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SAARA HALMINEN they/them
Helsinki, Finland
Born 2003
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Halminen (b. 2003, Oulu) is a multimedia artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Currently studying painting in the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, they work across various media, including installation, video, sculpting, 3D, and graphic art. Still mostly focusing on the long background in oil painting, their work is affected by the eyes of a painter.
Currently, Halminen is working with themes around queer worldbuilding, psychoanalysis and combining these two very broad perspectives in concepts of pleasure and art practice itself. Pleasure has been central to their thinking almost violently. Focusing on pleasure in daily life almost obsessively reveals liminalities and a demand for movement and constant transformation.
During the last year (2025), Halminen has been working as an artist and project manager in a long-term production for Oulu 2026 - European Capital of Culture. Halminen has been temporarily studying at the Academy of Fine Art Prague in 2025. Their works have been exhibited in Oulu and Helsinki, and they are currently working on their BA exhibition, taking place in August 2026.
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SELECTED WORKS 2022-2026
click to be saved, 2024
oil on hardboard
0,6 m x 2,75 m
Artwork explores the contemporary trend and thematics of Christianity and Catholicism in Western art and the internet in the 2020s. The painting is a spatial artwork based on the Majakka space. The windows in the space delimit the tower of Kallio Church, and the tones of the painting are from the insides of the Kallio Church tower. The shape comes from gothic church architecture, when lancet windows first got popularized. The window is narrow and round from the top with a pointed tip...
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A Journey through the memories of Northern Ostrobothnia, 2025-2026
Series of site-specific installations built in taxis.
Saara Halminen, Mikko-Pekka Hyvärinen, Martta Kontio
Halminen produced a site-specific installation series for Menevä Oy’s taxis. The project was created in spring 2025. The artworks are part of the Oulu European Capital of Culture programme.
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untitled, 2025
oil on canvas
2,8 m x 1,6 m
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fuck, marry, kill, 2025
single-channel video
2 min
Video is a loop of two minutes made to exhibit in a taxi...
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hytty, 2024
oil on canvas
95 cm x 254 cm
Care_worry_planning_responsibility_work_generations_knowledge, 2024
oil on canvas, video projector, video
duration: 15min
This video is a part of an installation...
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hair by me for a gender reveal, 2022
wearable sculpture made with synthetic hair
Hair by me for a gender reveal is an art piece made by braiding synthetic hair pieces into a ten meters long rope.
Artwork is made to be worn as an accessory or clothing and it’s modifiable.
Piece is inspired by Japanese shibari...
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