Exhibition 1.10. – 6.11.2026
Mon-Fri 10 – 18, Sat-Sun 12 – 16
📍Galleria Kortteeri, Kauppakeskus Rajalla På Gränsen, Länsiranta 10, Tornio, Finland
Forms of Presence
The Forms of Presence exhibition at Galleria Kortteeri is part of the public presentation of the results of the PMP project. During the four-year project, artists from Spain, Croatia, Malta, Finland, Italy, and Slovakia came together in workshops, networking events, and webinars. They collaborated on articles, a professional toolkit, and podcasts exploring what contemporary art means in Europe today and how European artists can work professionally in the current cultural landscape.
As part of the project, the artists were also tasked with creating a joint virtual exhibition inspired by the ideas and discussions generated through the project activities, alongside local physical exhibitions organized by each participating partner.
The exhibition brings together works by thirteen visual artists who took part in the artist group at Lapland University of Applied Sciences. The exhibition is also part of the Oulu2026 European Capital of Culture programme. The exhibition is curated by Venla Kakko, Curator at the Kemi Art Museum.
Artists
Rita Nissén (FI)
Multidisciplinary artist
Rita Nissén, born 1997, is a multidisciplinary artist. Nissen works in many different media, but mostly she paints and makes photo-based art. Lately she has been experimenting with making art using plants. As an artist, she considers art an extended form of thinking and gets inspired by nature, puns, and humanity.
Rita Nissén lives and works in Tornio. She graduated as a fine artist from Lapland University of Applied Sciences in 2024. Her work has been exhibited in several exhibitions in Finland.
Photo: Tuomas Launimaa
Noora Ylipieti (FI)
Multidisciplinary artist
Noora Ylipieti (MA), born 1981, is a multidisciplinary 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.
The artist builds through accumulation, layering and acts of repetition 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. Since 2020 Ylipieti has been obsessed with a vampire character. In her series of images one can find connections with both pop art and the manifestations of the avant-garde in fine arts.
Ylipieti has held numerous exhibitions in Finland and abroad, some of the recents ones include Gallery Ars Libera, in Kuopio (2025), Kemi Art Museum (2024) and Rauma Art Museum (2023-2024). She also been part of many group exhibitions in Finland.
IG: @nooraylipieti
Portfolio: Noora Ylipieti
Vimeo: Noora Y
Sari Sandberg (FI)
Visual artist
Sari Sandberg is a visual artist from Rovaniemi, Finland, living and working in Tromsø, Norway. Her work weaves together photographic storytelling, mixed media, and the profound presence of Arctic nature. Her practice is inspired by the northern winter and the polar night, where colour, silence, and stillness form the core of her work.
Essi Korva (FI)
Sculptor
Artist Essi Korva, born 1985, graduated from the Lahti University of Applied Sciences Institute of Design and Fine Arts in 2010. Her Sculptures are often based on her subjective experiences of the world. They often deal with fear, childhood, loneliness and emptiness, for which the rugged beauty of Lapland offers an excellent setting.
She works with variety of materials, wood, cement, plaster, hair, clay or whatever she might find useful. She has attended several environmental art happenings in Finland and abroad. At the end the material itself is not too important, but the emotions she’s trying to capture. Her sculptures are portraits of feelings.
Arttu Nieminen (FI)
Media artist
Arttu Nieminen is a media artist based in Rovaniemi. His works often originate from forms that play with symmetry and the horizon, the fragile Arctic nature, and juxtapositions that resemble omens and visions in relation to contemporary phenomena. Flowing nature imagery, poetic narration, minimalist music, and brutal montage that fractures the overall composition form the cornerstones of his expression.
Photo: Jussi Pohjavirta
His video art breathes in museums, galleries, and cinemas, but also at events in the form of installations and architectural projections. At events and festivals, he creates video installations and engages in artistic collaborations in which media art collides with performance, choreography, poetry, and music. Environmental issues and the contradictory relationship between humans and nature are recurring themes in Nieminen’s work.
Veera Neva (FI)
Artist
Veera Neva is a Kuusamo-born, Tampere-based multi-instrumentalist and composer. Her music combines elements of ambient, electroacoustic and contemporary music, polyphonic vocal music, sound art, cinematic music, and folk traditions. Using her voice, saxophone, synthesizers, loopers, effects, and field recordings, she creates ethereal layers and dreamlike spaces for the listener. Her artistic work also extends to video art, short films, and multidisciplinary performances.
