Yvonne Billimore

Yvonne Billimore’s curatorial practice facilitates situations for collective learning, exchange and experiences with particular attention to the intersection of feminist and ecological practices. They are the artistic director of Bioart Society and work as a freelance curator, writer and editor. They are also an active organiser, gardener and member of the Food Art Research Network, and board member of KIILA ry—a feminist, leftist and anti-racist association for writers and artists in Finland. Alongside Jussi Koitela, Billimore co-curated the exhibition The pleasures we choose for the Pavilion of Finland at the 60th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia in 2024. Previous roles include associate curator Frame Contemporary Art Finland working on the public programme Rehearsing Hospitalities (2019 to 2023); co-artistic director of ATLAS Arts with Joss Allen (maternity cover 2021–22); and programme manager of the Scottish Sculpture Workshop (2015–18). Editorial projects include the Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion series 1-4 published by Archive Books Berlin (2019-22), The pleasures we choose published by K.Verlag (2024), and Feral Labs Node Book #2: Feralities published by Bioart Society and Projekt Atol (2024). She wrote her MA thesis on "Feminist Collective Research Practices" responding to several archival collections on anti-nuclear activism from the 1980s-present (2022).

 

Image: Minna Haukka & Kristin Luke, The Mobile Feminist Library, Editorial Tables. Reciprocal Hospitalities, installation view, The Showroom, London, 2023. Photo: Dan Weil Photography