Fanny Tavastila | The Studio

Snow is delighted to present The Studio, the first solo exhibition by Fanny Tavastila at Snow and in Germany.

Vernissage
March 9, 6 - 8 pm
In the presence of the artist

Artist Talk
March 11, 2 - 3 pm

Fanny Tavastila is a Finnish visual artist, living and working in Helsinki. The Studio, her first solo exhibition in Germany, is bringing a piece of Tavastila’s studio in Helsinki’s legendary Cable Factory to Berlin, offering an intimate view into her practice in the context of her studio surroundings. On show are a new body of work consisting of oil paintings, watercolours and a site specific installation.

Fanny Tavastila's oil paintings are characterised by rich layering of colour, the strokes are tightly rooted in personal experiences.

The Studio is retrieving from the artist’s experience of the physical, private space, the cocoon knitted of accumulated memories and emotions. We can trace the personal narrative in the studio, in its objects and in the paintings. The paintings are intuitive studies of what is left, of what becomes important and crystallised when the space is narrowed down and concentrated, when the noise disappears. Curated by Susanne Johansson.

Biography

Fanny Tavastila (born in 1977, Finland) lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. She has studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki and at the Copenhagen University in Copenhagen, Denmark. Tavastila has exhibited actively both nationally and internationally, with Galerie Forsblom and currently Ama Gallery in Finland and at the Nordic Council of Ministers, Copenhagen, and Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, among many others. Her works can be found in collections of Jenny and Antti Wihuri’s Foundation as well as the collection of the Nordic Investment Bank.

Tavastila has been a recent recipient of the art award from the Hélène and Walter Grönqvist’s Foundation, and has been selected to develop and curate an ongoing exhibition program for the Design Hotel Runo Hotel Porvoo, Finland, since it’s opening in 2021.