Petra Innanen
Visual artist and burlesque performer
Specialized in:
From Passion to Profession as a theme for creating new.
Visual arts, painting, ceramics, performance and burlesque art, event production.
Why do you create?
I am a storyteller, both visually and physically. I love to create spaces where people can use their imagination and be who they are. I love the fine line of breathtakingly beautiful and the grotesk.
What random things are inspiring for you at the moment:
The miracles of nature, birds and the small beings that we don´t pay attention to, bugs, spiders and catepillars. Young free thinking artists. The female artists of all fields that are acknowledged in recent times. Feminist economics. Gardening. Freedom.
Bio
Petra Innanen is a multidisciplinary artist working with painting, ceramics, and performance art in the form of burlesque and performative art guide. She has produced big international events and introduced new burlesque to the Finnish audiences in 2008. Her work is included in various art collections and she has exhibitied her art both domestically and internationally since 1992. Her performances have been on stages from small livingroom events to big festivals and on prestigious stages eg. The Finnish National opera, Helsinki Festival, Helsinki City Hall, New York burlesque Festival, Venice Bieannale opening event.