EDUCATION

27.07.2022 D.A. (Art and Design) Aalto University

12.06.2015 M.A. (Textile art) Aalto University

02.12.2005 B.A. (Fine arts), University Paris 8

31.01.2001 B.A. (Photography), Turku UAS’ Arts Academy

Doctoral thesis The Making of Inspiration – From Monet to Warhol and beyond was published in 2022 (Aalto ARTS Books).

SOLO AND JOINT EXHIBITIONS

Coming: 2026 Venus in Fur(s), E.P. Gallery, Tokyo (JP)

2025 Le Carnaval des Animaux, Täky Galleria, Lappeenranta (FI)

2024 HYMNI, with Matias Karsikas and Milla Vaahtera, Lokal Gallery, Helsinki (FI)

2023 Eternal Flame, Snow Gallery, Berlin (DE)

  Penni pelkää käärmeitä, with Hanna Galtat and Penni Vasama, Albertinkatu 22–24E (FI)

          N O S T A L G I A, with Hanna Galtat, Confort Mental, Paris (FR)

2022 Moonless Night, Snow Gallery, Berlin (DE)

2020 In the House of Love and Rebellion, Hvitträsk museum, Luoma (FI)

  Battle Royale with Cheese, with Joel Slotte and Ville-Veikko Viikilä, Gallery Tiketti (FI)

2018 House of Love, Talentshop, Habit are, Helsinki (FI)

Broken Flowers in the House of Beauty, Ventura Future, Milan (IT)

2017 House of Play and Rain, Lokal Gallery, Helsinki (FI)

2004 Bunnygirl, Gallery Pirkko-Liisa Topelius, Helsinki (FI)

2002 Tired of Sun, collaboration with Nina Pätilä, Art Goes Kapakka Festival, Helsinki (FI)

2001 Anna and Ivan in the garden, with Nina Pätilä, Kunsthalle (Taidehalli), Helsinki (FI)

          Honeymoon, with Nina Pätilä, Gallery Peri, Turku (FI)

2000 Waiting for Thierry, Lucien et Max, Gallery Hyäryllistä, Turku (FI)

1999 Open Room 506, Beiijng Film Academy, Beijing (CN)

          Tango–performance, Tian An Men, Beijing (CN)

          Cœur Brisée, Cafe 37, Savonlinna (FI)

1997 White room, TaideTuote (ArtFactory), Savonlinna (FI)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Coming: 2025 Delphian Gallery Open Call exhibition, Unit 1 Gallery, London (UK)

2025 Sense of Sprituality, vol III, Soul edition, Studio Bom, Helsinki (FI)

Mit_ä? Biennale of Contemporary Art, Kuopio Art museum (FI)

Institut Finlandais, Paris (FR)

Craft Museum of Finland, Jyväskylä (FI)

Toivonoja Summer Exhibition, Nastola (FI)

Billnäs Summer Exhibition, Pinjainen (FI)

Finnish Glass Lives 9, The Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki (FI)

Konstrundan, Limis, Helsinki (FI)

2024 July fourth, Galerie Chloe Salgado, Paris (FR)

Re–Think Re–Form, Studio Bom, Helsinki (FI)

  Metsä–Forest, Taattinen Farm, Merimasku (FI)

  Ryijy 2.0, PROTO Design Centre, Oulu (FI

Studio Tashtego, Cold Spring (US)

2023 II-phase participants’ exhibition in public art competition, National Museum (FI)

Kompott, Lokal Gallery, Helsinki (FI)

Habitare Fair, Helsinki (FI)

          Contemporary Art from the North, Carl Hansen & Son, Hamburg (DE)

  Stockholm Creative Edition with Lokal gallery (SE)

Ashes and Sands, Schloss Hollenegg for Design, Schwanberg (AT)

2022 Sinua, sinua rakastan [Ode to Love], Lokal Gallery, Helsinki (FI)

  Displaced, Schloss Hollenegg for Design, Schwanberg (AT)

