The Animal That Therefore You Made Me (Follow) — Stanislava Ovchinnikova

Stanislava Ovchinnikova

Artistic projects
2026 / The Animal That Therefore You Made Me (Follow)
/ performance, public space intervention
2026 / A Performance for Two (Part 1/4)
/ durational performance, installation
2026 / A Performance for Two (Part 2/4)
/ text-based performance, installation
2026 / A Performance for Two (Part 3/4)
/ sound-based performance, installation
2026 / A Performance for Two (Part 4/4)
/ premiere: 19.08.26 @ Amos Rex Museum, Helsinki
2026 / Untitled
/ text, artistic commission of Pori Art Museum
2024-ongoing / Suspension in Other Terms
/ photography
2023 / Understanding The Urgency
/ lecture-performance
2023 / My Mother Told Me Not To Look Men In The Eye
/ video (silent)
2021 / Am I Dead Yet?
/ photography

Curatorial projects
2026 / Bark! (Volume 1) @ HIAP
2025 / Ukraine (working title) @ Critical Gallery, Turku, FI
2024 / 2 Years, 3657 Days @ Kaunas Artists’ House, LT
2023-2024 / Moving in Mayhem @ international touring

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current:
A Performance for Two / Generation 2026 @ Amos Rex Museum
Untitled (text) / De Se - Attitude @ Pori Art Museum

upcoming:
Bark! (Volume 3) / 6.09 @ HIAP Community Room
Dwell Here Residency / September 2026 @ Irish Museum of Modern Art
Bark! (Exhibition) / November 2026 @ Gallery Augusta, HIAP

2026 / The Animal That Therefore You Made Me (Follow) / performance, public space intervention
Video documentation: https://vimeo.com/1204504201 (2 hours 10 min. Password protected. To request the password, please email stanislavaovchinnikova(at)gmail.com)

The Animal That Therefore You Made Me (Follow) is a performance / promenade / public space intervention that took place in Helsinki on the 7th of June, 2026.

This performance appropriates dogness as a politically motivated stance. Its starting point was a train arriving to the Central Railway Station of Helsinki. From there, the performance proceeded through the railway station itself, and the surrounding territory. The total length of the path was ~1.2 kilometers, and duration of the performance ~2 hours 20 minutes. The endpoint of the route was a refugee reception center run by Finnish Immigration Authority.

Idea & implementation: Stanislava Ovchinnikova
Assistance & performance documentation: Eero Yli-Vakkuri
Developed in conversation with Maria Batchenko & Los’ (Bark! project)
Supported by Kone Foundation

Images on this page: stills from video documentation of the performance done by Eero Yli-Vakkuri, 2026

Associated events:
Bark! (Volume 3), 6.09.26 @ HIAP Community Room — screening performance documentation & reading a longer-form reflective text about the work.