On this portfolio you’ll find some of the various projects I have been working with during my career. This page introduces projects in chronological order. In the menu you’ll find labels “sculpture”, “social art” and “research & development”, if you prefer to browse the works in categories.
Collaboration with Oona?
Finnish word “vikuri” means a horse, which is a bit tricky but still manageable. Vikuri is curious and energetic, having its own insight and whims but at the same time being relatively easy to co-operate with. Oona Tikkaoja‘s Vikuri projects comment various phenomena with curiosity, open-mindness and joy. Oonas main interests and strenghts are: > using artistic thinking for development…
Valkeavuoren muut maailmat / The Other Worlds of Valkeavuori
Community art work 2024-2025 for a school campus in Kaarina, Finland.More information (in Finnish): https://muutmaailmat.fi/
Kulttuurieläin / Cultural Animal
Kulttuurieläin Oy is a company for art and culture projects made with humans and other animals. More information (in Finnish): https://kulttuurielain.com
Ryöppy
2025. A public sculpture located in Piispanlähde school in Kaarina, Finland Materials: hand-painted recycled bicycle parts & laser-cut aluminium
Cover image of a publication
“New plan”, a cover image of a publication Kumman äärellä / Weaving the Threads of the Impossible, edited by Marja-Liisa Honkasalo, Kia Andell & Leena Rouhiainen, 2023. Made with mage.space https://nivel.teak.fi/nivel19/
Olin täällä – Jag var här / I was here
A permanent community art work in a school campus in Tuusula. Published in 2024. During the spring 2023 artists Oona Tikkaoja and Veera Vähämaa held 6 workshops for 5-12 years old children participating in day care or school in Tuusula. The participants made stories and small wax sculptures, which will be cast in bronze and…
Luovat web3-ajassa – Unelmia, haasteita ja ansaintamahdollisuuksia
Articles in a publication about creativity in the web3 era. Download the publication:https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-328-395-4 Web3 on tällä hetkellä nopeasti kasvava alue ja toimintatapa, jossa hajautetut järjestelmät korjaavat nykyisten web2-järjestelmien toimintatapoja sekä työnjaollisia ja omistajuuteen liittyviä lähtökohtia. Taiteilijat ovat yksi edelläkävijöiden joukko web3-tuotteiden rakentajina. Siksi myös hyvillä digitaidoilla varustetuilla suomalaisilla nuorilla on vahvaa potentiaalia globaaleiksi metaversumin toimijoiksi.Tämä…
Pikkupedot / Little Predators
Series of soft sculptures which are 3D scanned to NFTs. 2022 – More information about the sculptures on online art shop Taiko and about the NFTs on Objkt.com
Planning and Creating Virtual Events –Experiences, Economics and Technical Solutions
A virtual event management handbook edited by Satu Lautamäki & Oona Tikkaoja Planning and Creating Virtual Events is a practical handbook aimed to help to recognize and solve the central questions in virtual event management. It is a result of an EU project Vevent – Boosting the Virtual Event Industry, which took place 2021-2022. In the…
Villiviini / Vine
A proposal for Runosmäki multi-purpose house 2021. This proposal was not selected to be implemented, but it fulfilled well the criteria. Read the proposal here
Reality Tinkering – An Artistic Approach to the Abundance of the Familiar
Artistic Doctor of Art dissertation / Aalto University, Finland. Published 2021. Read the publication here!
Artis Libris
Artis Libris is a game which helps to formulate ideas for organising cultural and art content in libraries, planned in a work group (Geir Byrkjeland, Antti Hintsa, Jenni Latva, Jimmy Pulli and Oona Tikkaoja). It was commissioned by the Library of Vaasa together with The Arts Promotion Center TAIKE in 2019.
