Ville Andersson
Photo: Veikko Kähkönen
Ville Andersson is a versatile artist, both in his use of different media and in his variety of styles. He is known for his his detailed ink and pencil drawings and photographs that are often staged, dramatized situations, or glimpses of natural phenomena. He has also worked with a process that he calls “digital sculpting”, where he uses 3D modelling software to create images. He often deals with the concept of emptiness as a part of visual expression and explores the possibilities of silence and quietude. Characteristic features of Andersson’s aesthetic are allusiveness, richness of nuance, precision, understatement and ephemerality. The soft, organic traces in his pencil drawings and the clear-cut, uniform shapes of the digitally produced images create a strong tension to the artist' body of work.
Ville Andersson (b. 1986) studied at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts from 2007 until 2012. He received Finland’s Young Artist of the Year Award in 2015. He has exhibited widely both in Finland and abroad at venues including EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, the National Art Center in Tokyo, Vitraria Glass +A Museum in Venice, the Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst in Bremen, Germany, the Centrum för Fotograf in Stockholm and FOMU – Fotomuseum Provincie in Antwerp, Belgium. His work is represented in collections such as Saastamoinen Foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, the Amos Andersson Art Museum, Pro Artibus and the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Art Foundation. His recent projects include the design of Tampere’s new tram stops, artworks for family rooms at Kerava Health Centre, the new graphic look of the Academic Bookstore and a piece commissioned as part of the Helsinki Festival’s Open Art Gallery project. In 2022, Andersson was awarded the Watermill Center’s Inga Maren Otto Fellowship and the Finnish Art Society’s William Thuring Prize.
Exhibitions
5.4.-19.5.2024
9.9.-9.10.2022
7.7.-31.7.2021
5.2.-28.2.2021
12.1.-4.2.2018
10.4.-3.5.2015
5.10.-28.10.2012
Works
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Dec 2022
18
Apr 2022
31
Aug 2021
31
Aug 2021
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Aug 2021
05
Feb 2021
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Dec 2020
01
Jan 1970
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Feb 2020
Ville Andersson has been awarded the Watermill Center's Inga Maren Otto Fellowship. Public artworks to be realized in the cities of Tampere & Kerava
Ville Andersson has been awarded the Watermill Center's Inga Maren Otto Fellowship that provides support for outstanding artists who have demonstrated exceptional creative ability in the art. Through a residency at Watermill, each fellow is...
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Nov 2019
05
Sep 2018
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May 2018
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Mar 2018
05
Dec 2017
Ville Andersson announced as Artist-in-Residence at The Watermill Center in 2018
Photo credit: Ville AnderssonThe Watermill Center, the interdisciplinary laboratory for the arts and humanities located in Water Mill, NY, has selected visual artist Ville Andersson as one of the Centre’s Artists-in-Residence for 2018....
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Aug 2017
03
Feb 2017
Andersson, Jylhä and Räisänen in Weserburg in Bremen
Weserburg, the museum for modern art in Bremen, Germany gives some insights to the Finnish art scene through the exhibition Dreamaholic. Art from Finland. Miettinen Collection. The works in the exhibition is from the Miettinen Collection in Berlin...
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Nov 2016
Ville Andersson’s works on display in the new Iittala & Arabia Design Centre
Photo: Veikko KähkönenThe new Iittala & Arabia Design Centre opens to the public on 19 November. Two Finnish design brands, Iittala and Arabia, are brought under the same roof. Visual artist Ville Andersson participates in the opening...
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Oct 2016
Ville Andersson participates in Portfolio Days in Foto Museum in Antwerpen
Ville Andersson: The Wave (2015)Foto Museum in Antwerpen is presenting its international Portfolio Days. Braakland with 14 invited photographers. The days consist of a short exhibition and a two-day “sit-in” where the artists meet...
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May 2016
Ville Andersson in exhibition at Centrum för fotografi in Stockholm
Ville Andersson: The Wave (2015)Ville Andersson is staying at an artist residence at Centrum för fotografi (Center for Photography) in Stockholm, Sweden. As part of this residency he is exhibiting at the center’s small gallery. Andersson...
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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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May 2016
Ville Andersson and Sanna Kannisto in screening at Xidan Cultural Square in Beijing
To celebrate 10 years of sister-city relationships the cities of Helsinki and Beijing bring Finnish Culture to Beijing in form of the Moi Helsinki event. The event includes among others a screening with photographic and video art at Xidan Cultural...
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May 2016
18
Apr 2016
23
Mar 2016
10
Sep 2015
22
Apr 2015
29
May 2015
Andersson, Korkeila, Mäkilä, Retulainen and Räisänen in Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection Exhibition
The second phase of the new Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection Exhibition Touch opens today at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art. This phase called Humanity, Identity and body, presents different tools visual artists use for dealing with...
12
Mar 2015
Most Beautiful Books of the Year 2014 awards to Tuomas A. Laitinen and Ville Andersson
EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art’s publication Tuomas. A. Laitinen / Fundamental Matter has been chosen as The most beautiful Finnish book of the year 2014. The graphic design of the book is by Pekka Toivonen at Kasino...
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Sep 2013
02
Dec 2013
03
Jan 2014
12
Feb 2014
13
Feb 2014
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Feb 2014
Ville Andersson, Jukka Korkeila and Henry Wuorila-Stenberg at Tampere Art Museum
Henry Wuorila-Stenberg, Pentti Otto, 2013, Charcoal and gouache on paper, 44,5 x 26,5 cm. Photo: Jussi Tiainen.Men – Any Feelings? –exhibition at Tampere art Museum deals with the theme of manhood and emotions. Ville Andersson,...
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Mar 2014
30
Apr 2014
24
Jun 2014
03
Jul 2014
29
Sep 2014
31
Oct 2014
15
Nov 2014
04
Apr 2024
27
Jan 2018
11
Jan 2018
28
Apr 2015
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