Hilja Roivainen

Hilja Roivainen, born and raised in Finland, holds a Master of Arts in Fine Art (2011) from University of East London. In Hilja’s oil paintings, the visual image of landscape has many dimensions: it becomes a meditative space filled with imagination and encounters of memories, some more recent, some from the past - time spent in nature. The experience of a natural place is recreated from and coloured by memory, loosely basing on photographic documentation. The paintings are constructed by a layering of glazes and oil washes, applying fluid marks in contrast with gestural impasto, or through pouring paint.

From September 2012 to December 2023, Hilja was working on a PhD Art History thesis at the University of Turku. Her recent group exhibitions feature, e.g. Spring Salon at HAA Gallery (Helsinki, 2024), Auki at Manilla Culture Factory (Turku, FI, 2023), Jaatsi Culture House (Sastamala, FI, 2016) and Turku Artists’ Society’s Summer Exhibition at Haihara Art Centre (curated show at Tampere, FI 2015), and solo in Jade Gallery (Helsinki, FI, 2016). Hilja’s painting Tarvaspää II has been selected for final at the following competitions: Saatchi Online: Places and Spaces Showdown (2012) and The Art of Basware (2014, Helsinki, FI). Roiva...

2012‒2023, PhD Art History, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.

PhD Thesis title: "The Continuum of Utopian Landscape Types in the 21st Century: Six Nordic Painters".

Permanent link: https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-29-9518-9

2011–2012, PhD Art History and Theory studies, University of Essex, Colchester, GB

2010–2011, MA Fine Art, University of East London, London, GB

2007–2010, BA Fine Art and Special Needs and Inclusive Education, University of East London, London, GB.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Jade Gallery, Helsinki
2014 Taidelainaamo, Turku, Finland
2011 Maisemakahvila Gallery, Hämeenkyrö, Finland
2011 Sello Library, Espoo, Finland

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Kevätsalonki / Spring Salon, Curated Turku Artists’ Association’s members’ exhibition, HAA Gallery, Helsinki
2023 Auki, Manilla Culture Factory, Turku
2022 Kohtaus, Manilla Culture Factory, Turku
2021 Paluu, Manilla Culture Factory, Turku
2020 Secret Garden, Manilla Culture Factory, Turku
2019 Samma på svenska finissage, Åbo Konsthall, Turku
2019 25th Factory Festival Manifesti, Manilla Culture Factory, Turku
2019 The Anniversary Exhibition of Turku Artists’ Association, Kaarina-talo, Kaarina
2018 24th Factory Festival Manifesti, Manilla Culture Factory, Turku
2018 Turku Artists’ Association’s Summer Exhibition, Turku
2017 23rd Factory Festival Manifesti, Manilla Culture Factory, Turku
2016 Jaatsi Culture Centre, Sastamala, Finland
2016 22nd Factory Festival Manifesti, Manilla, Turku
2015 Hehkuvaa: Turku Artists’ Society’s Summer Show, Haihara Art Centre, Tampere, Finland
2015 Manifesti, Manilla Culture Factory, Turku, Finland
2015 Hehkuvaa, Haihara Art Centre, Tampere, Finland
2014 Manifesti 2014, Manilla Culture Factory, Turku, Finland
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