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Teemu Korpela

Teemu Korpela (MFA) is a Helsinki based artist, who has studied in the University of the Arts Helsinki and St.Petersburg Academy of Arts.

Korpela`s practise is defined by a conceptual inquiry in to the materials, medium and expressions of art and what they can reveal to us about ourselves as human beings. For many years he has exhibited mosty installations but has resently returned to his roots, the two dimensional painting format.

Korpela sees art as a form of thinking, and his conceptual starting points come from a wide range of philosophical traditions, psychology and different sciences. His motivation to do art comes from a need to understand the forces that dictate the way we experience our existence and the way we act towards the world and ourselves. He sees the visual, poetic and metaphorical communication as a possibility to bring the viewer in to a concious connection with phenomenons wich are lost in the rigid chains of logic and data or that are hidden in to the structures of culture and society.

Korpela has exhibited his work actively since 2005. He`s work has been shown in Finland, U.S.A, England, Sweden, Slovakia, Italy and Latvia.He has works in several collections, including Museum Of Contemporary Art Kiasma (National Gallery)

 

Location

Uusimaa

Born

1980

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Featured artwork

Teemu Korpela, Meditations On ImmersionOil on canvas, 210cm x 120cm, 2020

Teemu Korpela, Starlight TheoryDetail

Teemu Korpela, Starlight TheoryDetail

Teemu Korpela, Starlight Theory 3Detail

Teemu Korpela, What Comes Out At The End, Starlight Theory 3Installation view

Teemu Korpela, Meditations on ImmersionOil on canvas, 210cm x 120cm, 2020

Teemu Korpela, My Love It Kills Me Slowly 2Readymade, 2020

Teemu Korpela, Installation view

Teemu Korpela, Starlght Theory 2Fake leather, textiles, readymade objects, 2020

Teemu Korpela, Starlght TheoryFake leather, textiles, readymade objects, 2020

Teemu Korpela,Starlight Theory 3Readymade object, 2020

Teemu Korpela, What Comes Out at the EndFake leather, readymade objects, 2020

Teemu Korpela. Deposition 2020Alkyd paint on canvas,4mx3mx2m,2020

Teemu Korpela. BegottenMixed media on canvas, mounted on structures, 4mx5mx6m,2019

Teemu Korpela. My Love It Kills Me SlowlyMixed media on canvas, mounted on a structure,175cmx50cmx100cm,2019

Teemu Korpela. Our Relationship Had Been Problematic For a WhileMixed media on canvas, variable dimensions,2019

Teemu Korpela. I Like It HereNailpolish on canvas, 255cmx200cm,2019

Teemu Korpela, Installation viewx

Curriculum Vitae

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