Marjo Pitko (ent.Hyttinen)
Basic information
Visual Artist, Printmaker, Phographer, Fine Art Painter
Residence: Asuu Keminmaa / Työhuone Kemi
Contact information
Email: marjopitko.art(@)gmail.com
Artist’s Statement
Marjo Pitko M.A., Visual Artist, Graphic Artist from North of Finland.
Marjo Pitko examining the landscape and the marks that humans leave in the landscape.
Work and artprojects documents the environment where the artist herself lives, the landscape of waters and factories where the Bay of Botnia and the Kemi river meet.
In her pictures and print Pitko has been processing the other side of consumption and welfare, the trash that does not disappear and the multiplying huddles of waste.
The changing typography of the fringes of the landscape has become the starting point ot Pitko's works.
In artistic expression Pitko concentrates on photography, graphic arts and painting. Previously the artist worked on rough beauty and documentation.
Now her inspiration comes from the circle of life.
Marjo Pitko examining the landscape and the marks that humans leave in the landscape.
Work and artprojects documents the environment where the artist herself lives, the landscape of waters and factories where the Bay of Botnia and the Kemi river meet.
In her pictures and print Pitko has been processing the other side of consumption and welfare, the trash that does not disappear and the multiplying huddles of waste.
The changing typography of the fringes of the landscape has become the starting point ot Pitko's works.
In artistic expression Pitko concentrates on photography, graphic arts and painting. Previously the artist worked on rough beauty and documentation.
Now her inspiration comes from the circle of life.
Current information
WORKS//EXHIBITIONS/ARTPROJECTS www.marjopitko.comM.A., Visual Artist, Graphic Artist I live and work in North Finland/ Keminmaa and Kemi
2018 Finland, Saariselkä, Kakslauttanen Art Gallery Finland, Rovaniemi, Gallery Valo, Arktikum, NORD WIND Finland, Rovaniemi, Korundi, Art Museum, Artist of the Month Finland, Kontrundan 2018
Prize of Kemi 2017, Kemi 2000 Foundation of Culture and Science, Suo, Kuokka & Taide, Kemi Artmuseum
EXHIBITIONS 2015-14 Belgium , Brugge, ARENTSHUIS MUSEUM, GraphicArtes 2014, 14th EUROPEAN BIENNIAL FOR GRAPHIC ART 2015 Finland, Oulu, Northern Photographic Centre, Traces by Marjo Hyttinen SOLO SHOWS 2018 Finland, Helsinki, Gallery G/Grafoteekki, Artist of the Month 2017 Finland, Turku, Gallery Joella, SOLO SHOW 2016 Finland, Tampere, TRACES, Gallery Saskia, Rovaniemi, TRACES Gallery Napa 2015 Finland, Oulu, Northern Photographic Centre, Traces by Marjo Hyttinen 2014 Finland, Jyväskylä, the Jyväskylä Art Museum/the Ratamo Printmaking and Photography Centre, TRACES 2013 Finland, Tornio, The Aine Art Museum, TRACES IN THE LANDSCAPES 2013 Finland, Helsinki, Gallery Pirkko-Liisa Topelius, TRACES IN THE LANDSCAPE 2012 Finland,Tampere, Gallery Kapriisi, GARBAGE PATCH
