Kurt Weill´s and Bertolt Brecht´s Seven Deadly Sins was the result of a two-year project in Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. The aim of our experimental music theater was to examine how the roles of different forms of art could be renewed in opera production, and to have the emphasis on visual arts through the whole project development.

As a result of a competition in winter 2012-13, mine and Elina Vainio´s spatial concept was chosen, together with Monika Czyzyk´s and Diana Soria Hernandez´s directing idea, to be developed further with the whole group. The performance was designed for the huge 4500 square meters warehouse space in Jätkäsaari Bunker. We had there eight sold-out performances in September 2013.

Photos by Petri Summanen

NEU/NOW Online Festival 2013 is now launched!  The Festival features 70 projects of emerging artists from 20 countries, I am included with installation Verges (link to my NEUNOW Festival page).

The fifth edition of the Festival includes projects in the fields of visual arts, design, theatre/dance, music/sound and film.

Verges, 2011

Exhibition DIMPLE brings disabled artists, professional artists and outsider artists together to fill the inside and outside of Iittala Art House with common theme Humour. I am showing six works: photographs, sculptures and installations. The exhibition is open 8.6.-31.7.2013, every day from 11am to 6pm.

Black Cells, 2013, clothes, filling and vibrators

Greetings from Sweden! I am taking part in the OpenART Academy symposium in Örebro. We are 15 artists from around the world living here for four weeks and creating works for the fourth international OpenART exhibition that will spread all over Örebro city. With pieces that are brought here ready made, there will be works from around 70 artists. The exhibition is open from 15th June to 1st September. Read more here: OpenART

Installation Midsummer Night´s Dream at the Örebro County Museum

Group exhibition Fata Morgana opened yesterday at Kaiku Gallery. I am showing prints and a series of small sculptures. Welcome!

Kaiku Gallery
8.2. – 17.2.2013, Mon-Fri 11-19, Sat-Sun 12-16
Kaikukatu 4, 00530 Helsinki

More info at Finnish Academy of Fine Arts pages (in Finnish).

Idonwanna, 2013, printmaking

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Year 2013 will have an exciting start for me, I´ll have a solo exhibition Tenses in Kuusamo, my home town in Northern Finland. The location is the beautiful Kaamos gallery in Kuusamo Hall. Welcome to the opening on 3rd January at 6pm!

Last saturday was the opening of Between the Bridges, the annual environmental art exhibition in Jämsä in Central Finland. Me, Urška Sršen and Matti Koskinen from Finnish Academy of Fine Arts were invited to make new works for the exhibition in city center.

For six months I gathered stories and memories from Jämsä citizens of all ages.  The result from these stories donated for me is the Storymap of Jämsä. The exhibition is open every day until 2.9.2012.

[Note 15.11.2012. The exhibition time has been extended – Storymap will be on show through the whole winter and spring 2013.)

I am taking part in Kuvan Kevät together with 35 other master students. The Degree Show spreads to all three of the Academy´s galleries in Helsinki center. My work, titled Cascade, is at the Academy´s main building  foyer at Kaikukatu 4.

More about Cascade here.

Detail of Cascade, 2012, wood, fabric, sand and solenoids

Kuvataideakatemian galleria, Kasarmikatu 44, Helsinki

Friday 11th November – Sunday 20th November. Open every day from 11am to 6pm. Welcome!

More about Verges here