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KATJA HÄRKKI – BIO

Katja Härkki (born in 1969, Helsinki) is a visual artist and painter who lives and works in Lahti, Finland.

Katja Härkki (b. 1969, Helsinki) is a visual artist and painter living and working in Lahti. Her work explores the relationship between embodied experience and identity. The body has been a central focus throughout her career. Before her artist life, Härkki worked for many years as a fashion designer, which deepened her understanding of the body's needs, movement, and spatial presence. This background continues to shape her artistic approach: the body appears both in a concrete form and as a stage for existential questions that challenge and fascinate her time and again.

Härkki graduated as a designer and Master of Arts in 1997 from the University of Art and Design Helsinki, specializing in fashion and costume design. In 2014, she completed her degree in fine arts at the Lahti Art Institute, and in 2024, she earned an advanced degree (Master of Culture and Arts, YAMK) in fine arts at Turku University of Applied Sciences, where her thesis focused on the development of artistic practice.

She has held several solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions. Härkki is a member of the Finnish Painters' Union as well as the artists' associations in Tampere and Lahti.