In Mikko Kallio’s (b. 1971) works, various found materials, paint and drawings create a setting for possible stories. The figures contain references to humans, plants or imaginary creatures and combinations thereof. They appear in landscapes that resemble an imaginary world of stories, as equals with pieces of wood, a rake …

T: I would like to know more about your process of finding the images. I like the idea of wandering in flea markets. I find it much more interesting than going online because the work becomes connected to my body and how I move in my environment. I think it’s …

HD video, 35 minutes, 2018In this video there are three main characters: Me, my friend Jarno and the Greek language; the language that, (or the descendant of the language that,) gave birth to Western philosophy, poetry and drama. In this project I wanted to take the Greek language completely out …

“Behind the sauna” – it is a place where, according to a Finnish saying, you take something if you want to get rid of it. It is also a concrete place in Porvoo where many of the works in this exhibition were created this spring, during the coronavirus pandemic. Spring …

The adhesive has dried on the fingers and the ink on the brush.There are blotches on the paper.Little souls. A lot of light colors around.Something about stone and bricks.Very angular, the rather straight edges are almost sharp. The roughness and dust to which the wet paper will not stick. The …

Painting is part of my life. It is a need among other needs. I often paint pictures of people. I am, in particular, endlessly interested in the face of a person. The characters I paint are fictional, but I often think that I depict myself in my works. I do …

“Let’s say we have 50 animals here. And we know that this horrific test will lead to a cure that will save thousands of other animals or humans.” Riikka Gröndahl’s exhibition Absent Referent shows video and text installations. The works in the exhibition explore the ways in which humans give …

.An installation of dust, light and darkness..The wind blows dust into a barely noticeable spectacle, a universe where the boundaries between the subject and the object are blurred and the audience and the artists become part of everything....In both time and space. 

The angels of anarchy, the sloths of an ordinary Sunday, the scheming three-headed monsters and the mythical creatures of our dreams. All those heavenly creatures, invisible things swarming around us. They seduce our imagination but escape when we try to reach them. I am able to capture them by painting.I …

The exhibition travels through a desolate landscape, towns, a desert and mountains. The journey continues for weeks, from one highway to another and from one motel to the next, until one day in the middle of nowhere the narrator experiences a surprising loss. The exhibition depicts the change in the …

My solo exhibition at Galleria Huuto features my works from 2016-2019. The exhibition consists of ceramic reliefs and sculptural paintings, cut and sewn to create collages.My works fall between different art forms. For me, personal style and color are the key elements of art. Everything essential is expressed through them: …