MEET THE ARTIST

In Katja Tukiainen’s new series of works, the viewer can recognize her familiar strong heroine as a both defiant and lyrical figure. The girl and her slogans appear in Tukiainen’s customarily energetic paintings, added to which we can detect new, poetic ingredients. Tukiainen creates hybrids of elements that are usually seen as being very remotely connected: she writes in fine script with spray paint, paints comic-strip subjects in oil on canvas, and makes use of elements of pop art, but in references to works from art history.