Born in 1972
Lives and works in Raseborg (FI)
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TRAINING
Studied architecture and media at Alvar Aalto University (FI) and Edinburgh University (UK).
Her studies include architecture and media art in Aalto University and Edinburgh University.
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park Museum (JP) 2024 Gallery G12 Helsinki (FI)
2022 Gallery Laterna Magica, Helsinki (FI) Group show
2023 Savio Temporary: Kattaus Kerava, Finland (FI)
Since her residency in Shigaraki, Japan, in 2024, Merja Nieminen has been building her Fragile Architectures. Working mainly in porcelain, sometimes in stoneware, she creates structures that evoke unstable scaffolding or architectural forms reduced to their essentials - precarious constructions, oscillating between elevation and collapse. Some pieces are fired in an electric kiln, others in an unpredictable wood-fired(...)
Read the full text in the 2025 exhibition catalog
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