Curator’s choice

Niina Lehtonen Braun

Niina Lehtonen Braun (1975, Finland) studied fine arts at the Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts in Finland and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts Paris, France. Since graduating in 2000, she has lived and worked in Berlin.

Her collages, which at first glance seem light and cheerful, trace ambivalent, often taboo subjects, with the role of women in the context of domestic violence, alcoholism and loneliness, as well as the fear of being overwhelmed as a mother, being central motifs in her works. In her own dual role as mother and artist, she repeatedly explores the effect of making art for the coexistence of a family.