Galleria Heino (FI)

Galleria Heino is a Finnish contemporary art gallery founded by Rauli Heino in 2002. The gallery showcases art across all media and focuses on presenting, promoting and furthering the careers of established and emerging Finnish contemporary artists at both the national and international level.

Curated for
CHART

At CHART 2023 Galleria Heino will be showing works by Finnish painter Topi Ruotsalainen (FI), who depicts mainly everyday motifs capturing moments where a seemingly random assemblage of characters is brought together to form what seems almost like a group portrait. In his latest works, he has explored the thematic of togetherness through the form of a circle.

Topi Ruotsalainen (FI)

Topi Ruotsalainen is a Finnish painter, whose work depicts everyday motifs, capturing moments where a seemingly random assembly of characters is brought together to form what seems almost like a group portrait. He seeks to depict the invisible action, the tension and the hierarchies that arise between people, the way people inhabit their own bodies and their responses to other bodies around them. In his latest works, he has explored the theme of togetherness as it relates to the form of a circle.

Topi Ruotsalainen (b. 1979, Kuopio; FI) gained his MA at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Helsinki (FI) in 2005, before gaining a further MA in 2009 at the Finnish Academy of Fine Art, Helsinki (FI). His work has been the subject of frequent exhibitions in Finland and is included in museum collections including: Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (FI); Amos Rex, Helsinki (FI); Tampere Art Museum, Tampere (FI); Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere (FI).

Hopak!

Oil on canvas
2023

Courtesy of the artist and Galleria Heino

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Primavera

Oil on canvas
2023

Courtesy of the artist and Galleria Heino

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Stepping on toes

Oil on canvas
2023

Courtesy of the artist and Galleria Heino

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Topi Ruotsalainen

Courtesy of the artist and Galleria Heino