Aino Raatikainen

About the Artist

Aino Raatikainen (b. 1985) paints about the upheavals of human emotional life and the preoccupying nature of existence. In the paintings it is possible to see influences from her fascination to renaissance art, surrealism and colourism, as well as horses, psychology and shades of blue. Raatikainen wants to grasp varied realities and ease the pressure for normative thinking. To her, painting as a function represents a renewable opportunity to choose the next step. 

Exhibitions

Einladung

31.10.-23.11.2025

BFA Exhibition 2024

About the artwork

The joint title of a seven-part body of works is Night Window. Composed of oil paintings of varying sizes, the work’s design and the way it was hung was inspired by the properties of the high exhibition space. The paintings were inspired by a fascination with layers, boundaries, and transitions that take place within the mind, in time, and on canvas. The continuous motion, which takes place between the non-existent and the material, the surface and the internal, the observation and the image, is intriguing.

You can examine an artwork from the perspective of the story it tells, its symbols, colour composition, joke, or theoretical framework. However, as many famous thinkers have said, we don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.