Kirsi Peltomäki is a contemporary art historian with a focus on experiential and participatory art, ranging from sculpture, conceptual art and institutional critique to adaptations of craft, relational aesthetics, and installation art.

Peltomäki’s recent publications include the book Situation Aesthetics: The Work of Michael Asher (The MIT Press, 2010) and the edited collection Public Knowledge: Selected Writings by Michael Asher (The MIT Press, 2019). She has published articles in the journals Art Journal, Afterimage, and Tacet: Experimental Music Review as well as in anthologies Paradigmen der Kunstbetrachtung: Aktuelle Positionen der Rezeptionsäesthetik und Museumpädagogik (Peter Lang, 2015) and Sowohl als auch Dazwischen: Erfahrungsräume der Kunst (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2015). She is currently working on research projects on late modernist sculpture and on the experiential turn in architectural sculpture in the 1970s.