VISUAL AND PERFORMATIVE ARTIST
ABOUT LEA LINTULA
Imagination is a gift and creating is an odd wrapping!
I am a young queer Finnish artist and climate activist. My artistic work gives my soul space to play in the physical world and add understanding to connections of life around me. Oddness and enjoyment are my feminist tools that I use in the artistic practice, in order to get my imagination further away from patriarchal and capitalistic mindset.
Material and ethereal worlds can find intersections in my works through colors, shapes and working methods or feels while working. Processing my place and feelings in the ecological- and social systems is a large part of my growing understanding what it is to also be an artist in the global North and human in my communities. My works are trying to build bridges between the mental and the physical world in order to add understanding and appreciation to the nature and us, as our destroyed home.
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Right now I am working with environmental justice movements.
It has been common for me to work with different kind of media such as paintings, bodies, photographs, texts and random substances that had came to my life. I have found that my way to make art has to try to be ecologically sustainable and as far as I can away from bourgeois art scene. The most important themes in my life at the moment are building justice and communities as well as sustainable enjoyment. I am all the time learning my ways and techniques to try to get there.
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I enjoy in working with collectives and/or co-working, facilitate discussions, read philosophy and practice empathy as part of my artistic practices.
PROJECTS
Collective working, performances and working processes
GORS PERFORMANCE GAME
AT GENERATION 2020 AMOS REX
August 19-23, 2020
This collective multi faced work combines game world and performative art together with a magical twist. It invites spectators to make decisions and see the outcomes.
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Project leaders, choreographers and performers:
Jessica Piasecki and Nooa Kekoni
Scenographer and visual director:
Lea Lintula
Sound design: Leevi Kekoni
Game design: Antti Kemppainen
Codign: Evan Miller
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PAINTINGS AND GRAPHIC ART
EXHIBITIONS AND GRANTS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Upcoming
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Searching for new ways to show up <3
Past
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31.8- 3.9.2022 Locus Amoneus installation- Siiri Hänninen and Lea Lintula, sound Saana Pohjonen. at Sibeliustalo, Lahti
25-30.7.2022 KRÄKS at Villa Tellina and Alan's Cafe, Hanko (organized with Taike grant)
2-31.7/ 2021 Present- läsnäolo ja lahja, Galleria Kuja, Helsinki
10-11/2019 LEIKKIKENTTÄ/ PLAYGROUND- Saara Maria Tikka ja Lea Lintula at Kalasataman Vapaan kaupungin Olohuone, Helsinki
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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Past
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2.1.2023 Kotileikki performance with Heta Heikkala at say:show group exhibition,
Maatila project space, Helsinki
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19-23.8/ 2020 GENERATION 2020, Collective work GORS at Amos Rex Art Museum, Helsinki
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02-06.12.2020 Turvaväri, Poikkeusolojen vuosi nuorten taiteiijoiden silmin (web exhibition)
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Virtual Graduation Exhibition- Graniitti, Pekka Halonen Academy
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9-10/2020 Yhdessä on enemmän- Nuorten taidetta ,Kulttuuritalo Villa Arttu, Hyvinkää
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3/2017 Rajamailla (At the borders) - Lea Lintula, Vilma Lötjönen ja Jannina Heinonen at Kalliola Setlementtitalo, Helsinki
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5/2017 Pii- Laajasalo's Folk High Schools degree work exhibition at Pasila's Library, Helsinki
OTHER ARTISTIC PROJECTS AND WORKS
13.10.2023 facilitating Activism/ conflict/ diversity workshop at Recovery Laboratory, Helsinki
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2023 Acting on Uneton48 movie challenge: https://vimeo.com/834030935
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2022 autumn, Facilitating workshops to youngsters about social affection as a part of Nuoritaide Meidän Maaseutu mestat project
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2021 Nuorten ilmasto-ja luontohuippukokouksen visual maker, art curator and graphic designer
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2018 NAKU-clothing brands founder with Iiris Riihimäki
Illustration for clothes , Social media-marketing and event organizing https://kaupunkikanava.fi/naku-clothing-rikkoo-ajatusmaailmaa-naisen-kehon-seksualisoinnista/
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2018-2019 Dancer in a improvisation group called Ryteikön lapset
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1/2020 Art club director for stay-at-home parents (part-time) at Pasila's inhabitat house
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7/2019, 7/2018 Member of decoration & production team for Visio Festival
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4-5/2018 Girls Club's director and one of the founders at Kalliola Setlementtitalo
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GRANTS
2021 Taiteen edistämiskeskus
2020 Keuda
2019 Suomen Konkoria Liitto Ry
RESIDENCIES
10/2022 AARK Residency, Korppoo Finland
CV
Lea Lintula
2018-2020
VISUAL COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA, VISUAL ARTS -PEKKA HALONEN ACADEMY
2017-2018
GRAPHIC DESIGN AND VISUAL COMMUNICATION - LAAJASALO FOLK HIGHSCHOOL
2013-2016