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Camilla Vuorenmaa. Photo: Kaapo Kamu

Helsinki Contemporary is pleased to welcome Camilla Vuorenmaa as the Gallery's representative artist. The award-winning artist is one of the most prominent Finnish painters of our time. Vuorenmaa is known especially for her works carved and painted on wood. Wood as a material, its engraving such as lines in a drawing, and painting in relation to space are central themes in Vuorenmaa’s practice. She also draws and paints on e.g. canvas and paper, and makes large wall paintings. The choice of material is essential to the nature Vuorenmaa's work, and the beginning for the artistic process. In her recent practice, Vuorenmaa deals with the relationship between the individual and the community, and is interested in repeated patterns of group behavior.

Camilla Vuorenmaa (b. 1979) is from Tampere, Finland and graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2005. She lives and works in Helsinki, Finland and Glasgow, Scotland. In 2015 Vuorenmaa received the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts Prize, and a solo exhibition was shown at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art in spring 2016. She won a prize for her wooden works in the International Solo Awards 2013 at the Spring exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. Vuorenmaa’s works are found in public collections such as the Gothenburg Museum of Art, Saastamoinen Foundation, EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Amos Anderson Art Museum and Helsinki Art Museum.

Vuorenmaa is a candidate for Finland´s biggest art price, Ars Fennica in 2017. Winner for the award will be chosen in February 2018 by the curator and former Director of the Stedelijk Museum, Beatrix Ruff.

We warmly welcome Camilla to Helsinki Contemporary!

Take a look at the artist's page.