Maria Huhmarniemi

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b. 1977, Rovaniemi

Installation Artist

Residence: Rovaniemi

Contact information

Email: maria.huhmarniemi@ulapland.fi

Artist’s Statement

In my work as a visual artist, I engage with questions concerning the North, multiculturalism and communality as well as environmental issues such as the relation between people and nature and environmental responsibility. I make use of old objects and textiles in my work, as well as recycled and natural materials and audiovisual recordings such as photographs and interviews. I knit and crochet, collect and assemble, chat with people and document these chats. My works are installations. They are tied to space or place, whether in galleries or in the outdoors.

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Current information

Maria Huhmarniemi works as a leader of new program, The Master’s Degree in Applied Visual Arts. The program aims to integrate artistic skills as well as practise-based and scientific knowledge to create ecologically and ethically sound experience environments, services, and art productions that are based on the cultural heritage and traditions of the area and its people.

Works from the artist

Name of the work: Eripituisia aikoja / Various durations of time

Name of the work: Muukalaisvaeltaja / Alien Hiker. SilvretAtelier, Austria

Name of the work: Maailmankuva / World View

Name of the work: Sterni (Tähti / Star) III

Name of the work: Luonnonvarat / Natural Resources

Name of the work: Ruokapöytäkeskusteluja / Table Discussions

Name of the work: Kuvitteellinen sukupuu / Imaginary Bloodline

Name of the work: Sturmi (Myrsky / Storm) I

Name of the work: Sturmi (Myrsky / Storm) II

Name of the work: Muukalaisvaeltaja / Alien Hiker

Name of the work: Hetki / Moment. Eripituisia aikoja / Various durations of time

Name of the work: Palavarakkaus / Maltese-Cross

Bio

Huhmarniemi Maria was born in Rovaniemi in 1977. He is a graduate of the University of Lapland, Faculty of Arts (2002) and has worked since her graduation in variety of projects and as university lecturer. During 20011-2012, she works as a leader of international program Masters´s in Applied Visual Arts.

Her artistic means of expression are installations and photography. Her works have themes such as intercultural communities and people's relation to environment. Background research includes interviews, documentation and collection of evidence, and is a prerequisite for her art.

Huhmarniemi is a postgraduate student at the University of Lapland. Her first exhibition that was evaluated as a part of her dissertation, dealt with one endangered butterfly species that threatens to disappear because of construction of new hydroelectric power. The second part dealt with values and meanings related to forest berries. The written part of her doctoral thesis deals with collaboration of eco-activism, contemporary art and science.

The main exhibitions in recent years are:
Halikko Green Art at Salo Art Museum, 2011
Lapland! Lapland Kemi Art Museum exhibition, 2011
SilvrettAteljee Symposium and Exhibition in Austria, 2010-2011
The Barents Ideal Cities project, with Timo Jokela, Murmansk, Rovaniemi and Tromsø, 2009
Berry Tours exhibition Arktikum, 2011.

Maria Huhmarniemi is a chairman of Artists' Association of Lapland. She also belongs to the Artists' Association MUU and to the Finnish Bioart Society.