SOFIA OKKONEN

HONEY, PLEASE

INSTAGRAM

PROJECTS:

SUGARTRAP

Honey, Please

Rose

Fiskars by Maria Korkeila

Emilia Kuurila

Reea Winter Lookbook

Heta Vajavaara Lookbook

2020 on going

The Meaning of things will inevitably change

© SOFIA OKKONEN, 2020

CONTACT@SOFIAOKKONEN.COM

+358 45 8998 933

INSTAGRAM

Sofia Okkonen (b.1987) is a Helsinki (FI) based visual artist, working with staged photography, fashion photography and other creative practices and commissions.
  At the core of Okkonen's art is the description of simultaneous but opposite or contradicting emotions and moods. In her work she studies how ideas about our ideal selves, beauty, trauma, the erotic and fantasies present themselves in front of the camera. On one hand through directed posing and on the other hand through the uncontrolled and the subconscious.
  Okkonen often blurs the line between photography and painting with elements of staging and a process of scanning and printing. She is inspired by questions of materiality of photos and spacial installations. (CV below)

CONTACT:

+358 45 8998933
CONTACT@SOFIAOKKONEN.COM

Upcoming

-2025
SUGARTRAP (2.) joint exhibition with Kristina Sedlerova-Villanen, Myymälä 2, Helsinki, Finland

-2026
SOLO SHOW, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, Finland

Other

Selected exhibitions

  • 2023
    SUGARTRAP (1.) joint exhibition with Kristina Sedlerova-Villanen, Sinne Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
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  • 2022
    On knowing, Group Exhibition, Northern Photographic Centre, Oulu, Finland
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  • 2021
    Music For Plants, music and visual art event, Botanic Garden in Helsinki, Finland

  • 2021
    Honey, Please, Ahjo, Espoo Cultural Centre, Finland

  • 2021
    Soft Images / together with Maija Annikki Savolainen & Sheung Yiu, Foto Tallinn, Estonia
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  • 2021
    Honey, Please, SOLO SHOW,
    small gallery, Kunstahalle Turku, Finland
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  • 2020
    Wild at heart, Spiral-Gallery,
    Tokyo with Finnish institute in Japan, Japan

  • 2020
    Wild at heart,
    Finnish Institute in Stockholm, Sweden

  • 2019
    Neobaroq, Contemporary exhibition and event, Helsinki,Finland

  • 2019
    Wild at heart,
    Hybridartspace, Budapest,Hungary

  • 2019
    Wild at Heart,
    Vienna Design Week, Wien, Austria

  • 2018
    Parallel as part of Organ vida festival, Zagreb,Croatia

  • 2018
    Being - Seeing,
    Quad gallery, Derby, UK

  • 2017
    Rose, SOLO SHOW, Project-Space,
    Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki,FI
    ↳ Read more

  • 2017
    Parallel intersection, Lissabon, Portugal

  • 2017
    Hyeres festival vol.32, FINALIST show, Villa Noailles, Hyerés, France
    ↳ Read more

  • 2017
    Circuit, Graduation Show, Aalto-University, Helsinki, Finland

  • 2016
    The Art of Basware, Musiikkitalo, Helsinki, Finland

  • 2015
    Young Artists 2015,
    Artist's association of Finland, Helsinki Kunsthalle, FI

  • 2015
    Dealine, VOry, Jukka Male museo, Helsinki,Finland

  • 2012
    Dear collective Vol 1. The dearest couples, Gorka y Nico, Madrid, Spain

  • 2011
    Pop-up gallery
    Galleria Kymmenen, Helsinki, Finland
    (Artist, curator,producer)

  • 2010
    They Make me_
    in Arabian Mini Market, Helsinki, Finland

EDUCATION

  • 2017
    Aalto-university,
    School of Arts, Design & Architecture,
    Photography,Ma

  • 2012
    Aalto-university,
    School of Arts, Design & Architecture,
    Photography, Ba

  • 2012
    Universidad Complutence de Madrid, (international exhange program) Department of visual arts

  • 2008
    Dublin Institute of technology, Photography, 1 year Ba Studies