Summer 2023 – The Old Harbour Art Trail
For the first time an Environmental Art Trail is realised in Jakobstad, which brings together a number of prominent, International artists. The artworks are created outdoors in the Old Harbour area, with material found in the forest, by the seashore, or other (purchased) environmentally friendly materials. Some artworks will stay in the forest for many years, and the nature will slowly change their appearance, while other works have a short lifespan.
AUGUST 2023
The press is talking about us:
Österbottens Tidning August 17th 2023
Torggata blad nr3, Autumn 2023
VEIKKO BJÖRK is a visual artist working with environmental art, sculptures and installations. He is based in Helsinki, Finland. In his environmental artworks he tries to blur the confrontation between man and nature. Through art, he seeks opportunities to be part of the everythingness, respecting other species and without destroying the environment. In previous art works, he criticised the frenzy of human destruction of the environment. In contemporary environmental artworks, the joy of participation and sharing has become central. Artist interview and more images.
SALLY KIDALL travels internationally creating her vast site-responsive conceptual interventions within challenging outdoor locations and buildings of interest, showing beyond the restraints of the gallery. She explores metaphorical spaces and environments that engage with the anxieties and insecurities of our contemporary society. She endeavour to inspire and challenge a wider audience, evoking thoughts/questions and stimulating discussion. The majority of her works are temporary and often incorporate virtual and narrative elements. Artist interview and more images.
THOMAS MAY, is the founder and director of the Grassblade Institute, with which he researches the relationship between humans and grass. Since 2000 he has been asking people around the world to carve a blade of grass out of a wooden stick for his Grassblade project in order to create a cross-cultural image of this simple but fascinating plant. With his interventions in nature, Thomas May maintains a comfortable distance from nature, even if he mostly realizes projects in it. He exposes his objects to the influence of constant changes by elements such as light, wind, and so on. In their transience, they show the power and beauty of our world in a fascinating way, but also ask fundamental questions about life and death. Artist interview and more images.
PIRKO JULIA SCHRÖDER‘s photographic works, she documents and transfers places and objects. Space, time, transience are themes that she works on, starting from the everyday and leaving them to the individual perception of the viewer. It’s all about traces. About reading the signs that people and animals have left behind. What can this tell us about a place? Structures and phenomena created by humans are the field of Pirko Julia Schröder’s artistic research using the media of photography, video and space. She does not stay in the frame on the wall in her photography, but usually installs photograps site specifically. Artist interview and more images.
JULY 2023
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Österbottens Tidning July 19th 2023
Österbottens Tidning July 4th 2023
AMARSAIKHAN NAMSRAIJAV‘s Nomadic project started in 2009. Through nomadic culture and life style he is trying to spread ideas on how to live in harmony with mother nature, and how to live nature friendly in the future. Mongolian historic nomadic traditions, heritage and culture was in a good harmony and relation with earth and sky, mountains and rivers, and all surroundings through the cycling of the four seasons. Embracing and keeping this nomadic tradition alive, and introducing, spreading it to the world, is the main aim Amarsaikhan Namsraijav’s Nomadic project. Artist interview and more images.
CHIA-HUI LUO is a contemporary artist from Taiwan who has been dedicated to painting and site-specific installations for many years. Her works over the years present emotional fragments that are often overlooked in life through the vocabulary of the materials themselves, with spatial installations using mixed media as the main medium. In her past creations, she often integrates woven strings related to her own memories of growing up into specific sites, and combines local objects to create various mixed art scenes. Artist interview and more images.
July 18-30, 2023
Pedersörenejdens hembygdsmuseum / Pedersören kotiseutumuseo
JUNE 2023
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Österbottens Tidning June 9th 2023
Pietarsaaren Sanomat June 14th 2023
In 1990 HELINÄ HUKKATAIVAL began to focus on performance art and later expanded her repertoire to cover photography, video art, and installations as well. In her works, she usually deal with life seen through a woman’s eyes. Despite their usual, everyday starting points, the inner logic of the works is surprising, perhaps even dreamlike, and they are open to the viewer’s interpretations. She is trying to find the general level, in personal experiences by highlighting small events, tones and relationships that shape us without noticing. Helinä Hukkataival received the Finnish State Award for Visual Arts in 2004. Artist interview and more images.
UTE RITSCHEL is a German Curator, Cultural Anthropologist and Eat Art Performer and Artist. Since 1995 curator of the biannual exhibition „Vogelfrei – Art in Privat Gardens“ in Darmstadt. Since 2002 curator of the International Forest Art Association in Darmstadt and organiser of 16 “Forest Art Path” symposiums in Germany, USA, China and Austria. Founder of the „Centre for Performance Studies“ (ZPS) and the „Centre of Art and Nature“(ZKN). Her curatorial work includes Art in Nature, Sustainable Art, Performance Art and Eat-Art-projects. Since 1999 producing “ArtTables”, a series of performative dinners, creating Food Performances and lectures, since 2014 creating Food Photography always using the idea of artistic fieldwork and mapping the terrain. Artist interview and more images.
APRIL 2023
Saturday, April 15, 4:00 p.m
Luckan, Georgsgatan 27, Helsinki
Meet the Authors, ELLEN STRÖMBERG, PETER SANDSTRÖM and PHILIP TEIR.
