Marjo Pitko (ent.Hyttinen)
Basic information
Visual Artist, Printmaker, Phographer, Fine Art Painter
Residence: Asuu Keminmaa / Työhuone Kemi
Contact information
Email: marjopitko.art(@)gmail.com
Artist’s Statement
About me and my art
My practice moves at the intersection of image, thought, and ecological consciousness. My artistic work consists of nature photography, experimental printmaking, layered paintings, drawing paintings and miniature sculptures.
The North has always been a meaningful starting point for my artistic process. I am comfortable with an open and flowing experience of place, but equally I wonder at the edge of the wasteland at the power of its barren aesthetic charm.
My art reveals a hike, an expedition or a journey travelled. The experience of nature is created by a sparkling waterfall, the heavy footsteps of a sinking swamp and the feeling of breathing freedom at the top of a mountain. I feel that nature cleanses me and us.
In art, I am inspired by the slow devotion of making it. Along with nature and place, the imagery in my work is the drop, the line, sound, earth, air, colour and its flow.
The trace of the drawing leads to a landscape catalogue and the roughness of the making leads to lived moments, landscape and water forms. At times I reach for something eternal and permanent. My experience is always in motion, and its permanence is fleeting. It flows like water.
My practice moves at the intersection of image, thought, and ecological consciousness. My artistic work consists of nature photography, experimental printmaking, layered paintings, drawing paintings and miniature sculptures.
The North has always been a meaningful starting point for my artistic process. I am comfortable with an open and flowing experience of place, but equally I wonder at the edge of the wasteland at the power of its barren aesthetic charm.
My art reveals a hike, an expedition or a journey travelled. The experience of nature is created by a sparkling waterfall, the heavy footsteps of a sinking swamp and the feeling of breathing freedom at the top of a mountain. I feel that nature cleanses me and us.
In art, I am inspired by the slow devotion of making it. Along with nature and place, the imagery in my work is the drop, the line, sound, earth, air, colour and its flow.
The trace of the drawing leads to a landscape catalogue and the roughness of the making leads to lived moments, landscape and water forms. At times I reach for something eternal and permanent. My experience is always in motion, and its permanence is fleeting. It flows like water.
Current information
MARJO PITKO (HYTTINEN)M.A. / Photographer / Graphic artist
Lives and Art studio located in Lapland in Northern Finland
CURRENT CURRENT / UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
2026 Solo Exhibition, Voipaala Art Centre, Finland
2025 Pop-up Artist Presentation, Gumbostrand Konst & Form, Söderkulla, Finland SUMMER PRINTS, Gallery G, Helsinki, Finland SUMMER EXHIBITION, Galleria Mabd, Oulu, Finland Folded Time – Exhibition of the Artists’ Association of Lapland, Galleria Napa and Galleria Rinne, Rovaniemi, Finland
2025–2027 Meän Periferia ry – Launch of the pilot phase of a multidisciplinary project, based in the Sea Lapland region
2024 Art Prescriptions from the HUS Art Collection – curated by Markku Valkonen, Helsinki Art Hall, Finland Shifting Ground, curated exhibition at Korundi / Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland., Curators: Ruth Beer and Ulla Viitanen Momentum – Main Exhibition of the International Print Triennial 2024, Krakow, Poland Jury: Enrique Chagoya (USA), Grzegorz Hańderek (Poland), Tracy Hill (UK), Jan Stefan Pettersson (Norway/Sweden), Marta Anna Raczek-Karcz (President of SMTG) THE POETIC FLOW OF THE LANDSCAPE, solo exhibition, Galleria Joella, Turku, Finland
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland Government of Finland HUS Art Collection / Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District Art Collection Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland Art Collections of the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation Jyväskylä Art Museum City of Jyväskylä Art Collection Western Lapland Hospital District Central Hospital of Western Lapland Kemi Art Museum City of Kemi Art Collection City of Seinäjoki Art Collection Outokumpu / Tornio Steelworks County Council of Norrbotten, Sweden Art Committee of Norrbotten County, Sweden Luleå University of Technology, Sweden Korundi / Rovaniemi Art Museum City of Rovaniemi Art Collection SMTG Collection, Krakow, Poland Santanter Collection, Faro Capo Mayor Art Center, Spain Private collections in Finland and abroad
MEMBERSHIPS
The Photographic Artists’ Associatio member, Association of Finnish Printmakers, Artists´ Association of Lapland, Northern Photographic Centre, Kuvasto
