Terike Haapoja

Terike Haapoja is a Berlin-based visual artist. Her current research [Against] Animal Capitalism reflects critically on the anthropocentric ontologies within marxist theory that inform current day left politics, and argues that recognizing animal labor as a central arena of capitalist exploitation is necessary for anticapitalist struggle. Haapoja’s current research builds on her extensive research and creative work on multispecies politics in relationship to knowledge production (Closed Circuit – Open Duration, 2008), governance (The Party of Others 2011), law (The Trial, 2013), history (Museum of the History of Cattle, 2013) and ideology (Museum of Nonhumanity, 2016). Haapoja’s work has received several awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship for the [Against] Animal Capitalism project in 2022.