Orlan Ohtonen

Orlan Ohtonen is a curator and writer based in Helsinki, Finland, currently holding the position of Chief-Curator of Exhibitions at the Finnish Museum of Photography. Ohtonen has been building self-organised platforms for intersectional curatorial practices as part of the collective ‘nynnyt’; as Co-Founder of feminist and anti-racist workspace Poimu; as Co-Founder and Co-Director of Feminist Culture House; and as Co-Founder and Co-Organiser of trans cultural sauna event series Sweat and Tears. His curatorial practice and research are focused on investigating how trans and queer temporality, abolitionist politics, and activist curatorial praxis can generate transformative models of institutional change within contemporary museums. Ohtonen is the Lead Editor of the publication, Curating & Repair, published in 2026 by 1000Words, and has written about the relationship between activism and cultural politics for several art publications.