Hanna Galtat is a Helsinki-based artist working with sculpture, installations, and printmaking. She has also designed woven textiles. Galtat works in Finland and in France.
Trained as a visual artist, designer, and art and architecture historian, her work reflects curiosity for materials, techniques, and interdisciplinary exploration. In recent years, she has focused on experimental bronze casting and expanded her expertise in public art.
Galtat’s art explores themes of perception, memory, and meaning in relation to time, place, and matter. Her work engages in a dialogue between material and immaterial, conceptual and representational. Spatiality, site specificity and the spirit of place are her special interests.
"My works often incorporate an element of randomness, openness, or interaction. This is an essential part of my artistic process—I consciously create space for dialogue and allow subconscious ideas to emerge.”
“I play with ideas constantly, often using a touch of (black) humor, even when addressing serious themes. My works are layered and open to multiple interpretations. I hope they resonate with viewers in a way that connects with their own experiences."
MEMBERSHIPS
Association of Finnish Sculptors
Helsinki Artists' Association
Ornamo Finnish Designers
RESIDENCIES
Cité internationale des arts, Paris, 2025
GRANTS
Finnish Cultural Foundation
Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Aalto University
EDUCATION
MA | Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Design, FaCT (Fashion, Clothing and Textile Design), PatternLab, Fine Arts
BA | Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Design, ViCCA (Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art), Fine Arts
MA | University of Helsinki
Art History, Architecture History, Cultural Anthropology
CONTINUING EDUCATION
| LAB University of Applied Sciences, LUT University
Public art in community planning, Further education
EXHIBITIONS
2025
ELOLLISET group exhibition
13–29 March, 2025
Gallery Toinen Silmä, Helsinki
2024
CIRCULATION – spatial sculptures
Hanna Galtat, Miisa Hatakka, Johanna Ilvessalo, Tiina-Liisa Kaalamo
24 July – 4 August, 2024
The Cathedral Crypt, Helsinki
TEOS 2024
11 May – 19 May, 2024
Cable Facory, Helsinki
URBANA HORTUS
8 May – 26 May, 2024
Art Center Ahjo, Joensuu
ORNAMO by Halmetoja
10 February – 18 February, 2024
Design Lab Gallery, Helsinki
2023
TEOS 2023
22 September – 1 October, 2023
Suvilahti Kattilahalli, Helsinki
PENNI PELKÄÄ KÄÄRMEITÄ
Hanna Galtat, Hanna-Kaisa Korolainen, Penni Vasama
June 7 – June 18, 2023
Albertinkatu, Helsinki
NOSTALGIA
Hanna Galtat & Hanna-Kaisa Korolainen
March 29 – April 2, 2023
Confort Mental, Paris
2021
SIGNIFICANT SYMBOLS
May 26 – June 19, 2021
Laterna Magica, Helsinki
THIS MOMENT
Hanna Galtat & Tuulikki Raatikainen & Ida Taavitsainen
March 18 – April 25, 2021
Studio+Gallery RIO11, Helsinki
Photo Sara Hulkkonen