Maïna Joner is a French-Norwegian artist and costume designer based in Oslo.
She holds an MFA in Art and Public Space and a BFA in Fashion and Costume Design from Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
She is a member of the transdisciplinary artist collective Antropical, with which she has exhibited in Luxembourg, Berlin and Modena. She has designed costumes for several dance and public art performances in Oslo, Tromsø, Amsterdam and Prague.
She works mostly around the themes of science fiction and futurisms: in the face of climate crisis, genocide and fascism rising to power, she adopts a hope punk approach by wishing into existence alternative ways to be human. She uses storytelling through costumes to produce a cognitive estrangement, either by building upon the body until humanity is completely erased, or by twisting reality just enough to become ridiculous and uncanny. Costume is also the cradle of role-play which she uses for speculative and immersive experiences for performers, audience members and herself.
Her work is material-based and experimental, often incorporating plastic and other unconventional materials that she collects, subverts, and collages. Queerness, speculation and play are the backbone of her practice, both conceptually and aesthetically.