Riiko Sakkinen
Foods First World Kids Hate, 2020
Mixed media on canvas
170.50 x 140.50 cm / 67 x 55 in
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Riiko Sakkinen
Cake Theory, 2020
Mixed media on canvas
116.50 x 101 cm / 46 x 40 in
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Riiko Sakkinen
I don't Want to Be Anthropomorpized, 2015–2020
Acrylic on Canvas
200 x 170 cm / 78.7 x 66.9 inches
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Riiko Sakkinen
Newspeak Duckspeak, 2018
Acrylic, Alkyd, Permanent Marker on Canvas
160 x 130 cm / 62.9 x 51.2 inches
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Riiko Sakkinen
Breakfast Cereal Mascot Turbo Taxonomy, 2018-2019
Mixed Media
177 x 190 cm / 67 x 75 inches
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Riiko Sakkinen
Every Time You Masturbate God Kills a Kitten, 2019
Acrylic, Alkyd, Permanent Marker on Canvas
170 x 140 cm / 66.9 x 55 inches
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Riiko Sakkinen
Snake, 2019
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Riiko Sakkinen
Elephant, 2019
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Riiko Sakkinen
Deer, 2019
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Riiko Sakkinen
Cat, 2019
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Riiko Sakkinen
Kill Me Eat Me But Don't Make Me a Cannibal, 2019
Acrylic, Ink, Stickers, Permanent Marker on Paper
111 x 77 cm / 43.7 x 30.3 inches
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Riiko Sakkinen
Cruising Colors, 2019
Drawing on paper
112 x 76 cm / 44 x 29.9 inches
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Riiko Sakkinen
Mukbang Crisis Theory, 2017
Mixed media on paper
30 x 21 cm / 11.81 x 8.27 inches
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Riiko Sakkinen
What About SpongeBob?, 2017
Mixed media on paper
30 x 21 cm / 11.81 x 8.27 inches
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Riiko Sakkinen
Meij Burger Restoration Fast Wave, 2016
Mixed media on paper
30 x 21 cm / 11.8 x 8.3 inches
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Riiko Sakkinen
Toxic Princess, 2015
Mixed media on paper
30 x 21 cm / 11.81 x 8.27 inches
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Riiko Sakkinen
Kardashian, 2015
Acrylic and permanent marker on paper
190 x 151 cm / 74.8 x 59.5 inches
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Riiko Sakkinen
Super Moist Cake Theory, 2013
Acrylic and felt-tip pen on paper
76 x 69 cm / 29.9 x 27.2 inches
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Riiko Sakkinen
You Deserve Tomato, 2009
Mixed media on paper
30 x 21 cm / 11.8 x 8.3 inches
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Riiko Sakkinen
Please, Mama, Take Me Home, 2008
Mixed media on paper
30 x 21 cm / 11.8 x 8.3 inches
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Riiko Sakkinen Exhibition, 2020
Riiko Sakkinen exhibition 2020
Riiko Sakkinen exhibition 2020
Riiko Sakkinen exhibtion 2018
Riiko Sakkinen exhibition 2018
Riiko Sakkinen exhibition 2015
Riiko Sakkinen exhibition 2015
Photo: Juan Campano
Born in Helsinki, Finland 1976 | Lives and works in Toledo, Spain
Riiko Sakkinen is the founder of Turbo Realism, a 21st-century art movement that depicts globalized capitalism with mocking verisimilitude. He composes drawings, paintings, murals, slideshows, installations, and interventions that comment on consumer culture, from fast-food to prostitution, from hypermarkets to drug cartels. He believes in Pablo Picasso’s dictum, “the art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy”.
After graduating from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2002, Sakkinen moved to Spain, where he still lives and works. Sakkinen’s works have been exhibited widely around the world in galleries and museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Camden Arts Centre in London, and Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki. His works are included in the permanent collections of several museums, including The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Galerie Forsblom has been representing Riiko Sakkinen since 2015.
Riiko Sakkinen's talks about his art and about his up-coming exhibitions at Galerie Forsblom Helsinki and at the Natural History Museum.
Sami Lukkarinen and Riiko Sakkinen are participating in the group show Glitch Art at Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art Vaasa.
Riiko Sakkinen shares his thoughts about his new book of drawings, drawing, and thinking by drawing.
Riiko Sakkinen’s exhibition PRESIDENTTIPELI (Presidetial Games) opened on December 1 at the Hyvinkää Art Museum. To mark Finland’s centennial celebrations, Sakkinen has painted portraits of all 12 Presidents of the Republic of Finland on the white walls of the museum.
Voima Magazine interviewed Riiko Sakkinen about his upcoming exhibition at the Serlachius Museum in the summer of 2024.
In Fuengirola, Spain, there is a settlement of Finns where they are aiming for a kind of utopia. Riiko Sakkinen observes the Finnish community of Fuengirola, i.e. the people of Fuge, from an excellent position. He was born in Helsinki but has lived almost half of his life in Spain. He has been interested in studying Finnishness through art but hasn't come up with the right idea to implement this before.
"Then I discovered this kind of Finnishness some hundreds of kilometers away from home! I'm good at recognizing where the border between Finnishness and Spanishness lies."
Sakkinen has applied a form of academic research to his work at Fuge. He interviewed locals with a structured set of questions and read all the background material he could find on the subject. Still, it is an art project. In the Los Moimoi de Fuengirola series, for example, there are works that present statistics describing the attitudes and values of the people of Fuengirola. Although the diagrams look real, the artist has made them up on his own.
"Maybe those are good guesses. I could have used real studies, but the studies related to fugelians are old and not very interesting."
The chosen method fits the art defined by the artist himself as turborealism. While realism presents the world as it appears, turborealism, according to Sakkinen, shows it as it is. Even if the truth is stretched a bit.
Riiko Sakkinen: Los Moimoi de Fuengirola
The Serlachius Museum 2024
The Art Critic Recommends Riiko Sakkinen's Newly Opened Exhibition
"RIIKO SAKKIEN's bazaar hanging offers familiar themes, from the cannibalism of fast food mascots to the criticism of capitalism. What's new is the craftsmanship and strikingness of the works, which almost beats the original sales packaging."