  Dialogues, Dipoli, Espoo (FI)

  The Glass Age, Exhibition of New Glass Art, Lasimakasiini, Nuutajärvi (FI)

Listen to the forest that grows II, Institut Finlandais, Paris (FR)

Listen to the forest that grows, Institut Finlandais, Paris (FR)

Vårsalong, Galleri Backlund, Gothenburg (SE)

With the Naked Eye II, Voipaala Art Centre, Voipaala (FI)

Konstrundan, Limis, Helsinki (FI)

Piece of Earth, Taattinen Farm, Merimasku (FI)

2021 Bukowskis & Marimekko, Bukowskis Auction House, Helsinki (FI)

In Good Hands, Ostrobothnian Museum, Vaasa (FI) Lokal at Collectible Fair, Brussels (BE)

2020 With the Naked Eye (with TEXO and Artists O), HAA Gallery, Helsinki (FI)

 In Good Hands, The Friends of Finnish Handicraft, Design Museum, Helsinki (FI) and Craft Museum of Finland, Jyväskylä (FI)

  Gathering, Lokal Gallery, Helsinki (FI)

2019 Interwoven, Textile Art exhibition, Emma Museum, Espoo (FI)

  Helsinki Tones, Lokal Gallery, Helsinki (FI)

  Textile Tomorrow Summit, Väre Building, Espoo (FI)

2018 Tekstiili 18, TurbiiniSali at Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki (FI)

          Väre Opening exhibition, Espoo (FI)

  Rugs and ceramics after Monet, Skanno Showroom, Helsinki (FI)

  2 Rooms, Marikka Kiirikoff’s artist home, KotkaArt Bonus exhibition, Kotka (FI)

2017 Art of Reseach VI Conference exhibition at Aalto University, Espoo (FI)

Dorothy Waxman Textile Design Prize, the Invisible Dog Art Center, NY (US)

          Nakuna, Milan Design Week, Circolo Filologico Milanese (IT)

  Pre-Helsinki Pop Up, Artek, Helsinki (FI)

2016 Tekstiili16, TurbiiniSali at Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki (FI)

2015 Dorothy Waxman Textile Design Prize, WantedDesign, NYC (US)

Signals hunch, Habitare Fair, Helsinki (FI)

2013 Marimekko life, City Art Museum of Kemi (FI)

2005 Jeune Creation, La Bellevilloise, Paris (FR)

2004 Esprit, Gallery Like'76, Paris (FR)

  Scandinavian Film Festival, with Nina Pätilä, Batofar, Paris (FR)

2003 Girls, Gallery Peri, Turku and Northern Photography Center, Oulu (FI)

2002 Festival de Montmartre, year of Eastern Europe, Crypt of Saint Jean de Montmartre, Paris (FR)

2000 Komenne-Arigato, Gallery Manilla, Turku (FI)

1999 Cafe Ananas, Gallery Manilla, Turku (FI)

    Images of Violence, performance series with Paavo Halonen, Turku city streets (FI)

1998 I have that smile (performer) choreography by H. Romppanen, Brinkkala, Turku (FI)

        Aura, Brinkkala Gallery, Turku (FI)

1997 STOP BATH, Brinkkala Gallery, Turku (FI)

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS

Design museum of Helsinki (FI); Finnish State Art Commission (FI); Schloss Hollenegg for Design (AT): Kunsthalle (Taidehalli) (FI): Minä Perhonen (JP): Virgil Abloh Foundation (US); Tiketti (FI); Pirkko-Liisa Topelius (FI); Private collections (FI, BE, DE, DK, FR, NL, SE, UAE, US)

PUBLICATIONS

• Vega, Luis et al. (2023). Making things that change: Re-considering the fluid nature of creative production in research through art, design, and craft (Art of Research Conference 8: ReImagining)

• Korolainen, Hanna-Kaisa (2022). The Making of Inspiration – from Monet to Warhol and Beyond. Aalto ARTS Books.

