Ville Andersson (FI)

Ville Andersson often works with the concept of emptiness as a component of visual expression; the possibilities of silence and quietude are central themes in his work. Andersson is a versatile artist, both in his use of different media and the variety of styles he adopts. Characteristic features of Andersson’s aesthetic include: allusive tactics, an impression of rich nuance, precision, understatement and ephemerality. The soft, organic traces in his pencil drawings alongside the clear-cut, uniform shapes of his digitally produced images create a strong tension throughout Andersson’s body of work.

Ville Andersson (b. 1986) lives and works in Pernaja, Finland. Having graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, he received the Young Artists of the Year Award and two museum solo exhibitions in 2015. In 2018, he was a Watermill Center artist-in-residence in New York, and was awarded an Inga Maren Otto Fellowship by Watermill in 2020. Andersson’s works are represented in major public and private collections Finland and the rest of Europe.