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Mia Seppälä

Mia Seppälä
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"Suoraan taiteilijalta"

Basic information

Visual artist, researcher
Residence: Helsinki

Contact information

Email: mikuseppala@gmail.com

Artist's Statement

I am a Finnish visual artist, researcher, and educator working across photography, printmaking, performance, and moving image. My artistic practice often explores phenomena related to perception and presentation, as well as the interplay between conceptual and physical space.

Much of my work is site-specific, and I’m particularly interested in the experiential and intersubjective nature of art, the use of public space, and rethinking established artistic forms and methods. Underpinning my practice is a continuous curiosity to examine how art can operate outside conventional frameworks.

In recent years, I’ve taken part in several public art projects. One that stands out is an experimental intervention in a shopping centre in East Helsinki, carried out between 2019 and 2022. During this time, I developed interactive artistic methods aimed at reaching audiences who might not typically engage with contemporary art.

My work also engages with questions of visual and artistic accessibility — how images are interpreted depending on context, interface, or even the absence of visibility itself. These themes were central to my piece Alt Text (2022), exhibited in The Paradoxes of Photography at the Finnish Museum of Photography in 2022.

Show biography
Internalizing Wellbeing — A Nonverbal Performance

May 29, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Kalasatama Health and Wellbeing Center

A wordless performance in front of the Kalasatama Wellbeing Centre: I remove the word “wellbeing” from a printed image of the building’s façade using liquid, and ingest the removed material. The work examines how institutional messages move from image to body and are transformed into embodied experience — how meaning is literally and visually“internalised”.

The performance is supported by the Samuel Huber Art Foundation: www.hubersaatio.fi

 




 

Convocation III

A Gathering of Language-based Artistic Research. 30.6.-3.7. 2026
University of Applied Arts Vienna Austria https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/835089/835129/0/0

 

Galleria Uusi Kipinä / Kulma 24.6.–12.7.2026


Galleria Gjutars, Vantaa 1.10.–18.10.2026


Mikkeli Art Museum, 2027





 

Works from the artist

Name of the work: Loki – Log
Loki – Log
Name of the work: Complutum I
Complutum I
Name of the work: Ulkoiset aluevedet II – External Territorial Waters II
Ulkoiset aluevedet II – External Territorial Waters II
Name of the work: Sisäiset aluevedet – Internal Territorial Waters
Sisäiset aluevedet – Internal Territorial Waters
Name of the work: Lepuuttaja – Fender
Lepuuttaja – Fender
Name of the work: Ulkoiset aluevedet I – External Territorial Waters I
Ulkoiset aluevedet I – External Territorial Waters I
Name of the work: Tiivistetty ranta – Compressed Shoreline
Tiivistetty ranta – Compressed Shoreline
Name of the work: Tuntematon laji – Unknown Species
Tuntematon laji – Unknown Species
Name of the work: Hanhien kanssa
Hanhien kanssa
Name of the work: Sonic Waste for Seven Bins
Sonic Waste for Seven Bins
Name of the work: Parasiitti
Parasiitti
Name of the work: Tuntematon nimikirjoitus
Tuntematon nimikirjoitus
Name of the work: HELA-kortti Generaattori
HELA-kortti Generaattori
Name of the work: Frustraation Ilmentäjä
Frustraation Ilmentäjä
Name of the work: The Epistemic Framing – Idealistic Tendency
The Epistemic Framing – Idealistic Tendency
Name of the work: Ehdotus Patsaaksi
Ehdotus Patsaaksi
Name of the work: Traditio
Traditio
Name of the work: The Slide
The Slide

Bio

Mia Seppälä is a Finnish multidisciplinary visual artist working with photography, painting, performance, and moving images. Her works often explore shared and established cultural practices. Seppälä develops and employs interactive art techniques to reach audiences beyond traditional art circles.

Recently, Seppälä's public projects and media installations have been featured in her non-commercial art space at the East Helsinki shopping center from 2019 to 2022, the Salo Art Museum, the Finnish Museum of Photography in 2022, and the Gallen-Kallela Museum in 2024.

Seppälä received her Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA) degree from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki in 2026. She received her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki in 2017.
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