Ongoing & upcoming exhibitions
Aurora Borealis. Prints from the North. 6.-31.12.2025
Armoury of Arts Big Aula Gallery, Gdansk, Poland
Solo show, 16.01. – 9.2.2025
Ratamo Gallery, Jyväskylä
Solo show, 17.2. – 29.3.2025
Ikimetsägalleria, Hämeenlinna
About
Kukka Pitkänen (s. 1989) on kuvataiteilija, joka työskentelee pääasiassa painetun taiteen ja piirustuksen parissa.
Kukka Pitkänen (born in 1989) is a visual artist working mainly in the field of printmaking and drawing.
Olen loputtoman kiinnostunut niistä visuaalisista ja filosofisista mahdollisuuksista, joita taidegrafiikan painotekniikat tarjoavat. Peilautuvuus, kerroksellisuus, matriisi-vedos-ajattelu ja tekemiseen tiiviisti sidoksissa oleva muutosten ja yllätysten mahdollisuus ajavat minua kerta toisensa jälkeen taidegrafiikan tekniikoiden äärelle.
Vastapainona graafisten prosessien monivaiheisuudelle nautin kovasti piirtämisen suoraviivaisuudesta. Haluttu jälki näkyy heti, sellaisenaan. Myös piirtäessäni huomaan kuitenkin työskenteleväni taidegraafikon identiteetin mukaisesti; työstän piirroksianikin kerroksellisuuden ja poistojen kautta. Uusimmat piirrosprojektini ovat mittakaavaltaan suuria ja luonteeltaan tilallisia.
Aiheena minua kiinnostaa nyt erityisesti muutoksen ja pysyvyyden tematiikka. Kasvu ja hajoaminen on toinen laaja vastapari, jota käsittelen töissäni.
I am endlessly interested in the visual and philosophical possibilities offered by the printmaking techniques. Reflectivity, multiple layers, matrix-print-dualism and the possibility of changes and surprises, which is an intrinsic part of the work, steer me time after time to printing techniques.
As a counterbalance to the multistage processes in printmaking I enjoy enormously the straightforwardness of drawing. The sought-after imprint is immediately visible, as it is. Still, even when I’m drawing, I notice I am working with the identity of a printmaker; I work on my drawings through layering and removals. My latest drawing projects are large in size and spatial by their nature.
The themes I am currently particularly interested in are stability and change. Growth and degradation is another broad thematic pair I often deal with in my works.
Photo: Katri Stenberg
CV
Solo Exhibitions
Artist of the month
The Association of Finnish Printmakers
Graphoteque, Helsinki, 2024
Gallery Paperihuone
Graphic Workshop
Hämeenlinna, 2023
Studio Mustanapa
Rovaniemi, 2022
Taidehalli Häme
Hämeenlinna, 2022
Art Centre Mältinranta, Studio
Tampere, 2018
Gallery Paperihuone,
Graphic workshop
Hämeenlinna, 2018
Gallery RD
Hämeenlinna, 2018
Graphoteque
Artist of the month, Finnish Printmakers’ Union
Helsinki, 2017
Gallery Paperihuone
Graphic workshop
Hämeenlinna, 2016
Gallery Uusi Kipinä
Lahti, 2015
Nooran Viinibaari
Hämeenlinna, 2015
Hämeenlinna library
Solo exhibition for Artist Union’s Young Artist
Hämeenlinna, 2014
Wetterhoff House’s gallery
Hämeenlinna, 2013
Selected group Exhibitions
Ajan syyt – Grains of Time
10 year celebration exhibition o Finnish Woodcut Artists Association, Hämeenlinna Art museum
Golden Land
Elysium Gallery, Swansea & Ty Cornell Gallery, Wrexham, Wales, UK (curated by Maija Helasvuo and Marja Bonada), 2023
Neues leben
Celle Castle, Germany, 2022
Nuorten näyttely
Taidekeskus Salmela,
Mäntyharju, 2020
Suomi-Pacha
Group exhibition of Ars Häme association, curated by Pablo Herrman
OKK -Organ Kritiche Künst Galerie, Berlin, Germany, 2020
Hiertäen, hangaten
Group exhibition of Finnish Woodcut Artists
Riihimäki Art Museum, 2019
Young Art from Northern Europe
Neues Kunsthaus, Ahrenshoop, Germany, 2019
PRINTTI VI
Nokian taidetalo
Nokia, 2018
Nexo
Kaskadenkondensator Gallery,
Basel, Switzerland, 2018
Ars Kuvansi
Joroinen, 2018
Emme olleet yksi – We were not one
