Sculpting Time – a contemporary sculpture exhibition
When
Where
The exhibition brings together the diverse spatial practices of the participating artists in the vast, high ceiling exhibition space of the new Marsio building of Aalto University in Otaniemi, Espoo.
The works exhibited consider sculpture in an expanded way and in connection (and contrast) to the advanced and fast technology around us by including for example change and movement as an essential part of spatial practices. The exhibition offers sculptural works as means to augmented ways of understanding and experiencing spatiality. The works delve into what is happening around us among others in a material, temporal, spatial, historical, imaginative, conceptual and societal way.
Sculpting Time is a collaboration between six visual artist/sculptors planning, preparing and building the exhibition together. We acknowledge our growing longing for encounters with materials, sound and light, and we want to meet the audience in a physical space, but we also want to create imaginative spaces beyond gravity. The six artists have in common also that they teach elective sculpture and spatial practice courses at Aalto University, Transdisciplinary Art Studies (TAITE) unit, Department of Art and Media. Therefore, we manifest with this exhibition also that expanded spatial artistic practices can be a tool for pedagogical and societal matters in which artworks function as transmitters that combine doing and thinking.
Welcome to the Opening on 10th of April at 17–19.
The visual artists/ sculptors of the exhibition are:
Marjukka Korhonen is a sculptor and a public art professional. Her work spans from individual sculpture to extensive public art design works. Her working topics are often human figures belonging to different communities, such as family, friends or work communities. In projects implemented in the urban space Korhonen is particularly interested in the relationship between humans and the built environment.
Denise Ziegler, DFA, is a Helsinki based visual artist and researcher of public space.
In her artistic practice and research, she questions the concepts of urban space and public art. In a post-Beuysian vein, an artist workshop is extended to public space in order to work with its mechanisms and possibilities. Ziegler has made permanent and temporary works in and for public space, her practice includes assemblages, sculpture, drawings, paintings, videos, literary-visual works and writing.
Ari Björn is a visual artist working with dialogues that take place in an environment built using references to different perspectivces concerning the subject such as absurdity, imaginary place, real life and contradiction. His artistic concepts are based on a dialogues between and collaborations concerning the Nord and he is producing often historically constructed representations of the Arctic that are locked in our imaginaries.
Satu-Minna Suorajärvi is a sculptor living in Helsinki. During her sculpture studies at the Academy of Fine Arts she became enthusiastic about 3D modeling. After graduating MFA she started creating sculptures using 3D printing and laser cutting allowing her to produce forms that were impossible to make by hand. In recent years she has been working at the intersection of handmade and digital fabrication seeking to bridge the gap between technological, virtual and organic realities.
”I sculpt movement as space. This somewhat obscure sentence may serve as a definition of my expression. I make things visible that I otherwise wouldn’t know even exist. Mind and matter describes my way of working. The need to sculpt is born at the point of friction between the mind and the material. This friction gives life to my artworks. With my works I want to bypass reasoning. I aim to trigger such a strong experience in the viewer that it is difficult to ignore – so that there isn’t enough time to think before you feel. The time for thinking and explaining will come later.” (Jukka Lehtinen)
Grégoire Rousseau is an artist and educator based in Helsinki. He holds a degree in electrical engineering and a Master of Fine Arts and is currently a doctoral candidate at Aalto University. His research explores digital commoning practices with a focus on radio. In 2020, he co-founded Station of Commons and initiated lumbung radio for documenta fifteen. Station of Commons participated in radio curatorial work for Manifesta13, documenta fifteen, Miss Read 2023/24/25, the African Art Book Fair at the Dakar biennial OFF 2024, and Maison Européenne de la Photographie Paris 2025.
In 2024, he co-edited and contributed to the publications “Waves: Radio as Collective Imagination” published by Missread Berlin and “Radio as Radical Education” published by Station of Commons in collaboration with HfBK Hamburg Art University.
Marsio Team
Graphic design
Zina Marpegan