2022 Art activism in Our Earth’s Richness Conference, Rovaniemi, Finland

Free Rivers Art collective, 2022, Twenty-five kilometres walk, video 5:46 min (short version). Performative walk and video filmed near Kittilä’s goldmine in Finnish Lapland. Under the road is a pipe for the polluted water from the mine. Polluted waste water runs in river near by the Levi tourist center.

Water and soil samples from the polluted rivers near mining industries in Northern Finland. Water and Soil, ink-jet photgraphy, 2022

2017 Meetings Gallery Exhibition, Vaasa City Art Hall

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Our Meetings exhibition in Vaasa City Art Hall consists of young peoples’ dreams and future hopes in Namibia, South-Africa and Europe. During the exhibition we organized two workshops in order to develop and study decision-making, communality and city planning in youth communities. The exhibition brings together young people living in different countries and continents, and asks how the political, regional and societal changes affect on young people. The exhibition was organized together with Professor Satu Miettinen and Service-Designer Reetta Kerola.

2014 Such an Early Spring, Valo Gallery, Arktikum, Rovaniemi, Finland

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Over a period of a spring and summer in 2013, 16 young artists photographed their living environments in Finland, Estonia, the Netherlands, Poland, Croatia, Slovenia and Russia. The Such an Early Spring exhibition demonstrates how young people interpret the social changes, cultural diversity and everyday experiences that are attached to their living surroundings. The exhibition and research has been funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

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Photographs by: Daria Akimenko, Roselinde Bon, Daria Maroń-Ptak, Mari Mäkiranta, Anka Simoncic, Alexandra Shpiro & Ana Žolnir.

IMG_5812Detail of the installation. Photographs by: Daria Akimenko, Rovaniemi, Finland and Ana Žolnir, Celje, Slovenia. Installation by: Daria Akimenko & Mari Mäkiranta

2014 Possible Worlds, Short Film

Film by Nuno Escudeiro, Mari Mäkiranta & Daria Akimenko.

The material of the film contains the still photographs and stories related on young people’s living environments. Thank you all the participants from Poland, Finland, Croatia, Russia, Slovenia, Estonia and the Netherlands.

2012 Sincerely Mine, Gallery Exhibition, Show Room, Finland & Iceland

We organised with Asta Jónsdottir, Outi Ylitapio-Mäntylä and Emilia Haukka an international arts-based workshop in Finland and Iceland. The workshop was collaboratively held among the University of Lapland, the Iceland Academy of the Arts, and Cirrus – the Nordic and Baltic Network of Art and Design Education. Fourteen art students from seven countries participated in the workshop. The aim was to create a space for internationally and culturally diverse artists with the goal of supporting critical and sustainable thinking and consciousness, art-making and creativity across national and cultural boundaries. After the workshop, we held a Sincerely Mine gallery exhibition in the Rovaniemi Show Room. The exhibition embraced and made public the outcomes of the workshop, such as photography installations, short films and animations.

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Poster design: Juhani Näränen