Bio
Lana Haga
Born 1986 in Leningrad, Soviet Union
Lives and works in Vaasa, Finland
Working across sculpture, installation, relief, and sound, Lana Haga transforms discarded plastics, textiles, and found objects into forms that hover between the organic and the manufactured. Industrial remnants swell into bodily masses, synthetic surfaces resemble living matter, and familiar objects become difficult to place. Through these shifts in material identity, her work reflects on the systems of production, consumption, and value that shape contemporary life.
Repetition lies at the centre of Haga’s practice. Knotting, layering, felting, compressing, melting, and accumulating become slow, meditative acts through which materials gradually depart from their original function. Rather than imposing predetermined forms, she works in dialogue with the behaviour of her materials, allowing their physical properties and histories to guide the process. The resulting forms suggest adaptation as an ongoing condition of survival—transformation that remains incomplete, unresolved, and continuously unfolding. Existing between synthetic and biological states, the works speculate on how matter persists, mutates, and acquires new meaning within an ever-changing world.
Her work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom; MUU Contemporary Art Centre and Galleria Heino, Helsinki, Finland; and the Ostrobothnian Museum and Vaasa City Art Gallery, Vaasa, Finland. Her work is held in national and international private collections, including the Heino Art Foundation Collection, Helsinki.
Haga is represented by Galleria Heino, Helsinki
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B. 1986
Lana Haga lives and works in Vaasa, Finland
Education
2005-2007
Digital media, Hyper Island, Blekinge University, Karlskrona, Sweden
Selected solo exhibitions
2025
A Thousand Plateaus, MUU Contemporary Art Centre, Helsinki, Finland
AThousand Plateaus, GUK, Lahti, Finland
2024
Childless mother, motherless child, Gallery 3H+K, Pori, Finland
2022
You’ve Changed, Vaasa City Art Gallery, Vaasa, Finland
And the fires be raging and rivers overflowing, Galleria Seinä, Helsinki, Finland
2020
In focus, Neon Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2018
Inner worlds / outer worlds, Garage, Vaasa, Finland
Primeval, Kuula Institute, Vaasa, Finland
Selected group exhibitions
2026
PICNIC 1, Galleria Heino, Helsinki, Finland
2025
Kaavaton, Harkko Museum, Raisio, Finland
Firstness, White Rabbit Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2024
Vasa artist’s guild exhibition, Vaasan Taidehalli, Vaasa, Finland
Observations, Pärnu City Gallery, Pärnu, Estonia
2023
Contact- Memory of a Landscape, Ostrobothnian museum, Vaasa, Finland
Curated by Dr. Aura Seikkula
2022
Salon’ Tsivrikos Shake Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Meri, HAA Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2021
Mythologies, Neon Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Metamorphoses, Neon Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2020
Kinesis, Neon Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Textile art, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
2019
Portrait, Black Wall Gallery, Vaasa, Finland
2015
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
Art fairs
2025
Affordable Art Fair, The Ode To, Stockholm, Sweden
2024
Affordable Art Fair, The Ode To, Stockholm, Sweden
2023
London Art Fair, Blond Contemporary Booth, London, United Kingdom
2021
London Art Fair, Blond Contemporary Booth, London, United Kingdom
2017
Art Rooms, London, United Kingdom
Collections
Work in the Heino Collection as well as various national and international private collections
Grants
2026
Finnish Cultural Foundation
Amos Anderson’s Foundation
2025
Arts Promotion Centre Finland
VISEK
Swedish Cultural Foundation
2024
Konstsamfundet
2023
Nygrén foundation
2022
Paulo Foundation
Arts Promotion Centre Finland
The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland
2021
Paulo foundation
Frame Contemporary Art Finland
Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2020
Konstsamfundet