Outi Leinonen: To Take Flight, 2000. © Photo: HAM Helsinki Art Museum / Hanna Kukorelli To Take Flight Artist Outi Leinonen Pohjolankatu 45, Käpylä, Helsinki To Take Flight in the swedish-speaking Kottby Primary School employs a natural motif, dear to the artist, Outi Leinonen (b. 1950, Helsinki). Leinonen says she thought of the school as a large pine cone whose pupils – single-winged seeds – are knocked loose to fly out into the world. The components, large ceramic pine seeds, are now composed on the façade of the new school. The old school that had several groups of seeds both on the façade and inside the building was demolished in 2022. The work was produced under the Percent for Art programme, and it belongs to the City of Helsinki’s art collection, which is managed and curated by HAM. At map
