Artists 10
Pekka Sassi (b. 1969) is a Helsinki-based artist whose output consists of experimental sound and video works, many of which are purely sound pieces and audio installations. Sassi’s works are characterised by creative integration of simple, and sometimes random, audial and visual worlds detected in the surrounding world.
Elena Näsänen (b.1968) is a visual artists who works with film and video installations. She has studied in Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki and The Slade School of Fine Art in London.
In her works she combines elements of traditional and experimental cinema to video installation. The sound is always essential in her works.
Rita Jokiranta
is a photographer and video artist who also works with installations, light and sound. Her art often explores the dynamic between image, event and interpretation. The viewer’s interpretation has always been an essential aspect of her work, whether the medium she uses is photography or video.
In my work I use all kinds of intaglio printing techniques, but mostly photo based: polymergravure, ImagOn and fotoetching. The images combine popular culture, and world politics in home made science fiction style. I also make pure photographic series with pinhole and other analogic cameras, printed as polymer gravure.
Maria Duncker’s art reflects the freedom of the artist that is characteristic of our time with regard to materials, methods and display situations. In her happenings/installations, Duncker might show, say, plastic moulds and toy recycling. She even sculpts with her teeth, her instrument of choice being a sewing machine, video camera or, for example, a van, whose interior she and her colleague have converted to give camera obscura rides to ‘tourists’.
Emma Lappalainen b. 1976
Lives and works in Jyväskylä
I work with pinhole cameras and use lightning methods to make graphic prints. Working creates vital role like adaptor between seeing and experienced. They are documents of the permanent state of changing to which our adaptation give these visible answers. I experience these phenomenon as possibility to realize that everything includes everything, separated doesn’t exist.
born 1979, Krasnik Lubelski, Puola
The cinetic sculpture Fortuna (2007) is based on the idea of a mechanized game which the viewer is invited to follow. What is under scrutiny in this case is the hypnotic rhythm of appearing and disappearing steel balls. A hybrid of a billiard and roulette table has here been clothed as a piece of Rococo furniture. The sublime and the commonplace are united in this work of art, with a title referring both to the goddess of fortune and to a simple table game that even children are capable of playing (N.B. the table game Bagatelle is known in Finland as Fortuna).
Anne Hiekkaranta (b. 1976 in Juankoski) lives and works in Helsinki.
I am a contemporary dancer and I have been working widely as a freelancer since I graduated from Theatre Academy year 2000. During these years I have been dancing, selling lingeries, bath tubs, dancing, waxing skis…
Lately I have been dancing and playing some instruments in a kick-ass psalm band Succubussucs.
At the moment I am working with Jyrki Karttunen, Harri Kuorelahti, Ervi Siren, Alpo Aaltokoski, Petri Kekoni, Maria Duncker and Hannaleena Heiska.
Born 1981 Tampere.
Usually, a discoverer is regarded to be someone who is the first to make notes of a discovery. After giving the issue some thought, my opinion is exactly the opposite: as things, places and conditions are in constant change, the discoverer should be the person who is the last one to make the discovery.
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Landscape Paintings -Artist Statement.
I call my works landscape paintings. They
are photographs of reflections off surfaces of
paintings. I use enamel paint in the paintings
that serve as backgrounds for the works.
I photograph these paintings in different
environments and lightings
born 1968
Artist Statement. Hanne Ivars is a visual
artist that lives and works in Helsinki.
Her works deals with questions of
identity, usually in terms of being a
human. The works can be political but
the area of interest is the mental world.
Her recent works are narrative
animations with puppets.
Jari Haanperä is media-artist, director and light and sound designer.
All his works are about light, sound and moving images.
Haanperä is interested in analog technology but does also use digital technique. He is interested early 20th century technology romanticism/mysticism as well as technical phenomenans of our time. He uses whole scale of moving image from pre cinematic methods to videos and 35 mm fiction films.
Mirka Flander has worked on fields of theatre and film for more than
twenty years, last ten as shortfilm producer and coordinator for
media art.
Her self potraits represent another aspect of her thinking and making art.
Sculptor and performance artist
I make body related sculptures and performances, and a combination of these. My favourite working areas are streets or spaces outside the art context. My work is mainly site specific and intuitive. My special skills are playing the musical saw and making the porridge.
