Meet the artists

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Juulia Korhonen

Juulia Korhonen (b. 2002) is a visual artist from South Karelia, Finland. She is currently completing her Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts.

She mainly works with paper, using printmaking, drawing and typewriter in her practice.

Her inspiration comes from observations of everyday life and its absurd moments. A lip gloss forgotten in a bag, a car smelling like bubblegum, or something someone has said to her jokingly. She brings these moments into her work through text and visual elements. The outcome is often humorous, but at times, beneath the surface, the works may hint at heavier themes, youth culture or feminism.

Artwork information: Bubblegum Wunderbaum, 2025, woodcut, mascara, typewriter ink on paper, mounted on plywood with wheat starch paste

Price: 250€

Website:http://juuliakorhonen.weebly.com

Pilvi Naakka

Pilvi Naakka (b.1984) is a visual artist, particularly inspired by the development and effects of humanity and the depths of the human mind. Sensuality and emotion are the main guiders in Naakka's three-dimensional expression. She plays with interesting and beautiful forms, on the boundaries between truth and false, understanding and experiencing. Dimensionality fascinates her, as it brings special multilayeredness and concreteness to the expression. Her artwork combines the dimensions of the material and the immaterial, invites the viewer to step into an interactive reality. Naakka's recent sculptures are surrealistic body images, challenging to question the thought about the obvious, to make dream images real.
What is reality? Is yours same than mine?

Artwork information: Rukous I-III, 2025, Epoksihartsi (Rukous I), Kipsi (Rukous II), Keramiikka (Rukous III)

Price: Rukous I - 300 €, Rukous II - 350 €, Rukous III 600 €

Website:https://pilvinaakka.weebly.com/

Maiju Putkonen

Maiju Putkonen (b. 1997) is a Finnish painter and visual artist based in Helsinki. She works with traditional and digital painting mediums as well as ceramics. Originally from Oulu, her work is influenced by her search for nature and stillness in her new surroundings. She wants to create colourful and emotional scenes that invite the audience to see into her internal world.

Artwork information: Women can have it all, 2025, polymer clay

Price: 70€

Website:http://www.maijupaints.com

Uliana Novak

Uliana Novak is an artist of Russian origin based in Finland since 2010. With roots in sociology and a self-taught transition into artistic practices, Uliana employs oil and acrylic painting on canvas as mediums for both self-expression and the continuous exploration of social realities.

Her art is characterized by its figurative, cheerful, and colorful nature. Her sociological background and perspective inform her work, as she narrates stories about people through whimsical sketches that blend humor and depth. Influenced by social satire, caricature traditions, and naïve art, Uliana's work serves as a playful yet thought-provoking lens on human interaction and societal structures.

Since 2023, when she began to identify herself as an artist, she has created several series of paintings, received various publications and awards, and participated in both online and offline group exhibitions. Notably, she was selected as Winner #1 in the Top 100 Emerging Artists-2025, hosted by the Arts to Hearts Project. Her first solo exhibition took place in Helsinki in September 2025.

Artwork information: Self-Portrait with Van Gogh, 2024, Oil on canvas, 81x100cm.

Price: 3600e

Website:http://www.uliananovak.com

Siiri Torvinen

Siiri Torvinen is a visual artist, writer, and illustrator based in Turku, where she lives and works. Her works explore play, social interaction, and experiences of exclusion. Torvinen works with video, embroidery, and literary art. She draws inspiration from children’s literature, where everyday things are exaggerated to fantastic proportions. Rhyming games spread from one city to another, and texts accumulate in layers. What appears harmless at first glance may conceal something unsettling beneath the surface.

Torvinen’s work Hyppynarujuttu (“The Jump Rope Piece”) is part of a series focusing on rhyming games. The series also includes Taputusjuttu (“The Clapping Piece”), which centers on clapping games, and Hipsutusjuttu (“The Tagging Piece”), which explores contact rhymes and will be shown as part of the Generation 2026 exhibition at Amos Rex in May 2026.

