Hunajanjyvä, Kivikenkä –– group exhibition

Raimo Ahlqvist is a retired former carpenter from Kauhajoki.

"I have been making chainsaw and other woodcarvings for about five years. My work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at Hella gallery and this summer also at Alpon Savanni. I got inspired to make the sculpture while watching Youtube videos. I have always liked art."


Lenka Černota is a Czech visual artist based in Prague, Czech Republic. She works primarily with mixed media painting, drawing, video, and animation. Her work is a kaleidoscopic study of the perception of human and non-human animals. Černota’s methodology is divided into site-specific research (in the forest in Beskydy mountain, Adršpach mountains) and studio practice based in Prague. Her work is part draws on collaborations with scientists, zoologists, anthropologists and wolf tracks. During her doctoral studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague she developed a new method of looking. She paints under reduced visibility conditions, she determines  the darkness as if it’s a body. She tries to approach the perception of beasts. She holds PhD from the Technical University of Ostrava in environmental engineering. Černota is currently studying a PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. The largest solo exhibition to date has taken place in Prague (2020 Bold Gallery, Pragovka Gallery) and in regional gallery in Jihlava (2023). In 2022 she was invited to an international colloquium between forest, countryside and city, in Slovakia. In 2023 she participated in an artist residency at Vartiosaari Artists Ry, Helsinki, Finland.

In the woods till 1 a.m. last night.

Night view regroups.

Disorientation.

I'm going by the spots, the shape of the spots.

Musk deer.

My territory is staked out by the image.

Stay a minute longer.

Hungry.


Monika Czyżyk (she,they) is a Polish visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. She works primarily with dirty media: moving images, VR within the context of experimental documentaries and socially engaged projects. She collects clay from a variety of places and uses it to create spiritually driven clay window paintings. Her ongoing body of work expands upon a form of techno-sublime aesthetic, exploring human and non-human scales, sonic disruptions, impossible landscapes, and ungraspable truths. 

Czyżyk obtained her MFA in Time and Space Department at University of the Arts Helsinki and in painting at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Her work has been shown in exhibitions and festivals including Malmö Konstmuseum (2024), Sequences Biennial, Reykjavik (2023), Sinne Gallery, Helsinki (2023), Württemberhisher Kunstverein, Stuttgart (2023), Floating University, Berlin (2023), Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki (2022), Bilsart, Istanbul (2022), The Ann Arbob Film Festival, Michigan (2021), The Zacheta National Gallery, Warsav (2019), C5 Art Space Beijing (2019), The New Media Society, Tehran (2019), African Artist Foundation Lagos (2018), The Wro Biennale, Wroclaw (2017) and at Uniondocs, New York (2016). She was a fellow at Iaspis, Malmö (2024), Akademie Schloss Solitude, Studio & Research Residency Siena, Amant Foundation 2021, and Institute for Provocation, Beijing, 2019. She has started Vartisaari Artist Ry and is a part of a collective – Nomadic Kiln Group.

Hunajanjyvä is an artist-led curatorial entity, platform and art event founded by Sadet Hirsimäki and Eero Pulkkinen, which organises exhibitions, events and projects in different locations, cities and villages, making space for sensible structures to emerge from under the heavy weight of institutional constraints.Hunajanjyvä is not meant to become something static, but to live in different times, situations and encounters.

7ODES (b. 1996, Paris). “I'm a French and Finnish artist working between Paris, Helsinki and Ivalo in Finnish Lapland. I graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris School in 2020. 7ODES is my artistic identity. 7ODES is codes, I use the seven to write a sign close to the ancient phoenician letter gimel, which comes from the drawing of a camel’s neck, later transformed into gamma, the ancestor of C. 7ODES states my choice to deepen art’s inherent purpose. To create and perpetually renew languages, in all their varying forms. I do it to share, through multidimensional discussions. 


Ilia Ollikainen is a multidisciplinary artist based in Helsinki.

Currently their practice is focused on combining sound art, performance and text into performative events, realised as both collaborative efforts and as solo endeavours.

The text heavy performances utilise autotheoretical accounts of instances of vulnerability and yearning, showcasing the complicated needs, questions and wants of a queer body. By centring their current material reality, their works insist on asserting their non-normative position as worth being known.


Jaakko Pallasvuo (b. 1333) is someone.

Lotta Petronella is a filmmaker, artist and curator on an island in Finland. She is Co-founder of CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago and has worked with and on islands for nearly two decades. Since her internationally awarded film Själö – Island of Souls (2020), she has been leading a multidisciplinary collaborative research project Själö Poeisis on the island of Seili.  Her latest work Materia Medica of Islands was a new commission for Helsinki Biennial in 2023. In addition to her filmmaking and art practice, Petronella is a devoted medicine and flower essence maker and tarot scholar. She also writes poems, makes soundscapes and runs a podcast called Little Screams.


The key theme of Leena Vainio’s work is vulnerability.  She explores trauma, feelings of grief and abandonment, loss, and time. She is fascinated by nostalgia and the longing for beauty. Her layered oil paintings sometimes incorporate ink, pastels or woodcut. She makes installations from sheets and linen fibres and also makes ceramic sculptures. Materials and techniques are chosen according to the subject.

Leena is from Rauma, lives in Kangasala and works in an old bicycle factory in Tampere. She has graduated from Kankaanpää Art School, Satakunta University of Applied Sciences.