Leik Silvestrini

Leik is a queer non-binary Oslo-born and Helsinki-based performance- and visual artist striving for softness, weirdness and openness. Their work is relational, processual and playfully serious, often involving costumes and situations that grow from everyday encounters and vibrate in the meeting between the fantastical and physical reality.

They hold an MFA of Time & Space Arts from the Fine Arts Academy of Helsinki (2024) and a BFA from the Art Academy of Bergen (2020). They are one of the organizers of the queer autonomous DIY gallery Kiss my ARS in Helsinki and one of the engines behind PAU!'s Open Home Performance Festival.

Photo Credit: Negin Aladdin