Päivi Maunu

Päivi Maunu
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Visual Artist MA
Residence: Helsinki

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Phone number: +358 41 458 8596

Artist’s Statement

One of the themes of my work is abstract experience of nature and place, and how this can be portrayed in an interpretative visual form. As my medium I frequently use performance, watercolours ink drawings and installations. By combining these elements, a watercolour or ink drawing can be reconstituted as a performance in which the brush and the body that guides it dance and play in an extended installation. The moment brought out by suspense and other emotions emphasises ideas and images rather than aspiring towards scientific or realistic truth. The sketchy but indelible imprint refers not to some sort of grandeur, but to an ongoing series of events in life and work.
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Current information

Medusa, seaglass and other wanders
Medusa, merilasi ja muut vaeltajat
Medusa, havsglas och andra vandrare
solo exhibition
16.-28.6.2020
Telegraph gallery, Harakka island, Helsinki

The Second Digital Naturalism Conference 2019
Gamboa, Panama

Biomimeticx2,
Päivi Maunu ja Marko Nykänen:
Digital Naturalism Conference 2018,
Koh Lon Thailand

Herbarium Pica pica
3.-9.6.2019
Cloud Garden in Panama Extension
30.9.-6.10.2019
Telegraph gallery, Harakka Island, Helsinki

CLOUD GARDEN 2015-
Community Art Project

PALIMAMAS HASHIOKI 2015-
Site-specific Environmental Art Project

Works from the artist

Name of the work: Medusa Project 2020
Name of the work: With the Rainforest, Performental Art, Gamboa, Panama, 2019
Name of the work: DiNaCon Extension, Harakan saari – Lennätin, Helsinki, 2018
Name of the work: MAANALLA, sokeripalamosaiikki, Kruunuvuorenranta, 2018
Name of the work: LUEN KIRJAA KALLOLLE, 2016, performatiivinen installaatio
Name of the work: PALIMAMAS HASHIOKI 2015- , ympäristötaide
Name of the work: PILVIPUUTARHA, 2015- , Harakan saari, Helsinki
Name of the work: MAISEMAN AVAUTUVA LUOMI, akvarellisarja, 2010-
Name of the work: VENE!, Live Action Venice, Venice Biennale 2017 Preview Week, Italy
Name of the work: lippu&lappu&loppu -liilaristilippumme, NAPS, sokeripalamosaiikki 2017
Name of the work: ZOKERI huoneentaulu, sokeripalamosaiikki, 2018
Name of the work: MEHILÄISTANSSI, akvarelli, 2016
Name of the work: Kalastajan puumerkki, Halstari, Puumerkkejä mehiläisille, 2016, Harakan saari
Name of the work: Mageet Mosaiikit, yhteisötaideprojekti 2017
Name of the work: Pöllöt: VINO & GALJA, 2017
Name of the work: Lasifiguriinit, 2017-
Name of the work: KOIVUN KORONA, installaatio, 2015
Name of the work: SPIRAL PITY, Performental Art, performanssi ja ympäristötaideteos, 2015, Oaxaca, Meksiko
Name of the work: SILLIPARVI TAPIOLAN KESKUSALTAASSA, 2016, ympäristötaideteos
Name of the work: INFR’ACTION VENEZIA, Venice Biennale 2015 Preview Week, Italy
Name of the work: Hetta-Pallas AD 2014-2018, akvarellisarja
Name of the work: Aurora Borealis-sarja, akvarelli 2015-
Name of the work: ILMAPLANKTONISTA SEN SIEMEN, akvarelli ja tussi levylle, 2015
Name of the work: NIITYN KANSSA, MEREN KANSSA 2015
Name of the work: MITAT. MERET. EDET. Vesi(väri)raja 19 metrin korkeudessa. 2014
Name of the work: SEARCHING FOR THE ROMANS, sokeripalamosaiikki, 2013
Name of the work: Nameless in Zambia, Sugar-cube Mosaic, The 6th Insaka International Artists Workshop in Livingstone, 2013
Name of the work: SOKERIPALAMOSAIIKIT 2010
Name of the work: TUULIRUUSU, TUULIKOMPASSI, sokeripalamosaiikki, 2011, työryhmä NAPS
Name of the work: METROKOLI, julkinen ympäristötaideteos, Kolin kylä, 2008
Name of the work: SILLIPARVI SUIHKULÄHTEESSÄ, Helsinki, 2007
Name of the work: KILPIKONNAPOLKU, ympäristötaideteos rakennetussa ympäristössä, Turku, 2002
Name of the work: Aura Clarification / Auran kirkastus MIPAF Macao International Performance Art Festival Macao, China SAR, 3.- 6.10.2009
Name of the work: Aura Clarification / Auran kirkastus 2009 Korea Experimental Arts Festival Seoul, South-Korea, 9.- 13.9.2009
Name of the work: Sonnets for the Springtails / Sonetteja hyppyhäntäisille International Festival of Performance Art Navinki 2009 Minsk, Belarus, 28.- 31.8.2009
Name of the work: YES NO WU, performance, 10th OPEN International Performance Art Festival, Beijing, China , 2006
Name of the work: Mielen kirkastus/Clarification of Mind, performanssi, NIPAF03 Nippon International Performance Art Festival, Tokyo, Nagoya, Kioto, Osaka, Japan

Bio

Päivi Maunu is a visual artist living and working in Helsinki, Finland. She graduated as an environmental artist from Aalto University 2011. Maunu is multidisciplinary artist adapting expression of media as a Performental Art (combination of Environmental Art and Performance Art), that she has established and advanced further since 2010.

She has participated in several international performance venues and festivals as Live Action Venice, Venice Biennale 2015, 2017 Preview Week and environmental conferences as Digital Naturalist Conference in Thailand 2018 and in Panama 2019.

Päivi Maunu is a one of the founding members of Nature&Art Post Scriptum (NAPS) and Biomimeticx2.