Daniel Hahta (b. 1994) is an artist from Turku. He is a member of Into Art Centre and he works at the association’s art center ArtPompo. Hahta is part of the Into ArtNotes community art group and the youth art workshop group. Sculptor Sinikka Mäki-Lertola and visual artist Eija Ruoho have acted as his mentors since 2016. Hahta has participated in exhibitions since 2018. His first solo exhibition “Itäharju” was exhibited in Galleria Into in Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova in 2023. In 2024, he was chosen Kettuki’s Artist of the Year by Estonian art historian Mari Vallikivi from the list of candidates. His solo exhibition is exhibited at the Kondase Center, the Estonian Museum of Naive and Outsider Art, Viljandi from March 21 to May 12, 2024.
Daniel Hahta
Art Studio: Into Art Centre
Daniel Hahta is an artist from Turku, whose expression combines precision and fantasy. In recent years, the subjects of his works have been related to the neighborhood of Itäharju where he lives. In Hahta’s works, Itäharju appears as an undeveloped open landscape, steep rolling terrains, where small details stop the gaze. As a technique, he uses a liquid calligraphy marker, mostly using a wooden stick and a thin brush as his marker.
More about the artist’s work on shortfilm (you move to YouTube-video).
Produced by Taidekeskus Into ry 2023
©Daniel Hahta, Eija Ruoho, Sinikka Mäki-Lertola, Taidekeskus Into ry
Filming, cutting, editing: Joel Karlsson
Artworks
CV
s. 1994
Contact: taidekeskusinto@gmail.com
Artistic Work
Art Centre Into’s ArtPompo since 2018
Sculptor Sinikka Mäki-Lertola and visual artist Eija Ruoho have been his mentors since 2016
Private exhibitions
Upcoming: Kondase-keskus, Viljandi, Viro 2024
Itäharju, Aboa Vetus Ars Nova, Turku 2023
Group exhibitions
Pimeyden tyyssija, Örön linnakesaari, 2021–2022
B-Galleria, Turku, 2021
Art Centre Into, 10th anniversary exhibition, Brinkkala gallery, Turku, 2019
Viidakossa tarkkaillaan, Art Centre Into group exhibition, Art Kaarisilta, Helsinki 2018
Works in collections
Art Centre Into
Public works
ArtNotes-group: “Luomiskertomus” and “Sydänreliefi” – community artworks, Paimio special care district’s building, Paimio 2018
Awards
Kettuki’s Artist of the Year 2024
Other
Mention in the article of Pessi Rautio: “Erityisiä sisäpuolia” Taide-magazine 4/2023