Jimi Rautakoski
About the Artist
Jimi Rautakoski (b. 1997) works with acrylics, oils, pens, pencils, markers, spray paints and inks on paper or canvas. This BFA exhibition work is done on canvas with acrylics, oils, markers and pencils. Jimi is interested in everyday subjects that are usually seen as boring. Other interests are perspective, illusory geometrical forms and space, trickery with fillers, different textures and marks.
Exhibitions
BFA Exhibition 2026
11 Sept–11 Oct Kuva/Tila
About the artwork
Pre-historic decorative motifs, Islamic art, angular guitarists, spiritual squares, neoplasticism, minimalisms etc., and it all culminates to…
Kallax shelving! Collectors love it and we sell it!
…the vitality of geometric abstraction. It is an ancient artistic language that reinvents itself again and again.
When I google minimalism, it gives me t furniture ads, a few lifestyle articles, and somewhere at the bottom is a poor Wikipedia page. I suffocate, gh…
Geometric art is usually about something sublime like God, utopia or truth. I love it. I love boring insignificance, I’m a statistic and an idler, my geometries are seemingly about chipboard furniture.
…hh. I barely managed to dig the Ikea catalogue out of my throat. While I was nearly passing out, I had this epiphany: multicoloured Kallax shelves that repeat, stretch, deepen and flatten.
The deep grid of Kallax shelves moves and changes, from one painting to another, it looks like an ad, a living room or an abstract labyrinth. It is versatile!