Single channel video installationProjection on a wooden round screenYear: 2020Duration: 5’32 min About the work A video collage about biodiversity, made entirely from free online material. Time-lapse animated blooming flowers are forming new shapes due to the mirror effect enforced on them, accompanied by a […]
Everything is temporary
Single channel video installationProjection on a wooden round screenDuration: 5:45Year: 2019 About the workA minimalistic video piece with the image of breaths on a cold winter night becoming visual as waves and steam, twirling and layered in air. The work is inspired by breathing techniques […]
Trickle-down economy does not work
InstallationSize: approximately 400 cm x 10 cm x 10 cmMaterials: Found branch of Scotch elm, spray paintYear: 2017 About the work I found a large branch of the Scotch elm tree in a park in Helsinki, where these old trees still exist. The Scotch Elms […]
I love the mountains!
A series of 3 temporary sculptures / installations:I have conquered the Holy Mountain horizontally!Jodorovsky’s Seat&I love the Mountains!Years: 2017 – 2018Size: approximately 90 x 60 x 50 cmMaterials: Wooden children’s chair, granite, wheat flour, vegetable oil, salt, food colouring, flash light, (ecological glitter) About the […]
The Inland Sea
A work with two personal stories about parenthood and fear.
Bremer’s nightmare
Single-channel video installation.
Predictions
Series of monologues about visions of the future by young performers.
Hyrrä
Live performance with piano improvisation and video loop.
Lessons
A series of three collages made out of illustrated history books.
Found in translation
Exchange and collaboration project between two artist-run spaces, 2015Participating galleries: Scotty Enterprises, Berlin and Galleria Huuto, Helsinki Found in translation These works were part of a collaboration and exchange project between Galleria Huuto, Helsinki and Scotty Enterprises, Berlin. In the latter I curated an exhibition […]
Tricycle
Meanwhile elsewhere, documentation photo by Pasi Autio.A group exhibition by Pasi Autio, Marjo Levlin, Marja Viitahuhta, Annu Wilenius and Charlotta ÖstlundGallery Kunstschlager, Reykjavik, 2014 A collaboration and exchange project between 3 artist run nordic galleriesYears: 2014 – 2015 Participating galleries Gallery Kunstschlager (Reykjavik), Studio 44 […]
Greta, Gretchel, Gertrud, Gilbert, Gregor, Georg
Collage seriesC-printsSize: 30 x 42 cm eachYear: 2013 About the worksI was given some images as a gift from my aunt-in-law. She had found them from her house in Imatra, a town in eastern Finland, stored away with family albums. She had asked around but […]
Garden of Death
Short filmDuration: 20 minYear: 2013 SynopsisAn eight year old girl spends a day at the cemetary, taking care of the ”Garden of Death”. The film combines the methods and aesthetics of a documentary film with a fictional, dreamlike vision of a child working as a […]
First there is nothing
Single channel video work/ Single channel video installation with 3-channel soundDuration: 3 min / 7 minYear: 2013 – 2016 SynopsisAn image of a blizzard: snowflakes and wind. The image is simultaneously a still shot and full of movement. Accompanied with a voice-over text on how […]
Unser Österreich
Collage on MDF1000 x 50 cm (in 10 parts)2012 About the work I found a book called Unser Österreich from a flea market in Berlin. It was a German propaganda publication from 1938, a book that contained black and white pictures of a country that shortly […]
Spotlight
Live performance/ Performance textsYears: 2009 / 2013Duration: Performance duration varies About the workSpotlight is a minimalistic performance, a monologue performed in a single spotlight. The monologue is based on a playful approach towards textual structure of a performance text – it is a list from […]
Cunning image
A screening with experimental film and video, 2013Curated together with Anni Venäläinen About the projectCunning image aka Viekas Kuva was a screening presenting contemporary finnish experimental film and video. The works in the screening share a perspective of pensiveness and conceptuality. They investigate the borderlines […]
Huuto Alphabet
Group exhibition and website, 2013 29 works from 29 artists, varied media, maximum dimensions 30 x 30 cm Exhibited at: Participating artists Kaisa Eriksson, Erika Erre, Kaisaleena Halinen, Terhi Heino, Anja Helminen, Vesa Hjort, Beata Joutsen, Sampo Malin, Tiia Matikainen, Pasi Mälkiä, Antti Oikarinen, Pilvi Ojala, […]
Gray insight
Photography/ Performance textC-print30 x 30 cm2013 About the work This text-based work was originally created for the Huuto Alphabet project and group exhibition, where I was given the letter G as a starting point for a new art work. The text is created as a […]
Aavan meren tuolla puolen (Tallinna – Pärnu)
