Artist Talk with Ida Taavitsainen and Hannah Reinikainen

Welcome to a conversation where artistic practices meet in a discussion about closeness, parenthood, and the relationship between text and image.

Ida Taavitsainen (b. 1987) is an artist based in Helsinki who primarily works with analog photography. Her works often address memory, family relationships, presence and absence, and people’s emotional ties to places and objects. Taavitsainen holds an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art, London. Her work has been exhibited in Europe and Asia, including at the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki Darkroom Festival, Lovisa City Museum, Tallinn Photo Museum, and Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (KMOPA) in Japan. The photobook The Memory of My Wardrobe was published by Booth-Clibborn Editions in 2014. In 2025, her solo exhibition (Miss)lyckanden was shown at Galleria Uusi Kipinä in Lahti and at Hippolyte Korjaamo in Helsinki. www.idataavitsainen.com/

Hannah Reinikainen (b. 1992) is a film director and screenwriter based in Stockholm. She has studied journalism, documentary film, and screenwriting. Her first documentary film Alltid Amber premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2020. Hanna is currently working on the documentary Nästan Forever, which will premiere this year, and is also developing the fiction debut ”älsklingar”. Both documentaries are directed together with Lia Hietala.

The program is a collaboration with Tempo Documentary Festival and has received support from the Swedish-Finnish Cultural Foundation.

Free admission and open to all.

Photo: Ida Taavitsainen, Lia Hietala