Category: Public Art

Piiloleikki / OnSiteStories

Piiloleikki a project started by Oona Tikkaoja in 2011. It produces a continuously growing art piece: local art-paths, which are made of sculptural marks made by different participants and combined to a network via a digital map. The marks can be casted in bronze, 3D printed or they can be immaterial stories, which will be…

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Apilaniitty / The Clover Meadow

Apilaniitty (2018) is a public sculpture at the yard of a kindergarten in Laitila, Finland made together with sculptor Ann Sundholm. The clover sculptures are 250-300 cm tall, and there will be a meadow of red and white clovers planted around the sculptures. The sculpture was published in 2018, but the plants need couple of…

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Portaali / Portal

A proposal for an art competition in Redi, Helsinki 2017.This sculpture was not implemented. Teoksen esittelymateriaali (in Finnish)

Helix

Helix is a public sculpture commissioned by the city of Espoo for a new hospital building opening on 2017.

Out of the Blue

Site-specific installation in the Objekti 2016 exhibition in the center of Espoo, Finland // Taped images of fish on the windows of the corridor of Espoo station. // Video interview (in Finnish) Photos: Pekka Tallqvist  

PaPu – Playable Sculpture

2015-16 Playground sculpture in Kupittaa park / Turku, Finland. Commissioned by the city of Turku. Collaborating artists: Jan-Erik Andersson, Eero Merimaa, Jani Rättyä, Ann Sundholm, Oona Tikkaoja. The playground sculpture was planned as an open co-operation process with 5 Turku-based artists and the (child) residents of the city. More information (in Finnish): https://www.facebook.com/patsaspuistoturku

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2014 Installation with variable measures. Aluminium, acrylic, polycarbonate, plywood. Photos from Mänttä Art Festival, Finland 2014.

Killer Robot

Textile sculpture, part of the series Killer Robot vs. Robot Killer. Height 300 cm Originally exhibited in gallery Sculptor, Helsinki 2005. Participated  10/2015 – 2/2016 in the Amos Platform programme in the Forum shopping center in Helsinki, which is a co-operation project of  Amos Anderson Art Museum and the shopping center).    

Unelma

Daydream 2012 Public, movable sculpture. Commission of the Helsinki Art Museum. Located in Siltasaarenkatu, Helsinki 12-13 and Sitratori, Helsinki 13 –

Riutta

2009 Public sculpture in a school in Arabianranta, Helsinki, Finland. Commission of the Helsinki Art Museum. Acryl, aluminium & steel.

Personality Development of an Arcturan Intellect

“Arcturuslaisen Intellektuellin Persoonallisuuskehitys” Exhibition trilogy, which was exhibited 2007 in the galleries Jangva, Kaapeli & Rantakasarmi in Helsinki, Finland. Every exhibition showed one phase of the development of an imaginary alien species. There was an interactive web story running on background and updating real-time, providing extra information.

Textile Sculptures

During the years 2003 – 2006 I worked mainly by sewing. I made a collection of textile creatures, robots and human figures, which were often exhibited as installation including lightning and sound.