Carol Collan

Bachelor of Arts and CultureStudying arts management in masters program at University of the Arts in HelsinkiStudying marketing at
Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki

SEPPÄ (SMITH) I, digital print, 2026

Carol Collan is a Helsinki-based media artist working across digital image processing, photography, and installation. Their practice explores memory, monumentality, and transformation through processes of fragmentation, repetition, and reconstruction. Drawing from photographs of public sculptures, urban environments, and personal landscapes, Collan reconfigures familiar forms into kaleidoscopic visual structures that move between recognition and abstraction.Combining digital manipulation with manual ink work, Collan’s process creates a dialogue between mechanical reproduction and physical mark-making. Through seriality and material intervention, their works examine how bodies, places, and monuments carry traces of identity, loss, and change. Collan’s practice considers fragmentation not only as disintegration, but also as a method of reimagining form, memory, and continuity.Their works have been exhibited in Helsinki and are held in private collections. Collan is currently pursuing studies in arts management at the University of the Arts Helsinki alongside marketing studies at Hanken School of Economics.

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SEPPÄ (SMITH) X, digital print, 2026

I’m open to collaborations and work opportunities. Feel free to get in touch.

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© Carol Collan 2023

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Carol CollanHelsinki-based media artist working with digital graphics, seriality, and color.Selected ExhibitionsSolo Exhibitions
2026
SEPPÄ, Galleria Vierashuone
Kaleidoscope City, Om’Pu Galleria, Helsinki2024
Kaleidoscope City, Galleria Salmi, Helsinki
Kaleidoscope City, Kallio Library, Helsinki2023
Kaleidoscope City, Sörkän Ruusu, HelsinkiGroup Exhibitions
2026
Stilleben, Galleria Toinen Silmä, Helsinki2024–2025
Aikakone, Om’Pu Galleria, Helsinki2015–2016
Pullopostia, Annantalo, Helsinki
Pullopostia, Kallio Library, Helsinki
Pullopostia, Laajasalo Library, HelsinkiCollectionsWorks held in private collectionsEducationMaster of Arts (ongoing)
University of the Arts, HelsinkiBachelor of Science in Economics and Business Administration (ongoing)
Hanken School of Economics, HelsinkiBachelor of Arts and Culture
Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, HelsinkiExchange studies in Visual Communication and Multimedia Design
HU University of Applied Sciences UtrechtSelected Other WorkPullopostia, collective comic magazine, 2016
Project Director, artist3D-printed comic strip, 2015Selected Film Work
Elämä jatkuu, Annika! (2023), editor, set design
Missä sinun pitäisi istua (2023), editor
Aira Kaneli, season 1 (2021), filming, editing, effectsOther ExperienceFreelance journalist since 2012LanguagesEnglish, Finnish, Swedish
German (basics), Spanish (basics)