Josefina Nelimarkka

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 Kairos^² AR - mobile app (2018). She contributed to Intelligence Debiased Research Group at Exposed Arts Projects (2020-22).

Recent solo exhibitions are Supersaturation at Titanik, Turku, Finland (2021), Supersaturation at Jönköping City Library, Sweden (2020), Kairos καιρός at Helsinki Art Museum HAM Gallery (2018), Call, I shall listen at Fieldworks Gallery, London (2017), yonder x return at Clearview, London (2017), Yet; predicted futurities tracked in poems at OK11, Helsinki (2017), Between whiles that encounter at The Finnish Institute in London (2016) and Precession (screensaver) at Sinne Gallery, Helsinki (2016). Atmospheric Un/knowing is a permanent outdoor installation in the boreal forest of Finland (2020).

Recent projects include Intelligence Debiased at Exposed Arts Projects, London (2022), ::KAIROS. Recall of Earth at Angewandte Innovation Laboratory (2021), Vienna, On the Air at Sinkka Art Museum, Finland (2021), Glacial at Solid Art, Taipei, Taiwan (2021), Celsius at Mansions of the Future, UK (2020), InProcess at SPACE Art + Technology, London (2019), Supersaturation: art, science and technology about climate change at Oodi Central Library, Helsinki (2019), Time Resides at Solid Art, Taoyuan City, Taiwan (2019), The Fragile Ocean with super/collider x Sail Britain, London (2019) and Kairos^² AR at Techfestival in Copenhagen (2018).

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