WELCOME

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.Merja Heino is a visual artist from Helsinki, Finland, working mainly in painting but also in video, installation art and photography.

  • Photo above: Univited Guest -installation, ‘ELO’ group exhibition in Gallery Longa January 2023; Paintings, ‘New Curls’ a solo exhibition in Gallery Duetto , April 2023.
Exhibition upcoming / Right now:

– Kuvataiteilijaseniorit 2024: Stoa Gallery, Promenadi Gallery and Vuotalo Gallery, group exhibitions

– Gallery A2, Annankatu 12, 00120 Helsinki, a solo exhibition 15.8.-5.9.2024. Opening on Thursday 15.8. at 17-19, welcome!

Some of the latest exhibitions 2022-23:

– Makers’ Gallery, Vaasa 17.10.-5.11.2023, solo exhibition, paintings

–  Gallery Katariina, Helsinki: ABOUT ANIMALS AND ORGANISMS 18.8. – 10.9.2023, solo exhibition, installation and photos

– ARTakatie, Pello, Lapland, Finland 8.-29.7.2023, a group exhibition, contemporary Finnish art

– Gallery Duetto, Helsinki: UUDET KIHARAT – NEW CURLS 26.4.-21.5.2023, solo exhibition, paintings

– ELO! Gallery Longa, Artists’ House Ars Longa, 6.-29.1.2023: Merja Heino, Marjatta Oja, Jaakko Rönkkö, Inari Virmakoski, Juha Mäki-Jussila. Videos, paintings and installations by the artists living in Ars Longa.

– Gallery Tärinä, Riihimäki, Finland, October 2022: ‘Joy in a moment’, Seniorien salonki 42, a group exhibition.

– Supermarket Independet Art Fair 2022, Stockholm 25.-29.5.2022. Artists representing Gallery Longa (Artists’ House Ars Longa, Helsinki): Merja Heino (as an artist and curator), Mirka Flander & Jari Haanperä, Mandi Nurmi, Anu Suhonen and Inari Virmakoski.

– Huntenkunst2022, an annual international art event in Ulft, Netherlands 20.-22.5.2022

Tervetuloa

Helsinkiläinen kuvataiteilija, päätyöskentelyalueena maalaus.

Työskentelee projekteittain myös animoitujen videoiden, fiktiivisen valokuvauksen ja installaation parissa.