Visual Artist Satu Kalliokuusi

Satu Kalliokuusi


ECOLOGICAL ART

HELSINKI FINLAND

Satu Kalliokuusi

Satu Kalliokuusi (Born 1965 at Kouvola, Finland) is a prominent Finnish ecological visual artist who works actively in different parts of Finland, Finnish Lapland and Baltic area as also in the international art world. Her art adheres to the critical cutting edge of contemporary art. 


Her narrative is based on the Finno-Ugric mental landscape and its heritage.

Folklore topics about the connection between human and nature have emerged as a recent theme in Kalliokuusi's visual art, where the difference between human, the rest of nature and nature's spirits has dissolved.


Kalliokuusi examines glocal and global themes, such as mining disputes and forest policy. Kalliokuusi has dealt with these topics, for example, in the peripheral areas of the Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park in Finnish Lapland, in such a way that art has a national significance. At the same time, the works are current in the field of international environmental political contemporary art.


Kalliokuusi has been developing her own way of working in ecological fine art for decades, researching natural pigments, among other ecologically sustainable technics. This approach has become current both with the turn of neomaterialist philosophy and in the context of the art world.














ABOUT

UPCOMING:





2024-26 Sentient Forest Project, collaborative research in Lapland; leaders Dr Francis Joy (FIN) ja Dr John C. Ryan (USA). Founder Kone Foundation FIN


2025 Mustarinda Artists residency, Hyrynsalmi, FIN


2025 "Life of a Flower and a Tree", Galerie Pleiku, 

Satu Kalliokuusi & Reetta Gröhn-Soininen, Berlin GER


2025 Muhu Kunstitalu EAA Residence Artist/E.W. Ponkala Foundation EST


2025 Solo exhibition at Liiva Pastoraal Maja, Muhu/Saaremaa vald EST


2025 "Mothers&Daughters", Joint exhibition at Tartu Art House EST


2025 ”Mundus Arbore”, Rihmasto artist group, Art Center Voipaala FIN


2026 ”With an Old Tree”, Art Äkäslompolo joint exhibition, Kemi Art Museum FIN




GALLERY


Ecologically working 

Artist from Finland


 

SATU KALLIOKUUSI

LONELY SOULS

QUO VADIS?

HERITAGE

DEAD RIVER -project

TORNEDALEN Exhibitions 2018

MYSTERY

GALLERY VERANDA Viljandi

DANCE OF DEATH

THERE IS A HOLE

REGENERATION

LOST OF THE POLLINATORS

UNDE SITIS?

AQUA POLLUTIO

ANTHROPOSCENE

NOMANSLAND

THE SPIRITS OF NATURE

MENTAL THESIS

MEDITATION

MAKE LOVE NOT WAR

ART OF PERFORMANCE