Ars Häme association’s group exhibition
Old Glass Factory, Riihimäki, 2018
Taidegrafiikkaa – Art graphic
group exhibition of Paperihuone ry
Taidepensionaatti, Virrat, 2018
Viiva- Line
Hämeenlinna Art museum
Hämeenlinna, 2018
Ars Kuvansi
Joroinen, 2017
Tuulen kaikuja -Echos of the wind
Varikko Gallery
Seinäjoki, 2017
Lasikatto -Glass roof
exhibitions in Hämeenlinna
Hauho and Tuusula, 2017
Olemisen vuorovesi
with Ella Kettunen
and Annamari Kinnunen
Gallery Paperihuone, Hämeenlinna, 2017
Paperinohuita päiviä – Days thin as paper
Gallery Paperihuone
Hämeenlinna, 2016
Mysterious forest
group exhibition of Finnish Woodcut Artists Society
Kyoto, Japan, 2016
Pinnanalaisia havaintoja – Subsurface observations
Voipaala Art centre
Sääksmäki, 2016
Endegra Pop up
Gallery Koski
Imatra, 2016
Tides of being
Galerie Pleiku
Berlin, Germany, 2016
PRINTTI III
Nokian taidetalo
Nokia 2015
The XII Baltic States Biennale of Graphic Art
Kaliningrad, Russia, 2015
Äänestä johtuva – Due to Sound
Ars Häme association 40 year anniversary exhibition
Hämeenlinna Art Museum, 2015
Internationell grafik
Rosa Huset
Skövde, Sweden, 2014
Perimmäistä olevaa
Galleria Ratamo
Jyväskylä, 2014
OUTO -WEIRD
Theme exhibition of Hämeenlinna Artist Union
Gallery Tärinä, Riihimäki, 2014
Unta vai valvettako? – Asleep or awake?
Group exhibition of Printmakers’ association Paperihuone
Gallery Emil, Tampere, 2013
Puolisattumanvaraisesti -Semi-coincidentally
Graduation exhibition
Imatra Art Museum, 2013
NEGS
Danish Media Museum,
Odense, Denmark, 2011
NEGS
Fyns Grafiske Verkstad
Odense, Denmark, 2011
Courses and artist residencies
Fish Factory Creative Centre
One month residency period
Stödvarfjördur, Iceland, 2023
Young Art from Northern Europe
Exhibition and recidency
Künstlerhaus Lukas
Ahrenshoop, Germany, 2019
Edition/Basel
Printmaking Residency
Basel, Switzerland, 2018
WAAW Artists’ Residency
Saint-Louis, Senegal, 2018
Åland’s Archipelago Guest Artist Atelié
Kökar, Finland, 2017
8th International Endegra meeting
Imatra, Finland, 2016
Exhibition and residency
Galerie Pleiku
Berlin, Germany, 2016
Journeyman’s walk
Printmaking union ENDEGRA’s workshop week
Tidaholm, Sweden, 2014
Topography and typography
Printmaking union ENDEGRA’s workshop week
Dresden, Germany, 2013
Border Borderless
Art workshop in Imatra in collaboration with art and design students from St Petersburg, Russia, 2012
NEGS
North European Graphic Symposeum
Odense, Denmark, 2011
Education
2016 – 2018– University of Helsinki, art history, MA
2009 – 2013 – Saimaa University of Applied Sciences, Imatra, Visual artist, BA
2011 – 2012 – National Academy of Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria
Memberships
2016 – Finnish Woodcut Artists Society
2013 – The Association of Finnish Printmakers
2013 – Ars-Häme association
2013 – Hämeenlinna Artist Union
2012 – Printmakers' association Paperihuone, Hämeenlinna
2010 – ENDEGRA: The European Network for Development and Education in Printmaking
Works in Collections
City of Nokia
Danske Mediemuseet, Denmark
Fyns Grafiske Verkstad, Odense, Denmark
Helsinki University Hospital
Palace Side Hotel, Kyoto, Japan
Private collections in Finland and abroad
Saimaa University of Applied Sciences
Contact
Contact Information
Works for Sale
HÄMEENLINNA
- Taidelainaamo / Art lending of the Ars-Häme association, Hallituskatu 14, 13100 Hämeenlinna
- https://www.taidelainaamo.com/public/go.php?action=artist&artist_id=106372
HELSINKI
- Graphoteque – The sales collection of the Association of Finnish Printmakers, Pieni Roobertinkatu 10, 00120 Helsinki
- https://www.taidegraafikot.fi/taiteilija/pitkanen-kukka/
Most of the works presented on this site are for sale. If you got interested, please contact me via email.