Piiloleikki / OnSiteStories
Piiloleikki a project started by Oona Tikkaoja in 2011. It produces a continuously growing art piece: local art-paths, which are made of sculptural marks made by different participants and combined to a network via a digital map. The marks can be casted in bronze, 3D printed or they can be immaterial stories, which will be…
Yhteispeli / Playing Well Together
An art game for (work) communities. The concept was developed as a part of IRM-Tool EU project in 2019. The game encourages its participants to make small tasks which boosts positive social relationships and creative atmosphere in the workplace. Below longer description in Finnish: Yhteispeli, konseptin esittely Yhteispeli on taidepeli, joka tukee yhteisöllisyyttä ja verkostoitumista, tuo…
Kaikki voittaa / Everybody Wins
Everybody Wins is an art game for two or more players. In a valise there are different materials in small boxes. These materials are tactile and odorous, so they activate many senses. All players have their own turn to pick up something from the boxes and locate it to the “game board” which will also…
Apilaniitty / The Clover Meadow
Apilaniitty (2018) is a public sculpture at the yard of a kindergarten in Laitila, Finland made together with sculptor Ann Sundholm. The clover sculptures are 250-300 cm tall, and there will be a meadow of red and white clovers planted around the sculptures. The sculpture was published in 2018, but the plants need couple of…
Portaali / Portal
A proposal for an art competition in Redi, Helsinki 2017.This sculpture was not implemented. Teoksen esittelymateriaali (in Finnish)
Helix
Helix is a public sculpture commissioned by the city of Espoo for a new hospital building opening on 2017.
Out of the Blue
Site-specific installation in the Objekti 2016 exhibition in the center of Espoo, Finland // Taped images of fish on the windows of the corridor of Espoo station. // Photos: Pekka Tallqvist
Silver Box
An artist book for the Liber Mundi project Silver box consists of 3 triangular shaped accordion books in a carton box. Size 9 x 9 cm, 2016
PaPu – Playable Sculpture
2016 Playground sculpture in Kupittaa park / Turku, Finland. Commissioned by the city of Turku. Collaborating artists: Jan-Erik Andersson, Eero Merimaa, Jani Rättyä, Ann Sundholm, Oona Tikkaoja. The playground sculpture was planned as an open co-operation process with 5 Turku-based artists and the (child) residents of the city. More information (in Finnish): https://www.facebook.com/patsaspuistoturku
Hyvinvoinnin välitystoimisto
Agency for Cultural Well-being EU project, 2015-2017 I worked as co-managerin the project which promoted productizing and marketing art-based services to the social and healthcare sector. Project partners: Humak University of Applied Sciences, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Saimaa University of Applied Sciences, Jyväskylä University, Arts Promotion Centre Finland. More info (in Finnish): http://www.hvvt.fi https://www.facebook.com/hyvinvoinninvalitystoimisto
8x8x8
2014 A game about the fine line between “normal” and the other possibilities in the everyday life. More info: http://branchingrealities.com/8-x-8-x-8/
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2014 Installation with variable measures. Aluminium, acrylic, polycarbonate, plywood. Photos from Mänttä Art Festival, Finland 2014.
Killer Robot
Textile sculpture, part of the series Killer Robot vs. Robot Killer. Height 300 cm Originally exhibited in gallery Sculptor, Helsinki 2005. Participated 10/2015 – 2/2016 in the Amos Platform programme in the Forum shopping center in Helsinki, which is a co-operation project of Amos Anderson Art Museum and the shopping center).
Unelma
Daydream 2012 Public, movable sculpture. Commission of the Helsinki Art Museum. Located in Siltasaarenkatu, Helsinki 12-13 and Sitratori, Helsinki 13 –
A Girl’s Best Friend
2011, wearable sculpture Photos: Mari Metsämäki
Piiloleikki
Hide and Seek 2011 Public sculpture series made in co-operation with children. Commission of the city of Turku. More info (in Finnish): https://www.turku.fi/vapaa-aika/kulttuuri/kulttuurikuntoilu/piiloleikki
ABMO
2010 My Master’s work for the Finnish Art Academy Interactive story of a living sculpture. Master’s Thesis: Abmo (in Finnish) Photos from the exhibition in gallery Becker, Jyväskylä, Finland 2008.
Visual Artist Oona Tikkaoja 