Sirpa Häkli is a visual artist and painter whose four-decade production includes experimental colour printmaking, collages and paintings. Key features in her work are clarity of form and colour, a painterly style and combining techniques. Her visual language is nonfigurative...
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Sirpa Häkli is a
visual artist and painter whose four-decade production includes
experimental colour printmaking, collages and paintings. Key features
in her work are clarity of form and colour, a painterly style and
combining techniques. Her visual language is nonfigurative and
conceptual. Häkli approaches her art as a process and works
serially. Her themes and subjects have ranged over the years from the
visual depiction of various concepts or philosophical ideas – such
as time, voice, existence and language – to landscapes and topics
in art history.
Sirpa Häkli has studied painting and
printmaking at the Turku School of Fine Arts, Finland and the Jan
Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, Poland, as well as art history
at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has had forty solo
exhibitions and her work is included in many permanent art
collections, among others the Finnish State Art Deposit Collection,
the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Finnish Parliament
Collections, Niemistö Art Foundation Collection (Finland), Polish
National Museum, Romanian National Museum, Sándor Nógrádi Museum
(Hungary), Frans Masereel Center (Belgium) and Luciano Benetton
(Italy) Collections. In 2024 Sirpa Häkli was granted a State
Artist's Pension by the Arts Promotion Center Finland.
