Librettist
Nastja Rönkkö
Request an interview via FNOB communications
introduction
Nastja Säde Rönkkö is an artist working with video, text, performance and installation. Rönkkö has exhibited and performed internationally in places such as Somerset House, London, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, SXSW, Austin, TX, Royal Academy of Arts, London, Glasgow International, FACT, Foundation for Art and Technology, Liverpool, Museum of Moving Image, New York, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki and BMoCA Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO. Recent solo exhibitions include Survival Guide for A Post Apocalyptic Child, HAM Helsinki (2024) and Forth Burgoyne, Dover (2025), Those Who Kept the Light, Rønnebæksholm Kunsthall, Denmark (2022) and Salt in Our Blood, in Our Sweat, In Our Tears, Beaconsfield Gallery, London (2023).
She has been artist-in-residence in SIM Reykjavik (2026), Somerset House Studios, London (2018-2019) and Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (2018). Film screenings include Lesley Lohan Museum, New York (2026), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2025), 25fps, Zagreb, Croatia (2024), Lago Film Festival, Italy (2023), Tampere Short Film Festival, Finland (2023), Helsinki International Film Festival (2017, 2021, 2022) and Ivy Film Festival, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA (2018).
Her work has won several awards including Best Experimental Film at Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival, Best Editing, NYC Indie Film Awards, Best Short Film and Best Director in Short Film, Marietta International Film Festival and Seeing the Bigger Picture Award, American Documentary Film Festival and Film Fund (2018). She is the 35th recipient of the Young Artist of the Year 2019 title and award in Finland and recipient of Below Zero Art Prize (2023).