Sex / Female

Year of birth / 1975

Website / www.hennariikkahalonen.me.uk

Henna-Riikka Halonen (born in Finland 1975) graduated with MFA Fine Art from the Goldsmiths College, London in 2006. Henna-Riikka Halonen is interested in social structures and human behavior and often collaborates with people to engage with their working or leisure experiences, highlighting everyday practices, and peripheral positions, as potential sites for resistance to wider social structures. Recording and staging resistance of a cultural alienation usually caused by geographical displacements of a voluntary, involuntary or even forced kind is a core Halonen’s practice. In her work she stages and documents events and collaborate with people, such as evicted inhabitants of the future Olympic site in London, Polish immigrants in Ireland or members of a Diving Club in Edinburgh. Recently she has shown her work in exhibitions in Centre Pompidou, Paris,Gallery Art Claims Impulse, Berlin, Loop Video Art Fair, Barcelona,Grimmuseum, Berlin, Gstaad Film Festival, Switzerland, Incheon International Biennale, Korea and ARTE TV Channel (France/Germany).