Humankind(of) | Several locations in Finland
Duo exhibition, 2025
Humankind(of) - a duo exhibition by Mikko Kelloniemi and Vilma Leino is a collaborative series of work exploring identity, the structures of humanity and the artificiality of our living environment. The exhibition is a photographic installation that examines the fleeting nature of identity and the individual´s emotional relationship with their surroundings.
The exhibition brings together a photographic series of Mikko Kelloniemi, reflecting on his personal relationship with digital realities, and a series where Vilma Leino depicts the unreality of everyday life, growth environments and evolving identity. The works of both artists focus on self-portraiture in their own distinctive way, approaching the individual-centered experience from their personal standpoint. Their work reflects the emotional layers of the subjective experience in dialogue with temporal layers of the surrounding reality.
Exhibitions
April 2025: Humankind(of) - The Mess Art Gallery & Studio, Helsinki
September 2025: JukoArt: Humankind(of) - Theater Vanha Juko, Lahti
The Empty Green | Scope BLN, Berlin
Solo exhibition, 2024
We are facing the "great unknown" - a time saturated by rapid technological development, algorithms, artificial intelligence and overflowing streams of data. We as humans are experiencing a tangible turn in our collective behaviour, a shift towards new cognitive states. How can a tiny individual observe and understand such a change, a significant moment in time while still inside it?
The Empty Green is a multidisciplinary body of work observing humanity inside digital transformation. Studying the often-absurd nature of this ongoing process, this exhibition is a first attempt to more closely examine the complexity of the contemporary self, deconstructing a vast horizon into smaller points of focus. Looking at the shift happening around us and focusing on identity, memory, self-image and subjectivity, I observe my personal and rather complicated relation to the digital world.
The exhibition is a multimedia installation composed mainly of photography and video. A study of the self, consisting of different approaches to identify myself in relation to surrounding realities. Compiled from three different series developed over a span of more than a decade, the works provide different views into the peculiar nature of the modern psyche.