FOREST CAMP

Forest Camp is a group of five visual artists living in Finland. The strategy we use in our art projects: partly improvised anonymous collectivism.

A text on KAKUTUS by Pontus Kyander:
A recipe for Sand Cakes

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Upcoming:

Avoin ikkuna

in:

Future Committee
8.7.-13.8.2017

Gallery Lapinlahti Lapinlahdentie 1, 2. floor, 00180 Helsinki The exhibitions are open:
tue – fri: 12am – 6pm, sat – sun: 12am – 5pm

Gallery Lapinlahti

Past:

L'odeur de l'espace

5000m2, Lappeenranta, 2016

Kakutus

Acciaroli, Italy , 2014

Kakutus-sand sculpture action happened in Acciaroli town in Campania region, Italy.

Salt Lick

Söderlångvik Museum, exhibition hall, 2010

The works were made in collaboration with elks and deer living in the forests surrounding the museum.

Nokia Park 2007

Nokia park, Helsinki,2007

Forest Camp was invited to participate in a Art School MAA project which took place in Nokia park in Helsinki. Nokia park was a small derelict plot of waste land in Helsinki which was cleaned up by the MAA students and is now turning into a place for artistic events and concerts.

FC Nokia park 2007 is a wine made out of the sap of the Birch trees growing in the park. The sap was collected before the park was cleaned and the wine was ready for consumption at the opening party of the Nokia park-project.

Kakutus.

Pihlajasaari, Terrortory, MUU, Helsinki, 2006

Kakutus-sand sculpture action happened in Pihlajasaari. The work took all night and was completed in the morning just before the first tourist boat arrived on the island.

Villa Nova

Villa Nova and Kiasma, Helsinki, 2006

A collaboration with men living in a hostel for marginalized people. A public piece is made for the renovated hostel in Myllypuro, Helsinki. A sculpture made by FC and the men and documentation of the process was presented in Kiasma Rear window as a part of ARS06

Kulta Palmu / Palma d'Oro

The Finnish Institute Madrid, Spain, 2003

A installation including sand sculptures and a 30 min video documentation of a poster on the wall of Kultapalmu bar in Helsinki.

Walk of Fame

Haaste City Art Project, Tampere, 2003

5 tons of concrete was cast in to a pit dug on a pedestrian road in Tampere. Before the concrete dried, a camp fire was burned on top of it. One of the organizers of Haaste, drove twice over the Walk of Fame with her bicycle as she was trying to find the artwork.

Forest Camp Mohni

Mohni International Live Arts project, Mohni Estonia, 2003

During one week on the island of Mohni FC made three works: 1. FC Mohni, a red mooring buoy was placed on the best mooring point of Mohni island. 2. After the Soviet troops retrieved they took down all the electric cables from the buildings by the Mohni lighthouse. A String For Swallows was hung for the remaining population of swallows. 3. A smoke sauna was built from scrap found on the island.

Tudor Style

Zvartava Castle park, Latvia, 2002

A old bench near the Zvartava castle was burned by FC and replaced by a new one in tudor style.

Ping Pong

Polis, Titanik, Turku, 2001

During the Polis city sculpture-project a concrete element for making wells was heated by burning two cubic meters of birch firewood in it. The burning took over 24 hours.

King Kong by Forest Camp

Linna Galleri, Tallinn, Estonia, 2000

Linna Galleri was made smaller by building new walls inside the exhibition space. As the new walls were 1m inwards from the old ones everybody visiting the gallery felt a bit bigger than before.

Forest Camp

Gallery Kari Kenetti, Helsinki, 1998

Works based on the first FC sessions.

Forest Camp

Lusto, Finnish Forest Museum, Punkaharju, 1998

The First Forest Camp. During two weeks FC made several site specific art works including the first sandcastle actions and fireplace sessions.