Linda Linko

Visual artist
based in Helsinki
Finland

Linda Linko
Visual artist
based in Helsinki,
Finland


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Ongoing / Upcoming  exhibitions :
Lokal Gallery, Helsinki  ‘Serifs & Jellybeans’ 4.4.–24.5.2025
Galleria Loisti, Helsinki 17.–31.8.2025






Serifs&
Jellybeans

 01.    Linda Linko is a Helsinki-based visual artist who works in a variety of mediums, focusing in particular on drawing and painting. The visual thinking of Linko, who graduated from the University of Art and Design in 2004, is shaped by her background in design. Her works are influenced by both contemporary painting and 1960s Polish poster design. Her work is characterised by a recognisable visual style and an interest in the chosen materials and the possibilities they offer. “I am fascinated by the dynamics of seeing, observing and understanding. Through art, it is easier to explore inexplicable structures and semiotic associations - deformities, which have always interested me.”

02.    Serifs and Jellybeans – Duo exhibition with Milla Vaahtera, Lokal Gallery, Helsinki 4/2025
'Kissing' - oil, charcoal and ink on linen, 51 x 31 cm


'AB&C' - oil, charcoal and ink on linen, 69 x 80 cm


'E' - oil, charcoal and ink on linen, 40 x 55 cm


'Changing mind' - oil, charcoal and soft pastel on cotton, 100 x 80 cm


Undefined object' - oil, charcoal and pencil on mdf, 80 x 85 cm


'Serifs' - oil, charcoal and soft pastel on cotton 73 x 65 cm


'Petals' - oil, charcoal and ink on cotton, 55 x 47 cm





photography (C) Katja Hagelstam / Lokal

'The Face & Green' 2024 - oil, charcoal and color pencil on linen, 65 x 73 cm


Self portrait from '23, oil and graphite pen on linen, 61 x 73 cm

Skanno 



 01.    SkannoXAcerbis – Pop-Up exhibition, Skanno Showroom, Helsinki 2024
'This could be us but' 2024 - 89 x 116 cm oil, acryl paint, ink and charcoal on linen


'Hän' 2023 - 24 x 33 cm oil, acryl paint and graphite pen on wood panel

Knot



01.    “ I’m undoing a knot. Taking my painting apart. Surface, lines, areas, finally simply colours. I proceed in small intervals, layer by layer, and thinly, a mark is created. I don't plan. I destroy many works, some I start from scratch. A longing for clarity. The colour palette of legos seems sincere. The end result is landscapes, some kind of deformations on a horizon. “
02.    Knot – the exhibition White Wall, Lokal Gallery, Helsinki 2024
'Glance' 2024 - 35 x 30 cm oil, charcoal and ink on wood panel


'Dance like it's 2008' 2023 - 28 x 35 cm oil and graphite pen on canvas
15 x 14 x 9,5 cm hand-build ceramics, 2023
Exhibition view, Lokal Gallery 2024potography (c) Katja Hagelstam, Lokal

Ote / Grip



Ote / Grip is an ongoing project where I explore artistic expression in relation to my background in design and poster art. I am intrigued by the point at which associations form and how we read an image in the moment. It's where the familiar and the unknown lightly brush against each other, capturing the interface of the ephemeral and the timeless.
“ When speaking of graphic design as a language, the emphasis is on interpersonal interaction, seeking the principles related to readability, interpretation, rhetoric, and dramaturgy.

Graphic design as communication involves the development of stylistic and expressive forms to correspond to the images that emerge within human communities over time. How to give shape to things that are only just shifting tectonic plates, anticipating future times

– Tapio Vapaasalo,  Emeritus Professor, Aalto University (FI)
24 x 33 cm mixed media on wood, 2023


24 x 33 cm mixed media on wood, 2023


24 x 33 cm mixed media on wood, 2023


24 x 33 cm mixed media on wood, 2023


33 x 24 cm mixed media on wood, 2023