About

 

Anu Raatikainen is a visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. She works with a diverse range of media, including light, painting, drawing, sculpture, video, animation, 3D, and performance. Light has been a central element in her projects, both independent and collaborative.

She holds a Master’s Degree from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, earned in December 2017. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Finland, Sweden, Japan, and Italy. Over the past two years, she has been developing the Phototaxis project, which explores the relationship between light and nature. The project incorporated research on light pollution, AR technology, mythology, and astronomical influences, and has been exhibited in outdoor locations. Before that, her recent solo exhibitions have been held at Oksasenkatu 11 in Helsinki, Vaasa Art Hall in Vaasa, and MUU Gallery in Helsinki.

This website was created out of her desire to share her work with a wider audience and make it more accessible. In addition to original pieces, she now offers fine art prints in both open and limited editions as a new way to experience and collect her work. More of her art can be viewed at her official website: https://anur.fi/

 

I get inspiration from diverse influences, including natural sciences, technology, archaic forms of expression, archetypes, depth psychology, esotericism, and science fiction. I ´m interested in our relationship to nature, other species, emerging technologies, and the depths of the human psyche. I explore these themes in the intersection of the rational and the subconscious, the cognitive and the intuitive, the ancient and the futuristic—blending them in a playful, animistic dialogue.

Light has interested me as both material and metaphor since the beginning of my art studies. Among the many qualities of light, I am especially fascinated by its affective power—its instinctual pull on us. For me light appears almost alive, as if having its own presence. Perhaps this attraction is in our nature; for most of history, we were creatures of daylight, moved by the rhythms of the sun. And compared, I find artificial light uncanny —it mimics the sun yet lacks its life-giving essence.

 

 

Fine art prints

All prints are made by The Printspace, a professional fine art print studio ensuring museum quality standard. Each print includes a Certificate of Authenticity, verifying the work's origin and quality. All fine art prints are carbon neutral.