Anna-Stiina Korhonen
Basic information
b. 1980, Helsinki
Painter
Residence: Helsinki
Contact information
Email: annastiinakorhonen@gmail.com
Artist’s Statement
My artworks are autobiographical examinations on suffering, messing up, and loving. In my paintings, lived life and dreams are blended together: the figures are simultaneously self-portraits and fictitious selves.
Reality and imagination melt into one, and my own relationship with life is tuned to be more multidimensional than my everyday sweatpants self.
Objects, milieus, and fabulous costumes are central means of my visual narrative. Existential crisis and examination of the self are given the form of a still life, or even a theatre set.
I am drawn to very different things, from the essence of colours and the history of objects and art, to fashion imagery and observations of the everyday life.
The horror hidden between the lines, the mismatched emotions, and the humor are inseparable in my expression.
My medium is primarily oil, but I also use acrylic and ink. My background in graphics is visible in the occasional surface-like use of colour in my paintings, and in the way I utilise the means of composition.
Finding the right rhythm between objects and colours is important to me while painting.
Reality and imagination melt into one, and my own relationship with life is tuned to be more multidimensional than my everyday sweatpants self.
Objects, milieus, and fabulous costumes are central means of my visual narrative. Existential crisis and examination of the self are given the form of a still life, or even a theatre set.
I am drawn to very different things, from the essence of colours and the history of objects and art, to fashion imagery and observations of the everyday life.
The horror hidden between the lines, the mismatched emotions, and the humor are inseparable in my expression.
My medium is primarily oil, but I also use acrylic and ink. My background in graphics is visible in the occasional surface-like use of colour in my paintings, and in the way I utilise the means of composition.
Finding the right rhythm between objects and colours is important to me while painting.
Current information
Upcoming: solo exhibition, Vallila Brewery’s gallery May 2023, Helsinki
Upcoming: solo exhibition, HAA Gallery 26.10.–18.11.2023, Helsinki
Upcoming: group exhibition, Bærum Kunsthall 1.6.–2.7.2023, Oslo
