ABOUT LEA LINTULA

Thinking of the power of creation as a tool of changing societies

I am a young queer Finnish artist and human rights 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, meetings 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 to what's really going on in the manmade structures.

Right now I am working with environmental justice movements and performance pieces.

It has been common for me to work with different kind of media such as spaces, paintings, bodies, texts and random substances that had came to my way. 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. That's where creating and artists are the most needed.

I enjoy in working with collectives and/or co-working, facilitate discussions and practice resistance as a part of my artistic practices.

PROJECTS

Scenographies, performances and working processes

GORS PERFORMANCE GAME

AT GENERATION 2020 AMOS REX

August 19-23, 2020

This collective multi faced work combined game world and performative art together. It invited spectators to make decisions and see the outcomes.

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

RYTEIKÖN LAPSET

2018-2019

Dance and sound improvisation group

Members:

Antti Kemppainen, Juhana Hurula, Oona Raadelma, Nooa Kekoni,

Lea Lintula, Jessica Piasecki

LOCUS AMONEUS IN SIBELIUS FESTIVAL

31.8-4.9.2022

This installation took a place in Sibeliustalo Lahti. The work was searhing ways to see garden in the times of ecocrisis. We where giving people a place to rest and reflect connections to non-western humans and nonhuman species through books and magical life. The space was inspirated by Aino Sibelius garden and her dedication to it.

Project leaders and visual directors:

Siiri Hänninen and Lea Lintula

Sound design: Saana Pohjonen

CREATING INKS

September- December 2021

I have found it hard to make paintings with subtances like acryllic=plastic while facing the destruction of western humanlife on the planet. During the times of covid I was picing things and trying to create inks from example berries , mushrooms and leafs. This kind of working gave me also new, slower rhythm in life. The project took me a way from the capitalistic hurry and consumption.

The working was not focused to any solution or goals, but some marks of the exploration was seen in Locus Amoneus installation as well as in the paintings in KRÄKS exhibition. The explorative paintings are still changing their colours and are testing my and our culture of see paintings in a stable state in an unstable world.

This project was organized with Taike's working grant.

KOTILEIKKI /HOMEPLAY PERFORMANCE AT MAATILA GALLERY

January 2nd 2023

Lea Lintula and Heta Heikkala were exploring consepts of privacy, playfullness and discomfort in a public space in a form of playfull performance and conversation. The playfull performance was born in AARK residency in October 2022.

Sounds of the performance made by Tiikka Drama

Pictures and sounds of the performance: Dramatiikka

SELLING AIR - PERFORMANCE

April 12, 2022

The performance was built on idea of talking to people about what are we ready to pay for. The air selling was located in Finland (a country where is one of the cleanest air in the world and high rated consumption of natural resources.) In Helsinki capital metropolis the air is good qualitified compared to other metropolitan cities in the world.

KANNATELLA PERFORMANCE

4-7.72024

Kannatella performance was held in Norberg, Sweden as a collaboration between artist Tuulia Kivistö and Heta Heikkala. The space was examining helding in different forms.

Lea Lintula in the performance photo: Heta Heikkala

CHEW AND CHOKE PERFORMANCE

25.5.2024

How to embody capitalistic horror politics and apathy that comes along with it…whats there to steal from white men courage to free people from destruction ??

The piece by Lea Lintula and Halla Jäntti was shown as a part of Kinki Kiosk festival in Helsinki.

A TREE ARGUING UNDER ONE SUN

27.3- 7.4.2024

How the fuck work in a group in antifascist ways?

Working group: Nooa Kekoni, Jessica Piasecki, Nori Kin and Vane Virta

Scenography: Lea Lintula

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EXHIBITIONS AND GRANTS

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Upcoming

Searching for new ways to show up<3

Past

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 AND PERFORMANCES

Upcoming

PERSFORMASSI-ASSFORMONEY vol 2. in June 2025 at After school Special, Landmark Bergen, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway

Past

19.2.-20.3.2025 Uncover performance, Pisces very low-key zodiac show (always in retrogade), Recover Laboratory, Helsinki

26.12.2024 Furry family performance, working group Alisa Alho, Monia Kimara and Zora, Myös Collective Ambient evening, Helsinki

8.10.2024 ASS-station solo performance at Vapaan taiteentila Autum market, Helsinki

28.9.2024 Solo performance at Ultra Bleach Cream event, Kuva/Tila, Helsinki

8.9.2024 Am I the problem? performance with Zora at Eaza Rhizome event, Isosaari, Helsinki

30.3.2024 Meeting flesh performance at Tuulia Kivistö Uhrilähde exhibition, Asbestos art space, Helsinki

25.5.2024 Chew and Choke, performer and a dramatist, with Halla Jäntti, Kinki Kiosk Festival, Helsinki

2.1.2023 Kotileikki performance with Heta Heikkala at say:show group exhibition,

Maatila project space, Helsinki

19-23.8/ 2020 GENERATION 2020, Collective work GORS at Amos Rex Art Museum, Helsinki

02-06.12.2020 Turvaväri, Poikkeusolojen vuosi nuorten taiteiijoiden silmin (web exhibition)

Virtual Graduation Exhibition- Graniitti, Pekka Halonen Academy

9-10/2020 Yhdessä on enemmän- Nuorten taidetta ,Kulttuuritalo Villa Arttu, Hyvinkää

3/2017 Rajamailla (At the borders) - Lea Lintula, Vilma Lötjönen ja Jannina Heinonen at Kalliola Setlementtitalo, Helsinki

5/2017 Pii- Laajasalo's Folk High Schools degree work exhibition at Pasila's Library, Helsinki

OTHER ARTISTIC PROJECTS AND WORKS

27.3-6.4.2024 a tree arguing under one sun, scenography, Madhouse, Helsinki

Spring 2025 trainee as a production assitant at Nuori Taide

13.10.2023 facilitating Activism/ conflict/ diversity workshop at Recovery Laboratory, Helsinki

2023 Acting on Uneton48 movie challenge: https://vimeo.com/834030935

2022 autumn, Facilitating workshops to young people about social affection as a part of Nuoritaide Meidän Maaseutu mestat project

2021 Nuorten ilmasto-ja luontohuippukokouksen visual maker, art curator and graphic designer

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/

2018-2019 Dancer in a improvisation group called Ryteikön lapset

1/2020 Art club director for stay-at-home parents (part-time) at Pasila's inhabitat house

7/2019, 7/2018 Member of decoration & production team for Visio Festival

4-5/2018 Girls Club's director and one of the founders at Kalliola Setlementtitalo

GRANTS

2021 Taiteen edistämiskeskus
2020 Keuda
2019 Suomen Konkoria Liitto Ry

RESIDENCIES

10/2022 AARK Residency, Korppoo Finland

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