Vappu Jalonen
vappu.jalonen gmail.com
Vappu Jalonen is a Helsinki-based artist and writer whose work often deals with power relations and knowledge production by focusing on bodies and everyday objects, situations and words.
New and upcoming
Visitor Centre X, with Elis Hannikainen, music and sound for the exhibition by Eero Pulkkinen, Poriginal gallery, Pori Art Museum, 2025
AU: Chapter 2, in Mad House Publication, Volume 5, 2024
Sairaiden valtakunta, 2024–2027
Exhibitions
Visitor Centre X, with Elis Hannikainen, music and sound for the exhibition by Eero Pulkkinen, Gallery Titanik, Turku, 2024
Baltic Circle: Valtapuisto, with Elis Hannikainen, listening events and installation, Outo olo, Helsinki, 2023
AU: Luku 1, Porin Juhlaviikot, 2022
Distress Run, with Elis Hannikainen, HAM gallery, Helsinki Art Museum, 2021
Safe Room, with Elis Hannikainen, Secured – Politics of Bodies and Spaces, Vantaa Art Museum Artsi, 2021
Notes, Pori Biennale 2020: Not to Sing Like a City Bird Sings, online, 2020
Distress Run, with Elis Hannikainen, B-galleria, Turku, 2019
This Is For You, This Is Not For You, Gallery Alkovi, Helsinki, 2015
1:1, Space Invaders II: Revolution, Pori, 2014
Land-Institut in Puerto Williams – A Failed Attempt, with Mónica Araus, Freja Bäckman and Maricarmen Jaramillo, Gallery Titanik, Turku, 2014
Studio, with Elis Hannikainen, Galerie Suvi Lehtinen, Berlin, 2011 and The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, 2012
This Is This Wall, Look! Pori, 2008
Audio and video works
Valtapuisto, with Elis Hannikainen, sound design and composing by Eero Pulkkinen, Yle Radio 1 and Yle Areena, 2023
Baltic Circle: Sound drawings, listening event of Valtapuisto, with Sokeain kuunnelmaraati, Helsinki, 2023
I on Ice, with Elis Hannikainen, 2022
AU: Luku 1 / AU: Chapter 1, Mad House Helsinki, 2021
Performances
Distress Run, with Elis Hannikainen, 2019
Altitude Training Camp, 2019
I am Louise, 2018
Good Life, 2018
Noise Time, 2016–2017
This Is For You, This Is Not For You, 2015–2016
Stained Black Mirror, 2013
Moiré Has Never Looked Better on Your Face, 2012, 2014
Publications
AU: Chapter 2, in Mad House Publication, Volume 5, 2024
Second Practice, in Wasted Years – Sad, sexy, and artist-run, edited by Sorbus, published by Khaos Publishing, 2020, and reprinted in Death to the Curator, edited and published by Kunsthall Oslo, 2021
Bodies of Water, in Mapping the Pauses, 2020
Swiss Army Knife, in Totuus Suomesta – The Truth About Finland, 2017
Ether, Dirty, in The Powers That Be, published by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, 2015
Stained Black Mirror, Journal for Artistic Research, Issue 6, 2014
Fatigue, published by Publishing Puppies, Berlin/NYC, 2014
No play/Wir spielen
No play Feminist Training Camp, nGbK, Berlin, 2016
WIR SPIELEN (WE PLAY), nGbK, Berlin, 2013
Curatorial
Anna Zett: Research Drama, Sorbus gallery, Helsinki, 2015
Henna Hyvärinen: On the Wet Spot, FAFA gallery, Helsinki, 2014
Gravity, Money, Concrete, Fabric, Galerie Suvi Lehtinen, Berlin, 2012
Kokeellinen tapahtuma – Experimental Event, Pori, 2011
Other