Artwork information: Hyppynarujuttu, 2023. Jump rope and three jump-rope rhymes.

Maria Ronkainen

Maria Ronkainen (Jonku, Pudasjärvi, 1984) is a painter from Jonku, currently working in Finland.

Ronkainen completed her Bachelor of Culture and Arts (UAS) degree in Fine Arts at Lapland University of Applied Sciences in 2024. She previously graduated from the University of Jyväskylä with a Master of Arts degree, majoring in Art History. Following her studies, she has also worked as a substitute teacher in visual arts.

Ronkainen primarily works with oil paints. Bright colors, a clear visual language, and painterly expression are central to her artistic practice. Her subjects range from voluntary childlessness to landscapes, and everything in between.

She began painting actively in 2005 and has participated in exhibitions since 2007. She held her first solo exhibition in 2011.

Artwork information: Jonkulainen Mona Lisa – vapaaehtoisesti lapsettoman muotokuva, 2025, oil painting.

Website:http://www.mariaronkainen.com

Anton Pitkänen

Anton Pitkänen (b. 1990) is a Helsinki-based visual artist. His mixed-media works combine weaving, braiding, embroidery, and painting, bringing together traditional craft techniques and contemporary artistic expression. Pitkänen draws inspiration from Finnish cultural heritage as well as broader narratives of nature, science, and popular culture. He creates narrative-driven works in which color and form intertwine with emotion and experience. His practice is characterized by a meditative, process-oriented approach that opens space for both personal reflection and collective resonance. A layered use of techniques is also central to his work. In 2020, Pitkänen won the American AD Art Show art competition and received the contemporary art Clio Awards award.

Artwork information: Kiiltomato loistaa yössä (Glowworm Shines in the Night), 2026, recycled jute, acrylic, thread, and varnish

Price: 750e

Website:http://antonpitkanen.com

Marta Tercero

I'm Marta Tercero, an artist and designer born in Valencia, Spain. I worked there for 20 years as a product designer and ceramic artist, combining it with creating paintings and exhibiting them in art galleries and home decor stores. For work, I moved to Helsinki, Finland. This country has provided me with a wealth of natural beauty, enhancing my knowledge and expanding my artistic sensibilities. I worked in a preschool teaching art to young children, something I'm passionate about! Currently, I'm fulfilling my dream and passion, dedicating myself entirely to my career as a painter. My art is based on a fresh, cheerful, and natural style. My materials are 100% natural, contributing to the planet's sustainability, and my canvases are made from tree trunks of different shapes. Enjoying what nature offers me with its forms and sizes, I apply my decorative techniques to give them a natural and fresh feel. Playing with changes in tone, color schemes, and glossy and matte effects. I hope you enjoy my art and put your five senses to the test.

Art work information: Raining colors, 2025, natural wood bases with acrylics.

Price: 250 € per work.(2).

Contact:http://Marta3art@gmail.com

Matilda Palmu

Over the past few years, I have worked with both painting and material-based art. I am interested in exploring the world through a child’s eyes and seeing magic everywhere. I believe in the power of art as an enabler, and in its ability to help us see beneath the surface. Through making art, I have been able to dream and make visible alternative realities where I can be anything and where anything is possible.

My works are characterized by bright colours, playful expression, and a sense of storytelling. I believe that playfulness, cuteness, and childlike wonder are superpowers capable of changing the world. Through my work, I want to bring joy to people and add colour to the environment around us.

For this group exhibition, I am participating with a painting titled mitäs jos olisin…, which speaks about the superpower of art as an enabler — I have grown tired of being human, so perhaps I can spend half a year as a butterfly instead!

The work illustrates my strange inner world, my queer identity, and my autistic mental landscape. At the same time, it speaks of transformation and the fluidity of identity, the joy of self-discovery, and the importance of protecting nature. In the depths of my mind, these somewhat separate themes intertwine and make perfect sense together.

