Katja Tukiainen's Good Heavens

December 12 2009

8th – 28th December, KUD France Prešeren, Ljubljana
Opening on Tuesday December 8th at 22.00

Katja Tukiainen exhibits her Good Heavens II (Hyvät Hyssykät II) graphic novel in Ljubljana December 2009. She transforms the KUD gallery into a realm of Hyvät Hyssykät, which is the name of the main character of her graphic novels since year 1992.

“Hyvät Hyssykät is a girl, a woman, who is not my alter ego, but the extension of my personality, " says Katja Tukiainen. She builds her site-specific exhibition into the KUD gallery with her bigger than original sized pimped reproductions on canvases, animation and wall painting.

Katja Tukiainen is an acclaimed painter and comic artist whose works have been exhibited around the world. Tukiainen has participated in artist-in-residence programs in Italy, New York and Japan. Her statement is: “My work is my pleasure.” She says she is an idealist, post-feminist, romanticist and aesthete.

In co-operation with Stripburger Comics Magazine.