Finnish visual artist Piia Rossi has strong personal and professional ties to Slovakia. She spends part of the year living and working in a small village in the Brezno district, where her studio provides space particularly for developing large-scale paintings.

Based in Espoo, Finland, Rossi works across painting, collage and sculpture. She studied Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland, and has exhibited internationally.

Her upcoming solo exhibition, Stratum, at Galleria A2 in Helsinki explores the relationships between surface, depth and layers of time. Questions of memory, loss and continuity underpin her work, which draws on natural structures and material processes.

The exhibition brings together watercolours, collages and sculptures combining crocheted paper yarn and ceramics. Through layering, concealing and reassembling, the works retain traces of their earlier states while suggesting something still in the process of becoming. Their forms move between the familiar and the unidentifiable, where traces of the past and signs of the future may become indistinguishable.

Rossi will also present a solo exhibition at Galéria Umelka in Bratislava in June 2027, continuing her artistic engagement with Slovakia.

Stratum – Piia Rossi
Galleria A2, Annankatu 12, Helsinki
1–20 December 2026
Opening reception: 1 December, 17:00–19:00