Laura Jantunen

Laura Jantunen (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist with an MA in Choreography from the University of the Arts Helsinki. She has worked as a choreographer, dancer and textile artist since 2011. Laura has been developing her own somatic-phenomenological movement practice, Somagics, since 2022. Currently, she is researching how the practice translates into a choreographic method where choreography is seen as a thinking, organic, and multidirectional assemblage. In addition, she creates rya rugs and designs performance costumes for her works using various crafttechniques.

In her artistic work, Laura is fascinated by odd everyday events, becoming aware of the unconscious, not-knowing, and the feel of getting lost. Her thinking is characterised by the oscillation between extremes, such as the recognisable and the unrecognisable, or the possible and the impossible. Laura aims to perceive things and situations on a spectrum, acknowledging contrasts while actively probing them. Laura’s latest works include Talvi (eng. Winter, Zodiak 2019) and Kevät (eng. Spring, K17-space for art and ecology 2025) from the Neljä vuodenaikaa (eng. The Four Seasons) series, the solo work The Idiot Gardener (2022–present), and the artistic thesis Outoliini (eng. Oddling, The University of the Arts Helsinki 2023). Her Finnish ryijy rugs have been exhibited in galleries such as Titanik and Poriginal and as part of Rya.Now. exhibition is Finish Craft Museum own 2025.