Aina Melis

Aina Melis (b. Mallorca, Spain) is a visual artist based in Turku, Finland. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, where she developed a lasting interest in drawing, printmaking, and geometric abstraction. Her practice explores balance, perception, and time through repetition, structure, and gradual transformation.

At the core of her work is the gradient, understood not only as a visual device but as a philosophy of change. Gradients allow transformation to unfold slowly, through controlled and predictable steps. Rather than abrupt shifts, her surfaces move patiently from one tone to another, creating spaces of transition where difference is felt through accumulation. These gradual changes reflect both emotional and sensory experience, offering a way to engage with change at a pace that remains grounded.

Drawing, particularly with graphite, plays a central role in this process. Through repetitive, hand-drawn strokes, she builds vibrating textures and tonal fields where rhythm and tactility become forms of regulation. Each mark carries the trace of time, turning repetition into a stabilizing structure in which subtle variation can emerge.

Line and construction further extend this language. Repeated stripes, arcs...

Universitat Central de Barcelona (UB). Fine Arts Studies.
Arts pedagogy certificate. University of Barcelona.
Master in cultural heritage. University of Barcelona.

Toisto, Toinen Silma Gallery, Helsinki - 2025
Interaction, Raision Museo Harkko, Raisio, Finland - 2025
The big picture, Space81, Turku, Finland - 2024 (with ALaine)
Feminine Abstraction, Maza Art, Madrid - 2024
Impossible architectures, Tila, Turku, Finland -2023 (with ALaine)
Pop Up Art Gallery, Turku HUB, Turku, Finland -2022
Pop Up Art Gallery, Night of the arts, Forum Kortteli, Turku, Finland -2020
Temperatura ambient, Can Fabra, Sant Andreu, Barcelona, Spain -2007
CMYK: Un proyecto de exposiciones latentes, Sala Can Felipa, Barcelona, Spain -2006
Premis Art Jove, Sala ses Voltes, Palma de Mallorca, Spain -2006

Collaborations

Collection of hand printed block prints for The Conran Shop in London, Paris and Japan - 2020, 2021, 2022