Gastkünstler im Internationalen Künstlerhaus

 

Björn Riska, born 1984 in Jakobstad, Finland. Graduated from Novia University of Applied Science with an BA in Fine Arts 2014. Art studies also at Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel, Germany. Riska has been exhibiting in different groupexhibitions in Finland 2011-2014. He lives and works in Jakobstad.

Björn Riska is working in the field of painting, both abstract and figurative. Space and time, form and formless includes his works. Riska often works with colorful paintings, but some of the works can also have a lack of colors. Some of the paintings approaches the viewers while others suck the viewer in, like a inhalation absorbing the viewers gaze. Riska explains his work like respiration, when he compares it to a rythym of inhalation and exhalation.

In his work there are a lack of borders, colors smoothely blends together and changes without no marked outlines that would seperate them from each others. The colors are allowed to collide and rest next to each other. They blend and communicate without borders.

In Riskas work time is present in the process of creating. But the time can also be read by the viewer in the layers the colors have been applied, a reading without words a reading of actions.