Minna Pöllänen

Research statement

Minna's installation-based practice weaves together various media including sculpture, textile, photography and drawing. The overarching theme of her recent works is the investigation into the relationship between the body and Western capitalism. She has looked at this relationship more specifically through consumerism, protest, information overflow and intimacy. Minna is interested in tactility and tenderness of and towards (art) objects and her works often carry interactive and/or site-specific elements.

Minna's personal practice is complemented by several collaborations: She works together with New York-based artist Bang Geul Han. Their installations explore the politics of words such as leak and flood through sculpture, sound and (real-time) video. Minna is also part of the artist collective Specular Assembly. The London-based group focuses on site-responsive exhibition making in non-gallery spaces. Finally, Minna is a member of Night Schoolers, an interdisciplinary research and activist collective working with artists’ labour rights, feminism and labour and studying as a political praxis.

Research Interests:

• Feminist art, activism and theory
•  Body and movement
• (Art) objects and touch
• Protest/disobedience
• Forms of non-hierarchical studying and organising
• Site (specificity)