Erkka Nissinen‘s Rigid Regime will be screened at the Murf/Murw festival, held from October 3–5, 2025 in Tilburg, Netherlands. The festival focuses on experimental theatre, music, visual arts, and film.

In Rigid Regime (2012), an armless outsider observer arrives by helicopter to inspire the local community.

Erkka Nissinen has studied in The Slade School of Fine Art in London and gained MFA degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Finland in 2001. His works have been exhibited internationally, for example in Ellen de Bruijne Project Space in Amsterdam, Smart Projects Space in Amsterdam, Helsinki Art Museum’s Kluuvi Gallery and 1646 in Den Haag. During 2011 Rotterdam Art Fair Nissinen won the acclaimed Illy Prize. In 2013, he was awarded with the AVEK Prize for media art. Nissinen represented Finland with Nathaniel Mellors at the Venice Biennale 2017.

Murf/Murw
October 3–5, 2025
Tilburg, Netherlands

More information: Murf/Murw

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