Tea Mäkipää (born 1973 in Finnland, lives in Weimar/Germany) deals critically in her artworks with aspects of our globalized western lifestyle. She is especially occupied with our survival strategies and questions regarding the social life of man, our irresponsible dealings with nature, and the negative effects of globalisation. The beauty of her often monumental installations, photographs, and objects offer pleasurable moments of seeing: but they also mercilessly depict the cruelty and pitilessness of the world in which we live.

In her new installations "Motocalypse Now", conceived for the Kunstverein Langenhagen, Tea Mäkipää visualises fundamental questions about the ecological condition of our earth. The ideology of never-ending freedom earlier associated with driving is no longer visible in the overgrown auto entitled "Petrol Engine Car, 1860s–2010 R.I.P." on the Kunstverein's courtyard. The dramatic installation "Micro Climate" inside shows a wrecked automobile from which people are apparently trying to free themselves. The putting forward of Ten Commandments for the 21st century offers simple suggestions for more a vigilant treatment of our environment.