Category: Social Art

Valkeavuoren muut maailmat / The Other Worlds of Valkeavuori

Community art work 2024-2025 for a school campus in Kaarina, Finland.More information (in Finnish): https://muutmaailmat.fi/

Kulttuurieläin / Cultural Animal

Kulttuurieläin Oy is a company for art and culture projects made with humans and other animals. More information (in Finnish): https://kulttuurielain.com

Olin täällä – Jag var här / I was here

A permanent community art work in a school campus in Tuusula. Published in 2024. During the spring 2023 artists Oona Tikkaoja and Veera Vähämaa held 6 workshops for 5-12 years old children participating in day care or school in Tuusula. The participants made stories and small wax sculptures, which will be cast in bronze and…

Artis Libris

Artis Libris is a game which helps to formulate ideas for organising cultural and art content in libraries, planned in a work group (Geir Byrkjeland, Antti Hintsa, Jenni Latva, Jimmy Pulli and Oona Tikkaoja). It was commissioned by the Library of Vaasa together with The Arts Promotion Center TAIKE in 2019.

Piiloleikki / OnSiteStories

Piiloleikki a project started by Oona Tikkaoja in 2011. It produces a continuously growing art piece: local art-paths, which are made of sculptural marks made by different participants and combined to a network via a digital map. The marks can be casted in bronze, 3D printed or they can be immaterial stories, which will be…

Yhteispeli / Playing Well Together

An art game for (work) communities. The concept was developed as a part of IRM-Tool EU project in 2019. The game encourages its participants to make small tasks which boosts positive social relationships and creative atmosphere in the workplace. Below longer description in Finnish: Yhteispeli, konseptin esittely Yhteispeli on taidepeli, joka tukee yhteisöllisyyttä ja verkostoitumista, tuo…

Kaikki voittaa / Everybody Wins

Everybody Wins is an art game for two or more players. In a valise there are different materials in small boxes. These materials are tactile and odorous, so they activate many senses. All players have their own turn to pick up something from the boxes and locate it to the “game board” which will also…

PaPu – Playable Sculpture

2016 Playground sculpture in Kupittaa park / Turku, Finland. Commissioned by the city of Turku. Collaborating artists: Jan-Erik Andersson, Eero Merimaa, Jani Rättyä, Ann Sundholm, Oona Tikkaoja. The playground sculpture was planned as an open co-operation process with 5 Turku-based artists and the (child) residents of the city. More information (in Finnish): https://www.facebook.com/patsaspuistoturku