HX – Henna Räsänen

Henna Räsänen aka HX is a Finnish, Berlin-based non-binary and queer comic artist whose work explores social norms and the looming climate catastrophe through offbeat, prickly humor. Their comics depict subcultures and queer communities in a rapidly eroding world, while addressing contemporary political climates with both tactics and optimism. In their ink drawings dark and troubled waltzes with hope, while urban topographies sink into forestation as punk rock blasts through northern landscapes.

HX has published numerous zines, prints and books and exhibited in spaces such as Athens Museum of Queer Arts, Fumetto Festival and Helsinki Comic Festival. As a part of their practice they teach comic workshops that center on norm critical practices, the character of (urban) spaces and the attempt of finding hope in the middle of the current climate catastrophe.