Mari Sunna                                        

Mari Sunna (b. 1972) paints with an extremely broad expressive range, from delicate and dream-like paintings to funny and strange works which can be both subtle and uncanny at the same time. Recurring and identifiable elements can be found in her oeuvre: a carefully considered frugality of expression, empty spaces, even planes of colour and the variation of hues and degrees of brightness of colours creating a special glow in her paintings. Although Sunna's works display a certain continuity, she is also constantly moving on to something new.

In recent years Mari Sunna has had solo exhibitions with Galerie Anhava (2024), Galerie Burster in  Karlsruhe (2021) and Berlin (2020), and in Galerie Anhava (2019). She has partaken in group exhibitions in e.g. EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art (2023), Wesenburg Museum für Moderne Kunst (2023), Kunstraum Potsdam (2023), Palfrey Space, London (2018); Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta (2017-2018); Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City (2015-2016); and Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan (2015). Sunna's works are part of several important art collections both in Finland and abroad, such as Saastamoinen Foundation's art collection, the Aspen Collection, Deutsche Bank, the Nordic Watercolor Museum, the Saatchi Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki and the UBS Art Collection. Her works have also been acquired for many private collections in Finland and the Nordic Countries, the Great Britain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, and the USA.