SANNA NYKÄNEN
PORTFOLIOArt 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
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
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
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.
sanna.e.nykanen@aalto.fi
Working with art direction and graphic design
Education
Visual Communication Design, MA, Aalto University
2024- ongoing
Visual Communication Design, BA, Aalto University
2020-2023
Concept Store- Consumerism Culture as a Medium,
Luonnostila, Helsinki
2025
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