Maria Pääkkönen: Leakage

The exhibition consists of large-scale pencil drawings spread across the gallery space and a series of monochromatic coloured pencil drawings. The exhibition and the work have been supported by the Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, the City of Espoo Culture Committee and Greta and William Lehtinen Foundation.

Maria Pääkkönen (b.1988, Riihimäki) is a visual artist living in Espoo, holding a Master of Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Arts, Helsinki. Pääkkönen works with drawing, performance and installation, combining these mediums.

The artist's own practice runs parallel to a long-term collaboration with Ingeborg Blom Andersskog (NO/SWE) focusing on durational drawing performance. The duo's new performance piece UNREADY will be shown during the opening weekend of the Mänttä Art Festival 2024, and the installation consisting of traces of the performance will be on display until the end of the exhibition (August 31st).