Exhibition of the month
Terapiaartis.fi is a free, safe and anonymous visual art platform that bring together artists who share common challenges with mental health.
The goal is to strengthen artists’ participation, promote outsider art, raise awareness about the positive effects of art on well-being, and encourage discussions about mental health and its importance. If you want to organize your own visual art exhibition, please contact: info@terapiaartis.fi
Voices in the head
Multivoiced Artists -collective
The collective operates in connection with the Finnish Hearing Voices Association (Suomen moniääniset ry). It creates space to look at the phenomenon of hearing voices with fresh eyes. It shakes up old, rigid assumptions and also brings forward the wondrous and mystical aspects of hearing voices. If voices are explained only as destructive symptoms of illness, it becomes difficult to live with them. If, on the other hand, voices are seen as meaningful, they can even enrich life. Through its art, the collective seeks to empower people who hear voices, give them a face, and dismantle prejudice.
The members of the collective are Samuli Aalto, Sari Nieminen, Sami Juntunen, Marjut Lehtinen, Oliver Sievänen, Anne-Marie Korkealehto, Henna Paasonen, Kimmo Vinni, Sini Kirvesmäki, and Anni Tervonen.
Moniääniset taiteilijat (Multivoiced Artists) is an open, independent artist collective that welcomes new members. The artists represent a wide range of art forms, from painting to performance and video art. The collective organizes exhibitions a couple of times a year..
Suppressed emotions
Ritu Niemelä
I am a self-taught artist at the beginning of my career. I have been painting for about three years. My works are created quite spontaneously, without planning. I could never have imagined the kind of flow that would carry me when I bought my first canvas and a few tubes of paint around three years ago. When I paint, I may disappear for hours into my own inner space, releasing traumas and fears onto the canvas. I have experienced many things in my life that have left traces somewhere deep inside, beyond the reach of view, and now I make them visible to the world, one painting at a time.
E.S.P (Extra sensory psychosis)
Setuk Raymond Gregoire
An acrylic artist who suffers from cyclothemia(bi-polar spectrum), adhd, and synesteshia.
Art has been my stability in my life and through my mental struggles. Upon learning that my synesteshia was a real condition I began a long journey of learning how to translate the sounds i see into paint on the canvas.
I strive to be as original in my artwork as possible, from novel techniques to composure, as well as refusing to print my work.
“Hold on, I’m dissociating for a moment.”
Arto Kuronen
The exhibition consists of works painted between 2024 and 2025. Stylistically, they form several small clusters, but regardless of style, each piece is a kind of existential snapshot.
When I paint, I isolate myself from the rest of the world in a dim corner to vibe, and instead of following a predetermined subject, the present stream of thought guides the final outcome.
Common threads running through the works include the experience of existence, observing from in-between states, the psyche’s quirks, and the general state of the world. However, the paintings come with no instructions on how to read them, and I hope the viewer gives space to their own feelings.
Arto Kuronen is a dude working in the margins and seams of the art and culture field, whose life interweaves painting and mental health. In addition to painting, he operates within the realm of experimental music. Kuronen loves cats and hates coriander.
In my feelings – Comics About Mental Health
Taneli Kemppi
In My Feelings is a project that began in 2023, in which I create diary-like comic publications reflecting my own thoughts. I usually take a topic that is currently troubling me and start processing it through a reflective approach in the form of a comic. The goal is to create content that others might relate to as well — but turning my thoughts into comics and seeing them materialize as artwork has also personally helped me move forward with certain issues. I draw the comics freely, directly with ink on paper, to keep the process relaxed and enjoyable.
Taneli Kemppi is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tampere, Finland. He has been self-publishing comics since the 2010s and has participated in several comic projects addressing mental health. In autumn 2025, Kemppi released his first comic album, Between the Layers. In addition to comics, he creates paintings and performance art.
SE Kalainen Muu
Fishy Muu
I am an artist from Turku, a surrealist of the third generation. I draw and sculpt — both in unnecessarily complicated ways. My art comes directly from the subconscious, as I have no imagination in the literal sense (aphantasia), yet my images are filled with hidden pictures, jokes, and philosophical references.
