24 juni - 9 juli 2023

Fem Finska glaskonstnärer glaskonstnärer visar glas och keramik i galleriet.
De medverkande konstnärerna är:
Hanna Kaasinen
Iita Villiina Jaakonaho
Jarl Hohenthal
Päivi Koskell
Tiia Tirronen

Hanna Kaasinen has been working with glass more or less for over a decade. Currently she is employed at the Iittala glass factory in Finland. At heart Hanna is a storyteller, and loves to translate the tales in her head into tangible objects.

I am a glass troll, blower and maker from a small town in Northern Finland. I have been working with glass since 2015 and my ways had led me to Sweden. Right now I am located at Glasriket, an area in the middle of the forests of Småland, full of glass studios and wonderful people sharing the same passion for this material.

For seven years I have concentrated on the technical side of glass and my own work has leaned towards functional pieces with a bit of magic in the detail. Although I am grateful for the skills and technical capacity I have gained, I notice the limitations it makes in my creative process. That’s why I have been taking it as my mission to put myself outside of my comfort zone more often and just play with the caziest ideas lately and oh how fun it is! As soon as I let go of the limitations I set to myself as a glassmaker (and a human being) I feel the playfulness is bubbling over. I wish to share a bit of that bubbly -feeling trough my work and remind us to embrace our inner children and continue to imagine all kind of things and worlds and disappear to them. A little bit at least.

Efter min utbildning på Riksglasskolan Orrefors/Pukeberg i Småland, har jag arbetat på olika glasstudior och med många olika glaskonstnärer. Att resa och arbeta som hantverkare har hjälpt mig enormt inom teknik och hantverksskicklighet. Detta reflekterar sig i min konst och mitt konstnärliga uttryck, där hantverkskvalité och teknik har en stor betydelse. Jag arbetar nu mitt sjätte år i min egna glasstudio i Dalsbruk på Kimitoön Finland. Med min 10 åriga erfarenhet inom glas har jag lyckats tekniskt och hantverksmässigt kombinera teknik med konst. Mitt nya uttryck har en mer berättande och kommunikativ historia med betraktaren samtidigt som det döljer en avancerad hantverksskicklighet i bakgrunden.

Ceramic and glass are siblings, both equally dear to me. I approach both with respect and admiration. When working quickly and technically with one material gives the other time to pause and dig deeper. When I work I listen to my intuition. I transfer the emotional state of the moment into my art. For me, Sweden represents glass and Finland ceramics

Tiia Tirronen (b. 1992) is a Finnish contemporary artist. She uses glass as a sculptural material and as elements in her installations. Her expressions are based on aspects of humanity, personality, honesty and joy of life.

The statemens behind her work remind us of the purity of life with all its features. Her work has been represented by private galleries and the Finnish Glass Museum.