A brief look at the art of Noora Ylipieti:
Noora Ylipieti (M.A., b. 1981) is a multidisciplinary visual artist working primarily through painting, installation, site-specific art and community art. Her materials are often readymade objects she receives via donations and items sourced from recycling centers. Ylipieti’s work investigates the invisible forces that shape our shared and individual lives: mass, repetition, waste, and the numerical weight of things we often overlook.
Her works pose demands both conceptual and formal: she builds through accumulation, through layering, through acts of repeating, so that the mundane becomes an allegory. She asks: how do our discarded things, the things so many touch and ignore, carry stories? In reclaiming materials destined for oblivion, she revives unseen histories, revealing how mass and number can be both oppressive and sublime.
About her "Vulnerability"-series:
Since 2020 Ylipieti has been obsessed with a vampire character. The ten vampire paintings first became a hundred and then a thousand, when the artist added one more zero after her
series. In the thinking behind the series of a thousand pictures, one can find connections with both pop art and the manifestations of the avant-garde in fine art and poetry.
Ylipieti has held numerous exhibitions in Finland and abroad and the most recent of these are solo exhibitions at:
- Gallery Ars Libera, Kuopio (2025)
- Kemi Art Museum (2024)
- Rauma Art Museum (2023-2024)
- Pietarsaari Museum (2022)
Her recent group exhibitions include:
- Imatra Art Museum (2025)
- Väärätalo demolition art exhibition, Imatra (2025)
- MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Center (2025)
- Aine Art Museum (2022)