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Mikko Maki

Helsinki, Finland
Mikko Maki is Helsinki (and occasionally Tbilisi) -based researcher, writer, and curator. Scenographic contemporary art, the built environment’s role in political conflicts, and forgotten objects and ruins within cities’ landscapes are my wider conceptual and theoretical interests. My work usually operates between contemporary art and architecture with a strong research element.

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Taking care of the forgotten graves


How hosting an exhibition on different alterations of care at Helsinki Hietaniemi cemetery will change the ways to think about common space?

Taking care of the forgotten graves


How hosting an exhibition on different alterations of care at Helsinki Hietaniemi cemetery will change the ways to think about common space?
Propagating new forms of care in a relation to art/architecture gestures within cemetery surroundings.
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The role of the cemetery in urban fabric is in many ways exceptional. Cemeteries are ad-free spaces, with an existential undertone always present. They are common spaces for past and existing generations.

Like in the cities, some buildings can be ruined or abandoned, within cemeteries, some graves can be forgotten or non-cared. The proposed idea, an on-going project, is based on taking care of something that is usually reserved for the family members only, care towards the grave. Forgotten graves can be ‘remembered’ by giving them impersonal, yet gentle, contemporary art/architectural care.

The project argues that a cemetery has a lot of potentials to host different types of pleasant activities. In this case, it is done by ‘grave-slot-based’ art/architecture, which adds contemporary layers as a form of an exhibition to the forgotten parts of the cemetery. These gestures will propagate a new type of care and a new spatial place to exhibit.

First grave for ‘grave-slot-based’ care.

Taking care of the forgotten graves


How hosting an exhibition on different alterations of care at Helsinki Hietaniemi cemetery will change the ways to think about common space?

Taking care of the forgotten graves


How hosting an exhibition on different alterations of care at Helsinki Hietaniemi cemetery will change the ways to think about common space?
Propagating new forms of care in a relation to art/architecture gestures within cemetery surroundings.
File under
Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

The role of the cemetery in urban fabric is in many ways exceptional. Cemeteries are ad-free spaces, with an existential undertone always present. They are common spaces for past and existing generations.

Like in the cities, some buildings can be ruined or abandoned, within cemeteries, some graves can be forgotten or non-cared. The proposed idea, an on-going project, is based on taking care of something that is usually reserved for the family members only, care towards the grave. Forgotten graves can be ‘remembered’ by giving them impersonal, yet gentle, contemporary art/architectural care.

The project argues that a cemetery has a lot of potentials to host different types of pleasant activities. In this case, it is done by ‘grave-slot-based’ art/architecture, which adds contemporary layers as a form of an exhibition to the forgotten parts of the cemetery. These gestures will propagate a new type of care and a new spatial place to exhibit.

First grave for ‘grave-slot-based’ care.

Idea by

Mikko Maki
Helsinki
Finland
Mikko Maki is Helsinki (and occasionally Tbilisi) -based researcher, writer, and curator. Scenographic contemporary art, the built environment’s role in political conflicts, and forgotten objects and ruins within cities’ landscapes are my wider conceptual and theoretical interests. My work usually operates between contemporary art and architecture with a strong research element.
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