BIOGRAPHY
Noora Palmu is a Finnish multidisciplinary artist living and working in Helsinki, Finland. She is working with the mediums of installation, ceramics, photography, painting, performance and street art. She has completed a Master of Arts (MA) at The Department of Arts, Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
In my artistic work, I want to bring out things that remain unsaid and describe relationships of influence that have no room for public discussion. I get excited about the environment, I’m fascinated by community spirit, relationships with nature and interaction in society. I am interested in the wishes, attitudes and fears of people in relation to environmental change. These relations and backgrounds of the communities and people are often represented in my works. In my art you can see the traces of environmental activism and the search for interaction with the viewers and experiencers of art.
CV
Exhibitions / publications
Lichen work – Travaille des lichens
Fossil lichen chain I – IV, ceramics
Gallery Azul Berlin, Germany 12.2. – 24.3.2026
Lichen works, ceramics and watercolor paintings
Ideas in Bloom -group exhibition
A+ Gallery Helsinki, Finland 5.11. – 19.11.2025
Mainstreams -installation
World tree – Mundus Arbore exhibition by Mycelium group
Voipaala Art Centre, Valkeakoski, Finland
20.9. – 16.11.2025
From lichen deserted areas to loss of trees
HAA gallery, Suomenlinna C1, Helsinki
30.1. – 22.2.2025
Lichen work – Travaille des lichens
Open studio 16.10.2024, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France
Residency period: 2.8. – 27.12.2024
the Carbon – le Carbone
performance, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France
25.8.2024
The New Shores -installation
Olohuone gallery, shopping centre Redi, Helsinki
1.2. – 26.2.2024
The Atlantis of the Americas I -installation
Accidental Danger, group exhibition
Voipaala Art Centre, Valkeakoski, Finland
2.12.2023 – 4.2.2024
The Atlantis of the Americas II -installation
Art Tube 2 group exhibition
Pärnu City Gallery, Estonia
29.9. – 22.10.2022
Living and Dying (2021) – photo essay in publication:
Decolonizing Nature Conservation – Towards Convivial Conservation
www.siemenpuu.org/fi/publication/luonnonsuojelun-dekolonisaatio
The Atlantis of the Americas I -installation and Future workshops
group exhibition, Gallery Aarni, Espoo
30.6. – 28.7.2021
Floodwaters -installation, group exhibition
29.1. -21.2.2021 – Gallery Black Wall, Vaasa
17.6. – 12.7.2020 – Gallery Varikko, Seinäjoki
Wild nature in climate change
Street art, Arts Path in Alppiharju, Helsinki 5/2019
The Gold of Kaapelinkulma –serie of photographs
1. – 15.9.2019, Hall gallery, Culture House Laikku, Tampere, Finland
2020-2021, Exhibited in Library gallery in Jyväskylä, Hamina and Hanko
What would you leave? / Mitä sinä pakenisit?
performance group New People / Uudet Ihmiset
12.2.2018 Kiasma, Helsinki
21.4.2018 Social forum Finland, Arbis, Helsinki
23.8.2018 Night of the Art, Helsinki
The Sink Mural –mural painting, Icaraí, Ceará, Brazil
12/2018
Climate Change Europe –installation & Climate Change –workshop
4. – 5.7.2017 Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
20. – 22.10.2017 Meriharju nature youth centre, Helsinki, Finland
Latin Atlantis –installation
26. – 28.5.2017 World in Village –festival, Kaisaniemi, Helsinki
24. – 25.5.2014 World in Village –festival
19. – 26.9.2014 Media Art Up! Media Art exhibition, Cable factory, Tiivistämö and Puristamo Helsinki
Education
Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture 2003 – 2008
Master of Art, Department of Art
Minor Studies: New Media, Medialab
Gender Studies, University of Helsinki
Exchange studies: Brazil 2006 – 2007
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
Karelia University of Applied Sciences 2000 – 2003
Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts and Communication
Exchange studies: ArtEZ, The Netherlands 2002
State Academy of Art and Design, St. Petersburg, Russia 2002
STATEMENT
Through art I make stories about environmental change, my artworks are dealing with the human footprint on the Earth. I am inspired by nature and different relations to it. I aim to understand symbiotic interactions and hopes of communities for the future in a changing environment. In my works, people, the environment and the state of change are present in different ways.
My interest in trees and urban nature led me to work with lichens. The symbiotic nature of lichens, being both fungi, yeast and algae, fascinated me with its versatility. Lichens are indicators of the surroundings, when we lose lichens in cities, we will lose a healthy environment. By forming clay, I deal with emotions about societies and their connection to nature.
