Humankind(of) | The Mess, Helsinki
Duo exhibition, 2025
Humankind(of) - a duo exhibition by Mikko Kelloniemi and Vilma Leino is a collaborative series of work studying identity, constructs of humanity and the artificiality of our living environments. This photography installation observes individuality through reflecting emotional layers of the subjective experience in dialogue with the temporal layers of our surrounding realities.
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.