Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen
The Pleasures We Choose, 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia at the Pavilion of Finland
© Photo by: Ugo Carmeni
How great is your darkness? Behind the scenes image
Could you watch my Mom for a moment? – Empathy object #3
Will You Marry Me, Space?
Will You Marry me Space?
Battle of Scarcity of Resources
© Photo by: Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen
Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen (b. 1974) is a multidisciplinary artist and disability activist. In 2024 she is one of three artists selected to the Pavilion of Finland at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. In 2019 Wallinheimo-Heimonen received the Finnish State Prize for Multidisciplinary Art and in 2018 her short film about care robotics won the Best Screenplay at Pisa Robotic Film Festival. Wallinheimo-Heimonen´s work spans from sculpture and film to performance and activism within disability politics and policy. She has facilitated social art workshops in Finland, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Estonia and China and participated in exhibitions in Finland and abroad. In 2022, Wallinheimo-Heimonen worked in the Harbourfront Centre Toronto artist residency as part of the Nordic Bridges programme; and participated in the 8th Biennial of Contemporary Art Fundación ONCE in Madrid. She holds a BA from Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Helsinki and has osteogenesis imperfecta as a piquant characteristic.
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Email: jenni-juulia@jenni-juulia.com
Website: https://www.jenni-juulia.com/
The Pleasures We Choose
Description: The exhibition speaks to the inseparability of art and life. It brings together three artists whose practices are acutely informed by their embodied experiences of structural, environmental and social imbalances in the world. In Lindman’s, Saumya’s and Wallinheimo-Heimonen’s practices, art, life and activism are consciously intertwined.
Extra information: Commissioner: Raija Koli, Frame Contemporary Art Finland
Curators: Yvonne Billimore & Jussi Koitela
Exhibitors: Pia Lindman, Vidha Saumya, Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen
Venue: Giardini
Freight: necessary
Freight details: Art installations
When the Diswasher Escaped/ Kun tiskikone karkasi
Duration: 10 minutes
Description: A video work and installation about a woman with visual impairment and her husband reminiscing about their wedding 50 years ago. They got married in secret and moved to Northern Finland. The film is screened on TV, in front of which is a curtain sewn from the lens of the glasses. The lense curtain enlarges, reduces and blurs the watching experience
Extra information: Length: 10:00 min
Language: Finnish
Captions: Finnish / English
Starring: Hannele and Jouko Penttinen
Direct, screenplay, camera, edit, art works: Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen
Audio description (Finnish) and AD voice over: Anu Aaltonen
Audio description consultant: Heikki Ekola
Audio description recording: Ville Liukkonen Art Lab
Freight: necessary
Will you Marry me Space?
Description: The European Space Agency’s para-astronaut project believes that people with disabilities have an important role in the development of universal safety standards and in upholding equality and human dignity across the final frontier. The top part of the installation talks about a para-astronaut on the way to the space, crossing the Final Frontier.
Extra information: Comissioned: HAM Helsinki Art Museum for Pehmo / Softy -exhibition 5.11.2022-16.4.2023, curator Sanna Tuulikangas
Technical production: Verstas Helsinki Oy
Further information available here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/hn6t1sy0tpc6y7rpoej6c/AEXHDUukMGSJpGKOG5DVFus?dl=0&e=1&preview=WillYouMarryMeSpace.pdf&rlkey=iuaxm02revrw4xq2q3pzrjw1b&st=g250kh12
Freight: necessary
Freight details: Art installations
Latest Video
Tuuli Helle is a 83-year-old grandmother, living with cognetic cerebral palsy. 2016 The Finnish government announced that after 2019 it will not provide personal assistance for people over 75 years of age. In the film, Tuuli tells about her childhood and adult life without personal assistance. She performs a rap song against financial cuts and writes a letter to Juha Rehula, the Minister of Family Affairs and Social Services.
Three women talk about their film "Reflector of Living Will". How they invented the idea of protector robots for the elderly and people with disabilities. The film (not available in the internet) won the Best Screenplay Award at Pisa Robot Film festival 2018. It was also a Semi Finalist in Social Machinery Film Festival 2018. The original film was produced with the support of Kone Foundation.
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