Juha Sääski

Basic information

b. 1952, Helsinki

Visual Artist

Residence: Åminnefors

Contact information

Email: juha.saaski.7@gmail.com

Artist’s Statement

A common feature of my works dealing with relationships between an individual, the society and the main culture is the paradoxal nature of human life, a paradox in the powerstructures of individual and social demands. Tragicomicality is often the basic setting. According to Charlie Chaplin: "Life is tragic in the close up but comedy from the distance". Through satire and relating naivety and simplification as a part of the whole picture I try to avoid being too solemn. Also using those alienating elements I try to make the viewer think how the matter is linked with reality. With serious issues I bring together joyful and humorous elements as an expression of the complexity of life.

Show biography

Current information

Forthcoming solo shows:

Helsinki, Finland, 2021: Gallery Sculptor, 8. - 31.1

Berlin, Germany 2021, with Kenneth Pils (SWE), Lotte Nilsson-Välimaa (SWE),Galerie TOOLBOX, 1. - 23.5

Group exhibitions:

Hämeenlinna, Finland 2020, Kohtuus-yhteys-tasa-arvo, old shopping center, 27.6. - 29.8.

More information:

homepage: www.juha-saaski.fi

Works from the artist

Name of the work: Keskeneräinen rakennustyömaa

Name of the work: Aikatasoja / Time levels

Name of the work: Häpeällistä 5 /Shameful 5

Name of the work: Yksityiskohta 1, 1/3 Miehen häpeä

Name of the work: Yksityiskohta 2, 1/3 Miehen häpeä

Name of the work: Miehen häpeä, yksityiskohta

Name of the work: Artist´s (and anybody´s) dilemma

Name of the work: Speechless heads spoke too much

Name of the work: All the fantastic TV-channels available just for you, be entertained !

Name of the work: Selecting three dimensional TV-programs for children

Name of the work: Ole onnellinen ja huolestunut

Name of the work: Rauhanomainen mielenosoitus

Name of the work: Valo yössä / Light in the night

Name of the work: Eväsretki jatkuu paitsi sateella

Name of the work: Aurinkoisella puolella

Name of the work: Sacrifice in the name of competitiveness and savings

Name of the work: Kotona turvassa / Safe at home

Name of the work: Feeling safe with life

Name of the work: I want you to paint the city

Name of the work: Monitoring the realities

Name of the work: A hard day´s hard night

Name of the work: Memory traces of the 60´s (don´t contentwise look different from those of the 2010´s)

Name of the work: An evening at home without television

Name of the work: Childrens´ colouring book

Bio

Juha Sääski has arranged more than 45 one-man shows in several finnish galleries ( mostly in Helsinki) and art museums and abroad, in Estonia (Tallinn) in Germany ( Ulm, Nuremberg, Berlin), he has participated more than 200 group exhibitions in Finland and several abroad: Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, DDR, Poland, Hungary. He has made many public monumental paintings, working as an art-teacher for instance in the University of Art and Design, Helsinki and Aalto-University . He has been the chairman of the Finnish Painters´Union, chairman of the Representative Body of the Artists´ Association of Finland, vice chairman of the Artists´ Association of Finland and so on... He is represented in several publications and works in several collections. Sääski has worked as a curator for several exhibitions.