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