Summer Artist 2020: Sofi Häkkinen

Sofi Häkkinen‘s Serenpidity project invited visitors and citizens to visit the artist at the workshop space Itikka at the Kunsthalle and provide her with ideas, memories, dreams and materials for art works. She then created art works based on peoples’ suggestions. The audience could follow the process at the Itikka, or online. At the end of the Summer, Häkkinen held a pop up exibition to present the art works created over the 1 month period. She also brought the Recover Laboratory performance group to Seinäjoki to perform at the opening of What’s it like to be an animal? and Per Svensson’s Alchemy – The All Seeing Eye.

Sofi Häkkinen is a visual artist and director from Finland. She works widely in different fields of art, mainly as a visual artist with her own practice, and as a founding member and leader of Recover Laboratory – a Finnish pioneer group of immersive and site-specific performance. Häkkinen holds a Master’s Degree in Art and has exhibited in many different group and solo shows. In addition to Häkkinen’s work in visual arts as a sculptor and her work in immersive art, she also works as a video artist in different productions ranging from TV series to VJ gigs and multi-artistic performances.