Kristiina Mäenpää works with installation, sculpture, and techniques based on analog photography. Her site-sensitive works emphasize the dialogue between the artwork and the exhibition space, as well as the thematics of temporality and trace.

In addition to spatiality, the properties of materials and their associated meanings, such as their deep time histories, play a central role in her works. Materials she uses in her works, such as sand and salt, convey the idea of fragility of structures. Her works are also characterized by slow changes that occur during the exhibition due to the effects of the present conditions. The role of time in Mäenpää’s practice is to act as a kind of working partner and a way of approaching impermanence as a part of the natural course of life.

BIO
Kristiina Mäenpää (b.1990) is a Helsinki-based visual artist. The recent years her works have been exhibited at K17 – Space for art and ecology (Sipoo, 2025), Photographic Gallery Hippolyte (Helsinki, 2025), Helsinki art Museum’s HAM gallery (2024) and at galerié Anhava (Helsinki, 2023).
In 2024 Mäenpää was invited to Swedish Lapland AiR international network of artist residencies in Haparanda. Mäenpää received her MFA in Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki in 2023, and MA in Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in 2024. Her work is currently supported by the Kone Foundation