Galerie Anhava

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Inka Bell’s artistic practice is a seamless movement between technique, material, and motif, exploring liminal spaces between two- and three-dimensionality. Her paper based works are subtle events of transition, repetition, and transformation where two surfaces come together again and again.

Inka Bell (b. 1981, Espoo) graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Printmaking Department of the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki in 2021. In recent years Bell has held numerous solo exhibitions, including at Turku Art Museum, Bricks Gallery in Copenhagen, and Forum Box in Helsinki. Her works have been acquired for several public collections in the United States, Denmark, Belgium, and Finland, including EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, HAM Helsinki Art Museum, and Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. In 2024, Bell received the William Thuring Grand Prize awarded by the Finnish Art Society.

Photo: Paavo Lehtonen

“The exhibition emerges at a moment when the relationship between evidence and belief has fundamentally collapsed. We live in a world where verifiable facts no longer determine what people accept as ‘true’, where competing realities circulate with equal authority, and where the mechanisms that once separated truth from fiction have dissolved into contested narratives. (…) Autopsy directly examines this moment by bringing together artists to consider not only the content of contemporary anomaly discourse, but also the mechanisms by which beliefs are constructed.”

Image: Joel Slotte, Still Life Painter Putting Together a Vanitas Motif, 2026, oil on canvas, framed, 73,5 x 68 cm. Photo: Jussi Tiainen

The exhibition was planned together by the artists, freely, spontaneously, organically: “Let’s bring friends, buddies, and friends of buddies…and have fun!” The name of the exhibition Väreissä reflects the visual joy that all of the artists recognise in their own work.

Image: Eeva-Leena Eklund, installation view