About


Mimmi Koponen (b. 1992) is a visual artist and architect from Kirkkonummi, Finland. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Art and Public Space from Oslo National Academy of the Arts and a Master of Architecture degree from Tampere University. She works with several mediums including installation, water colour painting and wooden sculpture.

In her artistic practice she is searching for a simple lifestyle in balance with nature based around sharing and collectivity. She examines the encounters of nature and built environment and ways to make the urban spaces friendlier for all species. Her artworks are often conceptual and site-specific, focusing on themes of circulation of materials in nature and reuse of buildings. She is playing with temporality of human interventions by building temporary installations with decomposing materials, such as snow, unfired clay and branches. She arranges building workshops where she invites participants to collectively create the installations. The artworks can only be experienced on site during a specific time, and the process of making them in workshops is as important part of the art than the final artwork. Her method is to borrow materials from nature and available sources of used materials. The natural materials are collected gently, and they can return to nature’s cycle by themselves.


Contact


mimmi.i.koponen(a)gmail.com


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