Sofi Häkkinen: Performing Fisting Forest
Sofi Häkkinen’s solo exhibition Performing Fisting Forest is on display at the Academy of Fine Arts’ Tasku gallery from 31 October to 3 November, 2025.
Sofi Häkkinen’s solo exhibition Performing Fisting Forest brings to Tasku Gallery the artist’s sculpture installation with a performance element. The presence of human bodies in the installation and its modification during the performance highlight an important element in Häkkinen’s artistic thinking: hands. In addition to concrete action, they are connected to memory and time. Things are difficult to remember if you cannot touch them – and the thing that hurts the most is time.
Performing Fisting Forest continues Häkkinen’s thesis project, which was exhibited in Kuvan Kevät exhibition in the Spring of 2025. In addition to time and hands, the central themes are the emphasis on process and leaving things incomplete.
The performance part of the exhibition will take place at the opening on Thursday, 30 October. Working group: Sofi Häkkinen, Miradonna Sirkka, and Aleksi Kinnunen.
About the working group
Sofi Häkkinen is a visual artist who focuses on sculpture and performance in their artistic work. They are one of the artistic directors of Recover Laboratory multidisciplinary art collective. Häkkinen is finishing studies for a Master’s degree in visual arts in the sculpture program at the Academy of Fine Arts. She also holds a Master of Arts degree from Aalto University (ViCCA, 2018) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from TAMK (BFA, 2016).
Miradonna Sirkka is a multimedia, contemporary circus and performance artist. In her practice the focus is on human connection, daily-life awkwardness and in the feeling of being seen and heard. Sirkka’s artworks are multidisciplinary performances, installations, videos, sounds and media artworks. She has a BA in Circus Arts and MA in Visual Culture and Curating Contemporary Art. Sirkka is the co-artistic director of the multiart-collective Recover Laboratory with Sofi Häkkinen.
Aleksi Kinnunen is a musician, composer and sound designer. Drums and electronics as his main instruments, he has been working broadly with different styles of music from jazz to synth pop and from classical to techno music. He’s constantly exploring the boundaries between humanity and machines in his work where improvisation, spontaneity and musical interaction are the main creative tools. Kinnunen has a BA in Music from Pop-Jazz Conservatory.
Sofi Häkkinen’s solo exhibition Performing Fisting Forest brings to Tasku Gallery the artist’s sculpture installation with a performance element. The presence of human bodies in the installation and its modification during the performance highlight an important element in Häkkinen’s artistic thinking: hands. In addition to concrete action, they are connected to memory and time. Things are difficult to remember if you cannot touch them – and the thing that hurts the most is time.
Performing Fisting Forest continues Häkkinen’s thesis project, which was exhibited in Kuvan Kevät exhibition in the Spring of 2025. In addition to time and hands, the central themes are the emphasis on process and leaving things incomplete.
The performance part of the exhibition will take place at the opening on Thursday, 30 October. Working group: Sofi Häkkinen, Miradonna Sirkka, and Aleksi Kinnunen.
About the working group
Sofi Häkkinen is a visual artist who focuses on sculpture and performance in their artistic work. They are one of the artistic directors of Recover Laboratory multidisciplinary art collective. Häkkinen is finishing studies for a Master’s degree in visual arts in the sculpture program at the Academy of Fine Arts. She also holds a Master of Arts degree from Aalto University (ViCCA, 2018) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from TAMK (BFA, 2016).
Miradonna Sirkka is a multimedia, contemporary circus and performance artist. In her practice the focus is on human connection, daily-life awkwardness and in the feeling of being seen and heard. Sirkka’s artworks are multidisciplinary performances, installations, videos, sounds and media artworks. She has a BA in Circus Arts and MA in Visual Culture and Curating Contemporary Art. Sirkka is the co-artistic director of the multiart-collective Recover Laboratory with Sofi Häkkinen.
Aleksi Kinnunen is a musician, composer and sound designer. Drums and electronics as his main instruments, he has been working broadly with different styles of music from jazz to synth pop and from classical to techno music. He’s constantly exploring the boundaries between humanity and machines in his work where improvisation, spontaneity and musical interaction are the main creative tools. Kinnunen has a BA in Music from Pop-Jazz Conservatory.