In this extraordinary year of COVID-19 photographic artist Nanna Hänninen has been able to open two retrospective museum exhibitions. The exhibitions are taken place at Serlachius Museum Gösta and Kuopio Art Museum, both in Finland.

Photographic artist Nanna Hänninen’s (b. 1973) international career began at the Berlin Art Fair in 2000. Her works are held in numerous public and private collections around the world. Over the past decades she has been presented by many frontline galleries like Galleri Bo Bjerggaard in Copenhagen, taubert contemporary in Berlin, Bryce Wolkowitz in New York, Galerie Anhava in Helsinki and Camara Oscura del Arte in Madrid. She is one of the first members of Helsinki School artists. Nanna Hänninen has also created several public art works internationally. 

Now, 20 years later both Serlachius Museum Gösta shows her retrospective exhibition How About the Future? and Kuopio Art Museum shows her retrospective exhibition Understanding the big Picture. In her works, she has focused on depicting the individual’s experience in society and has addressed themes such as insecurity and otherness as well as the need for and the impossibility of control. In her recent works, Hänninen has focused on the burning issue of the day: climate change and the choices it brings, which we who are living today must consider. The exhibitions are curated by Laura Kuurne at Serlachius Museums and Marja Louni at Kuopio Art Museum.

Exhibitions consist of over 60 artworks from the series Fear and Security, Potential Objects and Spaces, New Landscapes, Asymmetric Exposures, //PAINT, Witnesses of the Others and Now is Now are from 2000-2020. All works are produced by Serlachius Museums and Nanna Hänninen. 

The exhibitions are accompanied with an artist monograph Now is Now published by Kodoji.Press in Switzerland.