Ulla Vaatainen

Ulla Väätäinen is Helsinki-based visual artist. She works with photography and video. Her works has been exhibited in several private and joint exhibitions and festivals in Finland and abroad.

She is fascinated by the fact that matter does not have permanent form and existence.

In her photo collages she uses images of objects, materials, structures, and phenomena that are on an edge, in a transitional space or in process. The original significance of the image as a permanent documentation of a memory has evaporated, connections to its original stories have disappeared.

PHOTO / PHOTO COLLAGES (SOLO EXHIBITIONS)

2024 Kamiter-Ars Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2020 Transitions, Gallery Rentola, Kustavi, Finland
2020 Transitions, Gallery Rikhard, Helsinki, Finland
2018 Something in Common, Gallery Kamiter Ars, Helsinki
2013 An Unexpected Encounter, Gallery Art Frida, Helsinki
2011 Gallery Women´s Room, Women's Christmas Fair, Wanha Satama, Helsinki
2007 Makasiinit – the Old Warehouses!, Malmitalo´s Loft Gallery Helsinki
2006 Makasiinit – the Old Warehouses!, Gallery Lasipalatsi, Helsinki

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Frida´s Summer, Gallery Art Frida, Helsinki
2014 Crisis, Gallery Rantakasarmi/The Artists´Association of Helsinki, Helsinki
2014 Easter Exhibition, Gallery Art Frida, Helsinki
2013 Close to the Countryside - Bon Appétit, Koskisto Art Center, Ruotsinkylä
2013 Northern Love, Art Center Haihatus. Joutsa
2013 Frida´s Summer 2013, Gallery Art Frida, Helsinki
2011 Home for Christman 3, Rööperi Art Center, Helsinki
2011 The Biennale of the Artists´Association of Helsinki, Kanneltalo, Helsinki
2011 ArtFair Finland 2011, Kaapeli, Helsinki
2011 The Artists´Association of Helsinki/Summer Exhibition, Gallery Rantakasarmi, Helsinki
2010 Home for Christman, Rööperin taidesalonki, Helsinki
2010 Let´s go ...