Artwork information:mitäs jos olisin…, 2026, watercolours and gouache on paper

Price: €320

Website: https://www.matildapalmu.com/

Roosa Lehikoinen

Roosa Lehikoinen is a North Karelian artist, cultural producer and curator based in Helsinki. Lehikoinen’s artistic work focuses on modeling worlds of experience using painting, textile, and installation as the main medium. The cohesive but always experimental visual language of Smileylandia, artist’s alternative reality, is a flexible foundation for modeling. The sensitive artist is especially curious about emotions in the endless supply of experiences.

At the moment Roosa Lehikoinen’s textile works can be seen hanging on the trees of Helsinginkatu as part of her independent project helsinginkadun biennaali (=helsinki street biennial).

Artwork information: Äitimaa / Mother Earth, 2023, acrylic on linen

Price: 550€

Heidi Järvinen

Heidi Järvinen is a visual artist based in Forssa, working primarily with three-dimensional pieces made of ceramics. She works with hand-building techniques and approaches the material experimentally, often without a precise pre-existing plan.

Järvinen is particularly interested in the world of objects and the materiality of everyday life. Her works resemble familiar things — food, household items, or decorative objects — yet they are not functional. A banana cannot be eaten, a tap leads nowhere. Through these forms, she explores why objects are expected to be useful and what happens when they are freed from that role.

Her works are characterized by abundant forms, bright colours, and deliberate exaggeration. Järvinen often also uses humour and absurd aesthetics when addressing phenomena in the surrounding world. Playfulness becomes a way of approaching more difficult subjects — sometimes laughter opens up space to think about things in a new way.

Artwork information:Trumpha (Make Thinking Great Again), 2024, hand-built, mixed media, glazed stoneware, jewellery

Website:http://www.heidijarvinen.com

Klaudia Saariaho

Artists introduction: Klaudia Saariaho (b.1999) is a Finnish-Filipino trashformative artist based in Tampere. Her working process involves discarded and unwanted materials that are utilized in mixed media artworks such as installations, paintings and sculptures. A recurring theme in her work explores possibilities of regeneration, inspired by processes of decomposition in natural environments. In her work, refuse becomes purposeful again.

Artwork information: RELEASE, 2026, mixed media

Hinta / Price: 200e

Website: http://klaudiasaariaho.art

Jenni Sorsa

I am a glass artist and master glassblower working in Nuutajärvi. I graduated as a designer in 2007, and since then I have completed five different glassblowing qualifications in Finland and Sweden. Over the years, I have worked with several internationally renowned designers and glassblowers, and my extensive knowledge of the field has led to various expert roles.

In my art, I explore my own womanhood through different stages of life, such as childlike qualities, childlessness, and a changing sense of self. My expression is characterized by colorful, rounded forms and striped filigree glass. I challenge myself with demanding glassblowing techniques, and in recent years I have developed my own filigree glass patterning technique.

I draw inspiration for my works from childhood toys and my studies in circus arts during my youth. The round shape—a ball or a bubble—recurs in my art. It is not only the foundation of glassblowing, but also a symbol of continuity and play, which has been a central theme in my artistic work for many years.

Artwork information: Play (2022), free-blown glass (filigree and incalmo)
Price: €1500

Website: http://www.jennisorsaglass.fi

Anette Kemppainen

I’m an artist based in Helsinki, with a lifelong passion for painting and creative expression. I am channeling my academic background in social science into my artistic practice, shifting from writing essays to creating socially engaged and surreal artworks. Thus, my work often explores themes such as social inequality, embodiment, and emotional intensity using color, form, and symbolism to provoke reflection and dialogue. I believe art can be both beautiful and ugly, and I strive to spark dialogue through pieces that challenge norms and provoke reflection. I work mainly with acrylic painting but recently, I’ve become increasingly interested in using recycled materials and discarded objects, exploring their potential to tell new stories and question dominant narratives.

Artwork information: What is enough? 46 x 38 cm. 2026. Akryyli kankaalle ja kierrätettyjä barbeja

Price: 370e