I don’t take a stance on anything, try to influence the world, or identify with any particular viewpoint that would be visible in my art.
Unpredictable Reality and Fleeting Worlds
Sanna Pitkänen
Art, to me, is an open space and a way of life — a place I can enter either when I’ve lost my sense of direction and feel in chaos, or when I’m seeking beauty and balance. I became interested in visual art because of its powerful impact. At its best, art evokes new feelings and thoughts, or an experience so intense that it becomes physical — like getting goosebumps or being moved to tears. I feel that my life experiences have added their own unique flavor to my artistic practice, and they serve as a source of strength in my work with art.
Colour Conversations: Nature, Abstraction, Humanity
Paloma Bautista Sánchez
Colour is a language—one that speaks without words. In this exhibition, each artwork is part of an ongoing conversation between three realms: nature, abstraction, and humanity. Bold hues and layered textures become the voice that connects them, flowing from organic life to cultural identity to playful imagination.
Through vibrant monoprints, acrylic paintings, and fabric prints, the works reveal how colour holds emotion, rhythm, and meaning. Taken together, these pieces create an exhibition where colour does more than decorate—it communicates. It bridges inner and outer worlds, grounding us in lived experience while carrying us into spaces of wonder. Colour Conversations is both a visual dialogue and an invitation to listen differently: to see how colour itself speaks of life, play, and presence. Colour speaks. Listen with your eyes.
Paloma Bautista is a Finland-based visual artist and architect born in the Canary Islands. Art has been present in her life since childhood as her way of exploring and expressing her colourful inner world. Paloma understands art as a potent tool for evoking emotions, telling stories, and reflecting on cultural and historical contexts. Under her brand, Art by Pulu, Paloma blends art with activism to raise questions and create social awareness.
Shadow images
Kaih
The abstraction and multilayered nature of the paintings reflect the complexity of the landscape of the mind – its challenges, its mysteries, its ability to shape its own reality. Each viewer can interpret them through their own associations and experiences; they are merely symbols, keys that open doors to different interpretations, perspectives on reality and its structures – ways of processing and depicting the forces and currents that operate beneath the surface of the mind.
Kaih is a multidisciplinary artist based in Lahti, who at times hears things that do not exist. The collection consists of 40 ink/acrylic works on A4 paper from summer 2024.
The long way back home
Sami Liukkonen
Sami Liukkonen is a 46 year old helsinkian with late discovered AuDHD. Most of the works in this exhibit were created during a depression 2020-2025 and the subject matter is dualism of the mind.
The life experience on the AuDHD spectrum is contradictory. There’s a strong internal need to experience as much as possible, to swim in the stream of life, but at the same time all senses and instincts are constantly awake, causing overload and paralysis. It is difficult to find one’s place in a neurotypical world; the colorful and lively essence must be dressed in gray clothes and wandering thoughts brought to heel to grind the gross domestic product.
The relationship and interplay of activity and passivity, cold and hot, order and chaos, the child and the parent, internal and external fascinates me. I identify with both sides, but at each moment one can only have a single point of view. What does order look like to chaos? Or how does chaos relate to order?
Recently I have worked intuitively: my art wells up from the fascinating dynamic of the phenomena of the mind – or life in general – but only when complete do the pieces start to reveal their secrets.
In the same cage
Jarno Latva-Nikkola
Jarno Latva-Nikkola is a visual artist who ended up in Siuro through many twists and turns. He has been publishing his darkly humorous and underground-inspired comics at an uneven pace since the late 90s.
In addition to comics, I have always made drawings and paintings, because making them is spontaneous and stress-free (hah!). When I am in front of paper and canvas, I have no idea what I will do, but the line and colors lead me in a certain direction. This makes the work meaningful, even if some of the final results are not successful in my opinion.
Hyvät Tuulet Association’s art exhibition
Collective exhibition
This is Hyvät Tuulet Association’s art exhibition.Our association operates in Vantaa, Finland and offers versatile activities and peer support for people recovering from mental health issues.In our visual arts groups there are opportunities to paint and draw, but creativity has no limits.
