Josefina Nelimarkka is an interdisciplinary artist working between London and Helsinki. Her research-based practice explores the phenomena of the in/visible and its perception through performative processes, real-time environmental data and site-sensitive installations. In her current work, she is interested in the politics of air and the phenomenology of clouds in relation to the future scenarios of climate change. Collaboration with scientists, engineers and technologists is ongoing.
Moving images, words, colours and sounds emerge from transient states and virtual realms. The works are tied to the passing of time, weather and changes in the environment exposing connections between the physical, poetic and philosophical. Art, science and technology are combined to create interactive spaces and ephemerality that challenge the experience of ‘now’. The multisensory approach and real-time climate data transform into subtle materiality encouraging environmental consciousness that has the potential to enhance our relationship with the nature.
Josefina Nelimarkka graduated from MA Painting at the Royal College of Art in London (2016) and MFA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki (2017). She was the artist-in-residence at SPACE Art + Technology in London (2018-19) and at the Finnish Institute in Athens (2022). Her collaboration with climate scientists from INAR - Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research has resulted in Kairos² AR - mobile app (2018). She contributed to Intelligence Debiased Research Group at Exposed Arts Projects (2020-22). Atmospheric Un/knowing is a permanent outdoor installation in the boreal forest of Finland (2020).
Recent solo exhibitions: Supersaturation, Titanik, Turku, Finland (2021), Supersaturation, Jönköping City Library, Sweden (2020), Kairos καιρός, Helsinki Art Museum HAM Gallery (2018), Call, I shall listen, Fieldworks Gallery, London (2017), yonder x return, Clearview, London (2017), Yet; predicted futurities tracked in poems, OK11, Helsinki (2017), Between whiles that encounter, The Finnish Institute in London (2016), Precession (screensaver), Sinne Gallery, Helsinki (2016)
Recent group exhibitions: Intelligence Debiased, Exposed Arts Projects, London (2022), ::KAIROS. Recall of Earth, Angewandte Innovation Laboratory, Vienna (2021), On the Air, Sinkka Art Museum, Finland (2021), Glacial, Solid Art, Taipei, Taiwan (2021), Celsius, Mansions of the Future, UK (2020), InProcess, SPACE Art + Technology, London (2019), Supersaturation: art, science and technology about climate change, Oodi Central Library, Helsinki (2019), Time Resides, Solid Art, Taoyuan City, Taiwan (2019), The Fragile Ocean, super/collider x Sail Britain, London (2019), Kairos² AR, Techfestival in Copenhagen (2018), Materiell Tanke, Varbergs Konsthall (2017)
Contact:
◊ info (@) josefinanelimarkka.com
Now:
◊ New public art commission by Helsinki Art Museum here
◊ Sounds of air, essay commissioned by The Finnish Cultural Institute in New York here
◊ Listening to the nonhuman, podcast here
◊ Interview about the Fine Artist Award, Stina Krooks Stiftelse here
◊ Interview with curator Stefano Vendramin, Art of Change 21 here
Events:
◊ Intelligence Debiased, exhibition at Exposed Arts Project here
◊ Atmospheric Un/knowing, poetics and essay published on SCRYPTH here
◊ On the Air, exhibition at Sinkka Art Museum, Finland here
◊ Kairos. Recall to Earth, exhibition at AIL, Vienna here
◊ Glacial, exhibition at Solid Art Gallery, Taipei here
◊ Blue Minds, exhibition at Blue Marine Foundation here
◊ Kairos καιρός exhibited at Cromwell Place, London here
◊ In/visible, online talk at Angewandte, University of the Applied Arts, Vienna here
◊ Atmospheric Un/knowing, online exhibition at Ione & Mann, London here
◊ SUPERSATURATION, solo exhibition at Titanik in Turku here
◊ Research at the intersections of art and science, in conversation with curator Linda Rocco as part of Celsius here
◊ The Politics of Air: how does context motivate our environmental choices?, LSE Creative Series at London School of Economics here
◊ Supersaturation, a commissioned installation at Jönköping City Library curated by Filip Zezovski Lind
◊ Future Memories, a site-specific installation at Deleuze Festival in the archipelago of Helsinki
◊ FMQ Magazine article here
◊ Air holders in group exhibition In Praise of Shadows at Ione & Mann, London here
◊ The Fragile Ocean, art + science residency, exhibition and symposium with super/collider x Sail Britain here
◊ Time Resides, exhibition at Solid Art Gallery in Taiwan here
◊ Cloud-drinking/writing workshop at U-mrkt in Taipei here
◊ Presenting as part of Consciousness of Landscape at BCS here
◊ Supersaturation event at Central Library Oodi, Helsinki – Art, science and virtual technology about climate change here
◊ Artist-in-residence at Hyytiälä Forestry Field Station, Helsinki University 2019
◊ In conversation with Academian of Science Markku Kulmala at Feel Helsinki
◊ Participating in a panel discussion about immersive technologies here
◊ Artist-in-residence at SPACE Art + Technology in London, Autumn 2018 – Spring 2019
◊ InProcess, exhibition at SPACE Art + Technology here
◊ SPACE Art + Technology interview here
◊ Workshop: Supersaturation + Cloud-Writing at SPACE Art + Technology here
◊ YLE Article about art and science collaboration with INAR here
◊ Rondo Magazine article here
◊ Presenting collaboration with INAR at Climate festival, Science Corner here
◊ Presenting at Copenhagen Techfestival
◊ Kairos καιρός at Helsinki Art Museum here
◊ EDIT Media on Kairos καιρός at Helsinki Art Museum here
◊ Traction Magazine interview here
◊ Around Journal interview here
◊ Material Thought at Varbergs Konsthall here
◊ RCA Show '16 MA Painting here
◊ Precession (screensaver) at Sinne Gallery here