Jaana Karoliina Eskola

About

Janna Karoliina Eskola is a cultural professional, environmentalist, and animal rights activist with seven years of experience in working at the intersection of ecology and contemporary art, with a specific interest in interspecies justice, the Arctic region, and animal ethics.
Her background is in Environmental Policy (University of Tampere, Finland) and Contemporary Art (Art School Maa, Helsinki, Finland), and She is the co-founder of Cahute, an ecological analogue photography studio.

Currently, she works as Coordinator for the Ecological Residency Programme at the Saari Residence, Finland, maintained by the Kone Foundation. Her upcoming projects include a collaboration with The Nordic Alliance of Artists’ Residencies on Climate Action (NAARCA). Within the NAARCA network, she will be researching artist residencies as places to develop and test holistic approaches to sustainability and the potential of a residence network to collaborate as a platform for radical cooperation to fight the climate crisis.