Artist from Espoo, Finland
Contact: emma.jaaskelainen@gmail.com
Selected works and exhibitions:
Kiasma Commission by Kordelin 2.6.2020-10.1.2021 Kiasma museum of contemporary art, Helsinki, Finland
Emma Jääskeläinen’s artwork Proper Omelette is a sculpture family whose parts spread out through Kiasma’s lobby and the 2nd-floor balcony. The work consists of two stone sculptures, a textile piece, and a bronze sculpture.
The starting point for the sculptures is the human body and the experiences embedded in its memory. Physical tiredness, sweating, and aches are also part of a sculptor’s work
Photos: Kansallisgalleria, Petri Virtanen
Proper Omelette
Eggs-files,2020: Bronze, collected stone eggs: 170cmx30cm
Protector and Black Pepper, 2020: Travertine Noce, found stone, wool: 270cmx110cmx90cm
Heavy pick, 2020: Norwegian Rose marble, found stones, collected stone eggs: 120cmx130cmx110cm
Sunset Sweater, 2020: wool, aluminium, New Years tin stone eggs: 500cmx50cm
TIZZICATO: Solo show, Turku Old Townhouse gallery, 2018.
Fiddles, 2018: Marble: 30x24x27cm.
Big nose, 2018: Bronze, marble dust: 6x4x8cm.
Curse, 2018: Bronze, seashells, earring: 11x1x14cm.
Sweet Chili, 2018: Bronze, seashells, stones, chili: 34x30x2cm.
Sudoku, 2018: Marble: 30x50x55cm.
Holding a dirty thought, 2017: Norwegian rose marble, seashell: 18x42x18cm
Spagat, 2018: Norwegian Rose marble: 20x150x25cm.
Tit, little bitch sittin´, 2018: Paper mache, found nipple stone, branch: 7x6x16cm.
Nest, 2018: Found stone, hair collected from the shower, seashells: 6x12cm.
photo: Pauli Talpola
Creator (New potato & olive), 2017: Norwegian Rose marble, jadeite, found stone. 110x70x35cm.
According to shadow, 2017: Marble, granite, dolomite hair: 6x11x14cm. 
Pocket monument, 2016: Marble, wax, string, tape: 3x5x9cm. 
Jam, 2016: Rosa Asiago limestone, wax, earplugs: 3x6x9cm.
Peaches, 2017: Norwegian Rose marble.
Night call (at the back)2017:aluminium, velvet: 4x4x300cm.
Holding a dirty thought, 2017: Norwegian Rose marble: 18x42x18cm.
Edelweiss: found stone. 8x22x18cm. 2016
Memory of stone 2016: Acrylic: 100x120cm. 2016
3 min. video loop on ipad: We ran out of gas. A miniature sculpture traveling on a table in a train.
Photos: HAM, MAija Toivanen
Cargo 2016: Norwegian Rose marble, coaster (pallet), string. 8x12x7cm.
photo: Petri Summanen
Grand meré, 2017: Marble, guilded yogamat: 50x80x70cm.
Where did you go?, 2016: Acrylic, sofa: 100x120x95cm.
Balloon, string, wallplaster, latex, pigment.
Läps!, 2015: one hour video loop. I invited people in a room to touch the sculpture. People chose how to interact with the object and for how long.
IMG_1114 from Emma Jääskeläinen on Vimeo.
Cheeks, 2016 Flow festival. The sculpture reacted to the surrounding sounds and music played in the space.
Club Guggenheim, 2015 Helsinki. A conversation piece.
Selected group shows
Rauma Triennale Balticum, 2019: Group exhibition curated by Anna Vihma & Anna-Kaisa Koski.
NABIL BOUTROS (EG/FR), EMMA JÄÄSKELÄINEN, HERTTA KIISKI, MAIJA LUUTONEN, PAULIEN OLTHETEN (NL), SARI PALOSAARI, MARTHA ROSLER (US), JAAN TOOMIK (EE) ja ELINA VAINIO.
https://www.raumatriennale.fi
Head and Shoulders, 2018: group exhibition, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki. Artists: Dylan Ray Arnold & Ocèane Bruel, Lasse Juuti & Emma Jääskeläinen, Iiris Kaarlehto & Inka Kynkäänniemi
Works of H&S exhibition in collaboration with Lasse Juuti
Head & Shoulders brings together works from three collaborative practices. The exhibition is an invitation to the shared nature of living and leaving. We are at home, at your place, the waiting room, the port or beyond, saturated with stories, kind of ruins.
Couches are common words. We can store our affects in and share the cloud above. While we still have hair, let’s use our hands. Head & Shoulders nourishes, takes care, heals and irritates. Working with each other encourages us to extend our intimacies towards a common ground, through frictions and excitements. A collective vision is a precarious moving composition. In Exhibition Laboratory it becomes space, forms, materials and images.
Sittin´, 2018: Aluminium, felt.
Heavy thinker, 2018: Acrylic on canvas, towel fabric.
Pig tail, 2018: Ripped t-shirt, aluminium, bronze.
Marlboro-mies, 2018: aluminium, candle.
DUUO, 2018: Aluminium
Sofa-pitch-split, 2018: Wood, felt, fabric, diary.
(Dylan Ray Arnold’s and Ocèane Bruel’s concrete cast on top.)
Submarine, 2018: IKEA bag, wood, stone.
Pictures of the show: http://tzvetnik.online/portfolio_page/head-shoulders-at-exhibition-laboratory/
Kuvan Kevät 2017: Master´s degree show, University of the Arts, Helsinki.
Bob, 2017: Rosa Asiago limestone: 30x40x18cm.
Vulva made of chewing gum was added on the sculpture at random times.
Peaches, 2017: Norwegian Rose marble.
Job, 2016: Granite, lemons, string, cap: 20x95cm.
Photos: Pauli Tapola, Petri Summanen