Eeva-Riitta Eerola
Photo: Ilkka Saastamoinen
In her artistic work, Eeva-Riitta Eerola explores the concept of perception and how we understand and experience images. Abstract and recognizable elements vary in Eerola’s expression, working in series as well as creating subtly defined links between the works are in the core of her practice. Through simplification and by minimizing the visual components in her works, Eerola studies the basic elements of painting, their friction and interaction, as well as the processes of viewing.
The tension between the inner spaces of Eerola’s paintings create powerful depth and movement to the works that communicate strongly with their surrounding space and their viewers. There is a strong sense of presence in the the artist’s works – something you can feel although you might not quite recognise it.
Eeva-Riitta Eerola (b. 1980, Siilinjärvi) graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2010 and also studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris. She has exhibited in several group and solo exhibitions in Finland and abroad, e.g. at Turku Art Museum, Finland in 2017 together with the video artist Jenni Toikka, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, in 2015 and Gallery Jaus, Los Angeles, 2014. Eerola's latest solo show, Locus, was seen at Helsinki Contemporary in January 2022. Eerola's work is represented in a number of Finnish public collections, such as those of the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Saastamoinen Foundation, Sara Hildén Art Museum, and the Wihuri Foundation. Eerola worked in the internationally prestigious ISCP (International Studio & Curatorial Program) residence program in New York in 2016. Eerola has continued her collaboration with Jenni Toikka with a site-specific exhibition, Lighthouse, seen in France, at Maison Louis Carré in September 2019. In 2021, Eerola’s works were shown in Art Center Purnu’s PINTA (surface) summer exhibition and as part of the hanging in Artek Helsinki’s shop.
Exhibitions
9.9.-9.10.2022
7.1.-30.1.2022
9.8.-1.9.2019
10.3.-2.4.2017
5.6.-28.6.2015
31.10.-23.11.2014
10.5.-2.6.2013
Works
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Dec 2021
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Feb 2021
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Feb 2021
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Jun 2019
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Jun 2019
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Mar 2018
Helsinki Contemporary presents Eeva-Riitta Eerola and Sanna Kannisto at Market 2018
Sanna Kannisto, Papilio machaon (2017) Market Art Fair 2018 Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm 13-15 April, 2018 Preview 12 April Find us in the Main section at Booth 12.Helsinki Contemporary is pleased to present a selection...
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Feb 2017
Eeva-Riitta Eerola and Jenni Toikka’s joint exhibition in Turku Art Museum Studio
”To look at someone or something and then look again because you suddenly recognize him, her, or it or notice that something unusual is happening.”Cambridge dictionary: do a double takePainter Eeva-Riitta Eerola and Video Artist Jenni...
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Dec 2016
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May 2016
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May 2016
Stamps by Ville Andersson and Eeva-Riitta Eerola
Posti releases new stamps in the series Art Post in September 2016. The artworks in the stamps are created by Ville Andersson and Eeva-Riitta Eerola. This collection of stamps is the second release in the Art Post series and includes four stamps, two...
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Apr 2013
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Jun 2014
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Jul 2014
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Oct 2014
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Jan 2022
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Jan 2022
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Aug 2019
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Aug 2019
12
Apr 2018
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Mar 2017
09
Mar 2017
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