Hanna Galtat is a Helsinki-based artist who works between Finland and France. Trained as a visual artist, designer, and art and architecture historian, her work reflects curiosity for interdisciplinary exploration. Galtat’s practice encompasses sculpture, installations, printmaking and textiles. Her works have been presented in exhibitions in Finland and France.

Recurring themes in Galtat’s work are perception, memory, and meaning in relation to time, place, and matter. She seeks her inspiration in arts, cultures, history, multisensoriality and site-specificity. Through her art, she observes the diversity of life and subjects around which we can experience togetherness.

Galtat often works with recycled materials, interpreting the concept of material memory. Her works include among others the Significant Symbols (2020–2021) bronze sculptures, three-dimensional re-writings of well-known symbols. Her site-specific glass work Point of View (1997) is installed in an Alvar Aalto building in Helsinki. Her designs Juhannus and Kaamos for the Finnish company Lapuan Kankurit depict the cycle of natural light.

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

Master of Culture and Arts | LAB University of Applied Sciences (2025– ongoing)
Specialization in Public Art

Master of Arts | Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture (2020)
Textile Design (FaCT) | PatternLab | Fine Arts

Bachelor of Arts | Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture (2017)
Design | Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art (ViCCA) | Fine Arts

Master of Arts | University of Helsinki (1997)
Art History | Architecture History | Cultural Anthropology

EXHIBITIONS

2025

JUBILEUM FEAST group exhibition
1 – 31 August, 2025
Strömfors Ironworks, Ruotsinpyhtää (FI)

NOTES ON URBAN IDEALS open studio
19 March, 2025
Cité internationale des arts, Paris (FR)

ELOLLISET group exhibition
13 – 29 March, 2025
Gallery Toinen Silmä, Helsinki (FI)

2024

CIRCULATION – spatial sculptures
Hanna Galtat, Miisa Hatakka, Johanna Ilvessalo, Tiina-Liisa Kaalamo
24 July – 4 August, 2024
The Cathedral Crypt, Helsinki (FI)

TEOS 2024
11 May – 19 May, 2024
Cable Facory, Helsinki (FI)

URBANA HORTUS
8 May – 26 May, 2024
Art Center Ahjo, Joensuu (FI)

ORNAMO by Halmetoja
10 February – 18 February, 2024
Design Lab Gallery, Helsinki (FI)

2023

TEOS 2023
22 September – 1 October, 2023
Suvilahti Kattilahalli, Helsinki (FI)

penni pelkää käärmeitä
Hanna Galtat, Hanna-Kaisa Korolainen, Penni Vasama
June 7 – June 18, 2023
Albertinkatu, Helsinki (FI)

NOSTALGIA
Hanna Galtat & Hanna-Kaisa Korolainen
March 29 – April 2, 2023
Confort Mental, Paris (FR)

2021

SIGNIFICANT SYMBOLS
May 26 – June 19, 2021
Laterna Magica, Helsinki (FI)

THIS MOMENT
Hanna Galtat & Tuulikki Raatikainen & Ida Taavitsainen
March 18 – April 25, 2021
Studio+Gallery RIO11, Helsinki (FI)

Photo Sara Hulkkonen