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Next year will be a blast!

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Loca Lump @ Jyväskylän taidemuseo. With Jonna Suurhasko.

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my work at "Experimental cinema and moving images week" festival, that will be organised in Kirkenes, Norway, 19-24 May 2025.

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Where do you come from, where do you belong?

Time: 12 March 2025 Place: Konttori, Cable Factory, Tallberginkatu 1, Helsinki

Video screening times: at 14:00, and at 17:00. Evening screening includes also conversation with artists.

Video screening Where do you come from, where do you belong? is a joint event by Finnish Jewellery Art Association, South Karelia Artists' Association and Artists’ Association MUU at the Cable Factory in March 2025.

The artists in the event are: Elisa Alaluusua, Valentina Gelain, Maja Jantar, Leena Kela, Ninni Korkalo, Leena Pukki, Irina Raski & Teemu Heikkinen, Anna Rikkinen, Hanna Ryynänen, Jukka Silokunnas, Nelli Tanner, Heli Valkama.

The video screening is a review of video art and also a sales event. It is organized alongside Finnish Jewellery Art Association’s Art Sale event, and Sales event of the Finnish Painters’ Union.*

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Out of the ruins of a paper mill, the new Kangas district rises, one building at a time. Kangas Revisited is a multifaceted portrayal by seven photographic artists capturing a historic area in the midst of transformation. This work continues the Kangas project, begun a decade ago, which documents the area’s transition from a century-old paper mill complex to a residential neighborhood.

For a year and a half, artists Mikko Auerniitty, Nina Huisman, Matti Häyrynen, Kapa, Susanna Kääntä, Mika Nykänen, and Jukka Silokunnas observed and interpreted the Kangas area. Some viewed it from a distance, while others focused on fine details, and still others raised their cameras high to capture the landscape from above: architecture, wastelands, abandoned signs, mounds of gravel, passersby, faces of the district, tags, the beauty of movement, dry humor… Fascinating glimpses of transformation.

Kangas Revisited is the 35th-anniversary work of the Centre for Creative Photography and the second installment in the project documenting changes in the Kangas area. The exhibition will be open at the Aalto2 Museum Centre until February 16, 2025. The Kangas Revisited book will be published on the opening day, December 13, continuing the series begun by Kangas Metamorphosis, released in 2014. The next, and possibly final, installment of the project will be released in 2034.

Photographer and visual artist Jukka Silokunnas (BFA) captures unauthorized art as part of the public art of the Kangas district. His photographs document graffiti, tags, and street art culture, exploring the question, “What kind of dialogue exists between public and unauthorized art?”

Dance photographer Matti Häyrynen (MSc Econ., VAT) brings dance-oriented perspectives to his images, reimagining the ways spaces can be perceived. Empty spaces, the forms and movement inside and outside buildings, set the rhythm for dance.

Kapa (Martti Kapanen) observes and even laughs at the advertising slogans of the Kangas district. His images, which continue the tradition of architectural photography, reveal small, intriguing elements amid a massive, imposing environment.

Nina Huisman (MA), a visual artist and media arts expert, and Mika Nykänen (MA, MedEAT) explore how place and people intersect in the landscape. Their aerial images depict Kangas and its residents in a vertical dimension, as Kangas embodies time through history and people. The old factory buildings stand alongside new apartment buildings, which in turn comment on the past through their appearance and materials. History lives on, manifesting in the present and reaching towards the future.

Mikko Auerniitty (MA) draws from Romantic-era aesthetics in his work, capturing images filled with light and a sense of humanity within the area. Auerniitty imbues his images with emotion and faith in the power of imagination.

Susanna Kääntä creates portraits of Kangas residents in their homes, workplaces, or places of study. Her individual portraits form a mosaic of faces that together represent the spirit of Kangas.

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I love when this happens. For some reason my Ice pick kind of demolition tool is a perfect device and a perfect color match for stabbing this ultrasonic penguin humidifier into the abyss and beyond!

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Local Block. Summer 2024 @ Jyväskylän taidemuseo.

Jonna Suurhasko - Jukka Silokunnas.

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Sneak peak of https://aalto2.museum/en/kangas-revisited/

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I have been collecting forsaken, stranded, dumped and ditched pylons for about 15 years and what a ride it has been... here is a little snippet of some test screens for ready made stop motion animations I have been doing lately.

"In special and general relativity, a light cone (or "null cone") is the path that a flash of light, emanating from a single event (localized to a single point in space and a single moment in time) and traveling in all directions, would take through spacetime."

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Studio times with almost 300 friends.

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I was asked to paint a graffiti from 2005 from the local night club Blaze for the Pääkaupunki rap exhibiton in the capital of central Finland museum. I spent a lot of time in Blaze when I was young. We usually had to be on the dance floor all night, even if you had to wake up early in the morning and go to school.

When I started to sketch the graffiti I remembered that Hardcore was one of the best cans at the time and it would have been most likely be used in this graffiti. I carefully looked at the hardocre color chart and ordered paints that were as close as possible to the originals. To my delight, I realized that the tone map has not changed at all over the years. I sketched the old graffiti and slightly modified its scale to fit it in the agreed space.

While I was painting the graffiti I often thought of Vilkki, the original painter of graffiti. I didn't know him then but now when I tried to imitate his thoughts as closely as possible I had the pleasure of getting to know him through graffiti. I analyzed the form of the letters and hand movements of his graffiti and I was very emotional during the process. My heart filled with respect and feeling of being on the wall together with Vilkki was very special. It was relaxing to let my body move in the lines drawn by another painter.

When the graffiti was finally finished I was relieved that it looked original enough. But I was more happy that I got to walk in another person's shoes for a while. Thank you Vilkki.

When we hang the work on the wall it still didn't look finished. It needed music and people around it. And at the opening of the Pääkaupunki exhibition, I took a picture of the graffiti and people enjoying the rap concert with my old digital camera and then I knew that the circle had closed.

Time is an illusion.

Go and check the exhibition. It is open untill 5.1.2025 so you have plenty of time

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Lähde @ Galleria Rajatila. 10.–27.8.2024

Go and check out my installation "respiration" among other cool stuff! (pile of junk in the middle)

Artist are;

Rauha Aaltonen Senni Aleksandra Eira Enkvist Vera Enkvist Henriikka Hietaniemi Mia Huu Niina Kiiveri Laura Laurila Jukka Silokunnas Paananen & Ulvila Johanna Vilen

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After each destroy breaking and disassembling I always feel being a little closer of void.

For me the void is not a mental space, but a timeless time where there is no material.

The atoms that kept my actions and thoughts together have dissolved and the consciousness of infinity has faded into annihilation.

There are no ruins of mind or structures from which to return to this very moment.

Only the stationary present moment without witnesses.

There is no infinity without a spectator.

Thank you for the photo Niina Wehmaa.

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Making of "the piano"

Thank you for the photo Niina Vehmaa.

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Non permanent permanence.