149. Nicolina Eklund – NESK

Address

Storagatan 18
22100 Mariehamn

Phone

00358405816999

Genre

Ceramics

Accessible for persons with reduced mobility

Information about the artist / the group

Nicolina Eklund is a ceramic artist who started her education at Ålands folkhögskolas departement of ceramics and ended it at Gerrit Rietveld Academies departementet of Fine arts in Amsterdam. After graduating 2016 she worked with performance with a base in Frankfurt and Bergamo/Milano and returned to the Aland islands and her pottery when the pandemic hit 2019.

Today she owns a small studio in the basement of an old historical house in Mariehamn where she produces sculptures that she calls Origin animals. The animals take shape as pure sculpture, lamps or a bowl and the essence is playful, yet they sometimes have a hidden message about relationships, to oneself or others. Like in her most popular sculpture Sambos (a Swedish term for living together) where two animals are stuck together.

Program during Konstrundan

There will be an exhibition in the garden and a mini workshop where the guest are tought how to create a tiny Origin animal and get to see the studio and kiln and how they work. Once they are glazed and fired a couple of weeks later the guests can come and pick them up via appointment.