Lehtonen-Braun verwendet in ihren Arbeiten gefundenes Material, das sie mit ihren eigenen Zeichnungen, Gemälden und Fotos vielfältig kombiniert. Ihr Stil verleiht den entstandenen Collagen hohen Wiedererkennungswert. Sie hat die Kunst Akademie in Helsinki im Jahr 2000 absolviert (Schlussausstellung 1999). Seit 2000 wohnt sie mit ihrem Mann, dem Künstler Ulu Braun, dauerhaft in Deutschland. Mit den Jahren hat sie viele Ausstellungen gehabt und an ihrer eigenen Ästhetik gearbeitet. Außer den Collagen gehören zu ihren Werken auch Videos, Installationen und Performance.
born 1963, Tampere
I work with light, sound, moving image, paintings, objects and situations
created with them.
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Denise Ziegler’s works are traces of gestures, human activity, something that has happened. Ziegler’s situational reconstructions usually result in three-dimensional assemblages of objects, but also include drawings, paintings, videos or literary-visual works.
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Antti-Ville Reinikainen (b. 1980) works mainly with spatial, mixed-media installations and paintings. His present thematic concerns evolve around the phenomena related to human consciousness, suggestion and memory. Reinikainen’s approach, far from scientific rigour, relies on emotional impressions and intuitive visions. To transmit these emotional states to the viewer and yet to oblige him/her to question and reflect upon them, is a main concern in Reinikainen’s work. This could be achieved by means of humour, the absurd, or through combinations of contradictory fragments. Surprising details, such as dead forest animals, may either offer a hilarious surprise or yet another source of distress.
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Mikko Kuorinki (b. 1977 in Rovaniemi, Finland) works with a variety of media including performance, installation, video and photography. His works investigate how we understand the world and our place in it. Kuorinki often examines this relationship between the individual and the physical reality through language, but interventions created his own body or objects are also recurrent in his practice. Often conceptual, Kuorinki’s works touch upon experiences of alienation and rootlessness.
In my art I recreate or reanimate the history of memories associated with the site. I am interested in the historical, ethnographical consciousness of places and ways to animate related themes and stories and characters. Lately the artwork has taken form in photography and in installations combining sound and masked video projections.
When I take the photograph or shoot the video, I identify myself with a particular memory or an image and encapsulate it in a movement or a gesture that is as simple as possible. Using masks and masked projections the overall impression of the works are somewhere inbetween a moving image and a photograph.
Petri Eskelinen analyses nature and it’s mechanisms for producing and maintaining life like a scientist. His installations are multi-functional devices which distil and measure the geological and botanical movements of nature and nature’s unending process into images. Eskelinen is also interested in shipping and the explorers who sailed the high seas. He charts their achievements [...]
Veli Granö has become known to the Finnish public as a documentarist of collectors and folk artists. For him, this long project has not been just one of appearing in the context of the arts, within its institutional structures of galleries and museums. Instead, his efforts have resulted in documentary works of wider distribution, such [...]
Born in 1967, currently lives and works in Karkkila, Finland.
I am working with video and installations. In my installations I am using various techniques, combining moving picture and sound. For the past few years I have been involved in community art. I have recorded my own and other people’s lives and asked what is important and worthy in life. I often use found, second-hand or thrown-away items as material. Traces of decay and change – processes that take place in human mind and matter – are present in my work.
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Pink Twins are prophets of Finnish video art and electronic music, brothers Juha Vehviläinen (b. 1978) and Vesa Vehviläinen (b. 1974), based in Helsinki, Finland.
Pink Twins work in a league of their own, creating their own language of audiovisual narrative and logic. Their video works and live performances challenge the spectator with an overwhelming information [...]
Juha Mäki-Jussila
Born in 1967 in Ilmajoki, Finland, and currently resident in Karkkila, Juha Mäki-Jussila’s media are video and short film combined with sculptural oddities. He uses various techniqes in order to examine and reflect on human behaviour. References to the cinematic history can also be found in Mäki-Jussila’s approach.In the recent video works Mäki-Jussila has [...]
Suomesta Galleria
Project gallery for Finnish Contemporary art
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