Anna-Lea Kopperi
Email: anna-lea.kopperi(at)wippies.fi
http://www.kopperi.net
In my works I shed light on the relations between the environmental space and the human space. I form reality through light, space, material and order. 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 Through a silent and focused thinking process I select the materials and minimal acts that bring my own personal perspective to the space. My site-specific sculptures and installations are homages for light and architecture.
In my interactive, social works the process is the key. 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.
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Selected Exhibitions
- 2011 Thought lift, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, www.amosanderson.fi
- 2011 NYT2011 Together, Raision museo Harkko, www.turku2011.fi/nyt2011
- 2011 Puun taju, Hyvinkää, www.hyvinkaantaju.fi
- 2010 Together we plant an Oak tree (with Egle Oddo), Vantaa
- 2010 Beyond the Body, Kivinokka, Helsinki, www.sunpoint.net/~kivinokka
- 2010 Rower - Last Voyage, Laru10, Helsinki
- 2010 Ars Sippola, Kouvola, www.arssippola.fi
- 2010 Collective Collection of Happy Ideas, Saksala ArtRadius, Haukivuori
- 2009 Trace of A Man, Kivinokka 2009, Helsinki
- 2009 Souckis on my Mind, Souckis Environ 465v, Espoo
- 2008 Stones of Jämpsä, 10th Anniversary Environmental Art Exhibition, Jämsä
- 2008 I love, Anniversary Environmental Art Exhibition of the City of Espoo
- 2007 Feelings Selfportrait, videoinstallation, Vuotalo gallery, Helsinki
- 2006 Reed, Halikonlahti Green Art Trilogy, Salo Art Museum
- 2006 Sunflowers to the city, Muu ry, Terrortory, Helsinki
- 2004 Frutti, Inner yard of Helsinki City Museum, Helsinki
- 2004 Nordic Art Association Finland Anniversary Exhibition, Shorebarracks Gallery, Helsinki
- 2003 Feather Room, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen
- 2003 Cultural Centre Helsinki, performance 10.10.2003
- 2002 Rohto, Helsinki City Museum of Art
- 2002 Corridor & Wise and Foolish Virgins, Taidekeskus Retretti Art Centre, Punkaharju
- 2002 Blue-Red-Bridge & Evening Bells, Mätäjoki environmental art exhibition, Helsinki
- 2001 Timeboats – Prime Staffs, Coastal Museum in Sogn & Fjordane – Sunnfjord Museum
- 2001 Eat Art, Muu ry, Dispencing with Formalities, Helsinki
- 2000 Pointillistic Bridge, Biennale of Environmental Art, Imatra
- 2000 Seesaws for Children and Angels, Port of Art, Kotka
- 2000 The III International Festival, Manege, St. Petersburg
- 2000 Reflections, Alte Brüderkirche, Kassel
- 2000 little big house, Jyväskylä Art Museum
- 1999 A Dream of Heaven, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku
- 1998–99 Replace – Muutoksia, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma – Vantaa City Museum – Kajaani Art Museum – M. K. Ciurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas, (with N. Naujokaite)
- 1999 Junge Kunst International, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck
- 1997 Embracing the Chestnut Tree – Grave Stairs, Museum für Sepulkralkultur, Kassel, Jenseits der Norm, Documenta X fringe Exhibition
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