BIO. Sonja Ovaskainen (1994, Finland) works with installation, sculpture, photography, and performance. She is using art as a manifestation of healing. She believes that empathy and playing are the key elements when facing the various issues of capitalism. Lately, her main interest has been interaction: how to enable an exchange between sculptural creatures and whoever is meeting them. She is wishing the viewer to form a friendship with her creatures when realising them in exhibitions.
Contact: sonjaophotos(a)gmail.com
Education:
Bergen Academy of Art and Design-Master of Fine Art 2022
Lahti Institute of Design-Bachelor of Photography 2020
Ingmanedu - Visual Artesan 2016
Exhibitions/ events:
Coming:
2024 USF Visninrommet
Past:
2023 Good Guy, Prøverommet/Lydgalleriet
2023 Sad Blue Seamonster,PLESURE, Ove Galleri/NOGOODS
2022 Merenpelko, Drastic Social Showcase, Bergen Kjött
2022 Merenkehto,MFA show, PICNIC, Bergen Kunsthall
2022 After school special, Honey I am home/ Merenpelko performance
2021 The Cauldron reading
2021 I am all blue now, haunted69a, Bergen (solo)
2021 nonsensescreenshots, Gallerifi4e, Bergen (solo)
2021 Rude Pixie rap concert at TSIF21 festival, Leppävirta
2021 ZIP friction, Dream about the white horse, Bergen Kjøtt
2019 Balkanska zine release, Kvaka 22, Belgrad
2019 380x46 zine release, Kosminen, Helsinki
2019 Contract dance performance, Soprano/Helsinki night of the arts
2018 My Mortality is Killing Me, Helsinki
2017 YÖ2018, Kulmala, Lahti
2017 YÖ2018, Galleria Kalleria, Helsinki
2017 See Us, Kulmala, Lahti
2016 PS16, VB- valokuvakeskus, Kuopio