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Mirja Ilkka

"I paint until I reach a point where I have nothing more to give, and then I stop. A painting is always and never ready. If you're lucky, sometimes you feel it's enough"

Mirja Ilkka studied at Aalto University of Art and Design (2001-2007), graduating with a Master of Fine Arts.

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Frida Manuella

”I’ve always felt a strong attraction to the late 18th century and the dark dramatic sense that reflects that time. I find shelter in the shadowed and rumbling images of the unknown”

Swedish painter, born 1975. Four years in art school 1999-2003, Houvedskous, Gothenburg art school, Sweden. 

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ARTISTS Education & Exhibitions

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Mirja Ilkka

Mirja Ilkka studied at the University of Lapland (2000-2001) and the Aalto University of Art and Design (2001-2007), graduating with a Master of Fine Arts.

Erasmus studies at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, Italy in 2005 and Repin Institute courses in Kotka, Finland 2013.

Exhibitions 

Maker’s Gallery, Vaasa fall 2024

Gallery Katariina, Helsinki 2023

Gallery Fredland, Arild 2022

Nordic House, Copenhagen 2022

Gallery Sylvia Enget, Stockholm 2021 

Studio-Gallery Rio, Helsinki 2021 

Höganäs Art Museum, Sweden 2020 

Olseröd Art Hall, Sweden 2019 

Gallery DIAK, Helsinki 2019 

Seitseminen Nature Center, Ylöjärvi Finland 2018 

Shared Exhibitions 

Olseröd Art Hall, Olseröd 2023

OHO Gallery, Helsinki 2022

Ars Longa, Helsinki 2019 

Art Center Harri, Alavus 2015 

Gallery Virinä, Virrat 2013 

Group Exhibitions 

Taide Nuuttila, Virrat summer 2024

HAA Gallery, Helsinki 2022

Taide Nuuttila, Virrat 2022, 2023, 2024

Krapperup Art Hall, Sweden 2020 

Gumbostrand Konst & Form, Sipoo 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2023

The Cathedral Crypt, Helsinki 2016 

Sea Center Vellamo, Kotka 2016 

Frida Manuella

Frida Manuella Hauge is a Swedish artist, born 1975. With four years in art school 1999-2003 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

She has participated in a number of exhibitions, both group and single, in the last twenty years. Today working as a full time artist. On the countryside in southern Sweden.