Henna Maaria Asikainen
Henna Asikainen is a Finnish multidisciplinary artist with a socially engaged practice. Her work explores the intimate and entangled relationships between humans and the natural world, and their intersections with migration, climate change, heritage, belonging, and the displacement of both human and more-than-human lives. Much of Henna's practice centres on co-creating with people with lived experience of forced displacement. These projects unfold through embodied, nature-based methodologies shaped by specific landscapes and the ecologies that sustain them. Henna received her PhD in Fine Art Practice from Northumbria University, UK, in 2004 and has since undertaken numerous residencies and exhibited widely. Her recent projects include the Arts Council England-funded Lintukoto – Multispecies Climigration Archive (2025), and the year-long participatory project To Own Both Nothing and the Whole World, co-commissioned by BALTIC and Counterpoints Arts. Her current research explores entangled relationships between humans and birds through the lenses of avian archaeology, migration and ritual.
