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Leonor Ruiz Dubrovin

Leonor Ruiz Dubrovin is fascinated by the physical properties of oil painting. Her work focuses on maximizing the possibilities offered by this medium. Through various blending and layering techniques, Leonor seeks to create depth, imbue intricate details, and create complex visual effects.
Her artistic work is a fusion of diverse dualities, such as the representative and the suggestive, reality and fiction. Through different portraits and embodiments, her paintings depict the exaltation of the individual and the search for an authentic self. Leonor´s motifs reflect a profound concern with the construction of the self, the multifaceted ways in which personal identities are formed, restricted, or enhanced, and how external perceptions and labels shape us.

Dubrovin graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki in 2008. Her contributions have been exhibited in Finland and abroad, including venues such as the Finnish Cultural Institute and the Gallery Modus Operandi in Madrid, Tool Box Gallery in Berlin, and Helsinki Contemporary Gallery and Forum Box Gallery in Finland. Her works are featured in collections in Finland and abroad. Including the Wihuri Foundation, Pro Artibus Foundation, Finnish State Art Deposit Collection, Päivi and Paavo Lipponen Trust’s Art Collection (deposition) at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Finnish Art Society and Private collections in Finland, Spain, Germany, Austria and Denmark. She was awarded the Grönqvistska Foundation Prize in 2023.