Mountain Hiking (With Impossible Stairs) / 2023 / aluminium, painted plywood / 12m x 4m x 4m
Permanent art work in the new Fylkeshus in Bergen. The artwork utilizes fire stairs, twisted playfully and hanging organically from the ceiling. It reflects the surrounding architecture with its multiple open staircases, thus contrasting it's massive volumes and straight lines. Further more it refers to the nature and its multiple mountains that surround the city, intertwining the experience of the arcitecture and natural landscape.
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Kerä / 2023 / painted steel / 12m x 4m x 3m
A public sculpture in front of Runosmäki community centre. The sculpture represents a flagpole, bent in a form reminiscent of a bird nest or a witch's broom. The artwork reflects on the fragile coliving of nature and residents in the area. Through reference to migratory birds, and the use of universal, non-active flagpole, it acknowledges the multicultural nature of the neighborhood. Thus the sculpture aims to highlight the ambivalent coexistence and interdependency of human and nature.
/ In collaboration with Taneli Rautiainen
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Jumping Fence (With Shortcuts and Shifting Borders) / 2022 / sketch
A proposal for a public artwork at the yard of a public school in Katrineholm, Sweden. The sculpture consists of a 25 metres long fence, that is bend in a wavy, fluctuous curves. The artwork reflects on the nature of different borders and walls, physical or abstract. Through making the fence porous and enabling the movement through it, the artwork aims to question and carnivalize the rigid nature of borders, be it the borders for thinking, between people, or between human and nature.
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Channel (With a Drainpipe) / 2021 / galvanized steel / 20m x 4m x 4m
Apublic sculpture installed at district of Kangas in the city of Jyväskylä. The sculpture consists of a 60 metres long drainpipe, reeled organically at the corner of an apartment building. The artwork acknowledges the importance of water routes and sources for human settlements, by referring to the nearby river Tourujoki which runs through the neighborhood. The river used to be highly polluted due to the industrial activity run in the area before turning into a new residential district. Thus the sculpture aims to highlight the ambivalent coexistence and interdependency of human and nature.
/ In collaboration with Taneli Rautiainen
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YLÖSALASALASYLÖS / 2021 / traffic barrier, steel poles / 28m x 6m x 13m
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public art work installed at the Kilpisjärvi Customhouse. Commissioned
by Finnish State Art Collections. The artwork utilizes traffic barriers
to outline horizons of the surrounding northern landscape with its
mountains and valleys which the roads and paths follow. The sculpture reflects the nature of its unique location as an intersect of multiple borderlines; between built environment and nature, between three nation-states, and between different cultures inhabiting the land.
/ In collaboration with Nestori Syrjälä
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Satamajätkä (fundeeraamassa) / 2021 / sketch
A proposal for a memorial honouring former president of Finland, Mauno Koivisto. Awarded with honourable mention in an open call competition
by the Prime Minister's Office.
The proposal consists of a 50 metres long cast bronze gantry structure, ripply and wavy, reminiscent of a reflection on a surface of water.
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Composition (With Possible Shortcuts) / 2021 / sketch
A proposal for a public artwork to commemorate the founder of Pori Jazz festival, Jyrki Kangas. Shortlisted in a closed competition by the city of Pori. The proposal consists of a 50 metres long painted steel fence or railing, bending and folding rhythmically. The steel fence is also reminiscent to a music staff, empty of notes.
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Meander (with a Bicycle Rack) / 2020 / galvanized steel / 8m x 5m x 6m
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permanent sculpture at Kupittaa Campus of Turku University of Applied Sciences at Turku. Commissioned
by Turku AMK and Turku Technology Properties. The sculpture consists of 80 metres long bicycle rack bent in meandering forms.
/ In collaboration with Taneli Rautiainen
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A sketch for a permanent sculpture to be installed at Lindholmens Tekniska Gymnasium secondary school at Gothenburg, Sweden. Commissioned by Gothenburg City.
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HUPS! / 2020 / painted plywood / 2,5m x 3m x 3,5m
/ In collaboration with Nestori Syrjälä
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Systems (Flow) / 2018 / copper and zinc waterpipesystems, neon lights / 12m x 3,5m x 2m
Permanent art work installed in the New Childrens' Hospital in Helsinki. The sculpture depicts an anatomically accurate model of the veins, arteries and nervous system of human arm in scale 15:1, in comparison to the house technique of the hospital building.
/ In collaboration with Taneli Rautiainen
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Field of Disassemblage (A Folded View) / 2016 / sketch
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Discomposition (With a Grid) / 2015 / sketch, scalemodel / 1,2m x 2,4m
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A public sculpture that is imitating a fragment of a life size concrete bridge, with a streetlight on top. The light is switched on during the dark hours of the day. The sculpture was commissioned by Helsinki Art Museum.
/ In collaboration with Taneli Rautiainen.
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Still Life (With Streetlights) / 2013 / Galvanized steel, streetlights, aluminium plates / 40m x 14m x 12m
The work is man-made natural form brought in the urban space. Four 12m tall galvanised steel lighting columns resembling trees with fallen branches on the ground, streetlights and aluminium traffic signs. The eight streetlights are switched on during the dark hours of the day. The sculpture was commissioned by Porvoo municipal.
/ In collaboration with Taneli Rautiainen
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Four Untitled Whites In a Row / 2010 / Steel flagpoles / 20m x 5m x 22m
Permanent art work installed in the building of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. Four 22 meters tall flagpoles are installed inside, penetrating all the six floors of the building. The sculpture was commissioned by The Finnish State Art Commission, for the 160th anniversary of the academy.
/ In collaboration with Taneli Rautiainen
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