Niina Hiltunen

Niina Hiltunen
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Galleria G12, HelsinkiSuoraan taiteilijalta

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b. 1979
fiber artist, textile artist, visual artist

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Artist’s Statement

My artistry is profoundly multidisciplinary and combines different kinds of art forms. As a textile and fiber artist I heavily lean on my background in classical music and linguistics. I create abstract, three-dimensional art from yarns and textile materials by weaving them on a traditional countermarch loom, slowly, weft by weft. Despite the sculptural nature, my art reveals its true nature and its fine and delicate, almost fragile details only when looked at very closely.

Languages widely understood have become my main focus and the metaphor of my artistic work. Yet, by the ancient method, weaving, I’m kept deeply rooted in the continuum: The language of weaving is universal.
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Current information

Sattuman vaara
Joint exhibition
Voipaala Art Centre, Valkeakoski
Dec 2, 2023 – Feb 4, 2024

Pieces of Reality
Solo exhibition
Tampere Hall, Winter garden
May 16 - June 4, 2024

Tolerance Limit
VIII International Triennial of Textile Arts 2024
Savaria Museum, Hungary
June 21 – Aug 31, 2024

Touch
Contextile 2024 Contemporary Textile Art Biennial
Guimarães, Portugal
Sept 9 - Dec 15, 2024

Aistinvarainen
Artists O group exhibition
Craft Museum of Finland, Jyväskylä
Jan 11 - Apr 27, 2025

Bio

Niina Hiltunen is a textile and fiber artist working and living in Pirkanmaa region, Finland. Her first MA degree is from the University of Jyväskylä. She also holds a master’s degree in Art and Culture with weaving her specialty. She studied textile art at the University of Lapland 2020-2021 and started there her doctoral research in the autumn of 2022. Hiltunen is a member of The Finnish Association of New Textile Art UUTE, The Finnish Association of Textile Artists TEXO and Artists O.

Hiltunen’s background in classical music (cello) and linguistics (German, English and Spanish philology) is present in her art in many ways, both in the contents and in the names of the artworks. Hiltunen’s work has been seen in various group and joint exhibitions both in Finland and abroad.

Hiltunen is also interested in multidisciplinary art and in community engaged art, which has led her having an exhibition at the psychiatric centre in Tampere, as well as leading art projects with the YMCA youth and with dementia patients. Kädet kertovat, a multidisciplinary artwork combining textile / fiber art with contemporary dance, video and sound art, is her latest collaboration in the field of multidisciplinary art. The art textile and the video textile were juried to Quo Vadis?, the 7th Riga International Triennial of Textile and Fiber Art Tradition & Innovation in the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in the summer of 2023.