Soul Camp refers to both a camp outside of permanent housing and the attitude with which I highlight content in my paintings. Soul Camp is an attitude through which a dystopian future turns into a utopia. It helps me deal with a situation where the frames of an old way…

The exhibition features a couple of reconstructions, a few proposals for a memorial and “dirty laundry”. My works are made of wood. I have used found and stored wood as well as wood salvaged from a landfill. I have also recycled some of my old works.

The starting points for Camilla Mihkelsoo’s solo exhibition Other lives are Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein (1818) and the thoughts of various ghosts and moving in time inspired by the novel. Ghosts are usually seen as a metaphor for something that existed or happened in the past, but they can also…

Accept the grief.Accept the pain.Accept the loneliness and the broken heart.Let the grief sweep over you like a wave. Over, until it rises again.Breathe.Breathe.Everything is here.It Is What It Is came into being when I was widowed three years ago. I started to examine grief. I noticed that grief is …

In the animation Spirit – Mother – Daughter, the gestures of turning, being face to face and exposure are repeated. The name of the animation refers to the views of the French philosopher Luce Irigaray. Irigaray proposes an alternative, feminine conception of god to exist alongside the masculine projection that…

A dented plastic bottle, half-full of water, was washed ashore. I held the bottle at eye level and looked at the horizon through its dented surface. When the water surface inside the bottle was level with the horizon, it felt as if I was holding a small piece of the…

My sculpture installation Everyone Has Their Own Sound was inspired by a memory of a trip to Asia during the rainy season. I stayed in a bamboo hut and as it got dark, I heard a strange sound that became louder. It sounded a bit like a didgeridoo concert. I…

Cykles is a performative and participatory event. Various cycles gradually appear on the structures of the gallery space. Yours, mine and ours. Merging, expanding and contracting in the ever-changing flow

Last Night I Dreamed of ChickensJack Prelutsky, 1940Last night I dreamed of chickens,there were chickens everywhere,they were standing on my stomach,they were nesting in my hair,they were pecking at my pillow,they were hopping on my head,they were ruffling up their feathersas they raced about my bed.They were on the chairs …

The Need installation deals with the need for an accepting human touch. Touch is one of our first experiences in life, and the lack of touch is one of the most harmful things to an individual. The exhibition constructs a landscape where the lack of touch makes one build something…

“François Jacob once aptly wrote that evolution does not work like an engineer, but rather like a tinkerer pottering around in the garage. Living creatures are full of haphazardly adapted solutions, design flaws, unnecessary details and other funny things. That is exactly what makes them so fascinating.” ¹For me biodiversity …

The exhibition features works that are linked to memories and thoughts about my father. The works do not tell a coherent story or serve as documentation of the past. They try to capture feelings and images, perhaps forming a portrait of the atmosphere.

Taru Happonen’s solo exhibition “Other-than-human” examines the environment from the perspective of a creature that is visiting Earth for the first time. Humans and their creations will then not stand out from the rest of the environment. Instead, buildings and traffic signs blend in with the plants and the skeletons…

At the beginning I need an inspiration, a spark to create new. During the work, whether it was drawing, printmaking, sculpture or other, works seem to find their own world. Only after the work or exhibition is finished, reveals what it was all about. This is how the story of …

My work usually takes place in two phases. First, I place myself in the situation of the painting I will be working on and outline the situation by photographing it. For years, my need to experience the situations depicted in the paintings physically with my body has been an important …