MAATTELI / 2025
doppler effect/ 2025
Maybe i should burn this map / 2023
beats per minute / 2023
filmtowndogs / 2022
About
heiskanen.petja@gmail.com
+358407734851
heiskanen.petja@gmail.com
+358407734851
Bio
Petja Heiskanen (1997) Is a lens based visual artist (photographer...) from Finland. His works reflect on traumas, escapism, hedonism, community and death. Using performative photography and parts of his own identity he plays with the idea of parallel worlds and illusions of survival in everyday life.
His work floats somewhere between the fictional and documentary photography. Petja works in analog platforms and is preferred to work with his hands and use experimental ways in the process of image making.
Broccoli, streets, fantasy, fire and darkness.
CV
Education
2021-2025 Bachelor of Culture and Arts, Photography, LAB University of Applied Sciences
2024 Exchange studies, Faculty of Graphic Arts, Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts
2020-2021 Visual Communication and Graphic Design, Laajasalo Institute
2016 High School Diploma, Etu-Töölö High School
Exhibitions
2025. “Doppler effect” Galerii Metropol, Tallinn, Estonia
2025 “00:27 - 01:32” Vanha Talvitie 2, Helsinki, Finland
2024 “Are We Home Yet?” College of Fine Arts and Communication, Greenville North Carolina, USA
2024 "FRINGE" Krakow Photomonth, Krakow, Poland
2024 “KOŃCOWOROCZNA” Jan Matejko Academy of fine Arts, Krakow, Poland
2024 "Take a Look" Galerie ASAP, Krakow, Poland
2023 "Ääriviivoja" Trio, Lahti, Finland
2022 "HUMU," Hämeentie 36, Helsinki, Finland
2022 "YKSI," Vesijärvenkatu 20, Lahti, Finland
2021 "Ihmisestä," Luja Gallery, Lahti, Finland
Grants
2025 Kauno Ry, Thesis production
2022 Finnfoto Ry, Printing Costs
2022 Finnfoto Ry, Film Expenses
Publications
2025 “Doppler effect”, Utu-press
2024 “SUMU 5” (part of team), Utu-press
2022 "Filmtowndogs," a photography book, self-published
2022 "HUMU" (part of a team), self-published