Riiko Sakkinen
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Riiko Sakkinen is visual artist living and working in Cervera de los Montes, Toledo, Spain
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Sakkinen creates small drawings about consumer culture and politics. Often he exhibits the drawings on site-specific wall paintings. The origins of Sakkinen’s drawings and installations are in product catalogues and advertisements. Many of the figures in his works come from the shelves of the super market or from TV commercials. They receive new meanings from the texts the artist attaches to them. Observations on intercultural conflicts, market economy, nationalism, globalisation and current political questions have been dressed up in cartoon or advert - like costumes.
His works are included in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art
, New York, Amos Anderson Art Museum
and Kiasma
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki.
Riiko Sakkinen is currently represented by Bourouina Gallery, Berlin and Galerie E.L. Bannwarth, Paris.
2008 Consommateur, applaudissez, le spectacle est partout, Bourouina Gallery, Berlin
2007 Let's Happy Life - Sparkling Girl Brings about a Revolution, Korjaamo, Helsinki
2006 More Mustard Gas and Tomato Ketchup (My Very Best Friendly Fire), Mechelen, Belgium
2005 Small Boys Units South Beach Diet, Galleria Krista Mikkola, Helsinki
2004 Everything I Don't Understand Must Be Sin, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York
2003 Riiko Sakkinen's Express Kebab Pizza, Transit, Mechelen, Belgium
2002 Jani Leinonen Vs. Riiko Sakkinen, Kluuvin Galleria, City Art Museum, Helsinki
, Beijing 798, Biennale, Beijing
2008 From the Arctic to the Prairie, Golden, Chicago
2007 Zoo, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
2006 Steiler Konter – Die Ausstellung, Magazin4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
2005 Democracy Was Fun, White Box, New York
2003 Biennale of Young Artists of Europe, Collaboration with N. Luoma And K. Tukiainen, Athens
2001 Kommen Sie Nach Hause, Gereonswall 27, Cologne
Toledo, Spain
Toledo's Alcázar became renowned in the 19th and 20th centuries as a military academy. At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 its garrison was famously besieged by Republican forces.-Economy:...
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Sakkinen creates small drawings about consumer culture and politics. Often he exhibits the drawings on site-specific wall paintings. The origins of Sakkinen’s drawings and installations are in product catalogues and advertisements. Many of the figures in his works come from the shelves of the super market or from TV commercials. They receive new meanings from the texts the artist attaches to them. Observations on intercultural conflicts, market economy, nationalism, globalisation and current political questions have been dressed up in cartoon or advert - like costumes.
His works are included in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
, New York, Amos Anderson Art Museum
Amos Anderson Art Museum
Amos Anderson Art Museum is a museum in Helsinki, Finland.This art museum has paintings by Francesco Bassano , Paul Signac, Louis Valtat, Roger Fry, Alfred Finch , Ragnar Ekelund, Magnus Enckell, Eero Nellimarkka, Tyko Sallinen, Tove Janson , and the Swedish painter Palm.-External links:*...
and Kiasma
Kiasma
Kiasma is a contemporary art museum located on Mannerheimintie in Helsinki, Finland. Its name kiasma, Finnish for chiasma, alludes to the basic conceptual idea of its architect, Steven Holl. The museum exhibits the contemporary art collection of the Finnish National Gallery founded in 1990...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki.
Riiko Sakkinen is currently represented by Bourouina Gallery, Berlin and Galerie E.L. Bannwarth, Paris.
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2009 Jani & Riiko's Free World, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki2008 Consommateur, applaudissez, le spectacle est partout, Bourouina Gallery, Berlin
2007 Let's Happy Life - Sparkling Girl Brings about a Revolution, Korjaamo, Helsinki
2006 More Mustard Gas and Tomato Ketchup (My Very Best Friendly Fire), Mechelen, Belgium
2005 Small Boys Units South Beach Diet, Galleria Krista Mikkola, Helsinki
2004 Everything I Don't Understand Must Be Sin, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York
2003 Riiko Sakkinen's Express Kebab Pizza, Transit, Mechelen, Belgium
2002 Jani Leinonen Vs. Riiko Sakkinen, Kluuvin Galleria, City Art Museum, Helsinki
Group exhibitions (selection)
2009 The Man Who Fell to Earth, curated by Raul ZamudioRaúl Zamudio
Raúl Zamudio is a New York-based independent curator, art critic, art historian and educator.-Background:Raúl Zamudio was born in Tijuana, Mexico. A native Mexican of Paipai ancestry, he was raised in San Diego, California and later moved to New York City where he currently lives and works...
, Beijing 798, Biennale, Beijing
2008 From the Arctic to the Prairie, Golden, Chicago
2007 Zoo, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
2006 Steiler Konter – Die Ausstellung, Magazin4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
2005 Democracy Was Fun, White Box, New York
2003 Biennale of Young Artists of Europe, Collaboration with N. Luoma And K. Tukiainen, Athens
2001 Kommen Sie Nach Hause, Gereonswall 27, Cologne