About the Exhibition
In October 2023, I turned fifty years old. Instead of vases or such, I hoped as gifts for a variety of wooden objects or pieces of material for artistic purposes. I ended up receiving almost a hundred different wood-related items, ranging from toothpicks to wooden skis and from tree trunks to a poetry book. Over the past year, I have been organizing, documenting, dismantling, chopping, and otherwise working with these gifts in my studio. In my upcoming exhibition, all the gifts I have received will be used somehow as part of the artworks in the exhibition.
Hanna Vahvaselkä
Hanna Vahvaselkä is a sculptor, living and working in Mikkeli, eastern Finland. At present she is also a doctoral candidate at Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts, Helsinki. Her material is wood, with which she has worked since 1999. In her work, wood is the material and the creator of visual appearance, and part of the conceptual content
for example, as intergenerational meanings or questions arising from the forest ecology. Constantly working with materials in material processes the will of wood, the language of wood, the speech of wood and the memory of wood are at the centre of her works.
Visit the Exhibition
Gallery Katariina
Rikhardinkatu 1,
00130 Helsinki
+358 (0) 50 550 3811
Tue-Fri 11-17, Sat-Sun 12-16