SANNA NYKÄNEN



Fantasy Football Magazine Issue #1
Art publication dedicated to contemporary visual arts

  Founder & editor in chief: 
  Ilmari Pylvänäinen

  Art director & graphic designer: 
  Sanna Nykänen
                                      
  Writer & curator: 
  Alva Strang

  Editor & Proof reading: 
  Kate Ruck
 
Offset printed in Estonia
Fantasy Football Magazine Issue #1
Art publication dedicated to contemporary visual arts

  Founder & editor in chief: 
  Ilmari Pylvänäinen

  Art director & graphic designer: 
  Sanna Nykänen
                                      
  Writer & curator: 
  Alva Strang

  Editor & Proof reading: 
  Kate Ruck

Offset printed in Estonia
Fantasy Football Magazine Issue #1
Art publication dedicated to contemporary visual arts

  Founder & editor in chief: 
  Ilmari Pylvänäinen

  Art director & graphic designer: 
  Sanna Nykänen
                                      
  Writer & curator: 
  Alva Strang

  Editor & Proof reading: 
  Kate Ruck

Offset printed in Estonia
Fantasy Football Magazine Issue #1
Art publication dedicated to contemporary visual arts

  Founder & editor in chief: 
  Ilmari Pylvänäinen

  Art director & graphic designer: 
  Sanna Nykänen
                                      
  Writer & curator: 
  Alva Strang

  Editor & Proof reading: 
  Kate Ruck

Offset printed in Estonia
Porcelain Book (2023)
Porcelain Book (2023)











Lucky potato under the bed

Asbestos Art Space, Helsinki


I woke up and picked up a potato from under the bed. I looked at it and it was unpeeled; the new year started with good financial luck. Days filled with crossword puzzles and the luxury of garden-variety that emerged from aimlessness, uselessness, and a generous amount of time. Straight lines after each other, disappearing behind the horizon. I still measure distance with potato fields. The new terrace is ⅙ . It was finally time to start sunbathing by the infinity pools filled with soil and dream of the productivity that only happens under the ground.






In the duo show ‘Lucky potato under the bed’ Sanna Nykänen and Lyy Raitala look at the potato as a symbol for luxury, rest, and ease. The exhibition considers how the potato-driven life of previous generations was run on intensive physical labor, and how automation introduced leisure and luxury to that life. The simplicity of the potato remains.
Tuli & Savu no 109 (2022)
Tuli & Savu no 109 (2022)
Tuli & Savu no 109 (2022)
Tuli & Savu no 109 (2022)
Tuli & Savu no 109 (2022)
Sanna Nykänen      /Graphic Designer 
sanna.e.nykanen@aalto.fi
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Designer working with printed matter, text, image and motion based in Helsinki, Finland.



Education

Visual Communication Design, MA, Aalto University
2024- ongoing

Visual Communication Design, BA, Aalto University
2020-2023



Exhibitions

Concept Store- Consumerism Culture as a Medium, 
Luonnostila, Helsinki
upcoming

Fantasy Football Magazine launch,
Forum Box, Helsinki
2024

Exhibition at Fair Enough Book Fair, 
Tallinn, Estonia
2024

Feral Mood, Winter Garden, Helsinki,
2024 

Lucky potato under the bed, Asbestos Art Space, Helsinki, 2024 

DIMY-MYDI Mythology- Spirituality, National museum of Lithuania, 
The House of Histories, Vilnius
2022

Experiment: Experiment Visual Communication Design course exhibition, 
Väre, Espoo
2022

Photofuss OUR NATURES – Interpretations of National Romanticism Korjaamo, Helsinki
2021  
 
Photofuss Liminal Spaces, Korjaamo, Helsinki  
2020
Miscellaneous

KTK, live visual performance with Otso Reitala at Kuudes Linja
2024

Artist Recidency at TUOTUO, 
Joutsa, Finland, 
2024

Shortlisted for Vuoden Huiput in Nuoret Luovat (young creatives) category for visual identity for Aavistus Festival
2022 & 2024


2023 Zineton 24 hour zine challenge Honourable mention