Veera Tamminen
b. 1988 in Helsinki
Veera Tamminen is a ceramic artist. She works project basedly in Helsinki, with full focus on different fields in ceramics, while creating her own body of work out of porcelain. She debuted with her first solo exhibition “Po & Po (Polaroid & Porcelain)” 18.11.2015 - 5.12.2015 in Gallery Katariina's Studio for Helsinki Artists' Society and she had her second “Pt. 2” in March 2017 at Myymälä2 Gallery.
Her works have been exhibited in several exhibitions both on abroad and in her homeland. She was one of the four young ceramic artists exhibiting their works at Arabia Art Society's Gallery in 2013 and her works were displayed in a juried ceramics exhibition at the historical ceramics museum in Ludwigsburg castle, Germany, in 2014. She was a part of the exhibition of Finnish contemporary ceramic art held at Helsinki Designmuseum in 2014-2015.
She graduated form Aalto University in 2015 and her MA thesis METHOD & LAYER studied how the internet tutorials of the ceramic surface techniques can be a part of a studio practice within ceramic art. The purpose of the study was to consider the mentality in the sharing of the ceramic material knowledge via the surface technique tutorials. In addition to the technical content, it’s notable how professional ceramic artists use the tutorial sharing internet platforms to connect with other professionals.
She worked on a project that brought a ceramic art exhibition for Porvoo Art Hall in Spring 2016, as a part of a long term collaboration between The Finnish Association of Designers Ornamo and the German Bund der Kunsthandwerker Baden-Württemberg e.V. She curated the Finnish designers’ attendance to Paris Design Week 2016 together with Estonian organisation NID, and she wanted to choose a selection especially from the field of Finnish contemporary studio ceramics to be included to the show. The objects created by the designers and the ceramic artists were exhibited together in order to refine the current in so called home objects or contemporary decoratifs at Cite de la Mode “NOW! Le off” exhibition.
She had her third solo exhibition PRIVÉ gathering around the public aspects of a private ongoing conversation, considering all the American aspects on love. The exhibition PRIVÉ included a guerilla zine/pamphlet, where the artist shared a private correspondence on consciousness, mind envy, and psyche. The exhibition was held in April 2018 at Kalleria.
Recently she wrote six articles on ceramic art; on personal aspects on communally grown knowledge, material mind hack, and the method for infinite source for glaze colours. The blog posts have already been seen by 500 viewers. She gave an artist lecture considering immaterial property rights over material, communally shared ceramic knowledge and open source mentality within ceramic art together with her fourth solo exhibition “Welcome to the real life according to somebody else” in Galleria Rantakasarmi in March 2020.
In Fall 2021 she was one of the almost 300 artists exhibiting at Art Hall Kohta, Helsinki, in the First International Festival of Manuports. Fall 2021 - Winter 2022 Tamminen was a part of Finnish Artists O and Fiber Art Sweden’s exhibition at Hanasaari, Helsinki. She gave an artist lecture about her artworks and on her latest blog article “The constructing of the ceramics knowledge”. She was also a finalist in Yingge Ceramics Museum COFFEE CUP exhibition and competition, exhibited in New Taipei, Taiwan.
In Fall 2021 she was one of the almost 300 artists exhibiting at Art Hall Kohta, Helsinki, in the First International Festival of Manuports. Fall 2021 - Winter 2022 Tamminen was a part of Finnish Artists O and Fiber Art Sweden’s exhibition at Hanasaari, Helsinki. She gave an artist lecture about her artworks and on her latest blog article “The constructing of the ceramics knowledge”. She was also a finalist in Yingge Ceramics Museum COFFEE CUP exhibition and competition, exhibited in New Taipei, Taiwan.
Within the context of design, Tamminen’s personal interest goes beyond the aspects of functionals, the individuality of a private and a refined style and taste, the material aesthetics, and of ceramic object as a multidimensional base for a vision.
For Tamminen, porcelain is a contemporary material with a remarkable history. She considers her figurative contemporary artworks to be statements of private and public subjects, such as domestic violence, psychosis, psyche and doom. She aims to illustrate the subjective moods and states of mind, emotions to be observed as objectively comfortable.