Hanna Galtat is a Helsinki-based artist working between Finland and France. Trained as a visual artist, designer, and art historian specialized in architecture, her work reflects curiosity for interdisciplinary exploration. Her practice encompasses sculpture, installation, and printmaking. She is also engaged in textile design.

Galtat explores themes of perception, memory, and meaning in relation to time, place, and matter. She draws inspiration from cultures, history, philosophy, and arts. Site-specifity and multisensoriality are central to her approach. Through her works, she wants to highlight the diversity of life and matters around which we can experience togetherness.

Galtat has worked among others with bronze sculptures, such as the Significant Symbols (2020–2021) series of 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. She has also designed textiles for the Finnish company Lapuan Kankurit that embody the cycle of natural light. Galtat's works have been presented in exhibitions in Finland and France.

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 (2020)
Design (FaCT Fashion, Clothing and Textile Design), PatternLab, Fine Arts

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

MA | University of Helsinki (1997)
Art History, Architecture History, Cultural Anthropology

CONTINUING EDUCATION

| LAB University of Applied Sciences, LUT University (2024)
Public art in community planning

EXHIBITIONS

2025

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

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

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