MEET THE ARTIST: MAIJA NÄRHINEN

Maija Närhinen‘s Among Other Things is on Galleri Aski from 11 to 27 September 2026.

The works in the exhibition bring together, among other things, man-made objects and natural materials I have gathered from forest paths. These elements are juxtaposed and arranged based on visual criteria, such as similarities of shape. They create new environments for one another in works where a superfluous or unnecessary object gains a new right to exist.

Maija Närhinen’s works have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Finland and abroad, recently for example at the Oulu Art Museum and Mänttä Art Festival in 2025. Närhinen assembles her three-dimensional works from countless different components, and these methods of artistic practice were also addressed in her doctoral dissertation in visual arts, completed in 2024. A commissioned work for the EMMA collection was completed in 2023, and her works are also held in, among others, the collections of Kiasma, Kuntsi, Helsinki, Oulu and Rovaniemi Art museums, as well as the Saastamoinen and Serlachius Foundations. Närhinen was awarded the Finnish State Prize for the Visual Arts in 2024.

Artist Maija Närhinen:

www.maijanarhinen.fi

www.instagram.com/maijanarhinen/