Perspectives Reimagined

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Alexandra Stroganova

Alexandra Stroganova (b. 1990) is a transdisciplinary artist exploring the entanglements between nature and culture, the human and the non-human, and the past, present, and future. Informed by feminist philosophies such as new materialism and hydrofeminism, her work foregrounds an ethics of care and attentiveness, where more-than-human agents — matter, water, plants, and fungi — emerge as active collaborators.
Her practice spans a wide range of media, combining research with experimental material approaches and sustainable methods. Currently, Alexandra is drawn to alternative photographic processes such as cyanotype, anthotype, and analogue photography. She has exhibited her art in Finland in both group and solo exhibitions and has participated in artist residencies abroad. Her analogue photography received a winning place in the Analog Sparks International Film Photography Awards in 2025.
Stroganova holds an MA in Nordic Visual Studies and Art Education with a minor in Visual Culture, Curating, and Contemporary Art from Aalto University and is based in Helsinki, Finland.

Art work information: Net of Desire, 2025, cyanotype on watercolour paper.

Price: 300 euro (unframed)

Website: https://www.alexandrastroganova.com

Instagram: @xstrox

Noora El Harouny

I am an artist living and working in Helsinki, and I hold a Master of Arts degree from Aalto University. My artistic practice is defined by a sensitivity to place and materials, as well as by a consciously slow process of development. I mainly work with textile materials, and various yarn-based techniques form a central part of my expression. Dyeing the materials I use with locally gathered ingredients is an essential aspect of my practice.

I am interested in themes of everyday life, repetition, and play. My work also touches on questions related to familiarity, belonging, and memory. At the moment, I am working on a series titled Recipes, which explores through experimental dyeing and rya techniques how a sense of home is constructed in relation to food.

In the Recipes series, I am learning to prepare Egyptian dishes that are important to me for the first time. I cook these meals both in my home in Finland and in my family’s kitchens in Egypt. As I cook, I create color charts by extracting and recording the hidden colors of the ingredients onto threads through experimental dyeing. From these threads, I sew small rya rugs that make the recipes I have learned visible. Each rya rug is like a plated dish, containing its ingredients in the form of color tones.

Artwork Information:
Recipes: Molokhia I, 2025 – hand-sewn rya made of plant-dyed yarns
Recipes: Molokhia II, 2025 – hand-sewn rya made of plant-dyed yarns
Recipes: Molokhia III, 2025 – hand-sewn rya made of plant-dyed yarns

Instagram: @nooraelharouny

Satu Timonen

Satu Timonen (b.1983, Helsinki) is a visual artist based in Kuopio. Her intuitive drawings and watercolours combines elements of nature, geometry, mystical creatures and metaphysich, building interdimencional transitions from seen to unseen.

Works build up either slowly meditative and detailed, or by explosive brushstrokes with flowing colours, there’s no between. ”I see art as an effective way of going within, also as an form of channeling. It’s an efficient way to build softer comforting worlds that you can use as a way of escapism.”

Art work information: Water molecule, 2025, ink and colored pencil on paper

Price: 270 €

Instagram: @satumarjatimonen

Aino-Maija Laaksonen

Aino-Maija Laaksonen works primarily with acrylics, complemented by charcoal and oil pastels. She paints on linen and cotton canvases, and her works are characterized by rich, vibrant colors, a distinctive painterly touch, and the interplay between hardness and softness.

The subtle nuances of everyday life and personal experiences — such as motherhood and the conflicting shades of existence — are reflected in her work. Art serves as a way for her to process these moments, to deepen sensitivity, awareness of limitations, and personal growth — while offering an unspoken freedom to both the artist and the viewer.

