Eva Helki (b. 1993, St. Petersburg) is a Helsinki-based artist working across painting, installation, and mixed media.
ARTIST STATEMENT
In a world often marked by tension and disconnection, I seek to open a space for dialogue. Through art, I explore my own path toward understanding and empathy, transforming personal experience into a shared visual language. I hope that by revealing these reflections, others might find common ground and enter into meaningful conversation. Through diverse mediums, I invite viewers to bring their perspectives, challenge assumptions, and discover the quiet beauty within our differences.
EDUCATION
2012 - 2020 – I.E. Repin St.-Petersburg State Academic Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under the Russian Academy of Arts, St.-Petersburg (Master’s degree)
2017 - 2018 – École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (exchange program)
2005 - 2012 – B.V. Ioganson St.-Petersburg State Academic Art Lyceum under the Russian Academy of Arts , St.-Petersburg (high school)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 – Love Somewhere, Yö Galleria, Helsinki (duo with Hannes Helki)
2024 – About February in sobs..., Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2020 – The Island, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2024 Sans Drapeau, Yellow Cube Gallery, Paris
2024 After Shock, Vrij Paleis, Amsterdam
2023 Ecology: a right, not a privilege, Tauride Palace, St.-Peresburg
2023 On Chimeras, Hybrids, Cyborgs, and Humans, Museum of Moscow
2022 – Monsters Under the Bed, Third Place, Saint Petersburg
2022 – Passengers. Landscape Dialogues, Kazansky Railway Terminal, Moscow
2022 – Thinking Landscape, Museum of Moscow, Moscow
2021 – Museum of Self-Isolation, Museum of Moscow, Moscow
2021 – Surprize 5, Academy of Fine Arts, Urbino
2020 – A Wave of Dreams, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2020 – State of Emergency, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2019 – Saisons Russes, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome
2018 – La flesh, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2024 – catalogue of the personal exhibition "… about February in sobs", Moscow
2022 – program catalogue "Richard Wagner" of musicAeterna orchestra, St.-Petersburg
2021 – catalogue of the exhibition "Surprize 5", Urbino
2020 – catalogue of the personal exhibition "The Island", Moscow
2020 – catalogue of the exhibition "Wave of Dreams", Moscow
2024 – Sans Drapeau, Paris
2024 – Catalog, Moscow
2023 – dispard:d, St.-Petersburg
2022 – Blazar, Moscow
PUBLIC WORKS
2023 – 4 panels, decoration of the 1st floor, South River Terminal, Moscow
GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
2024 – a six-month working grant from Finnish Cultural Foundation
2020 – council's praise for the diploma series of works "Bible stories"
2018 – scholarship from the Union of Artists
RESIDENCES
2018 – Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
2016 – Shenzhen Museum, Shenzhen, China
2026 @ Eva Helki