| Artist | Emmi Mustonen | Resides | Finland |
| Website | emmimustonen.com | Medium | Oil |
| Print Shop | emmimustonen.com/store | emmi@emmimustonen.com | |
| Represeting Gallery | Galleria Contempo Helsinki, Finland | Themes | Women Mythology Magic Animals Nature Spirituality Vanity Death Baroque Flowers Human Experience Humanity Sameness |
| Follow the Artist | Instagram | Facebook | Press | emmimustonen.com/mediassa |
About the artist
Artist Emmi Mustonen (born 1987) works mainly with the old masters’ painting technique inspired by the renaissance. This technique comprises of slow and meticulous painting. At first, the artwork must be carefully pre-planned. The emerging painting is made up of several thin layers of paint. After each layer, the paint must be allowed to dry. This allows for the colors to be mixed up on the canvas as pure, separate layers, deepening the play of light and shadow and bringing life to the hues. Painters mastering the realistic style are hard to find, artists proficient in the old masters’ technique are almost extinct. Patience and a certain level of perfectionism are required. However, for Mustonen, the technique is just a side dish. She is fascinated by how certain works rise up to take their place in art history, by the power art wields to connect with individuals despite differing backgrounds and cultures. As an artist, Mustonen is a master conveyer of emotional landscape, a master painter who does not shy away from technically challenging solutions.
Artwork Themes & Subject Matter
Emmi Mustonen welcomes the idea of a community even when its members vividly differ from one another. She depicts such differences in her paintings and aims to prove that the differing traits in our personas are but superficial. Humanity encompasses us all. The main goal of the artist is to show the diversity in a light where the viewer finds something to which to connect. Mustonen’s work touch both by the avid consumers of art as well as the uncomfortable visitor to an art gallery.
Upcoming Exhibitions
| When | Exhibition name | Gallery |
| October 2024 | Group exhibition: ‘Affordable Art Fair’ | Stockholm Sweden |
CV
Education
2009-2012 Visual Artist, Taideoppilaitos Alfa-Art, Helsinki, Finland
Selected Solo Exhibition
2024
Nature Morte, Galleria Contempo, Helsinki, Finland
2023
Crimson House, Galleria Contempo, Helsinki, Finland
2021
Perfect Nowhere, Keskusgalleria, Tampere, Finland
Midnight Garden, Taidekeskus Haihara / Runebergin mökki, Tampere, Finland
2019
Not Your Muse, Rupla, Helsinki, Finland
Mindscapes in Paint, GalleriAri, Mikkeli, Finland
2017
Verkatehdas, Hämeenlinna, Finland
2016
Homo Digitalis, Nordic Business Forum, Helsinki, Finland
Social Portrait, Galleria Saima, Helsinki, Finland
Social Portrait, Rupla, Helsinki, Finland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Taidekeskus Mältinranta, Tampere, Finland
2020
Taidekeskus Salmela, Mäntyharju, Finland
2018
Taidemuseo Onni, Jyväskylä, Finland
Galleria Saskia, Tampere, Finland
Rupla, Helsinki, Finland
2017
Taidekeskus Mältinranta, Tampere, Finland
Galleria 4-kuus, Helsinki, Finland
2016
Artsi Museo, Vantaa, Finland
Galleria Saskia, Tampere, Finland
Art of Basware, Helsinki, Finland
Galleria Uusitalo, Inkoo, Finland
