Elina Merenmies, FI

Elina Merenmies’s extensive oeuvre is a unique and mystical universe. A rich and layered array of meanings, emotions and recurring motifs come together in her works, executed in the artist’s precise, inimitable hand with tempera, oil and ink.

In Merenmies’s works we encounter her rich inner world and its diverse, captivating and poignant characters. The images are indisputably regardful and sincere, with interior visions and experiences running parallel with everyday observations. Merenmies’s works can be approached as gates to silence and the ultimate essence of being human.

Elina Merenmies’s (b. 1967, FI) artworks have been showcased regularly since the 90s in both Finland and abroad. In 2007 she was nominated for the prestigious Ars Fennica Prize. Merenmies has works in major public collections in Finland and in several Nordic art museums, including ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, The Gothenburg Museum of Art, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, The Finnish State Art Collection, and Sara Hildén Art Museum, as well as in private collections in Europe and the United States. She has shown her work in numerous museum exhibitions in recent years, most recently at the British Museum’s Nordic collection exhibition and an extensive solo exhibition at Turku Art Museum.