Maaretta Jaukkuri Foundation • Leevi Haapala

MJFs founding board meeting in Kvalnes, february 2016. Left to right: Gediminas Urbonas, A K Dolven, Yoshiaki Nishino, Katya García-Antón, Hilde Methi, Maaretta Jaukkuri, Thora Dolven Balke, Audhild Dahlström, Mari Jaukkuri, Cecilia Jaukkuri, Francis McKee

The vision of MJF would not be possible without the kind support of many artists including, Kari Cavén, Tony Cragg, Dorothy Cross, A K Dolven, Anne-Karin Furunes, Antony Gormley, Dan Graham, Alfredo Jaar, Anish Kapoor, Cildo Meireles, Esko Männikkö, Bjørn Nørgaard, Markus Raetz, and Gediminas Urbonas.

Leevi Haapala is a director of the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki as well as being a curator, art writer and researcher of contemporary art. He has worked as a Praxis Professor, Exhibition Studies, MA Program in Academy of Fine Arts, University of Arts, Helsinki 2014-15; as Curator for Collections at Kiasma (2007-2014) and as a researcher at the Central Art Archives in Finnish National Gallery (1997-2003).

Haapala is a board member in Pro Arte Foundation and expert team at IHME Contemporary Art Festival in Helsinki 2009-2019 and a member of selection board of the Young Artist of the Year Prize and Exhibition at Tampere Art Museum since 2012- and a board member of Design Museum Foundation, Helsinki since 2016-, a member of selection board for Ars Fennica Award since 2016-, and a member of Kiasma Support Foundation 2015-.