Elina Merenmies’s solo exhibition Everything Shows opened at Turku Art Museum and runs until 12 January 2025. The artist’s dreamlike world is a mixture of inner visions and real events. References to art history and religious imagery are an integral part of her artistic expression. Merenmies’s deep relationship with nature and empathy for all living things are reflected in her choice of subject matter. Close-ups of human faces are a central and recurring theme, while mystical forests, trees, branches and roots are a constant source of fascination for the artist. The exhibition consists of paintings and drawings from the artist’s own collection as well as from private and public collections, completed over the past decade. A new publication on Merenmies’s art will be published in conjuction to the exhibition.
Image: Elina Merenmies, Kaikki näkyy, 2023, tempera and oil on canvas, 31 x 38 cm. Photo: Jussi Tiainen