Katri Mononen

Katri Mononen, born in 1981, is a Nokia-based visual artist. Her work focuses on the study of the language and diversity of painting.

Abstract and representative elements meet in the playful paintings by Katri Mononen. The borderline between those can be volatile. Layered painting process is in the middle of her practice. Her latest works bring together geometric abstraction and impressions of movement while commenting on modernist tradition. Mononen combines spray paints, acrylic, oil and collage techniques. Her praxis also includes three dimensional works which she processes using materials left over from stretched frame paintings.

Katri Mononen paints on canvas, combining acrylic, oil and spray paints, as well as collage materials. Sometimes her paintings take a three-dimensional, sculptural form, or are worked on paper. The materiality of painting, layering, and the ability of different colour combinations to evoke feelings and associations is quintessential to her work.

The driving force in Katri Mononen’s artistic practice is the openness and unexpectedness of the painting process.  In Mononen’s paintings, one can see longing towards the mysteries and the invisible world, and an attempt to access a childlike state where everything is possible and just about to take shape.

Katri Mononen’s works have been shown in solo exhibitions, including galleries such as Gallery Himmelblau, Tampere (2022) and tm•gallery, Helsinki (2021), and in group exhibitions, including the Kulturbahnhof Eller, Düsseldof  (2022) and Lappeenranta Art Museum (2019). Her works belong in the collections of the Finnish State Art Comission and Tampere Art Museum.

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