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

I took part in NYT2011 – Contemporary Art Summer, which was a series of exhibitions presenting works both in gallery spaces and outdoors in Naantali and Raisio. NYT2011 was part of Turku Capital of Culture 2011 programme. I had a joint exhibition with Saara Huovinen in Taidehuone gallery in July.

Mirka Mattheiszen´s article about Naantali exhibition in Rannikkoseutu-magazine (in Finnish): Kehoja tilassa ja liikkeessä

Déjà Vu IV, 2011, tulle fabric and ink

(Last image by Raila Tapio)

I am taking part in Buffer Zone exhibition in Armory Gallery in Sydney Olympic Park. I made a new installation called Still live on the site using 1200 kilos of fresh clay. The exhibition is on from 7th May to 31st July 2011.  Read more about the work here.

More about the Buffer Zone exhibition here.