Illustration
Books & Zines
Workshops
Hello!
I am a Finnish, Berlin-based non-binary and queer comic artist whose work explores social norms and the looming climate catastrophe through offbeat, prickly humor. My comics depict subcultures and queer communities in a rapidly eroding world, while addressing contemporary political climates with both tactics and optimism. In my ink drawings dark and troubled waltzes with hope and urban topographies sink into forestation as punk rock blasts through the northern landscapes.
I mostly work with analog ink drawing, often with digital coloring.
As a part of my practice I teach comic workshops that center on norm critical practices, the character of (urban) spaces and the attempt of finding hope in the middle of the current climate catastrophe. I’m also a trained cultural manager and often both participate and curate collaborational projects from exhibitions to art happenings.
I’ve been a part of multiple collectives and art groups from Alter Finanzamt (2016-2020) to Comic Invasion Berlin Festival (2020-20224) in many different curatorial roles.
I'm always open for commission work and collaborations!
Feel free to contact me in Finnish, English or German.
illustration.henna@gmail.com
Current and upcoming Exhibitions & Events
Solo exhibition at HGW std. Athens
15-30.10. 2025 Group exhibition,
Kino Moviemento Berlin
2024
Solo
DokHuis Gallery
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Solo Pop-up
Athens Museum of Queer Arts
Athens, Greece
Love, Logic & Horror the cycle completes - return to paranoia
Together with Kimmo Lust
Fumetto Festival
Paranoia Lucerne
Lucerne, Switzerland
2023
Comic Stipend Group Exhibition
Museum for Communications
Berlin, Germany
Love, Logic & Horror
Together with Kimmo Lust
Fumetto Festival
Paranoia Lucerne
Lucerne, Switzerland
Helsinki Comic Festival
Molotow Gallery
Helsinki, Finland
2020
End of Days #2
Group exhibition
Final Girls Film Festival
Institut Francais
Berlin, Germany
Panel Walk
Group Exhibition
Comicfestival Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
2019
End of Days
Group exhibition
Projektraum Altes Finanzamt
Berlin, Germany
2018
Group exhibition
Alter Finanzmt
48H Neukölln Art Festival
Berlin, Germany
2016
– SuperQueeroes - Unsere LGBTI*- Comic-Held_innen
Group exhibition
Schwules Museum*
Berlin, Germany
2024
Touch Water with Splintered Skin/Fungi
Together with Kimmo Lust
Zum Teufel 2024
2014-2022
A Hypothetical Love Triangle, zine series
#4 (42 p. 2022), #3 (38 p. 2019)
#2 (38 p. 2015), #1 (42 p. 2014)
self published
2021
HX little book of Demons
self published
2020
Berlin is Healing minizine
self published
2018
Weltuntergang #1
self published
2017
A Hypothetical Love Triangle
Edition Assemblage
SELECTED ANTHOLOGIES
2025
This is the way
CBK Comics
Sweden
2024
Kino Friends
Almanac Press
Finland
2021
The Unsleeping Beauty
CBK Comics
Sweden
2020
The Driver
MOOP! A Mary Ocher Comic Book
Germany
2019
Deep Under B@deschiff
Art of Hate, Centrala Verlag, Czech Republik 2019 & Zelda Online Art Magazine 2020 Finland
2018
Mietspiegel, Mietspiegel
Survive Anthology by Network of Berlin Independent Project Spaces and Initiatives e.V. Published as a part of Berlin Art Week
Germany
Down with the Tyranny of Morning People
Altcom Anthology
Sweden
2016
Blood in Stadtbad
C'est Bon Anthology #35
Andrea’s story
Mitä sä täällä teet - anthology
Voima Kustannus
edited by Hannele Richert
Finland
2025
September AiR
Koroneos House
Athens, Greece
June AiR
Kush! Comics,
Riga, Latvia
March AiR
Hedlandet Residens
Skane, Sweden
2024
September AiR
Plantage Dok
Amsterdam
Hedlandet Residens
Skane, Sweden
2023
THAW AiR
Arruda, April, Germany
2021
Lonely Star AiR
Residency am Hausen
Germany
2018
Hibernate Media Art Residency
Betonest, Stolpe (DE)
2017
AiR September
The Wild Word Magazine
2025
Visual Arts Research Grant
Senate Department of Culture Berlin
2024
Project grant
Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2023
Comic Stipendium
Senate Department of Culture Berlin
2022
Working grant
Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2021
Project grant
Sarjakuvantekijät ry
Working grant
Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2020
Working grant
Kulturprojekte Berlin
2019
Project grant
Queer Referat Asta-TU
2017
Project grant
VISEK Centre for the Promotion of Visual Art Finland
2016
Project grant
Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Project grant
IAS Institute Canada
2024-
Kuuntele Tomppaa
Näkövammaisten Airut
2015 – 2018
Libero Magazine
2013 – 2016
Sakki ry / Ubik Magazine
2015 – 2016
Tulva Magazine
CURATORIAL
2024
International Focus: Finland
Exhibitions & Programme
Neurotitan Gallery
Comic Invasion Berlin
2022
No Straight Lines
Exhibition & film screening
Curation and one of the works
Comic Invasion Berlin
Kino Babylon Kreuzberg
2021
Hope Punk!
Art adventure & zine
Curation and one of the works
Comic Invasion Berlin
Many locations
2015
On The Way To Peace - antimilitaristic comics
Anthology editor & artist
Committee of 100 in Finland
2010
Sikala - comics about factory farming
Anthology editor & artist
Oikeutta Eläimille tukiry