“I paint what I see and what I feel, diving deep into my inner self, where colors and emotions meet. I juxtapose colors as areas that live their own lives — transforming, adapting, revealing themselves in every movement and every flicker of light. My color palette moves in harmony with nature, changing along with it, reflecting the transformations and beauty of my surroundings.
I don’t want to be bound by rules, excessive representation, teachings, or norms; instead, I seek freedom in my creativity. My art is in constant transformation. My works often emerge spontaneously and without premeditation, expressing thoughts and emotions that I cannot always convey in words. This creative process is like a journey to me — every brushstroke tells a story, and every color opens a new door into my world.”

Art work information: Lime, 2025, acrylic and chalk on canvas, 40 × 40 cm

Hinta / Price: 300e

Website: http://www.ainomaijalaaksonen.com

Instagram: @ainomaijaemilia_art

Panu Pahkamaa

Panu Pahkamaa (b. 1982) is a Finnish photographer and visual artist who works with photography, video, and alternative photographic techniques such as cyanotype, anthotype, solargraphy, and pinhole photography. His work is inspired by nature, as well as by the small details of everyday life that often grow into artworks offering an alternative way of seeing the familiar.

Art work information: DGG 16 - 3,85 km, 2025, pigment print from a solargraph (edition 1/6 + 1 AP)

Price: 110 €

Website: https://www.panupahkamaa.com/

Instagram: @ppahka

Kirsi Montell

Kirsi Montell is a visual artist and art educator (MA) based in Helsinki. She works primarily with acrylic painting, cyanotype, and intaglio printmaking and her practice is rooted in an intuitive and experimental approach to materials and techniques. Montell’s use of color is often layered and vibrant, blending abstract and representational forms.
Her imagery draws from a dreamlike and playful visual world, where everyday elements dissolve into surreal and symbolic landscapes. Influences appear from sources such as Greek mythology, garden visits, literature, and popular culture. Her works evoke memories and capture moments that feel unreal yet strangely familiar.

Art work information: Valkoisen ponin uni / The White Pony’s Dream, 2025, acrylic and charcoal on canvas

Price: 210 €

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kirsi.montell/

Sawako Hoshi

Sawako Hoshi (b. 1986) is a Helsinki-based artist originally from Japan. After graduating from Musashino Art University in 2008, she moved to Finland and obtained her master's degree from Aalto University. As a freelancer, she has collaborated with brands such as Marimekko, UNIQLO, and Sangetsu. Her work primarily explores the beauty of nature and landscapes from memory, using oil pastel scratch techniques. Through her work, Hoshi explores the resonance of nature, light, memory, and emotion, evoking a deep connection to places that reflect one's inner self.

Art work information: Metsän aika #32, 2025, oil pastel scratching on wooden panel, Metsän aika #33, 2025, oil pastel scratching on wooden panel

Price: 230e each

Instagram: @sawako_hoshi

Krista Antila

Krista Antila (b. 1994) is a visual artist and architect based in Helsinki, currently studying at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. Their practice is grounded in oil painting and printmaking, recently focusing towards spatial experience and the relationship between image-making and the surrounding environment.

Art work information: Vesipuisto, 2019, oil pastel on paper

Price: 290

Instagram: @krista.antila

Sara Valta

Valta (b. 1999) graduated in the spring of 2025 from the LAB Institute of Design and Fine Arts as a visual artist. Valta works primarily in painting but occasionally experiments with incorporating sculpture into her practice. She draws inspiration from popular culture and art history. In recent years, Valta has explored themes related to futurism and dystopia, as well as corporeality and death.

Teostiedot / Art work information: _ kirpee, 2023, keramiikka

Hinta / Price: together 270€, 90€ / piece

Instagram: @valta.sara

Pauliina Aarnio

ABOUT PAINTING -
I am a Helsinki based artist with an educational background in Vapaa Taidekoulu.

