Anu Miettinen

Basic information

b. 1975, Kuopio
Visual Artist
Residence: Helsinki

Contact information

Phone number: 0415116864

Artist’s Statement

STATEMENT 18 MAY 2013

I graduated as a painted from the Free Art School in Helsinki in 1998. Already as a student I used photography alongside painting in my works. Photography was for me a path for becoming a multidisciplinary artist, and today I work with moving and still images, environmental art, installation, performance and drawing. In addition to cross-disciplinary media, I am also interested in approaches that blend art with science.

My key themes – apart from light and colour, which I investigate almost without noticing – are people and thereby memories, remembering and dreams. My other themes include anonymity, interaction, narrativity, the traditional presentation of male and female roles in art, and the significance of shame in private and public contexts. I am also intrigued by different conceptions of space and the experience and investigation of space, themes I have addressed through traditional media as well as new approaches.

I am particularly fond of seriality and repetition as artistic devices. Installation has also become an increasingly important medium for me. The thing that draws me towards community art and installation is the boundary between staging and reality. My current installations have an affinity with performance and its components, they examine the elements of traditional representation of space and time, up to a point where even the performer becomes superfluous. My photographic and video works are often performative and involve elements of fictive documentation. It is natural for me to appear visually or auditively in my own works.
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Current information

The new homepage will be published at the beginning of May!
Check out the website of Circulation: https://circulationartwork.weebly.com/

28.4.-29.5.2023

Circulation / Kiertokulku, installation and Forest Story -videos, Kulturhus Björkboda, Kimitoön

13.4. 23.4.2023

Yö Fest Vol. 3.4. Päivien puutarha, Yö Gallery, Helsinki

 

 

 

 

 

Bio

Helsinki and Kimitoö (Finland) based visual artist Anu Miettinen (b. 1975) graduated from Vapaa Taidekoulu / Free Art School in 1998 and as a visual artist BA from Lahti Art Institute in 2013. As a multidisciplinary artist, she mainly focuses on still and moving images, environmental art, installation, and drawing. Her artworks have been exhibited since 1997 at galleries, museums, and public spaces in Finland and abroad. Since 2006 Miettinen has actively participated in environmental art exhibitions in Finland and Baltic countries. Turn of the year 2019/2020, Miettinen participated in the international art biennale Fresh Winds #6 in Iceland. In 2019, she started creating a multiyear conceptual and touchable environmental artwork in Icelandic Finnmörk, part of the Heidmörk nature reserve.

Over the past 15 years, she has been active in environmental art events and projects in Helsinki as an artist, producer, and coordinator. Anu Miettinen worked from 2015-2018 as a specialist and coordinator of environmental art and a one per cent regime of arts in the construction projects for the Art Promotion Centre Finland in the Uusimaa region. And as art coordinator for the City of Lahti 2020-2022. Currently, she is doing a master's thesis about arts and politics in the public space for the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki. In addition, she studied in a Specialisation programme in public art at the University of Arts of Helsinki. Furthermore, Miettinen has worked in several positions of trust and strategy working groups in art.