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Juha-Pekka Inkinen

Juha-Pekka Inkinen
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Basic information

b. 1955, Helsinki
Photographer
Residence: Helsinki

Contact information

Email: jpinkinen@gmail.com

Artist's Statement

Many people know me from exhibitions depicting abandoned houses: Morality and Architecture 1, 2, and 3. I have also published a book titled Morality and Architecture. The series Construct likewise dealt with unfinished spaces. In the book How Things Are – Interior Design Dissidents, the focus is on visually dense homes.
My most recent exhibitions include constructed images.
I have made seven books.
Behind everything, one can find a space that allows a glimpse behind structures of power.
The central themes in my work are time and the state of society, around which all my work revolves in one way or another. Still, I don’t mind if the viewer does not grasp the ideas behind my images, but simply enjoys the beauty of the work. The foremost layer must be dramaturgically credible and aesthetically coherent. Then the beauty of the image penetrates the viewer’s defenses.

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Unusual Phenomena Gallery A2 2025, Helsinki

My Time, Gallery Ronga 2026 Tampere

My Time, Gallery Ahjo 2026 Joensuu
Inkinen’s works capture the moods and anxieties born of uncertain times. The Unusual Phenomena series presents carefully constructed images where past and present collide. Instead of predicting the future, Inkinen looks backwards: he imagines what might have been, drawing on the visual language of history. In this, his process resonates with generative AI — conservative in structure, even nostalgic — yet his images are intentionally dissonant, laced with wit.

At first glance, the works recall vintage posters, but their themes are urgently contemporary: environmental crisis, militarism, shifting values. Art Nouveau–inspired ornamentation adds an uncanny layer that both attracts and unsettles. The convincing poster-like style is deliberate — the more persuasive the image appears, the more effectively it destabilizes the viewer’s assumptions.

The collages are composed from source material gathered at flea markets and museum archives. Their fragments, 70 to 130 years old, are reassembled into new wholes where sharp-edged nostalgia intersects with the present, and where beauty, strangeness, and critical reflection coexist.

Inkjet prints 42x60cm and 30x42cm

Works from the artist

Name of the work: What you get
What you get
Name of the work: Enkeli
Enkeli
Name of the work: Minun aikani, Ninni
Minun aikani, Ninni
Name of the work: Pysäkkiaikakirjat kansi
Pysäkkiaikakirjat kansi
Name of the work: Pysäkki 1989
Pysäkki 1989
Name of the work: Pysäkki 1987
Pysäkki 1987
Name of the work: Pysäkki 1990
Pysäkki 1990
Name of the work: Pysäkkiaikakirjat
Pysäkkiaikakirjat
Name of the work: Paavolan salaisuus
Paavolan salaisuus
Name of the work: Miten tavarat ovat
Miten tavarat ovat
Name of the work: Miten tavarat ovat
Miten tavarat ovat
Name of the work: Miten tavarat ovat
Miten tavarat ovat
Name of the work: Miten tavarat ovat
Miten tavarat ovat
Name of the work: Miten tavarat ovat
Miten tavarat ovat
Name of the work: Miten tavarat ovat
Miten tavarat ovat
Name of the work: Hei elämä
Hei elämä
Name of the work: Hei elämä
Hei elämä
Name of the work: Hei elämä
Hei elämä
Name of the work: Hei elämä
Hei elämä
Name of the work: Hei elämä
Hei elämä
Name of the work: Hei elämä
Hei elämä
Name of the work: Brooks-Asics-Puma
Brooks-Asics-Puma
Name of the work: Alkuperä1
Alkuperä1
Name of the work: Alkuperä2
Alkuperä2
Name of the work: Alkuperä5
Alkuperä5
Name of the work: Suojatut
Suojatut
Name of the work: Suojatut
Suojatut
Name of the work: Suojatut
Suojatut
Name of the work: Apokatastasis
Apokatastasis
Name of the work: Apokatastasis
Apokatastasis
Name of the work: Apokatastasis
Apokatastasis
Name of the work: Construct
Construct
Name of the work: Construct
Construct
Name of the work: Construct
Construct
Name of the work: Construct
Construct
Name of the work: Pitkä ja kaunis ystävyys
Pitkä ja kaunis ystävyys
Name of the work: Pitkä ja kaunis ystävyys
Pitkä ja kaunis ystävyys

Bio

Juha-Pekka Inkinen
1955 Helsinki
Lahti Institute of Design, photographer 1986
My works are digital prints.

I am known by many for my exhibitions presenting abandoned houses: Long and beautiful friendship, as well as Morality/Morals and architecture 1,2 and 3. I have also published a book named Morality and architecture.
There are two main themes in Inkinen\'s productions: State of society and time, that all pieces touch upon in one way or another.

2005 Fractures of Life, group exhibition, Kiasma, Helsinki
2006 What”s Up North, group exhibition, Oulu Art Museum
2006 The Protected, solo exhibition, Galleria Hippolyte, Helsinki
2009 Book: Punk is dead, long live hardcore ,LIKE
2010 The Origin, solo exhibition, Galleria Hippolyte, Helsinki
2011 The Origin of Species, solo exhibition, Lasipalatsin galleria, Helsinki
2012 Book. The Origin
2018 Book. The Way of Things- dissidents of interior design

2025 Kirja: Minun aikani, Bokeh
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