Alkovi
Alkovi (Helsinki)
Alkovi is a 8 meters wide display window art space situated in the corner of a square in Kallio district in Helsinki, Finland.
Proposal
The practices of artists dylan ray arnold, Océane Bruel and Mia Wennerstrand are placed on view together for this occasion taking conceptual support from the aspect of ’residual’.
dylan ray arnold (b.1982, Helsinki, FI) is a visual artist based in Helsinki working with sculpture, assemblage, drawing, and installation. Their work connects to the material-poetic aspects of everyday lived environments, weaving together mental and physical spaces. dylan’s practice also includes an ongoing collaboration (Touristes Tristes) with artist Océane Bruel. Their works have been exhibited in solo-, duo- and group-exhibitions in Finland: SIC space (2025), OK11 (2025), Forum Box (2023), HAM gallery (2020), Turku Art Hall (2020); Sweden: Galleri CC (2024); Estonia: Hobusepea galerii (2023), Tallinn Art Hall (2019); France: In extenso (2024), Pauline Perplexe (2022) and GlassBox (2019). Dylan’s works are present in the collection of Kiasma – Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki Art Museum, the Saastamoinen Foundation, Kuvataideakatemia, as well as several private collections. In 2021 they have been awarded the Raimo Utriainen stipend for emerging sculptor based in Finland.
(b. 1991, Montpellier, France) is a visual artist based in Helsinki working with sculpture and installation. With a material-poetic approach that draws on everyday affects and corporality, she creates works that hold fragility and resistance, where time, memory, and attention become form. Alongside a solo practice, she maintains a long-term collaboration with the artist dylan ray arnold. Her work has been presented in solo and duo exhibitions in Finland and internationally, including at SIC, Helsinki, FI (2025), In extenso, Clermont-Ferrand, FR (2024), Helsinki Art Museum Gallery, FI (2020), La BF15, Lyon, FR (2020), Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK (2020). Her work has also been shown in group exhibitions across Finland, the Nordic and Baltic countries, Germany and France, (e.g. at Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum, FI, CHART Emerging – Kunsthal Charlottenborg, DK, Fondation d’Entreprise Pernod Ricard, FR). Bruel’s works are present in the collection of Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki Art Museum, the Saastamoinen Foundation, as well as several private collections. In 2021 she was awarded the Raimo Utriainen stipend for emerging sculptor based in Finland.
For the past 15 years, artist Mia Wennerstrand (born in Finland) has been centering intimacy. Her body of work includes confessional single-channel videos, poems-cum-residency-reports, diaristic exhibitions, essays, and intense solo performances. In addition to major Finnish art institutions, her works have been presented at e.g. Babycastles, New York, FACT, Liverpool, Assembly Point, London, and online by Rhizome and NTS Radio. For 2023-2025, she’s kindly supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland. In 2022, Wennerstrand was awarded State Art Prize for Media Art.
