The queen of Denmark asked my friend, Mari Keto, to make a portrait of her. It's being unveiled today in Copenhagen. I was invited to go to meet the queen at the inauguration, but skipped it because of the hurry with the bullet works. Now I'm regretting my choice. Happily, Mari will have an exhibiti... Read more

Today we were shooting bullets at my framed art works at a shooting range in Helsinki. I am continuing the assassination of food mascots. I invited some friends, Elina Knihtilä, Riku Nieminen, Joonas Kota, Riikka Hyvönen and Vesa Rahkola, to shoot some holes in my art works. Tried and failed to g... Read more

Today I went to get all the papers from the police related to the kidnapping of Ronald McDonald. I had lunch at the railway station McDonald's, ordered a Big Hot Jalapeno meal with fries and organic milk and read the hilarious 66-page package. It includes, for example, 35 pages of images of confisca... Read more

I had a meeting with Finland's third biggest outdoor advertising company. They want to do a project with me, and gladly give me freedom to do whatever I want. I also got the keys to our new studio. We start moving next week. Read more

Last Saturday I was interviewed by the STT news agency about the influence of American culture on Finnish art. The USA inspires me because it's such a perfect imperfect society. It contains so many things I'm fighting against with my art. Extreme poverty combined with incredible wealth, xenophobia, ... Read more

Last Thursday I got a call from my future gallerist Isabelle Bscher (my Zurich gallerist's daughter), asking me to send works for a show in St. Moritz in two weeks. She wanted about 15 works, I had 5 ready. Now we've been working super hard to get the show ready, and to my surprise it seems we'll ha... Read more

Today I had a lunch with Paavo Arhinmäki. We had an interesting talk about cultural exports even though I was very hungover. We had a spontaneuous night out with Aki Arjola and Joonas Kota last night. Had a few too many so it was good to meet my minister. Read more

I've been asked to participate in a project where pictures of the two Finnish Presidential candidates, Sauli Niinistö and Pekka Haavisto, have been cut into squares and each square given to a Finnish artist to paint in their own style. I was given a piece of conservative candidate Niinistö's mouth, ... Read more

I was on the jury for the VORY students' photography exhibition, alongside Veli Granö and Marjaana Kella. The quality of work from the participating students was stunning. For once there were more good applicants than exhibition space. Read more

From the start I had the feeling there's something not quite right about this exhibition project at MoCa Shanghai.  I recently realized that it was becoming too much like a Marimekko advertising campaign, and I personally believe nothing like that should be organized in a museum, least of all at a c... Read more