Hanna Ojamo
Sex / Female
Year of birth / 1978
Website / www.hannaojamo.com
Hanna Ojamo (b. 1978 in Helsinki, Finland) is a young media artist living and working in Helsinki. She holds an MA degree in Fine Arts, dept. Time & Space Based Arts, from the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki 2003, and has studied Film & Interdisciplinary Arts in Städelschule Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt, Germany. Hanna Ojamo is currently the Chairman of MUU ry - the Artists`Association in Finland, which is the new media artists` professional association.
Hanna Ojamo`s work is essentially related to the society. Topics such as history, politics, public space and the concept of freedom of speech, and the way these affect the individual, are crucial to her work. She builds her work often in the form of a large installation in space, using a variety of techniques, such as film, video, photography and sound. Typical of her work is also large-scale cooperation with professionals from various different occupations and positions, such as art historians, sound artists, youngsters, composers or media artist. In her work, structures underlying our cultural consciousness are being revealed, more often than not through humour and contradictions between the work`s seemingly soft surfaces but sharp edges.
In her installation Demonstration, 2005-06, which was realized in Switzerland, Helsinki and Amsterdam, the artist took up the issue of freedom of speech through demonstrations and the documentation of these. The media installation varied every time it was shown, comprising interviews from a Swiss theorist of anarchist movement, demonstration documentary, war and sports history and - documentary. Hence, the work is as much a study on the media and the representations of violence and contradiction in our society as much as it is a study on anarchist theory and the future and challenges of demonstrating and demonstrations.
Wintergames, 2006, is a B&W film on the similarities between war and sports documentary.
Women`s Games, B&W film, 2007, on the other hand, depicts the way women are being depicted in these genres of documentation.
After her graduation in 2003, she has been working actively both as an artist & art politician. Her work has been presented in various countries and cities, such as e.g. in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, the MMK Frankfurt, Germany, Switzerland, Holland and Finland. Her first solo show took place in 2001 in the Academy of Fine Arts´Gallery in Helsinki. Residencies include the iaab Basel, Switzerland (2005) and Uusimaa Arts Council residency in Prague, the Czech Republic (2007) and Lille, France (2008).
Hanna Ojamo`s work is essentially related to the society. Topics such as history, politics, public space and the concept of freedom of speech, and the way these affect the individual, are crucial to her work. She builds her work often in the form of a large installation in space, using a variety of techniques, such as film, video, photography and sound. Typical of her work is also large-scale cooperation with professionals from various different occupations and positions, such as art historians, sound artists, youngsters, composers or media artist. In her work, structures underlying our cultural consciousness are being revealed, more often than not through humour and contradictions between the work`s seemingly soft surfaces but sharp edges.
In her installation Demonstration, 2005-06, which was realized in Switzerland, Helsinki and Amsterdam, the artist took up the issue of freedom of speech through demonstrations and the documentation of these. The media installation varied every time it was shown, comprising interviews from a Swiss theorist of anarchist movement, demonstration documentary, war and sports history and - documentary. Hence, the work is as much a study on the media and the representations of violence and contradiction in our society as much as it is a study on anarchist theory and the future and challenges of demonstrating and demonstrations.
Wintergames, 2006, is a B&W film on the similarities between war and sports documentary.
Women`s Games, B&W film, 2007, on the other hand, depicts the way women are being depicted in these genres of documentation.
After her graduation in 2003, she has been working actively both as an artist & art politician. Her work has been presented in various countries and cities, such as e.g. in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, the MMK Frankfurt, Germany, Switzerland, Holland and Finland. Her first solo show took place in 2001 in the Academy of Fine Arts´Gallery in Helsinki. Residencies include the iaab Basel, Switzerland (2005) and Uusimaa Arts Council residency in Prague, the Czech Republic (2007) and Lille, France (2008).
Filmography
- Negretina (2011)
- RUSH (2009)
- En Garde (2007)
- Women`s Games (2007)
- Wintergames (2006)
