During her stay in Ii she held an Artist talk where she described more of her art. You can watch the recording of the Artist talk on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKJeyjhma9c
During her stay in Ii she held an Artist talk where she described more of her art. You can watch the recording of the Artist talk on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKJeyjhma9c
“I find myself in a state of constant storytelling, re-entering time capsules from my childhood and being present at the same time – past, present and future stories entangling into one and other.”
Composer and sound artist Ilpo Jauhiainen is working on a long term music and sound art project that deals with forests.
phase along by ALINA SAKKO / ELISA SAKKO was produced for the Art Ii Biennial
Harri Pälvirantas residency was part of the Art Ii Biennial.
"Ii is a utopia for artists - a place to calm down and concentrate on your creative process. "
“My practise is like an exploration into joy, consolation, learning and making connections.”
“The places I have stayed, create layers of presence and ultimately a kind of layered space that then gets condensed into thinking and knowledge.”
“I identify as a sort of activist. I wish to draw attention to circumstances that are not entirely equal and issues that need to be addressed. Nature needs our attention and it needs to our advocacy.”
In practice body music can be anything from creating different sounds – including singing – to anything that creates rhythm.
“As a child I loved the stories of Nils Holgersson and his travels with the geese. Birds have always represented both strength and vulnerability for me.”
Anniina Lehtinen approaches the interconnectedness of humans and water and the wellbeing of the planet through performance and sound art.
“For me Art Therapy means inspecting your imagination, your feelings and growing self-knowledge and self-compassion. By searching your inner self and expressing your creativity, we all can become more whole as humans.”
In Ii Mari-Leen will continue her research on the paraller existence of nature and human constructions. She will study the power plants in river Ii and also the industrial institutions in the wider area.
When Maryna came to Ii, the news of the destruction of the Kahovka dam reached her. “These two rivers, the Dnepr and the River Ii, can be seen as parallel environments, the other in a peaceful corner in Europe the other in a war zone.”
"Caring human interaction can have the power to change people’s lives and it can help fight violence and repression.”
“People tend to feel better when there are trees around.”
Artist-in-Environment deals with our changing scenery.
February artist-in-residence is sculptor Tiina Vehkaperä from Oulu.
Time, stories and light in Ii
The first participant of KKAiE the environmental residency programme in KulttuuriKauppila Art Center is Romit Raj from Bangalore, India.
Hanna Husberg and Agata Marzecova conceptualize air and our relationship with it in their multidisciplinary project Towards Atmospheric Care as part of the Art Ii Biennial 2022.
KulttuuriKauppilas residency artists in October are Portuguese visual artists Maria Ferreira and Rita Isaac. Ferreira and Isaac have previously worked together in residencies, e.g. the Co-net residency in Spain.
Jane Higginbottom (UK) works with elements from the nature and in dialog with her surroundings.
Kotoaki Asano is a Japanese architect, artist, designer and poet.
Joana Quiroga is a Brazilian artist who combines science and art in her working.
Oriol Mora is a Catalan contemporary artist, who lives and works in Barcelona. Mora is devoted to painting, meanwhile he gets his inspiration from literature and nature. His paintings are often colourful and ironic.
Zeynep Kaynar is a multidisciplinary artist working with photography, painting, drawings, and installations.
Yunjia Liu is a Chinese artist and musician.
In Ii Mirte Bogaert and Menzo Kircz continued their shared project Other People.
Ella Holappa, Ella Posti and Alina Sakko are part of moï moï collective.
Sallamari Rantala is a Finnish visual artist working in North Finland and Lithuania.
Jaakko Autio is a Helsinki-based sound designer and sound artist.
During his residence period Manhattan-based Sjöman created a mural to Ii.
During her residency period in Ii, Smith held series of workshops on alternative photography techniques and presented her works at exhibition ‘’Printing Through the Landscape’’.
During his residency period in Ii, Helsinki-based photographer and author Aki-Pekka Sinikoski worked on a sound installation, photography series and two different book projects.
Andreja Krstić alias Chenipe is a Serbian artist whose work expands on three different artistic medias: murals/graffiti, canvases and sculptures.
Jaap Klevering and Merja Pennanen worked together on a communal art project for the local light festival.
Rita Dahl is a Finnish journalist, poet and author with wide experience in the field of literature.
Rovaniemi-based artist Miia Kettunen worked on her Landshapes –project in collaboration with the students of the Valtari School.
In her work American visual artist Victoria Veedell explores how colour and light affect space and the physical sense of place.
The works of Finnish visual artists Outi Koivisto focus on themes of landscape, perception and language.
During their residency period in Ii, the Moscow-based Russian artists Lia Schell and Anton Kraftsky continued the development of their shared project Asteroidea.
Aidan Moesby is a British artist, curator and writer, whose work is equally likely to be found beyond the gallery as within it.
Video performances of Tokio-based artist Yuko Kinouchi focus on the northern country's rural environment and culture.
Turkish artists returned to Ii to create Dream News with the participants of the Lähde! project!
