Mia Seppälä
Basic information
Visual artist, Doctoral candidate, teacher
Residence: Helsinki
Contact information
Email: mikuseppala@gmail.com
Artist’s Statement
I am Helsinki-based visual artist and doctoral candidate at The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki, from where I also completed MFA degree 2017. My artistic practice takes place through the means of photography, printed and moving imagery, as well as participatory art. For the past several years, my artistic activities have been oriented towards acts embedded in public settings for individual people, or as workshops and practice demonstrations for larger groups. Central to them has been the consideration of present reality through pictorial illustration. Alongside this, I have participated in exhibitions and events both in Finland and internationally.
My works builds on existing structures, formats and established procedures. They may be identifiable and ordinary, but sometimes they are concealed and harder to discern. Through my work, I explore how the circumstances of the place and situation affect the shape of the piece. What's central to that is asking is what art really is and how is it done? What's possible about art?
My works builds on existing structures, formats and established procedures. They may be identifiable and ordinary, but sometimes they are concealed and harder to discern. Through my work, I explore how the circumstances of the place and situation affect the shape of the piece. What's central to that is asking is what art really is and how is it done? What's possible about art?
Current information
The Narratives of Finland - Historical Culture, the Arts and Changing Nationality / The artistic part https://suomentarinat.fi/taiteellinen-osuus/
https://historianswithoutborders.fi/suomalaisuuden-myytteja-ja-symboleita/
Überhund – Fascinating Dogs of Art Jyväskylä Art Museum 26.5.-1.10.2023.
KUVAN TUTKIMUSPÄIVÄT 2022 / KUVA RESEARCH DAYS 2022
INTERIM-exhibition 16.-22.12.,11-19 / Mia Seppälä, Salla Myllylä and Nanni Vapaavuori
& Midsummer Night goes Sörnäinen at Winter Solstice, Wednesday 21 December 2022
INTERIM is a brief exhibition by three doctoral researchers in the darkest time of the year, between university terms, in White Studio, the hybrid space in the main building of the Academy of Fine Arts. The exhibition is open for one week 16.-22.12.2022, 11-19. Welcome! Read more about the exhibition here.
ÜBERHUND –the fascinating dogs of art
September 24th 2022 – January 8th 2023 https://salontaidemuseo.fi/en/visit/
Suomen Valokuvataiteen museo – Finnish Museum of Photography 12.5.2022 – 28.8.2022 Valokuvan paradoksit – Paradoxes of photography The international exhibition “Paradoxes of Photography”, deals with the knowledge based and experiential dimensions of photography from artistic and research perspectives. Curated exhibition is implemented in collaboration with the Academy of Finland-funded research project “Postdigital Epistemologies of Photography” (2019-22) and the Finnish Museum of Photography. info: https://www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi/en/exhibitions/paradoxes-photography https://www.researchcatalogue.net/portal/announcement?announcement=1628510
