ART TRAIL 2023 OLD HARBOUR

The Art Trail in Old Harbour is an international environmental art event, which shows contemporary art of high quality in Jakobstad. The Art Trail presents 8 international artists. Their outdoor works will be displayed in a subtle dialoge with the surrounding environment and its unique ecosystem. of the harbour forest. The first works can be experienced along Gamla Hamnsvägen and the Repslagarbanan from mid-June.

Already to be seen:

RI EUNG-WOO from South Korea, uses only natural elements in his artwork. His artistic theme is “man and nature” which is based on old oriental philosophy, when man still lived as a collector and was part of nature.

HELINÄ HUKKATAIVAL’s art is usually about life seen through the eyes of a woman. Despite an everyday starting point, the inner logic of the works is surprising, perhaps even dreamlike, and they are open to the viewer’s interpretations.

UTE RITSCHEL is a German curator, cultural anthropologist and artist. For more than 20 years, she has worked with a series of performative dinners that she calls “Eating art” and “A table for art”. She maps the terrain before dinner and collects materials from nature to make various site-specific compositions.

CHIA-HUI LUO is a contemporary artist from Taiwan. In her site-specific installations, various local histories are interwoven. She wants to revive memories, both personal, but also public memories by combining different techniques and elements.

AMARSAIKHAN NAMSRAIJAV from Mongolia tries through the lifestyle of the nomadic culture to spread knowledge about how to live in harmony with nature and how to live nature-friendly even in the future. Embracing and keeping the nomadic tradition alive is one of the main aims of Amarsaikhan Namsraijav’s nomad project.

Third group, opening FRIDAY, 18.8.2023
16:00 Artist Talk at the City library in Jakobstad
about 5:10 pm Guided tour through the Art Trail at the Old Harbour. Start from the activity park.
From 6 pm join the party at FBK-festplan. Bring your own Picnic (snacks and drinks)

SALLY KIDALL from Australia makes large, site-specific and conceptual installations, beyond the confines of the gallery. She explores metaphorical spaces and environments, as well as the anxiety and uncertainty that exists in today’s society, especially in the face of climate change.

THOMAS MAY is the founder of Das GrashalmInstitut, through which he investigates the relationship between man and grass. In his installations, he designs various grass forms, which are affected by light, wind, temperature, precipitation, and show the thin line between life and death.

PIRKO JULIA SCHRÖDER works with space, time, impermanence, starting from the everyday. It’s all about tracks. About reading the signs left behind by people and animals. What can this tell us about a place? Structures and phenomena created by people are her artistic focus.

VEIKKO BJÖRK Finland is a visual artist who works with environmental art, sculptures, and installations. He is based in Helsinki, Finland. In his environmental artworks he tries to blur the confrontation between man and nature. In previous works, he has criticized man’s insane destruction of the environment.

ANNELI HOLMSTRÖM Finland is a Scottish-Finnish visual artist living in Pietarsaari. Through a multidisciplinary approach she is interested in the many ways in which a story can be told and constructed and how this works across different art media.

Gamla Hamnens Konststig 2023 is curated by Rita Leppiniemi and produced by OUR AIR, in collaboration with Staden Jakobstad.