Environmental Winter Art

Environmental Winter Art

POLAR PANEL

Curated by Kristóf Fenyvesi (www.experienceworkshop.org)


By:

Juhani Lillberg


L'inverno può diventare una risorsa:

scultori di ghiaccio creano eccezionali opere d'arte con la neve. Intervento in inglese.


Juhani Lillberg (born 1943) from Finland is the President of International Association of Snow and Ice Sculpture.

 

Mr. Lillberg does not only have a long judging and organising experience of international snow and ice sculpture competitions, but he has also competed as a sculptor, winning prizes at various international snow, ice and wood carving competitions. His team won the first Olympic Snow Sculpture Contest in Calgary in 1988.  He has been after Calgary Games involved in the cultural programs of all Winter Olympics as the judge and organiser of the Olympic snow and ice sculpture contests.

 

Juhani Lillberg is the board member of the Finland-China Society and the chairman of the Finland-Japan Friendship Society, honorary member of Hokkaido-Finland Society, lifetime honorary member of the National Ice Carving Association, USA and the Ikilumi Snow Sculpting Association, Finland. 

 

Mr. Lillberg is the founder of The Arctic Centre, Finland. After founding the University of Lapland, too, he worked there thirty years as the director of administration. Since 2010 he has chaired the Alumna Association of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He has been a visiting lecturer at Harbin Institute of Technology 2016. Lillberg is beside of sculpting an active writer and researcher. The fields of his interest are the winter art, the developing of tourism and the social and cultural aspects of Olympic Games.

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