Bio

Antti Immonen (b. 1973, Kuopio, Finland) is a sculptor who works with various metal and plastic materials, combining craftsmanship with contemporary and experimental fabrication techniques. His inspiration draws from the history of sculpture, scientific discoveries, and science fiction. Immonen’s works are often structurally complex and explore the relationship between biology and technology.

Since 1996, he has held numerous solo and group exhibitions. Immonen graduated as a sculptor from the Kankaanpää Art School in 1997. He has completed several public art commissions, including Odd Cup of Coffee (2019), commissioned by the Helsinki Art Museum for Vuosaari’s Kahvikortteli, and his most recent work Echoes of the Sawmill (2025) in Joensuu.

Immonen has received the William Thuring Award from the Finnish Art Society and a grant from the Raimo Utriainen Foundation. His works are included in the collections of the Finnish State Art Collection, the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, the Helsinki Art Museum (HAM), and the Sara Hildén Foundation. He served as chairperson of Ars Libera – Kuopio Artists’ Association from 2007 to 2008 and is a member of the Association of Finnish Sculptors and Dimensio Association.

Artist Statement

I seek to create sculptures that are not static blocks but something freer and more alive. My works are conceived as distinct objects, yet they remain visually dynamic – complex and baroque in their movement and form.

I work with a variety of materials, primarily stainless steel, aluminium, and plastics. My sculptures are assembled from smaller components joined by welding, screws, bolts, or adhesives. Sometimes there are only a few parts, while in other works there may be hundreds. In these cases, the essence lies in the dialogue between structure and repetition – in how the whole emerges from the sum of its parts.

The forms I use are largely organic: spherical, coiled, folded, branching, and undulating. Alongside these, I often employ geometric structures – polyhedral and triangle-based networks reminiscent of computer graphics modeling. The interplay between organic and geometric form creates contrast, tension, and dialogue, reflecting the balance between order and chaos found in natural processes.

Through these forms I aim to express a vision of nature as a state of constant transformation, endlessly generating new phenomena from recurring patterns. Nature serves both as inspiration and as a model of process – where repeated structures and small variations continually give rise to new combinations.

My working process is experimental and intuitive, balancing construction and deconstruction. I allow room for chance and for the work to find its own direction. The finished sculpture becomes a still frame of this ongoing, playful investigation – a momentary configuration within an infinite continuum of change.

– Antti Immonen