Through painting I can investigate hidden dimensions of the world. Recurrent themes of my work are humanity and places that carry personal significance. I prefer simple materials, such as tempera, ink and ceramic tiles

Art work information: Reminiscence III (2021), n 40x25 cm

Price: 320e

Website: http://cargocollective.com/pauliinaaarnio

Kaino Salomo

Kaino Salomo (b. 1999) is a multidisciplinary artist and illustrator based in Helsinki. Salomo works at the intersection of digital and physical media, often using photography as a starting point for his works. His art explores the human relationship with nature, the psychology of memory, and the impact of virtual worlds on identity. Salomo focuses particularly on portraying the interconnected relationship between humans, nature, and technology. As part of his working process, Salomo seeks ways to structure experience and memory, combining symbols, recollections, and fragmentary observations to create new visual narratives and layered meanings.

Art work information: Sea Floor Carcass II, 2025, kuvansiirto kankaalle

Price: 220€

Website: http://kainosalomo.com

Instagram: @kainosalomo

Maria Teplykh

Maria is a sculptor, who moved to Finland from Russia 16 years ago. Despite being an artist all her life, she started practicing sculpture seriously around 10 years ago while being seriously depressed. It helped her to recover, and became the means of telling about the issues depressed people deal with. Maria is still involved in organizing depression support group activities in her free time, and majority of Maria’s works speak about mental health struggles touching lives of ordinary people and the issues which affect them. She is also a loud spokesperson for body positivity, conservation and equality. Maria is a chairperson for Helsinki International Artists' Association ry and you can always see her works during their group exhibitions.

Art work information: Deconstruction of Human Ego, 2024-2025, glazed ceramics with details from modelling clay and recycled materials

Price: 625 euro

Website: http://mariateplykh.wordpress.com/

Instagram: @maria_teplykh_art

Jenni Nuojua

Jenni Nuojua (b. 1983) is a ceramic artist and architect based in Helsinki. Her ceramic pieces combine organic shapes with a repetitive contour-like finish. In her art she is looking for the soothing beauty as seen in natural landscapes and explores the play of light on the carved surface. The pieces are coiled and carved by hand.

Artwork information:
Sees, 2024 — handmade and hand-carved stoneware clay
Pehmeä, 2025 — handmade and hand-carved stoneware clay

Price: Sales inquiries directly from the artist.

Website: http://www.studioehta.com

Instagram: @studio.ehta

Mirei Kato

Mirei Kato (b. 1990) is a Japanese-Finnish artist and costume designer, who works mainly with fiber, space, and textile art. Mirei has a Master of Arts degree from Aalto University (2024), and a degree in sewing – specializing in theatre costumes and historical costumes. She has also studied Textile Art and Design in Kyoto in 2019-2020 and 2023.

In her artistic work, Mirei explores ideas related to the connection with nature, the meaning of roots and traditions, as well as the experiences of cultural identity, such as belonging and not belonging. Her material-based work is often done in process with discarded textiles and natural plant fibers such as parts of alien plants. Mirei’s works also deal with time and temporality, which are present especially in the sense of continuity through the reinterpretation of traditional craft methods and working with reusable materials.

For her, the significance of artistic work crystallizes in the belief that through a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of ourselves, we can also understand each other, approach each other, and relate to each other in a more open and compassionate way.

Art work information: “A portrait of a bird” Barbed wire, photo frame, barnacle goose feathers

Hinta / Price: 200€

Website: http://www.mirei-kato.com/

Instagram: @mirei__kato

Olivia Leino

In my work, I explore the fragility of humanity and the finiteness of existence through birds. Symbolism and surrealism are my hallmarks, with the bird serving as a metaphor for the human being. Through birds, I examine life and its transience, the unspoken connection between people, and empathy. My aim is to raise essential questions about the visibility of compassion in society—how compassion is expressed toward oneself and toward others.

The perspectives in my works draw from the philosophy of existence and from the significance of everyday life, especially when that significance is at risk of disappearing. I often view the world through small details—those moments that go unnoticed amid the rush, yet whose importance grows when they can no longer be shared with another person. I approach this theme through drawing, where calmness, wistfulness, and an empathetic attitude are ever-present.

Art work information: Going to the Opera, 2024, sekatekniikka

Website: http://olivialeino.com

Instagram: @olivia.leino