BIO
Kreetta Järvenpää b. 1974 Finland is a Helsinki-based artist who specializes in photographing flowers, plants and mushrooms creating contemporary floral fantasies inspired by 17th Century. She has an MA degree from the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland. Järvenpää has been exhibiting her photographs since 2017 and she has been featured in publications such as Financial Times HTSI, Schöner Wohnen, Veranda, Rum Ute, Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, Taide, Asun magazine and Orlando magazine. Järvenpää's artworks can be found in museum collection, gallery collections and private collections worldwide.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Flowers are my materials; they are expressive and shaped by time. Since 2016, I have been making floral arrangements and photographing them to capture every detail into a frame. Everything must be perfect before taking the final shot and I want that my photography doesn’t look like a photograph at all. I create an escape window from reality with my camera – a floral fantasy.
When I was in my twenties, I swore I would never work with plants or gardens. Just too much work. I identified flowers and plants with my mother – they were her. When she died 20 years later, I felt a need to work with flowers and abstract painting. Suddenly I understood what I had inherited. Flowers became my artistic language.
I find my meditative space through the beauty of changing and decaying flowers, and in my works they become immortal. I choose my flowers carefully and try to work as ecologically as I can. I paint my own backdrops and I construct arrangements. I photograph my flowers with natural light. I work at my workspace where I have an orange tree. This tree was grown by my mother from a single orange seed. She bought the orange from the grocery store in 1965.
I’m on a journey with my own language of flowers.
CV
Kreetta Järvenpää b.1974 Rauma, Finland
Workspace: Vallila, Helsinki, Finland
Education: MA University of Lapland 2005
Working as an independent artist and photographer specialized in flower and plant photography. Member of Association of Photographic Artists and The Finnish Association of Journalists. Artworks in Poikilo Museum collection and in several private and company collections worldwide.
Solo Exhibitions
2024-2025 JUST FLOWERS Finnfoto galleries, Helsinki
2021 BEE KIND, HUONE ett RUM gallery, Inkoo
2021 BEE KIND, Maamusta gallery, Helsinki
2018 Prime, Bang Bang gallery, Helsinki
2018 I See Color, Gallery Pirkko-Liisa Topelius, Helsinki
2018 I See Color, Mattsson&Mattsson workspace/gallery
2017 Kesken juhlien, Lilla Villan, Sipoo
Selected group exhibitions
2024-25 Public Art Initiative in New York, Visionary Projects NYC, USA
2024 Gallery Naeil, Seoul, Korea
2024 OHO gallery, Helsinki
2024 Wiurila Contemporary Art Studio exhibition, Wiurila, Salo
2023 FLORA FAVOLA Poikilo Museum, Kouvola
2023 Daydream Believer, Galleria Duerr, Tukholma
2022 SIVUTTAIN / SIDLÄNGES, Vaasa
2021 LUX / PICTURA VB-Centre, Kuopio
2018 Unbelievable! Valo gallery, Arktikum, Rovaniemi
Design
2024 T-shirt designs / Pure Waste
2024 Design collaboration / Essenza Home / continues
2022 Postal stamp design/ Posti
2021 Paper products / Putinki Helsinki / continues
2020 Wallpaper designs / K-Rauta