Veera Lohiniva (b. 1990) (she/they) is an artist based in Turku, Finland, who works primarily with performance art, video art, installation art and photography. Her works often handle themes such as the experiences of separation and oneness, sexuality, queerness, gender and relationship with nature.
Her works have been on show in various exhibitions and events in Finland, and also internationally in South Korea, Sweden, Czech Republic, Slovakia and USA. She has had artist-in-residencies in Mariehamn, Åland (June 2018), Budapest, Hungary (March 2018), and Detroit (MI), USA (July 2017). She has had solo-exhibitions in Myymälä2-gallery, Helsinki (2019), Rajatila-gallery, Tampere, Finland (2021) and Taidekeskus Mältinranta, Tampere, Finland (2023). Some of her latest performances actualised in Gallery Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland (2022) and Xs – Festival for New Dance and Performance in Turku, Finland (2022). |