Anne Lehtelä works with themes of social manifestations of power and social inequality. According to her, belonging is often perceived through the concept of boundary. Individuals set up boundaries for themselves, and societies set up borders as barriers for people. She is also interested in the power hierarchies that are developed to invade territories and to establish rankings in nature.

Lehtelä’s works are often conceptual site-specific installations in which processes play an important role. Making site-specific art can give Lehtelä a momentarily sense of becoming part of a community and of interacting with its members as an outsider.

Born in the Pirkanmaa region, Anne Lehtelä lives and works in Tampere and spends summers in Central Finland. After her art practice in the material world suffered a crisis some years ago, she has been exploring new ways of making art and freeing herself from materiality. She sees the body as a counterbalance to the current digital world and its abstractions and has used running as one of her artistic methods.