Basic information
Visual Artist, Master of Arts
Residence: Helsinki
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.
Asemic Writing workshop with Palimama, Aboagora Symposium 25.9.2026
aboagora.fi
Ö, Öar, Öast 18.6.-5.8.2026
Jomala bibliotek Åland
Life on a Leaf Residency 1.-30.6.2026
lifeonaleaf.fi
Digital Naturalism Conference 26.6.-7.7.2025
Art and science conference with Sea Community.
Les, Bali, Indonesia
Woman in Times of War 19.09-30.11.2024
Ukrainian and Finnish artists
Helsinki
Artist in Residence 1.-30.10.2024
Eckerö Post- och tullhus, Åland
www.kultur.ax
Hybridea urban art project
11.6.2024 Central Park, Helsinki
https://hybridea.net/paivi-maunu-miraakkeli/
Artist and Researcher in Residence Guiniguada
Canary Islands
18.12. 2023-15.1.2024
The Road To Elefsina
FaveLab Residency program in Athens,Greece
19.-27.11.2023
ARTISTS' ISLAND 2023, group exhibition
1.–30.9.2023 Harakka Island, Helsinki
https://harakka.fi/taiteilijoiden-saari-2023/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNJ4fiufmVE&t=20s
Metazoo -seaglass, solo art exhibition Gallery Telegraph 20.2-2.7.2023 Harakka Island, Helsinki
https://harakka.fi/metazoo-merilasia/
Maneetti, solo art exhibition Gallery Telegraph 21.-30.6.2022 Harakka Island, Helsinki
https://harakka.fi/maneetti-merilasia/
Marianas, solo exhibition 22.6.-4.7.2021 Telegraph gallery, Harakka Island, Helsinki
Medusa, seaglass and other wanders, solo exhibition 16.-28.6.2020 Telegraph gallery, Harakka Island, Helsinki
The Second Digital Naturalism Conference 2019 Gamboa, Panama
Digital Naturalism Conference 2018, Koh Lon Thailand Biomimeticx2, Päivi Maunu ja Marko Nykänen
CLOUD GARDEN 2015- Community Art Project in Harakka Island, Helsinki
https://harakka.fi/paivi-maunu-pilvipuutarha-cloud-garden/
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/797606/797607
PALIMAMAS HASHIOKI 2015- Site-specific Environmental Art Project