Reima Nevalainen
In the Shade, 2021
Acrylics, collage, sand and pastel on canvas
180 x 160 cm / 71 x 63 in
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Reima Nevalainen
Figure on a Blue Bed, 2021
Acrylics, collage, sand, pastel, pencil and marker on canvas
60 x 70 cm / 24 x 28 in
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Reima Nevalainen
Bed of Reeds, 2021
Acrylics, collage, sand and pastel on canvas
200 x 165 cm / 79 x 65 in
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Reima Nevalainen exhibition 2022
Reima Nevalainen
Kintsugi, 2020
Acrylics, collage and charcoal on canvas
200 x 165 cm / 79 x 65 in
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Reima Nevalainen
Syncope, 2020
acrylics, collage, pastel and sand on canvas
70 x 60 cm / 28 x 24 in
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Reima Nevalainen
Figure Sitting on a Bed, 2020
Acrylics, collage, sand and pastel on canvas
165 x 240 cm / 65 x 95 in
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Reima Nevalainen Exhibition 2020
Reima Nevalainen
Looking Back, 2019
acrylics, collage, ink, pastel and sand on canvas
120 x 130 cm / 47 x 51 in
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Reima Nevalainen
Residue, 2019
acrylics, collage, ink, pastel and sand on canvas
130 x 165 cm / 51 x 65 in
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Reima Nevalainen
Blindspot, 2019
Acrylics, collage and sand on canvas
50 x 40 cm / 20 x 16 in
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Reima Nevalainen
Resonant, 2019
acrylics, collage, pastel and sand on canvas
200 x 165 cm / 78.74 x 64.96 inches
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Reima Nevalainen
Birds Thrown Into the Air, 2019
Acrylics, collage, sand and pastel on canvas
165 x 200 cm / 64.96 x 78.74 inches
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Reima Nevalainen
Tongue, 2018
Acrylics, collage, charcoal and color pencil on canvas
100 x 90 cm / 39.37 x 35.43 inches
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Reima Nevalainen
Living off the Land, 2017
Acrylic, collage, sand, and pastel pen on canvas
200 x 330 cm / 78.74 x 129.92 inches
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Reima Nevalainen exhibition 2017
Reima Nevalainen
Consume us, 2015
Acrylics and collage on canvas
130 x 114 cm / 51.2 x 44.9 inches
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Reima Nevalainen
Rootage, 2014
Acrylic, collage and sand on canvas
165 x 177 cm / 65 x 69.7 inches
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Reima Nevalainen
Scary thoughts, 2011
Acrylics, oil, collage and spray on MDF-board
100 x 130 cm / 39.4 x 51.2 inches
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photo: Reima Nevalainen
Born in Espoo, Finland 1984 | Lives and works in Porvoo, Finland
Reima Nevalainen’s use of collage and décollage is intimately connected to the thematic content of his paintings. We see vestiges of a complex process of cutting, ripping, and erasing on the canvas. His technique involves a laborious process of addition, removal, trial, and error. For Nevalainen, painting is an antidote to the disembodied stream of images that consumes our daily existence. Humans and nature are the subject matter of Reima Nevalainen’s collage paintings—not as conflicting elements, however, for human figures and nature coexist as equals in his compositions. Nevalainen mines his subject matter from personal experience, trusting in the intuitive power of the subconscious.
Nevalainen graduated from Kankaanpää Art School in 2008 as a painting major. In 2016, he was chosen as Finland’s Young Artist of the Year. He has held numerous solo shows in Finland and throughout Europe, the US, and Japan. His work is found in Finland’s leading museums, including the Helsinki Art Museum HAM and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma.
Galerie Forsblom has been representing Reima Nevalainen since 2011.
Reima Nevalainen
Mänttä Art Festival
June 16–August 31, 2024
Read C.QP's interview with Reima Nevalainen.
Congratulations on being selected Finland’s Young Artist of the Year 2016! After two years in Japan, you have spent an intensive period working in Finland. In that time you have had a solo exhibition at Galerie Forsblom, you took part in the Serlachius Museum Gösta exhibition The Sin, and you represented Finland in Art Cologne’s program for young, innovative artists. As Young Artist of the Year 2016, your work will feature in a forthcoming solo exhibition at the Tampere Art Museum
Jarmo Mäkilä, Leena Nio and Reima Nevalainen take part in the group exhibition Dark Days, Bright Nights: Contemporary Paintings from Finland at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City. The exhibition, curated by Barbara O'Brien, executive director Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, explores the methods, inspirations and practice of Finnish painters.
Congratulations on being selected as Finland’s Young Artist of the Year 2016!
After two years in Japan, you have spent an intensive period working in Finland. In that time you have had a solo exhibition at Galerie Forsblom, you took part in the Serlachius Museum Gösta exhibition The Sin, and you represented Finland in Art Cologne’s program for young, innovative artists. As Young Artist of the Year 2016, your work will feature in a forthcoming solo exhibition at the Tampere Art Museum.
