Anna-Lea Kopperi

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b. 1960, Kitee

Visual Artist, Sculptor, Conceptual Artist, Media Artist, Performance Artists, Installation Artist, Public Artist, Environmental Artist, Installation Artist, Land Artist

Residence: Helsinki

Artist’s Statement

In my artworks, I shed light on the relations between the environmental space and the human space. I form reality through light, space, material, order and participation. I combine my own experiences and perceptions of spaces with existentially essential questions like life and death, time and continuity.

My recent environmental or land-art projects and interactive social works contain conceptual interpretations of the current situation. I build new synthesis from the materials and resources of the places, where the aesthetic and conceptual meanings unite. I aim to introduce environment’s own ecological information to people’s everyday life and surrounding. The works are comprehensive visual and vocal sensations that stimulate all senses.

I locate my ephemeral, disappearing installations and permanent sculptures within the spiritual and historical context of the site in question. I select the materials and minimal acts that bring my own personal perspective to the space through a silent and focused thinking process. My site-specific sculptures and installations are homages for light, thinking and architecture.

The process is the key in my interactive, social works. The content and the ways of working derive from the resources of the participants. In the social processes, people of different ages and cultural backgrounds work on personal and current themes. This participatory happening aims at altering the thinking and the environment of the participants.

Anna-Lea Kopperi

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Current information

Net of Dreams, participatory installation, Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki, 2019

Isle of Dreams, 56^thVenice Biennale, participatory environmental work http://www.annelisezwez.ch/2015/20-years-nine-dragon-heads-venice-biennale-2015/

Room of Feelings, participatory exhibition http://www.seinajoki.fi/ajankohtaista/tiedotteet/2018/04/T8G6NsXQh.html.stx http://www.annantalo.fi/fi/tapahtumat/event/E2C445ED2087EA8EFF4FDDA46407F560/Anna-Lea_Kopperi__Tunnetila

Room of Angels, Venice, Within Light / Inside Glass http://www.contessanally.blogspot.am/2015/02/venice-palazzo-loredan-within-light.html

Mother Armenia,public exchange happening, Yerevan
http://www.idhr.am/en/mother-armenia-art-happening

Change Your Mind, Questions and Answers, Changing the Earth, Artisterium – Tbilisi International Contemporary Art Exhibition and Art Events, Georgia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6jTAhzU4WE

Dream Nests, Our Father, participatory installations, Helsinki
www.laruart.com/fi/artists/anna-lea-kopperi/

Plants for Free -performances, Finland – India – Armenia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=794cnRY_wbA&feature=share&fb_source=message

Mountain in my Head, solo exhibition, Yerevan
https://www.accea.info/en/anna-lea-kopperi

http://photopirate.blogspot.com/2012/05/mountain-in-my-head.html

Works from the artist

Name of the work: Tunnetila / Room of Feelings, Seinäjoen taidehalli

Name of the work: Tunnemuodot / Forms of Feelings, Seinäjoen taidehalli

Name of the work: Tunnetila / Room of Feelings, Helsinki

Name of the work: Unelmien saari / Isle of Dreams, 56th Venice Biennale

Name of the work: Change Your Mind, Tbilisi

Name of the work: Kysymyksiä ja vastauksia / Questions and Answers, Tbilisi

Name of the work: Room of Angels, Palazzo Loredan, Venice

Name of the work: Mirrors of Times, Lisbon

Name of the work: Mirrors in Space, Bergen

Name of the work: Isä meidän / Our Father, Helsinki

Name of the work: Mother Armenia, Yerevan

Name of the work: Changing the Earth, Tbilisi

Name of the work: Show Your Mountain, Yerevan

Name of the work: Onnellisten ideoiden kollektiivinen kokoelma / Collective Collection of Happy Ideas

Name of the work: Ajatushissi / Thought Lift, Helsinki

Name of the work: Plants for Free, Helsinki

Name of the work: Plants for Free, Yerevan

Name of the work: Plants for Free, Kochi, India

Name of the work: Across the Air, Kochi, India

Name of the work: Käymme yhdessä ain’ / We will always walk together, Raisio

Name of the work: Kehon tuolla puolen / Beyond the Body, Helsinki

Name of the work: Läpi harmaan kiven / Through the grey stone, Helsinki

Name of the work: Kalliolle kukkulalle / To the Rock, To the Hill, Kouvola

Name of the work: Jämpsän kivet / Stones of Jämpsä

Name of the work: Souckis on my Mind, Espoo

Name of the work: rakastan / I love, Espoo

Name of the work: Ihmisen jälki / Trace of Man, Helsinki

Name of the work: Vastatuuleen / In Headwind, Helsinki

Name of the work: Keinutauko / Hammock break, Helsinki

Name of the work: Soutaja – Viimeinen matka, Rower – The Last Voyage, Helsinki

Bio

Anna-Lea Kopperi is internationally known for her interactive and environmental works as well as for her public sculptures. At the 56^thVenice Biennale she implemented her participatory artwork Isle of Dreams together with the primary school children of Murano. Kopperi’s works have been exhibited in Europe and Asia since the early 1990s.

Recent participatory exhibitions are Net of Dreams at Didrichsen Art Museum Sculpture Park in Helsinki 2019, Room of Feelings at Seinäjoki Art Hall 2018 and at Annantalo Arts Centre in Helsinki 2016 as well as public exchange happening Mother Armenia in Yerevan 2014-16. Kopperi’s installations Mirrors of Times and Room of Angels were exposed at Within Light / Inside Glass exhibitions in Lisbon and Venice, Change Your Mind at Artisterium International Art Exhibition and Art Events in Tbilisi, Georgia, as well as Embrazing the Chestnut Tree was exposed parallel to Documenta X Exhibition in Kassel, Germany.

The environmental artwork Silent Site of Kopperi was awarded a Prize by the Finnish State Art Commission 2013. The communal artwork Pictures of Feelings on the Life Circle was realized with children and old people at Omakoti Foundation in Helsinki 2012-15 and interactive sculpture Feelings Motorway in Kindergarten Otava 2007-09.

Kopperi's works are in public collections of different countries. Her permanent sculptures have been erected around Europe, e.g. Bio Chain in Biocentre of Helsinki University, Pointillistic Bridge in Imatra and granite sculpture Together in Vejby, Denmark.

The artist studied in Finland, France and Germany, and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf 1996.