Riikka Aihinen
Valentina Morales BuschmannRiikka Aihinen (b. 1976) is a painter from Turku. She graduated as a visual artist from the Lahti Institute of Fine Arts in 2004. Furthermore, she studied art at the Lahti Institute of Design (basic art teacher studies) in 2005-2006. During her career, she held several solo exhibitions and participated in group and joint exhibitions in Finland. Her latest solo exhibition was at the Forum Box gallery in Helsinki in 2024. In 2025 she started master’s studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki.
In her art, Aihinen examines her inner world of experience and thus structures her existence. She strives to identify emotions in the mind and body and their origins, and then convey them through her paintings. The works of recent years have dealt with duality in different ways. This can be seen in the distribution of the image surface and image pairs. Ideas arise from the interest in the relationship between mind and body, as well as the conflicts within the mind.