Jaqs's work is born from the debate and the exchange between the action of randomness and the physical manipulation of human reasoning and its aesthetic, intuitive and communicative perception.
The visual expression of Spanish painter and photographer Hugo González Aroca arises from the balance between opposites.
Klara Bergman Fröberg is a Swedish visual artist, who was Artist-in-Residence at KulttuuriKauppila Art Centre as part of the Lähde! Empowering daily life with art -project and artist exchange arranged in partnership with Konst i Halland.
Canadian multidisciplinary artist Émilie Payeur developed during her residency period a sound performance based on her experience of the influence of weather and other changes in the surrounding forests.
During his KKAiC residency period, Mexican artist, actor, pantomime master, playwright and director Eduardo de Albar Vera worked with customers of mental health services on project ''Theatre to think''.
Scotland-based artist George Ridgway was working at KulttuuriKauppila as part of the North AiR: Expanding Entanglements residency pilot.
The work of Kevin Ling concerns community relationships, connection and a sense of curiosity.
During her KulttuuriKauppila Artist-in-Community residency period, Japanese composer and pianist Makiko Nishikaze is working on her project, Listening in Ii in collaboration with the residents of the Startti group home belonging to the Oulunkaari joint authority.
Through his KulttuuriKauppila Artist-in-Community residency period, Finnish visual and media artist Tuomo Kangasmaa aims to highlight the importance of personal experience, and to create space for multisensory experiencing of the environment.
Recidency artist of February Min Yoon from USA studied the identities of people from Ii for the performance Inner Mirror.
Räsänen and Alekseevna will develop an interactive audiovisual installation at KulttuuriKauppila Art Centre!
A big smile greets the customers of the Pudasjärvi library. The smile belongs to Hilma, an artwork created in the KK AIC program by artist Miia Kettunen and the local team!
The Suitcase radio gives voice to the mental health recuperators and the staff working with them. The completely self built Suitcase radio is the outcome of the social art residency (KK AIC) period of the artist Jaap Klevering.
Alberto Pina was inspired by the Finnish forest!
Brenda Petays was examining "becoming Finnish" during her residency period.
Cheryl J. Fish introduced the American literature to the locals!
María Platero is a Spanish photographer who led us to an art walk and a picnic!
THE KOKRA FAMILY makes visual documentations of wonderment about what you are looking at and why in that specific configuration.
Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen and Malte Steiner are artists from Denmark and Germany who specialize in media art and electronical music.
Maja Ingerslev is a visual artist who works with staged photography, video and papercut installations.
Sam Irwin is a multi media artist and composer from New York City.
KulttuuriKauppila and Lähde! –project welcomed artist Raquel Sacristan Fernàndez and producer Rafael Agudo Illán to Ii in the beginning of December 2017!
Iwona Rozbiewska, born in 1980, is from Zaścienie, Poland, and she has studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
Born and raised in Seoul, Korea, Eunjung Hwang, born in 1971, lives and works in New York City, USA.
Touko Hujanen, born in 1986, is a freelance photographer specialising in reportage.
Yuna Cho, born in 1993, is a Korean-Canadian artist and drawing and painting instructor currently living and working in Seoul, South Korea.
Antti Leino, born in 1976, is a freelance photographer based in Turku, Finland. He has been a professional photographer since 2016.
Leah Beeferman is an artist from New York City, and she was in Finland during 2016-2017 on a Fulbright Scholar Grant.
Ivana Radovanovic, born in 1983, is visual artist living in Podgorica and working in Cetinje in Montenegro.
The Japanese artist Masami Aihara, born in 1961, lives on the Japanese island of Hokkaido.
Aki-Pekka Sinikoski is known as a versatile portrait photographer whose work has been exhibited both in Finland and abroad.
Carola Grahn, born in 1982, is of South Sámi descent. She grew up in Jokkmokk and received a master’s degree in fine arts from the Royal Institute of Art in Sweden in 2013.
Matti Aikio, born in 1980, comes from Vuotso, a small reindeer-herding Sámi village in northern Finland.
Anders Sunna, born in 1985, grew up in Kiruna. He lives and works in Jokkmokk, Sweden.
Emma Wippermann is a writer based in NYC. She works in text and images, often incorporating smartphone photos and screenshots into her writing, which is primarily concerned with ecology, desire, and queer digital intimacy.
Iryna Vorona, born in 1987, is an artist born and working in Ukraine.
Anna Yamanishi’s master’s degree is from the Kyoto City University of Arts and she has presented her works in Japan both in solo and group exhibitions.
Trained as a historian, Ruth Timmermans started as a researcher at the University of Leuven in Belgium, studying gender, trade-unions and colonialism.
Defne Tesal and Murat Yildiz are visual artists living and working in Istanbul, Turkey.
The visual artist Emily Little was born in Paraparaumu, New Zealand, and she studied in Scotland, graduating from Edinburgh College of Arts. She currently lives and works in Rome.