Biography
Niina Wagner was born 1975 in Salo, Finland. She spent her childhood and youth in Salo and eventually attended university there at the university of Turku, where she majored in Sociology, Psychology and Cultural History. For her master thesis she detailed the various images of the future held by both German and Finnish youth.
In 2000 Wagner moved to Germany and worked on the 36th floor of an investment company in the heart of Frankfurt. Her daughter was born in July 2004, in February 2007 Wagner began to paint. She describes the process of painting new works as light and surprising, yet revealing of personal depths, and all the while exhibiting a pure joy for life. Her works reflect a fast changing spontaneity, as she paints with both hands. The use of acrylic paints and pastels also speak for the quick and dynamic style that forms the foundation of her works. She typically paints on canvas or wood.
Niina Wagner's works don't serve a certain function or exact a single interpretation. She paints first and foremost those inherent emotions that art both represents and demands: the interwoven convergence of the world enbodied by the painting and that of the beholder.