• Korolainen, Hanna-Kaisa (2022). Daisies and Friends – Scratching a Path to a jacquard design (Chapter). Interwoven pp.376-379. Aalto ARTS Books.

• New Glass Review 42. Corning Museum of Glass. (2022).

• Korolainen, Hanna-Kaisa (2022). Voices: The Making of Inspiration (Lectio). RUUKKU Nr 18, Responsibility in/with/for arts and artistic practices.

• Korolainen, Hanna-Kaisa (2020). Warhol and me – Battle of the authors: From copying to sharing. Research in Arts and Education 1/2021. Special issue on Art of Research VII: Authorship and Responsibility.

• Korolainen, Hanna-Kaisa (2018). Monet and me – A story of an inspiration. Synnyt/Origins Journal, Issue 3: Special issue on Catalyses, Interventions, Transformations.

GRANTS

2025 Arts Promotion Centre Finland

2024 Finnish Cultural Foundation (Uusimaa), Finnish Cultural Foundation, Alfred Kordelin Foundation

2022 Finnish Cultural Foundation, FRAME, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Aalto University grant

2021 Arts Promotion Centre Finland

2020 Arts Promotion Centre Finland for group Halko-Kerimov-Korolainen-Saarelainen, Ornamo ry, Finnish Institute in Germany (DE)

2019 Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Finnish Cultural Foundation for group Halko-Kerimov-Korolainen-Saarelainen, Aalto University and Aalto ARTS grants

2018 Finnish Cultural Foundation 3–year–grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland for group Leppisaari-Kivistö-Korolainen, Aalto University grant, Aalto DoD Express and Aalto ARTS grants

2017 Alfred Kordelin Foundation for group Leppisaari-Kivistö-Korolainen, Aalto University grant, Aalto DoD Express and Aalto ARTS grants

2016 Aalto University and Aalto ARTS grants

RESIDENCIES

2025, 2026 EPAZABU. Tokyo (JP)

2022 Taattinen Ceramics Residency, Naantali (FI)

2020 Schloss Hollenegg for Design, Schwanberg (AT)

COMPETITIONS AND PRIZES

2023 Shortlisted in public art competition of the National Museum of Finland

 Auno and Mauri Riuttu Foundation award for excellent craft

2022 Award of Excellence (scientific books) for dissertation ICMA Awards

2017 Jury’s Special Mention, Dorothy Waxman Textile Design Prize (US)

2015 Finalist, Dorothy Waxman Textile Design Prize organized by Edelkoort inc. (US)

2015 Finalist, Wallpaper Competition organized by Featrh (GB/FI)

SELECTED INVITED PRESENTATIONS

2025 ENSAD, Paris (FR), Amour/Haine –workshop

2024 The King's Foundation, School of Traditional Arts (UK), presenting own research

  Estonian Academy of Arts (EE), Textile TALKS series

2023, 2022 Design Museum of Helsinki (FI), presentations of textile as media in art

2020 Finnish Institute in Germany (DE), Vienna Design Week TALK on Design Residencies

  Design Museum of Helsinki (FI), Design Evening Talk around In Good Hands exhibition

2018 Habitare fair, Design talk with Teemu Salonen, interviewed by Sami Sykkö, Helsinki (FI)

  Helsinki Design Week, Design Diplomacy Talk with Cecilie Rudolph, Embassy of Denmark, Helsinki (FI)

  Skanno Showroom, Inspiration in the creative process, Helsinki (FI)

        Design Museum of Helsinki (FI), Design Evening Talk around the Josef Frank exhibition

2015 School of Design, Queensland University of Technology (AU), lecture: Inspiration in the creative process

2013 Kemi Art Museum (FI), Public talk with Paavo Halonen on 60 years of Marimekko exhibition