Katja Härkki

Katja Härkki
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b. 1969, Helsinki
Visual Artist, Painter
Residence: Lahti

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Artist’s Statement

My paintings are condensed situations – just like stage settings. In them, time and place intertwine, hiding and revealing at the same time. When I paint, I aim for a suggestive expression and only aim for the essential. The paint I deal with in my work becomes the subject itself. The erotic charge radiates from the skin in glowing colors. The possibility of decadence shows itself in body positions, intermittent brushstrokes, and feelings of emptiness, transience, and joy.

Making and presenting art is a game for me, which is about mirroring and communicating with myself and the viewer. Because happiness always springs from a connection with other people.
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Katja Härkki (born in 1969, in Helsinki) is a visual artist and painter living and working in Lahti. She graduated as a designer with a Master of Arts in 1997 from the Helsinki University of Art and Design. Later, she graduated from Lahti University of Applied Sciences with Degree Programmed in Fine Arts in 2014 as a painter.

Härkki´s works are oil and acrylic paintings in which she reflects on her own identity and what it means to be a woman here and now. Central subjects in her paintings are the body, humanity, and man´s relationship with nature and history in universal time. Härkki´s paintings are condensed situations, almost like intimate statings. They contain dreamlike, random moments, like memories in time. In them, time and place intertwine, revealing and hiding at the same time.

Härkki's paintings: In the collections of the Tampere Art Museum, the City of Tampere Collections, the HUS Art Collections, the Jorvi Children's Hospital Collection in Espoo, private collections.

Härkki is a member of the Finnish Painters' Union, member of Lahti Artists' Association, and the Tampere Artists' Association.