Miia Kettunen⎜Finnish cultural foundation

Miia Kettunen (b. 1974) is a Rovaniemi-based multidisciplinary visual artist (MA) working locally and internationally. Her site-specific works often convey a lyrical ambience of connection with nature, are born in a communal and multidisciplinary dialogue, frequently at the unconventional interfaces and encounters of the collective and the subjective. Her works incorporate elements of environmental and bioart, alternative photography, textiles, and media arts. She also utilises meditation and walking as methodological tools in her work – drawing on her nearly 30 years of experience with yoga and mindfulness practices.

Among others, her works have been exhibited at the Art Ii and (X)sites Biennials, the international Shifting Ground exhibition at the Rovaniemi Art Museum, and at Galleria Huuto. She is a Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence alumni, and has worked at the Cost of Innovation residency with the award-winning British interactive arts studio Invisible Flock.

During her first residency period in NART, Miia Kettunen invited members of the community for guided meditative walks in the outdoor premises of the Kreenholm textile factory. Participants were asked to sense and write down their notions of the connection to the built and natural environment and landscape. She concludes the residency in the fall of 2025 by making a pilot of a meditative audiowalk.

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Memorials for the Future made by participants during Miia’s walk tours in the Kreenholm surroundings, created at the end of the walk following the instruction:

Go inside this empty house and collect a few pieces of tiles and slates from the floor of the house. If you can, make a small Memorial for the Future of the materials you find. How would you like to see the future of the factory site and its surroundings? The future of this land? Write down what your memorial for the future means. You can also give it a name.