Milla Vaahtera is a designer and artist best known for her unique pieces combining bold glass parts with delicate brass.On a winter’s day earlier this year we visited her studio in an old elementary school building in Helsinki, where she assembles her pieces.
Anne Hirvonen (b.1990) is a Finnish designer and passionate researcher of materials and processes.
Photographic artist Ritva Kovalainen has been working on multi-year art projects since the early 1990s, which have resulted in several large museum exhibitions, books and even films.
Katy Hertell is a sculptor living in Helsinki. She draws inspiration from Eastern and Greek mythology, from the animal world, from children and from Nature, in creating hand-built sculptures. These photos accompanied by a short interview are from a recent visit to her at her studio at the Cable Factory in Helsinki.
Hanna-Kaarina Heikkilä is a multi-disciplinary designer who has skills, knowledge and experience from architectural projects to smallest details in product design.
Charlotta Boucht, Helsinki-based photographer, is found with camera in hand on her travels around the world.
Didi NG Wing Yin is a Hong Kong Born artist-designer based in Helsinki. His dedication to wood crafting over the past years has resulted in small- and large-scale works situated in a space between sculpture, installation, and furniture.
Linda Linko (b.1979) is a Helsinki-based visual artist, who creates images that are linked to momentary experience.
17.2.–25.3.2023
A momentary stop, a pause, a light, silent breath.
Rasmus Palmgren is a designer who seeks new perspectives for everyday objects, always on the lookout for clever, innovative and simple solutions and a fine balance between material, aesthetics, usability and production. Over the years we have had the joy to exhibit his unique, sculptural furniture pieces.
We are delighted to be having our seventh Bloom exhibition, Lokal’s biannual young artists’ exhibition. Bloom has become an established platform for young blossoming creatives to present their works in a curated group exhibition context.
Matti Pikkujämsä is an esteemed freelance illustrator and artist since, working in the interface of art and illustration. We visited his make-shift studio in his Helsinki apartment just before we started setting up his solo exhibition Variations.
