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Minna Suoniemi

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20142024

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Artistic and research interests

Minna Suoniemi (she/her, b. 1972) is a Helsinki-based artist and University Lecturer at Aalto University, Department of Art and Media. Her artistic practice draws from embodied experience and feminist knowledge production and she has worked on themes such as control, body, class and family. Her latest projects examine the materiality of the ageing body and transgenerationional bodily experience of being in-excess and excessiveness. Her academic interests include transformative, arts-based pedagogical practices, questions of class in arts and education, embodied and feminist approaches towards knowing and researching. She enjoys collective writing processes and her co-written texts have been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Research in Art and Education and Origins - Finnish Studies in Art Education. 

Her work has been exhibited internationally in Europe, United States, South America and Asia and her work is represented in Finnish collections including EMMA Espoo Modern Art Museum, Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum and the Finnish State Art Collection. She has been nominated for trustee positions i.e. The Finnish Arts Promotion Center and has worked as an artist, curator and pedagogue with various Institutions. 

 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities

Education/Academic qualification

Master's degree, Arts and Design, Helsinki University of Arts and Design

Award Date: 14 Dec 2001

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  • Äitiä

    Translated title of the contribution: MotheringSuoniemi, M., 2024

    Research output: Artistic and non-textual formExhibitionArt in coproductionpeer-review

  • Art for Art’s Sake: Touch Me

    Suoniemi, M., 8 Oct 2024

    Research output: Artistic and non-textual formExhibitionArt in coproductionpeer-review

  • Suojaisaa aikaa

    Translated title of the contribution: Sheltered timeSuoniemi, M. (Curator), 19 Nov 2024

    Research output: Artistic and non-textual formExhibitionArt in coproductionpeer-review

  • Tuning in with the World – Knowing with Places

    Suoniemi, M. & Rastas, M., 2024, Applied non-didactics. Brümmel, F. (ed.). Taideyliopisto, p. 71-92

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterProfessional

    Open Access
  • 'with this...'

    Suoniemi, M. (Curator) & Fast, H., 5 Sept 2024

    Research output: Artistic and non-textual formExhibitionArt in coproductionpeer-review