Hanna Holma:
The Chillingly Beautiful Stargate Leaves No Room for Doubt

Gallery Rikhard | Rikhardinkatu Library lobby

Welcome to the opening on Wednesday, 1 April at 4–6.30pm!

The crazier the world gets, the more important it is to look for something that is real and give it time. Maybe also to give time to making pictures, pictures that are real to me.

This is my first exhibition, and these are also my first new monotypes in eight years. Eight years ago, I felt that my motives for making art had become false and I needed a break.

Now, in the spring of 2026, making pictures feels like a fresh and surprising gift again.

Facts open up to me as pictures. When I realise some current fact in my own life, a picture floats before my eyes. These moments are also accompanied by a buzzing, immense feeling of gratitude: it's great to be alive. I write down what I saw and later realise it as a monotype.

If I have been sincere when making the picture and naming it, there is no need for anything more to happen. But if it happens that someone else experiences something meaningful when looking at the picture, what could be more fulfilling?

Hanna Holma is a printmaker and illustrator living and working in Helsinki and Raseborg. She has been active as a visual artist since 1996, has held around forty solo exhibitions and has participated in joint and group exhibitions in Finland and abroad. Her works are in several of the most important Finnish art collections, including the collections of the State of Finland, the Wihuri Foundation and the Oulu Art Museum. In recent years, she has actively participated in building the non-profit art and wellbeing centre Hub Feenix in the historical Meltola sanatorium in Raseborg. She also manages the international artist residency of Hub Feenix.

The work of Hanna Holma in the Art Lending selection
Artist Register