A Project with plant nursery at the Turku Botanical Garden to create therapeutic microforest for TYKS Compass Hospital, Turku, Finland – Nina Rantala

Nina Rantala is a Finnish visual artist and sculptor whose practice is rooted in interaction, embodied experience and our relationships with the environments we inhabit. Her work moves between the intimate and the planetary, bringing together participatory processes, sculpture and more-than-human perspectives.

Her current work explores our connections with soil and living environments, ranging from intimate bodily encounters to the creation of a therapeutic microforest for a psychiatric hospital. She is co-founder of the multidisciplinary collective Apart We Shall Perish.