Aug 31
2023 Installation of sculptures (wood, fabric, wadding, plaster, silicone) and ready-made objects (furniture). Installation size 230 x 300 x 220 cm. Figure is human sized. Art association ITU’s 2022 summer exhibition had ARCHEOLOGICAL THINKING as its theme. I created a room installation depicting a scene of a humanoid figure in a kind of self-study lab/room, …
Jul 08
2021 Donated and upcycled materials (wood, fabric, string, gauze, wadding), video and sound.Installation size 230 x 300 x 220 cm. Figure is human sized. Art association ITU’s 2021 summer exhibition had WATER as its theme. For my entry, I created a room installation with a double veiled green figure sitting on a high chair, seemingly …
Mar 29
2020 Installation (wood, used tarp, recycled fabric, slip casting, looping video (05:11), looping soundscape (07:14).207 x 200 x 300 cm. Totalitarianism hasn’t disappeared from the face of the Earth. I wasn’t left behind when humanity moved on to this new millennia. It doesn’t make its appearances only on far-away, strange lands. In a totalitarian system …
Jan 17
2020 Recycled fabrics, wadding and clothing.Life-sized, with four set of clothing changed during the exhibition. Part of “Olohuone / Living Room” installation in collaboration with Elina Lahdenperä. Exhibited at:HIOSTAMO 1, Köysiratagalleria, Turku “As an Animal” depicts a fabric sculpture of an unspecified urban animal (partly dog, partly hare, partly something else) who has entered a …
Nov 18
2019 Recycled water pipes, string.100 x 100 cm, 130 x 130 cm “Himmeli” is a traditional Finnish mobile decoration made from straws. It can be simple or rather complex, but usually utilizes basic diamond shapes. Himmelis are often associated with Christmas decocations. In my 2019 work Himmeli I played with size and made simple himmelis …
Jul 24
2019 Wood.65 x 65 x 150 cm. Why is it, that it always tend to be small men who are most eager to reach for the highest of seats? Yes, those seats they are most unsuitable to sit on. Exhibited at:Skulptür, Köysiratagalleria, TurkuStockfors Art Fair, Stockfors, Pyhtää
Jul 18
2019 Recycled water pipes, string, lights, motion sensor.Installation size 230 x 300 x 220 cm. Himmel is German for Heaven, also a word play with the Finnish term “himmeli” translating into a hanging straw ornament. For art association ITU’s 2019 summer exhibition called “Lovers of * the Milky Way” I made two large-scale versions of …
Jun 24
2019 By Art collective VIRASTO fence gauze, fence posts, plywood 200 x 500 cm Exhibited at Kotka ART, Kotka
Jun 24
2019 Stickers around town, with qr-code (and html address) leading to randomly played sound files. 4 x ~ 3 min long tracks. I asked myself: What if you replaced the actual soundscape of your location to something completely different? Would you see the world differently as well? Portable Soundscapes attempts to answer these questions. The …
Jun 18
2019 Plaster, acrylic paint, glitter glue, sand.Variable size, exhibited as ~ 5-40 x 220 cm. Footprints on sand. Somebody had walked here, barefoot, on tip-toes. It was so long ago, that the footprints have turned to stone and have the bright colours of happy memories. Exhibited at Skulptür, Köysiratagalleria, Turku.
Sep 24
2018 Stickers on outside fixture.~ 60 x 200 cm. In this course project for Time and Space Art course I transformed the art school’s outside table and chairs into a brutalist suburb with six high rises and a water tower. For a suburb, it was rather small – but perhaps this example of model housing …
Aug 24
2018 Plastic, tape, monitor, video.60 x 60 x 130 cm, 4 min looping video. The sculptural installation features a transparent female figure apparently trying to escape from an out-dated computer monitor. There’s a looping video playing, titled TV-Dinner, with static and short clips of a classic horror movie. Exhibited at ILMIÖ festival, Turku, 2018 and at …
Mar 18
2018 Video installation “Meditation: Eternity”.Box 20 x 20 cm, 4 min looping video. Infinity and eternity are truly things to meditate upon. Exhibited in 2018 at DIMENSIO, Köysiratagalleria, Turku andin 2025 at GUARDIANS OF THE SECRET, Voipaala, Valkeakoski.
Oct 31
2017 Silk paper, sticky tape, egg shells, light.Life-sized heads and figure. Exhibited at:Turku University of Applied Sciences’ Arts Academy Library, Turku Using delicate materials, “Fragiles” studied the fragility of human nature.
Jul 24
Write-up drew inspiration from William S. Burroughs’s and Brion Gysin’s artistic technique, cut-up.
Jul 24
2012 High fire ceramic.90 x 200 cm. Inspired by Brion Gysin’s letters/words & squares works. Exhibited at:ITU & Idols, Taidemakasiini ITU, Humppila
Jul 01
“Who or what are you inspired by?” was the question posed to art association ITU’s summer exhibition participants in July 2012. Niko Skorpio and I chose William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin as our inspirations for our shared gallery space.
Oct 28
“The darkest time of the year contains the seed of Light.” Collaborative art installation with Niko Skorpio celebrating Winter Solstice 2009, exhibited mid-December at “Joulukalenteri 2009” (Christmas Calendar 2009) exhibition at Taidemakasiini ITU, Humppila. Works included raku fired paper clay wall sculpture “Black Sun” and raku fired recycled clay bowl installation “Eheydythän” (“Will You Become …
