Eva Neklyaeva

Eva Neklyaeva is a curator based between Helsinki and Milan. Eva is concerned with questions of freedom and focuses her practice on exploring these questions across performing arts, politics, and sexuality. Recently, Eva curated a performative program, With Pleasure, as a guest curator for Vooruit, Ghent. In 2019, Eva finished her three year mandate as Artistic Director of the Santarcangelo Festival. Founded in 1971, Santarcangelo is the oldest Italian festival dedicated to contemporary performing arts, presenting and producing an immersive, loud, radically anti-disciplinary program. Her previous positions include Director of contemporary art organization Checkpoint Helsinki, as well as of the Baltic Circle International Contemporary Theatre Festival. In 2014, Eva founded Wonderlust, a festival of diverse and creative sexuality in Helsinki. For her work, she received two TINFO awards for innovation in the theatre field, Finnish PEN’s Freedom of Speech award, as well as the Finnish Sexologists Association’s award for promotion of sexual well-being.

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You find yourself in front of a nun’s convent, and when the doors open, a child appears, and with an air of wisdom that only children can have when they stand in their power and carry their own agency, takes your hand to guide you in. It is an unusual situation, to surrender to a silent young stranger this way. You feel the power shifting.