Meet the Artist: Riikka Gröndahl, Aeon Lux and Olivia Viitakangas

The artists participating in the Flashback group exhibition—Riikka Gröndahl, Aeon Lux, and Olivia Viitakangas—will be attending a Meet the artist event at the exhibition space Vintti in Kunsthalle Seinäjoki on Friday, June 5, 2026, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. During the event, a Kunsthalle guide will introduce the exhibition, and the artists will discuss their works and creative processes in more detail. The event is part of Kalevan Navetta’s Afterwork Art program, and admission is free for everyone. Welcome!

Flashback celebrates the 10th anniversary of Seinäjoki’s Summer Artist program. The six artists featured in the exhibition have previously served as Summer Artists from 2018 to 2023. The Flashback exhibition showcases their new work, which reflects on their past years as Summer Artists but, above all, looks toward the future. A diverse range of art forms is on display, from photography to sculpture.

Riikka Gröndahl
Riikka Gröndahl (b.1989) was the Summer Artist in 2021. She is a visual artist working with video, participatory art and drawing. Gröndahl is interested in repetition, duration and encounters between the inner and outer worlds. Gröndahl’s works have been exhibited in Helsinki, Turku, Seinäjoki, Gothenburg and other art galleries, as well as at numerous film festivals around the world. Gröndahl holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg in 2018.

Aeon Lux
Aeon Lux (b. 1993) was the Summer Artist in 2019. She is a Seinäjoki-based visual artist. She works with ceramic sculpture, painting, drawing and performance art. Lux’s art is driven by her desire to explore reality. Metaphysical and esoteric questions are often the starting points of her work. Aeon Lux graduated as a visual artist from Kankaanpää Art School in 2017.

Olivia Viitakangas
Olivia Viitakangas (b. 1999) was the Summer Artist in 2022. In her installation-based practice, Viitakangas explores the sensing and site-specific body. She uses objects and materials that are selected in relation to the context of the place, its sensory qualities, and material structures. Viitakangas is currently studying sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki.