Maria Ylikoski (born in 1966) is an artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Along with photography she has made videos and video installations since 1998. In her videos she deals with themes like family relations, growing up, story telling and memory. Trial and error, chance and humor arising from tragicomic events are recurring elements in her videos. Her last three video works are portraits of people who have moved away to live in another country.
Currently Maria Ylikoski is working on another portrait, The Invisible One, a project dealing with her aunt´s heritage. She is using an archive of memories to create installations combining mixed media, photography, and moving images.
Ylikoski graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2011 with a master's degree in moving image. She has also studied photography in Turku School of Art and Communication (1995) and The School of Photography and Film at Gothenburg University (1998).
MARIA(@)MARIAYLIKOSKI.COM
Maria Ylikoski (born in 1966) is an artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Along with photography she has made videos and video installations since 1998. In her videos she deals with themes like family relations, growing up, story telling and memory. Trial and error, chance and humor arising from tragicomic events are recurring elements in her videos. Her last three video works are portraits of people who have moved away to live in another country.
Currently Maria Ylikoski is working on another portrait, The Invisible One, a project dealing with her aunt´s heritage. She is using an archive of memories to create installations combining mixed media, photography, and moving images.
Ylikoski graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2011 with a master's degree in moving image. She has also studied photography in Turku School of Art and Communication (1995) and The School of Photography and Film at Gothenburg University (1998).
Maria Ylikoski´s video works are presented on the site of AV Arkki, The Centre of Finnish Media Art.
MARIA(@)MARIAYLIKOSKI.COM