I am born 1971 in Raseborg, Finland, and since 2012 living and working in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse in Germany.
I finished the Master Programme at School of Photography, at University of Gothenburg in 2000. Since then I have been working as an artist and teacher. In 1997 together with Albert Braun, Marcus Lerviks and Simo Brotherus we founded the art-group FinnFemFel, and in 2003 I started the project “It’s better to build than to fade away” together with Martijn van Berkum.
I’m since year 2000 a member of Muu Artist Association, Finland
and 2013 Badischer Kunstverein, Germany.
I play with and question visible and non-visible structures, hierarchies, economical and political trends, and take use of familiar traditions and current phenomenon in my visual language to show the banal and absurd in architecture in public space, reality-tv, motorcycle-culture, art market etc.
1+n > 1+0 is a mathematical equation that very well explains my way of working. I like to collaborate or work in a group. I need to discuss, maintain a dialogue, share impressions and information to achieve something new, something more than I set out to do.