Collage (framed)Size: 80 x 25 cmYear: 2012 About the work This work was part of my solo exhibition Eheä Maailma aka Cohesive Worldexhibited together with the collage works Unser Österreich, Under the Alps, Postcard from nowhere and Uljas kaupunki. The material in these works is found from second […]
Postcard from nowhere (Napoli – Bergen)
Collage, 80 x 25 cm, 2012 Postcard from nowhere (Napoli – Bergen), detail About the work This work was part of my solo exhibition Eheä Maailma aka Cohesive World exhibited together with the collage works Unser Österreich, Under the Alps, Aavan meren tuolla […]
Uljas kaupunki (Uljanovsk)
Collage, 74 x 35 cm, 2012 About the work This work was part of my solo exhibition Eheä Maailma aka Cohesive World exhibited together with the collage works Unser Österreich, Under the Alps, Postcard from nowhere and Aavan meren tuolla puolen. The material in these works is […]
Under the Alps (Garmisch-Partenkirchen – Tirol)
Collage, 115 x 20 cm, 2012 (click the thumbnail image to view the whole work) Under the Alps (detail) About the work This work was part of my solo exhibition Eheä Maailma aka Cohesive World exhibited together with the collage works Unser […]
I don’t remember this
Short film, duration: 11’20”, 2012 Synopsis: A work about filling in the missing bits of memory with fiction. A silent work about absence and loss. A work shot at an inherited family house: a place to which the author is linked to via personal, […]
Flood 2
Site-specific sound installation, 2011 Alt_Cph11 Art Fair, Copenhagen About the work This is a reversed version of the idea in the work Flood, which created an illusion of the sea captured inside a church solely based on sound. In Alt_Cph11 I was given a […]
Drifting times
Two screenings of experimental short films from Finland, 2010 Curated by Marja Viitahuhta for Stuttgarter Filmwinter Rondo (2006), film caption About the screenings In 2010 I was asked to present a screening with my works in Stuttgarter Filmwinter film festival. Instead of just […]
Dorian
C-print, 60 x 80 cm, 2007
In between
Series of C-prints on aluminium – double and triple exposures on slide film turned to C-prints with Lambda-technique, 2009 Dollhuman 82 x 80 cm / Planthuman 100 x 70 cm / Reflection 100 x 70 cm (Click on thumbnails to see the full images.) […]
Flood
Site-specific sound installation, 2007 Village church of Teijo, Salo region, Finland Exhibited as part of Taiteen Tiet 1.6.2007 – 31.8.2007 daily 12 am – 6 pm. Image: Hannu Paunila About the work As one climbs uphill to the churchyard, one begins to realize […]
Make your own shadow
Installation with tents, tarpaulin, cotton and strings, 2006 Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University, England Collaboration with artists Johanna Ketola, Carl Sebastian Lindberg, Hans Rosenström and Pilvi Takala. Make Your Own Shadow, was a collaborative installation and a group exhibition made for the Holden […]
Stoneforest / Letter to my father
1) 5 -channel video installation, mute, each loop duration 1 – 2 min, 8 mm film to HD-video (2006) 2) audio text, duration 20 min / a handout text (2006) About the work This installation consists of two individual works exhibited simultaneously. The works […]
Untold
Collage series with found images and paper, dimensions vary, 2006 C-prints, 25 x 17 cm, 2016 About the work Untold is a series of images where the people in the photograph have been cut out and replaced by a silhouette-like black paper. The images were […]
A & B
C-print, 80 x 60 cm, 2006 About the work This work was part of my solo exhibition Päivän Hulluus aka Madness of a day, entitled after the Folie du Jour by Maurice Blanchot. It was exhibited together with the works Stoneforest, Letter to […]
Portrait of my mother as a young woman
C-print, 80 x 60 cm, 2006 About the work This work was part of my solo exhibition Päivän Hulluus aka Madness of a day, entitled after the Folie du Jour by Maurice Blanchot. It was exhibited together with the works Stoneforest, Letter to […]
Rondo
Short film, duration 8’20”, 2006 Synopsis: Rondo is an experimental short film shot on 8mm film that contains no dialogue and is based on a circular structure. The film attempts to describe a state of mind of a person in between events, experiencing change. […]
Chameleon
Photo series of site-specific performances made for ANTI festival, 2005-2006 Chameleon, documentation photos, photo assistant: Mia Turunen About the work Chameleon is a work consisting of twelve photograph created for the ANTI 2005 festival. ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival is an international contemporary […]
99 Years of My Life
Short film, duration: 33 min, 2003 Synopsis: One fictional biography depicted from birth to death, based on the lives and memories of four women of different age. Each year in the film is reduced to three sentences, a list that runs from 0 […]