Harriina Räinä
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Harriina Räinä is a research-oriented visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Her work explores themes such as corporeality, observation dynamics, and human-animal relationships. She is interested in the connections between artists, locations, materials, and tools. Harriina holds a master’s degree in fine arts from the University of the Arts Helsinki (2019).
Her recent projects include examining oysters’ agency and shell appearance (Volatile Shells, 2023–2024), animal-based matter in woodblock printing (The Other as Matter, 2020-2022), and the material relationship between moose hunters and moose (Hunted & Visage, 2017-2019).
Harriina has exhibited at Oksasenkatu 11 (solo, 2024), Titanik gallery (duo, 2023), Photographic Gallery Hippolyte Studio (solo, 2023), and Helsinki Art Museum HAM (solo, 2022). Her work has been funded by institutions such as the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (2020–24), Olga and Vilho Linnamo Foundation (2022), and Kone Foundation (2019, 2021, 2023). She has participated in residencies at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2022, 2024) and Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence (2021, 2023).
Created in 2021, the Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures programme was developed by the Academy of Fine Arts Uniarts Helsinki, Cove Park and Scottish Sculpture Workshop.
These residencies are designed to focus upon making practices at a time of climate breakdown and are aimed at MFA alumni of the Academy of Fine Arts, particularly those with sculptural methods or material processes. The programme is divided into two parts: artists spend 8 weeks at Cove Park in Argyll and Bute, followed by 8 weeks at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Aberdeenshire.
The project is made possible by a donation to Uniarts Helsinki from the Saastamoinen Foundation.
