Soile Mottisenkangas

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Elokuva Yötyön zen (2020) AV-arkin kautta.Taiko taiteen verkkokauppa

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b. 1971, Pattijoki
Film Director, Media Artist, Other
Residence: Espoo

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Artist’s Statement

Soile Mottisenkangas is a multidisciplinary media artist and film director specializing in documentary style. At the core of her work is a deep belief in the inherent value of life, which is why she focuses on telling individual human stories in their own environments.

Member of the Centre for Finnish Media Art and MUU Artists' Association. In collections: Tampere Art Museum.
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Current information

MÄKI-NEVALA–MOTTISENKANGAS video installation PastureG28: Other Visitor Attraction (2023) in Tampere Art Museum’s  Encore! Classics and contemporary art from collections exhibition 7.2.2026 - 14.6.2026. 

VR-artwork Lush urban pasture (work in process 0.1, 2024) in Supermarket 2025 - Stockholm Independent Art Fair, 3–6 April 2025, and in group exhibition, MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre, 7 - 22 September 2024.

MÄKI-NEVALA–MOTTISENKANGAS video installation PastureG28: Other Visitor Attraction in Art Realm ’24 biennial, in Hämeenlinna Art Museum 14.6.–8.9.2024.

Short creative documentary film, Yötyön zen, was released 2020. The film won the award Best experimental documentary, with Close:up Edinburgh Docufest in Scotland.

Bio

Soile Mottisenkangas does not restrict herself to a single technique or even one artistic field, but rather builds her artistic expression from an endless mixing of new and traditional techniques and interdisciplinary encounters. Her projects therefore include video art, installations, documentary short films, VR, and photography.

Mottisenkangas has been creating visual and video art pieces since the 1990s, graduating with an MA in Film from Screen Academy Scotland in the UK in 2011. Her award-winning short film, Yötyön zen, was released in 2020.

Mottisenkangas also works as part of the MÄKI-NEVALA–MOTTISENKANGAS artistic duo. The duo’s strength lies in a polished visual style and straightforward storytelling, focusing on topics that are often overshadowed by larger, more dramatic subjects.

Exhibitions

VR-artwork Lush urban pasture (0.1) in group exhibition, MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre, 7 - 22 September 2024 and in Supermarket Stockholm Independent Art Fair 2025, 3 - 6 April 2025, Sweden.

Art Realm '24 Biennale Taidevaltakunta in Hämeenlinna Art Museum, PastureG28: Other Visitor Attraction, documentary video installation, duo MÄKI-NEVALA–MOTTISENKANGAS.

Filmography:

Creative documentary films:

  • They Go Gentle Into That Night Work. 11 min. 2020.

  • Maria Eveliina. 2013. Runaway. 45 min. 2008.


Short films:

  • Bully Factory. 2012.

  • Earth 2.0. 2012.

  • Apple Green Sketch. 2011.

  • Just Thinking. 2011.

  • Living Room. 2010.

  • Music video: Kultaiset korvarenkaat. 1996.


Videoart:

  • Looking for Kea. 2010.

  • Social Timeline. 2009.

  • I do what you do. 2009.

  • I don't. 2007.


Artist in residency:

Grassina, Italy. 10/2024.