Luontoja – Natures exhibition is now open at Poriginal Gallery. The gallery is part of Pori Art Museum. Exhibition´s theme is landscape. Artists are Inka-Maaria Jurvanen, Hannele Kumpulainen, Iisa Maaranen, Pia Männikkö, Miika Nyyssönen and Sara Orava. Poriginal Gallery, 17.10.2020 – 03.11.2020, Pori, Finland.

Kamara in Poriginal Gallery.

The On the Waves exhibition combines a kinetic installation based on wave motion by Pia Männikkö with photos from the shores of Helsinki by Jaana Kaipiainen.

My work Cascade is built of wood, cotton straps, hinges and solenoides. The large-scale installation studies the laws of physics, making the propagation of wave motion visible.

Exhibition is open 7.8.- 29.8.2020 in Caisa Galleria, Kaikukatu 4, Helsinki. Free entry.

Detail of Cascade, 2012

Zambezi is a theatre performance about Finnish refugee family in Africa. Zambezi is directed by Ritva Siikala, I have made the set design. Premiere was 19th February at Alexander Theater, Helsinki. Zambezi will also be at Culture House Caisa and Culture House Kanneltalo in Helsinki, and at Turku City Theater in February – March 2020.

Entrotopia is an international art exchange project between the Helsinki Association of Artists and civic association Publikum.sk from Trnava, Slovakia. Works of six contemporary Slovak artists were shown in Helsinki in August 2019. The current exhibition in Synagogue – Center for Contemporary Art, Trnava, presents the work of Laura Beloff, Teemu Korpela, Pia Männikkö, Mari Mäkiö, Ville Mäkikoskela and Jukka Virkunen. I made a new version of Midsummer Night´s Dream for Synagogue.  Entrotopia 2.0 is open until 22.3.2020.

Pia Männikkö: Midsummer Night´s Dream, rescue blankets ans fans, 2020, at Synagogue

IMPRESSIONS – A duo exhibition at the Nordic Contemporary art space in Paris
Exhibition period: 10.12.2019 – 11.01.2020
Participating artists: HEIDI LAMPENIUS (FI), PIA MÄNNIKKÖ (FI)

Nordic Contemporary, 13, Rue Taylor 75010 Paris, France
For further information please contact: T. +33 616 128 139 info@nordiccontemporary.com www.nordiccontemporary.com

nordiSKulptur exhibition in Gallery Sculptor is now over, thank you everyone who visited! As part of nordiSKulptur project I also made a three-part illuminated installation for Nordic Culture Point´s windows. The work can be seen around the clock until 8th January 2020. Address Kaisaniemenkatu 9, Helsinki.

Pia Männikkö: Slow Motion, 2019, clothes and bamboo skewers.

PÁLL HAUKUR & PIA MÄNNIKKÖ
1.–24.11.2019, Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki

nordiSKulptur, an exhibition collaboration between the Nordic Culture Point and the Association of Finnish Sculptors, brings forth fascinating Nordic contemporary sculpture. Páll Haukur and Pia Männikkö’s joint exhibition is the first in a series of three duo exhibitions that will be held at Galleria Sculptor between 2019–2021.

Welcome to the exhibition opening on Thursday, October 31, from 5 to 7 pm! Gallery Sculptor, Eteläranta 12, 00130 Helsinki. Open tue-fri 11 am – 5 pm, sat-sun 12 – 4pm.

Pia Männikkö: Kamara, 2019, unfired clay and wood. Image: Titus Verhe

Listeners environmental art project starts wed 27.6. and goes on until 14.7.2019. I will place Listeners, miniature sculptures, in three different beach locations in Helsinki. If you find a sculpture, you can take it home, if you will send me a photo of the sculpture in its new home or location. Map and more info: www.hybridea.net

Interwoven exhibition opens soon in EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art. I am one of 12 artists. Welcome to the opening 04.06.2019 at 18-20! Interwoven will be open 05.06.2019 – 01.03.2020.

Setting up I am a mountain -works for Interwoven exhibition in EMMA.

Art Fair Suomi is open in Cable Factory, Helsinki, until 26.5.2019. My work at the fair is a vertical version of Midsummer Night’s Dream, a kinetic installation made with rescue blankets and fans.