
Rituals for awkward memories
Month of Performance Art - Devil's Encounter One
Teufelsberg, Berlin
http://www.mpa-b.org/17-may-2014.html
14.5. 7pm
The Barrier Block
Documentary screening
Art Nouveau, 77 Atlantic road SW9 8PU London
http://survivalguidesbrixton.com/
4.5. 7pm
Pushed Back to Sea
An immersive performance on migration to Italy
In collaboration with Ivana Antonica
Art Nouveau, 77 Atlantic road SW9 8PU London
http://survivalguidesbrixton.com/
Wandering in Hackney Wick
Photography and site writing
on narratives of place
2013
The Barrier Block
Documentary screening
Various venues in London and Helsinki
Artist in residency
Participatory installation and performance
Design Festa Gallery, Tokyo
Stories by Effra River
Performance and plastic river installation
Wandsworth Arts Festival, The Brick Box, London
An Identity Construction Site
(part 2: blank canvas)
Installation and one-on-one performance
Say It Again exhibition, Art Nouveau, London
An Identity Construction Site
(part 1: Eastern Europe)
Installation and one-on-one performance
School of Eastern European Studies
book launch event, UCL, London
2012
Flow of Effra River
Performance and plastic river installation
ORI exhibition and festival, The Brick Box, London
Human Marionette
Interactive performance with Tereza Silonova and Ben Sellers
Brixton Village, The Brick Box, London
and Caledonian Road, Cally Festival, London
Forest of Animals
Animal sculptures made out of wire and natural materials
at Secret Garden Party, Artful Badger, London
Prisms of Isis
Dance performance: contemporary and traditional oriental dance
choreography by Hannah Chalut
at Secret Garden Party
and Buddha Fields
A Sea of Plastic (related to Flow of Effra)
Plastic sea installation
Silk Work event, The Brick Box, London
Tooting Futures
Direction of collaborative work with Ernest Bevin College
Shadow theatre performance
Tooting Market, The Brick Box, London
2011
On Swimming and Super Markets
Photography installation
The Brick Box Tooting, London
The Brick Box Brixton, London
Inuit Refugee Camp
An igloo, plastic and wire installation
Brixton Village, The Brick Box, London
2010
Bunny Eaten by a Duck
T-shirt prints
Sold in Edinburgh and Helsinki
2009
Blood Circulation (Verenkierto)
Contemporary dance solo, dance diploma
Kallio School of Art (Kallion ilmaisutaidon lukio),
Helsinki
2008
Temporarily White (Väliaiakaisesti valkoinen)
Series of performances resulting in a photography
installation
Kaiku galleria, Helsinki
Laterna Magica, Helsinki
http://www.beone.fi/kuvataide/gal08/gal6.html
2007
Street statue on The Esplanade in Helsinki
tuuli means wind 