Photo: Kaisa Kinnunen
Harri Kuusijärvi (FI)
Artist
Harri Kuusijärvi is an accordionist and composer based in Rovaniemi. Originally from Finnish Lapland, he is known for expanding the expressive possibilities of the accordion through improvisation, electronics, and bold sonic environments. With a background in contemporary classical music, his work moves between contemporary jazz, electroacoustic music, and influences from different musical traditions. He works as a soloist, composer, and collaborator across contemporary music, jazz, folk, popular music, and theatre.
Photo: Ella Kiviniemi
Unna Prittinen (FI)
Visual artist
Unna Prittinen is a visual artist from northern Finland. In 2022 she graduated from Lapland UAS with a Bachelor of Culture and Arts degree in Fine Arts. Since then she has been working with video art and watercolor painting as her main mediums. Her work often revolves around themes of perception, identity and how they affect our experiences. She draws inspiration from science and philosophy, and wishes to incorporate ideas from different fields into her artistic practice.
IG:@priunna
Piia Lieste (FI/)
Visual artist
Piia Lieste is a Finnish visual artist working primarily with clay and ceramics. Her practice explores material agency, transformation and the relationships between humans and the more-than-human world. Working with clay and site-responsive processes, she creates sculptures and installations that engage with water, soil, time and ecological change. Her works often invite materials to become active participants in the artistic process.
Ezgi Tanriverdi (TU/FI)
Visual artist and illustrator
Ezgi Tanrıverdi is a visual artist and illustrator working across mixed media and textile sculpture. Her practice explores connection, perception, and the space where reality and the unworldly meet. She is interested in places that exist somewhere between the real and imagined, creating narratives that evoke curiosity, eeriness, and a strange sense of familiarity. She holds a Master’s degree in Arctic Art and Design from the University of Lapland, where she focused on socially engaged and participatory art practices. Working with people and communities continues to inform her practice, particularly her interest in connection and shared experiences.
Heta Kasurinen (FI)
Visual artist & graphic designer
Heta Kasurinen, born 1991, is a visual artist and graphic designer from Kouvola, currently based and working in Helsinki. She holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Lapland (2017). Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and she has studied and participated in artist residencies both in Finland and internationally including Russia and Benin. Most recently, her work was exhibited at Taidekeskus Salmela in the summer of 2026.
Kasurinen works primarily with painting, depicting environments in which people live their everyday lives. She is particularly interested in built environments, urban spaces, and landscapes, as well as what they reveal about a place, its culture, and its people. Her artistic practice is rooted in cultural questions, exploring how histories, ways of life, and values are reflected in the environments people inhabit.
Jenni Juopperi (FI)
Visual artist
Jenni Juopperi, born 2001, is a Finnish artist specialized in digital art. Juopperi is also experienced in story and academic writing, video editing and basic 3D-modelling and has a passion for games, comics, animation, sewing, sound design, photography and arts & crafts in general.
Anna Kekkonen (FI)
Director, underwater cinematographer & photographer
Anna Kekkonen is a Finnish filmmaker. She graduated with a Master of Arts degree in Audiovisual Media Culture from University of Lapland, Finland. Beside film making, she is a passionate diver and underwater cinematographer. The themes of her films are strongly inspired by her own physical sensations underwater. She approaches her films through physicality, movement, senses and diversity. Along with filming her own films her biggest filming jobs were two fulldome nature documentaries “Baltic Sea” and “The Embrace of the Ocean”. Her debut films are a short documentary Surface (2023) and a short dance film Noora (2024).
Katri Krohn Lassila (FI)
Photographic artist
Katri Elisabet Krohn Lassila (born in 1979) is a photographic artist and Doctor of Arts (2023) from Aalto University. She wrote her doctoral thesis about the temporal aspects and apochrony of landscape between photography and cinema. Katri is listed in the Finnish Artist Register and she is the chair of the board of the Association of Photographic Artists.
Katri’s photographic work consists mostly of analogue black and white photography with a strong emphasis in demanding techniques of fine art darkroom printing. Recurring subject matters in Katri’s works are landscape and water, combined with the fleeting moments known from Henri Cartier-Bresson’s concept of the decisive moment.
Photo: Natalia Kopkina
Anna Alm (FI)
Visual artist
Anna Alm, born 1974, is a painter from the Sea Lapland region and her primary medium is watercolour. I the recent years she has focused particularly on decipting people and nature of human being. In her paintings she strives to capture something deeper than mere outward appearance – human character, precence and qualites that make each feeling person.
