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SHORTLY ABOUT ME

Henna Nerg (b. 1991, Finland) is a visual artist working across sculpture, installation, and performance, with a particular focus on material sensitivity and interdisciplinary collaboration. Their practice often combines found and recycled materials, reshaped into works that critically engage with contemporary global issues through an intersectional, queer ecofeminist lens.

Audience participation is a recurring element in Nerg’s work, fostering moments of encounter, exchange, and shared authorship. Recently, they have expanded their practice into performance, opening new ways to explore embodiment, presence, and collective experience.

Central to their artistic inquiry is a fascination with queer bodies—how they are defined, perceived, and received. Nerg often works with materials and substances considered excessive or residual, such as body hair, slime, dirt, or gush. These materials, at once abject and alluring, embody queerness as something strange, humorous, sexy, and unsettling—qualities Nerg embraces and amplifies through their work.

Their collective and interdisciplinary projects function as a queer method for community building and reclaiming spaces. Through activism, DIY tactics, and practices of sharing and care, Nerg creates spaces where the weird, the marginal, and the overlooked can be celebrated as sites of resistance, joy, and connection.