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Tea Mäkipää
Finnish artist Tea Mäkipää’s work confronts her viewpoint of impending ecological catastrophe through interventions and installations positing an alternative vision of existence. By Manick Govinda.
Tea Mäkipää was born in Lahti, Finland in 1973. She studied BA Fine Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki and she came to London to undertake an MA Fine Art at the Royal College of Art, which she completed in 2003. She recently moved to Weimar in Germany. Mäkipää works in a variety of media: installation, photography, public art, text, video and collaboratively with other artists. Recent exhibitions by Mäkipää include installation ‘1:1’, in Art Projects, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, USA 2006; ‘Catwalk’, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2006; ‘World of Plenty’, photo installation for EXPO 2005 in Nagoya, Japan 2005 and ‘Parasites-When Space Comes Into Play’, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna 2004. For 2007, she has been invited to contribute to the 8th Sharjah Biennial: Still Life – Art, Ecology & The Politics of Change.
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