Josefina Nelimarkka is an interdisciplinary artist working between Paris and Helsinki. In her research-based practice, she explores atmospheric phenomena and perception, combining artistic and scientific perspectives. Her multisensory approch focuses on the symbiotic relationship between nature and technology, transforming weather, clouds and real-time environmental data into interactive experiences and immersive installations that heighten planetary awareness and foster a deeper connection to the ecosystems that sustain us. Collaboration with climate scientists, paleoclimatologists and technologists is ongoing. Through natural materials and ephemeral technologies, her subtle works emerge from ongoing processes and local conditions – creating multiple ways of sensing, perceiving and being present.
Josefina Nelimarkka (born 1982 in Helsinki) graduated from MA Painting at the Royal College of Art in London (2016) and MFA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki (2017). She has held numerous exhibitions internationally, most recently The Cloud of Un/knowing at the Amos Rex museum in Helsinki, Futurs Horizons Institut finlandais in Paris, Kairos: Recall of Earth at AIL in Vienna, Shared Spaces at Helsinki Art Museum HAM, Within Mist at Miettinen Collection in Berlin and Glacial at Solid Art in Taipei.
Contact:
◊ info (@) josefinanelimarkka.com
Now:
Past:
◊ The Cloud Hour in the Finland Pavilion at UN Climate Conference COP30 in Brasil here
◊ Within Mist at Miettinen Collection in Berlin here
◊ Parallel Dimensions at Outvert Art Space, Ísafjörður, Iceland
◊ ARCTIC BLUE at Embassy of Iceland, Helsinki
◊ Futurs Horizons at Institut finlandais in Paris here
◊ Cloud-wor(l)ds - evening of art, music and climate at Institut finlandais in Paris
◊ The Cloud of Un/knowing at Amos Rex museum in Helsinki here
◊ Article A place among the pine asks: what are we healing here
◊ AIR at Paimio Sanatorium here
◊ Nordea Art Prize here
◊ New public art project commissioned by Helsinki Art Museum here
◊ Artworks at COP28 UAE - United Nations Climate Change Conference here
◊ Atmospheric Un/knowing: Pilvien olemus at Puistokatu 4 here
◊ Sounds of air, essay commissioned by The Finnish Cultural Institute in New York here
◊ Listening to the nonhuman, podcast here
◊ Interview about the Fine Artist Award, Stina Krooks Stiftelse here
◊ Interview with curator Stefano Vendramin, Art of Change 21 here
◊ Intelligence Debiased, exhibition at Exposed Arts Project here
◊ Atmospheric Un/knowing, poetics and essay published on SCRYPTH here
◊ On the Air, exhibition at Sinkka Art Museum, Finland here
◊ Kairos. Recall to Earth, exhibition at AIL, Vienna here
◊ Glacial, exhibition at Solid Art Gallery, Taipei here
◊ Blue Minds, exhibition at Blue Marine Foundation
◊ Kairos καιρός exhibited at Cromwell Place, London
◊ In/visible, online talk at Angewandte, University of the Applied Arts, Vienna here
◊ Atmospheric Un/knowing, online exhibition at Ione & Mann, London here
◊ SUPERSATURATION, solo exhibition at Titanik in Turku here
◊ Research at the intersections of art and science, in conversation with curator Linda Rocco as part of Celsius here
◊ The Politics of Air: how does context motivate our environmental choices?, LSE Creative Series at London School of Economics here
◊ Supersaturation, a commissioned installation at Jönköping City Library curated by Filip Zezovski Lind
◊ Future Memories, a site-specific installation at Deleuze Festival in the archipelago of Helsinki
◊ FMQ Magazine article here
◊ Air holders in group exhibition In Praise of Shadows at Ione & Mann, London
◊ The Fragile Ocean, art + science residency, exhibition and symposium with super/collider x Sail Britain
◊ Time Resides, exhibition at Solid Art Gallery in Taiwan here
◊ Cloud-drinking/writing workshop at U-mrkt in Taipei
◊ Consciousness of Landscape at BCS in Taipei
◊ Supersaturation event at Central Library Oodi, Helsinki – Art, science and virtual technology about climate change
◊ Artist-in-residence at Hyytiälä Forestry Field Station, Helsinki University 2019
◊ In conversation with Academian of Science Markku Kulmala at Feel Helsinki, Musiikkitalo
◊ Artist-in-residence at SPACE Art + Technology in London, Autumn 2018 – Spring 2019
◊ InProcess, exhibition at SPACE Art + Technology here
◊ SPACE Art + Technology interview here
◊ Workshop: Supersaturation + Cloud-Writing at SPACE Art + Technology here
◊ YLE Article about art and science collaboration with INAR here
◊ Rondo Magazine article here
◊ Presenting collaboration with INAR at Climate festival, Science Corner
◊ Art <3 Science at Copenhagen Techfestival
◊ Kairos καιρός at Helsinki Art Museum
◊ EDIT Media on Kairos καιρός at Helsinki Art Museum here
◊ Traction Magazine interview here
◊ Around Journal interview here
◊ Material Thought at Varbergs Konsthall
◊ RCA Show '16 MA Painting here
◊ Precession (screensaver) at Sinne Gallery here