EVENT DETAILS:
EXHIBITION at the KulttuuriKauppila Art Centre (Kauppilantie 15, Ii):
From the 13th of August to the 16th of August Wed-Fri 12 am-6 pm, Sat 10 am-3 pm
KulttuuriKauppila Showroom, Lucía Loren: “Stitching Stories from the Soil”
ARTIST TALK at the KulttuuriKauppila Art Centre (Kauppilantie 15, Ii):
Wed 13th of August at 5 pm
Presentation of the artists of KulttuuriKauppila:
Madrid-based artist and activist Lucía Loren and Oulu-based textile and visual artist Johanna Pöykkö talk about their work.
More information about the events at KulttuuriKauppila: Cultural Producer Katri Haapakoski, Art Centre KulttuuriKauppila, tel. 0408698601, katri.haapakoski@ii.fi
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MORE INFORMATION:
Loren is at the residency at the KulttuuriKauppila art centre in Ii and at Artbreak Air.
Lucía Loren is a Madrid-based artist who is specialized in environmental art. Her research combines collaborative artistic practices and projects inspired by critical pedagogy, reflecting on socio-ecological themes from an ecofeminine perspective. Human-environment relations and the landscape shaped by them have been the main theme of her work during the last years. This connection with landscapes has inspired her interventions in numerous natural environments in Spain, Morocco, the United States, Italy, Andorra, Poland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Argentina and Western Sahara. Loren has exhibited her work in museums, cultural spaces and contemporary art centres such as Centro de Arte y Naturaleza CDAN (Huesca), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León MUSAC (León) and Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno IVAM (Valencia).
The exhibition and residency project UOMA of the Finnish Institute in Madrid is part of the Oulu2026 Capital of Culture programme, bringing together artists and cultural actors from the Oulu2026 region and the Madrid municipality. Finnish artist Johanna Pöykkö spent the month of May at the ISLA residency in Robledo de Chavela, and in August it is her Spanish artist partner Lucía Loren´s turn to visit Finland. The project partner (artist selection, residencies) in Madrid is the cultural association Hug Culture. In 2025 the residencies will be the ISLA project (Robledo de Chavela, Spain), Artbreak AiR and KulttuuriKauppila (Ii, Finland). The selection of the Finnish artist was carried out in cooperation with the Oulu Artists’ Association.
@proyecto.uoma
Oulu2026 | madrid.fi (The Finnish Institute in Madrid´s webpage)
