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About
I am a Finnish visual artist and designer. In these galleries, you will find both original visual art and element-based works designed to be creatively integrated into built spaces. We emphasize a human-centered process and ecological values. In element art, the materials are carefully chosen to serve the space, enhancing both acoustics and light.
Work
MeWeArt - In the Power of Nature 2024-2025
MeWeArt – In the Power of Nature was a community art project that wove together traditional Ostrobothnian craft heritage, recycled materials, and large-scale collaborative artworks. At its core were the elements that shape life on the coast: the sea, shifting sand, and the force of natural extremes. These themes guided both the making and the experiential nature of the project, grounding participants in the rhythm and unpredictability of their environment.
Storm-like painting sessions, held outdoors and often in direct dialogue with weather, were once again captured through Marja Haapakangas’s video works and complemented by sound compositions created by Ville Palin. Together, these moving-image and sonic impressions formed an atmospheric archive of the project’s emotional and elemental landscape.
A key moment of the project unfolded in an immersive workshop at the museum yard of K.H. Renlund’s Museum in Kokkola, where participants worked collectively on heirloom linen sheets passed down through generations. This act connected the past to the present, merging inherited domestic traditions with contemporary communal expression.
The community artworks will continue to evolve through wild, expressive embroidery created together with local children and seniors, expanding the project’s reach across ages and experiences. Throughout the process, natural colors held a significant role, linking the artworks materially and symbolically to their environment.
The project included dozens of workshops highlighting craft skills and resulted in two exhibitions: one in Kalajoki and one in Kokkola.
MeWeArt – In the Power of Nature stands as a celebration of shared making, ecological awareness, and the potency of tradition transformed through community.
Storm-like painting sessions, held outdoors and often in direct dialogue with weather, were once again captured through Marja Haapakangas’s video works and complemented by sound compositions created by Ville Palin. Together, these moving-image and sonic impressions formed an atmospheric archive of the project’s emotional and elemental landscape.
A key moment of the project unfolded in an immersive workshop at the museum yard of K.H. Renlund’s Museum in Kokkola, where participants worked collectively on heirloom linen sheets passed down through generations. This act connected the past to the present, merging inherited domestic traditions with contemporary communal expression.
The community artworks will continue to evolve through wild, expressive embroidery created together with local children and seniors, expanding the project’s reach across ages and experiences. Throughout the process, natural colors held a significant role, linking the artworks materially and symbolically to their environment.
The project included dozens of workshops highlighting craft skills and resulted in two exhibitions: one in Kalajoki and one in Kokkola.
MeWeArt – In the Power of Nature stands as a celebration of shared making, ecological awareness, and the potency of tradition transformed through community.
MeWeArt Forest Experience 2021-2022
The Forest Experience was a two-year art project that received funding from the Central Ostrobothnia Cultural Foundation in 2021. The project focused on creating community-based art walks in Europe’s burned forests: spaces marked by loss, renewal, and the quiet resilience of nature. Through these immersive journeys, participants were invited to reflect on the relationship between humans and damaged landscapes, and on how walking itself can become a form of artistic expression.
Alongside dozens of workshops exploring the aesthetics of walking, the project resulted in four exhibitions held in Kalajoki, Teijo, Oulu, and Kuopio. These exhibitions shared the sensory, poetic, and documentary traces gathered in the charred forests, offering viewers a contemplative encounter with both destruction and rebirth.
During the project, meaningful collaborations emerged with visual and video artist Marja Haapakangas and wisdom researcher Jenni Spännäri, each bringing their own unique perspectives to the artistic and philosophical dimensions of the work.
The project also opened new technical pathways for Sanna-Mari: painting with fire, natural charcoal and wood carving became important methods, ways of working that echoed the materials, stories, and transformations witnessed in the field.
The Forest Experience stands as a testament to art’s ability to walk with the world’s wounds and invite others to walk alongside.
Alongside dozens of workshops exploring the aesthetics of walking, the project resulted in four exhibitions held in Kalajoki, Teijo, Oulu, and Kuopio. These exhibitions shared the sensory, poetic, and documentary traces gathered in the charred forests, offering viewers a contemplative encounter with both destruction and rebirth.
During the project, meaningful collaborations emerged with visual and video artist Marja Haapakangas and wisdom researcher Jenni Spännäri, each bringing their own unique perspectives to the artistic and philosophical dimensions of the work.
The project also opened new technical pathways for Sanna-Mari: painting with fire, natural charcoal and wood carving became important methods, ways of working that echoed the materials, stories, and transformations witnessed in the field.
The Forest Experience stands as a testament to art’s ability to walk with the world’s wounds and invite others to walk alongside.
MeWeArt Young Talent 2026-2027
The MeWeArt Young Talent project supports emerging artists and designers as they explore their own creative voice in a changing world.
It offers a space to learn, experiment, and grow within the MeWeArt community, where art, architecture, and sustainable thinking meet.
During 2026–2027, the project focuses on the shifting order of the world, developing a strong personal expression, and creating dialogue between different works through form and colour.
Participants will explore how art can reflect emotion, transformation, and the times we live in, turning individual visions into a shared story.
The project will culminate in two exhibitions, one in Finland and one abroad, showcasing the next generation of MeWeArt creators and their interpretations of the future of art and space.
It offers a space to learn, experiment, and grow within the MeWeArt community, where art, architecture, and sustainable thinking meet.
During 2026–2027, the project focuses on the shifting order of the world, developing a strong personal expression, and creating dialogue between different works through form and colour.
Participants will explore how art can reflect emotion, transformation, and the times we live in, turning individual visions into a shared story.
The project will culminate in two exhibitions, one in Finland and one abroad, showcasing the next generation of MeWeArt creators and their interpretations of the future of art and space.
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