OHO GALLERY 29.8.-20.12.2024
Kreetta Järvenpää
I’m on a journey with my own language of flowers
Järvenpää paints flowers with her camera. In her images, flowers and plants are expressive and shaped by time. Since 2016, she has been creating floral arrangements and photographing them to capture every detail. Everything must be perfect before the picture is taken. The photograph is not meant to look like a photograph at all—her painterly images are windows into a blooming fantasy world.
In her twenties, Järvenpää vowed that she would never have a garden—it was far too much work. A home garden and houseplants were her mother’s passion. When her mother passed away 20 years later, the need to work with flowers and plants became overwhelming. The lost connection to flowers and plants returned as a passion to photograph them.
“Suddenly, I understood what I had inherited. Flowers became my means of expression. They are the language through which I know how to express myself. At first, my work was a way to connect with my late mother, but over time, my own personal approach has only grown stronger. I love the freedom to create a wonderful world. Working with flowers is very meditative and calming for me,” Järvenpää explains.
Studio Frö / Hiding places
“Hiding places” is a tribute to stark, beautiful, and untouched nature. Enjoy a moment with the artwork and discover your own hiding place within it.
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Wiurilan kesän Studionäyttely14.6.-25.8.2024
Erik Creutziger, Kim Jotuni, Kreetta Järvenpää, Jenni Vakkilainen
Tervetuloa Studionäyttelyyn!
Wiurilan kesän historian ensimmäinen Studionäyttelykesä käynnistyy 14.6.2024. Näyttelyssä ovat mukana kuvataiteilija Erik Creutziger, kuvanveistäjä ja kuvataiteilija Kim Jotuni, taiteilija ja valokuvaaja Kreetta Järvenpää sekä kuvataiteilija Jenni Vakkilainen.
Tulevan kesän näyttelyssä korostuvat ilo, huumori ja keveys. Kasvu, kypsyminen, kukoistus ja kuivuminen seuraavat sekä kesän kulkua että elämän vaiheita. Taiteilijoiden teokset muodostavat teemallisesti ja teknisesti toisiaan tukevan monimuotoisen kokonaisuuden. Taiteilijat kutsuttiin näyttelyyn kuraattorien toiveiden mukaisesti, julkista hakua Studionäyttelyyn ei järjestetty.
Näyttelyt sijaitsevat Wiurilan talouskeskuksessa, Kaariholvin Galleriassa ja Galleria Pääskyssä. Avoinna päivittäin klo 11-18, juhannuksena suljettu.
JUST FLOWERS
June 1st - July 30
Finnfoto gallery
Redi Helsinki
Hermannin rantatie 5, 00580 Helsinki
Just Flowers exhibition consists of photos taken by artist, photographer Kreetta Järvenpää in 2019-2023. Järvenpää creates still lifes and installations from flowers and plants, and she shoots them in natural light. She is well known for her distinctive style, and she uses her camera like a paintbrush.
Flora Favola - Kreetta Järvenpää ja Heikki Marila
21.9.2023 –7.1. 2024
Art Museum Poikilo
Flower-themed works
The Flora Favola exhibition brings together two artists known for their flower-themed works. Kreetta Järvenpää is a photographer and storyteller whose unreal, fairy-tale-lush flower pieces keep with the tradition of authentic, slightly surreal yet compositionally refinedstill-lifes. For her most recent images, Järvenpää has photographed individual flowers and their various stages of wilting. In addition to photographs, the exhibition also features installations.
Heikki Marila is known for his large-scale oil paintings and intensive themes. In 2012, Marila won the Carnegie Art Award first prize for his expressive, luscious flower pieces. His dark-hued paintings, reminiscent of the 17th century Dutch and Flemish flower pieces, are complex both in their substance and in their materiality. The thick layers of paint and the process of painting with hands are central features. The paintings in the exhibition are on loan from collections of Finnish museums and foundations.
How to buy my Flora Favola exhibited artwork.
All are available in edition 5+2 ap in size they are in exhibition or size we agree. Edition means that there are 5 photos of that size available and 2ap means I have 2 photos for my exhibitions. I can send you pdf of all the works with price list. Inquiries by email: kreetta.jarvenpaa (at) gmail.com
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