Riikka Aihinen ^{Emerging artist}

Artist is based in: Finland

Riikka Aihinen (b. 1976) is a painter from Turku. She graduated as a visual artist from the Lahti Institute of Fine Arts in 2004. Furthermore, she studied art at the Lahti Institute of Design (basic art teacher studies) in 2005-2006. She is currently completing her master’s studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki. During her career, she held several solo exhibitions and participated in group and joint exhibitions in Finland. Her latest solo exhibition was at the Forum Box gallery in Helsinki in 2024. Her works are included in collections by Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation. In her art, Aihinen examines her inner world of experience and thus structures her existence. She strives to identify emotions in the mind and body and their origins, and then convey them through her paintings. The works of recent years have dealt with duality in different ways. This can be seen in the distribution of the image surface and image pairs. Ideas arise from the interest in the relationship between mind and body, as well as the conflicts within the mind.