Rebirth (pink) Sculpture

Born in 1986, residing and working in Vaasa, Finland, Lana Haga is a multidisciplinary artist—working in sculpture, painting, and installation—best known for transforming post-industrial matter into new objects, marked by vivid colour and reflective surfaces. Three-dimensional paintings, text-paintings supported by unconventional surfaces, sculptures, and in-situ installations evoke analogies referring to existential struggles of the human condition but also the lingering effects of industrialisation and pollution, material displacement, climate change, and the luring existence of a world beyond our nature. From a visual perspective, Lana Haga’s works are marked by both versatility and continuity as she continues reinventing her artistic practice, visualising and revisiting her message in new forms, processes, and disciplines. Materials like leather, steel, rubber, plastic, bitumen, paint, glass and textiles are combined and juxtaposed to create a constant interaction of opposites in terms of soft versus hard, matte versus reflective, organic versus artificial.