Welcome to participate in Skulptursnack, a discussion about sculpture, in Swedish with Ida Koitila on Sunday May 8. See more information below.

Trunk explores the connection between faith and memory. The works, consisting of a variety of objects and materials, have all undergone a process of replacing,

disassembling and stretching their original components. Textiles have begun to dissolve, a deformed image has lost its sharpness, and a seemingly natural tree trunk turns out to be a machine-made copy; a log, with neither the possibility of taking root nor forming branches. Like a carelessly processed digital material, the objects’ original data has been lost, and the code that once programmed their appearance and function is no longer there. It is a material amnesia that raises the question of who we become, when we forget what we once believed in.

Ida Koitila (b.1983) lives and works in Hanko. She graduated from the Master of Fine Arts program in Helsinki in 2011. For many years, Koitila has been thinking about where a person begins and ends; the bodily components, processes, and possible ongoing physical, but also mental illnesses. By combining different materials in her works, Koitila creates both physically and psychologically powerful layers.

Koitila has exhibited at: Skulptur i Pilane, Tjörn, Sweden 2024, Borgå Triennal, Porvoo 2024, Vidunderligheter, Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden 2022, Extensions, Sinne, Helsinki 2019, Crash of Air, Finnland-Institut, Berlin, Germany 2015, Time that Remains, Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki 2014. Koitila is part of the group exhibition Morbus currently shown at Villa Gyllenberg in Helsinki. 

She is represented in collections such as the Wihuri Foundation, the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, the Kiasma Seppo Fränti Collection, Pro Artibus, Borås Art Museum and in private collections. Public works in Finland are Kolonn (2022), Kulturcentret Fokus, Karjaa, Kunskapens Källa (2019), Vasa övningsskola, Vaasa, Ebb and River (2017), Stiftelsen Tre Smeder, Kvarteret Victoria, Helsinki.

The exhibition has been supported by Taike, Svenska Kulturfonden, Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland, Konstsamfundet and the City of Hanko.

Join us in a talk about sculpture in Swedish! The artist Ida Koitila invites you to a discussion about her new work in the exhibition Trunk on Sunday June 8 between 1 pm and 2 pm. The talk will be held in Swedish, but everyone is welcome to join in. You’re also welcome to just listen, or speak Finnish, English or German.

The exhibition Trunk explores the connection between faith and memory and asks the question of who we become when we forget what we once believed in. By talking about the works, new dimensions open up that fundamentally change them. Welcome!