Lyy Raitala (1999) is a Finnish lens-based artist living in the Netherlands. She stages reality by composing images and video scenes and by creating interventions in space. In her work, she plays with familiar elements unexpectedly and uses everyday absurdity as a tool to suggest narratives that combine fiction with the autobiographical and documentary approach. Her work tackles different topics, such as various forms of femininity, the compulsion for productivity, and the artificiality of surroundings. She is interested in how the staging of reality has both humoristic and eerie qualities. Her inspiration comes from the daily choreographies and moments that break the normality and mundane.
lyy.raitala@gmail.com
@lyyraitala
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Exhibitions
2024 Anafi Film Festival, screening of the film “Recess”, Anafi
2024 Graduation show, The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
2024 The Lucky Potato Under the Bed, duo exhibition, Asbestos Art Space, Helsinki
2023 Klauzura, group exhibition, Umprum, Prague
2023 , the pigeons took the house, group exhibition, Brouwersgracht 25, The Hague
2023 As above, so below, group exhibition by the Fool collective, The Grey space in the middle, The Hague
2022 A mouse took my homework, I took the mouse, the pigeons took the house, group exhibition, Brouwersgracht 25, The Hague
2022 Concrete affection, group exhibition, off-site, Nikosia
2022 We do/are photography, group exhibitions by the Fool collective, Cologne
2021 Our Natures– Interpretations of National Romanticism, group exhibition, Photofuss group, Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki
2021 Liminal Spaces, group exhibition, Photofuss group, Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki
Publications
2024 Featured in Issue 1, Fantasy Football Magazine
2024 Catalog of Domestic Daydreams, self-published
2024 Featured in Y-Axis publication, The Drama Corporation (DC)
2022 Featured in Trickle publication, The Fool Collective
2022 Featured in Torso magazine, run by students from Aalto University of Arts, Helsinki
Education
2020-2024 The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Bachelor of Photography
2023 Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague, Fine Art Photography, exchange semester
Grants
2023 Oulu Educational Foundation (Oulun valistusrahaston apuraha), grant for artistic work
lyy.raitala@gmail.com
@lyyraitala
CV
Exhibitions
2024 Anafi Film Festival, screening of the film “Recess”, Anafi
2024 Graduation show, The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
2024 The Lucky Potato Under the Bed, duo exhibition, Asbestos Art Space, Helsinki
2023 Klauzura, group exhibition, Umprum, Prague
2023 , the pigeons took the house, group exhibition, Brouwersgracht 25, The Hague
2023 As above, so below, group exhibition by the Fool collective, The Grey space in the middle, The Hague
2022 A mouse took my homework, I took the mouse, the pigeons took the house, group exhibition, Brouwersgracht 25, The Hague
2022 Concrete affection, group exhibition, off-site, Nikosia
2022 We do/are photography, group exhibitions by the Fool collective, Cologne
2021 Our Natures– Interpretations of National Romanticism, group exhibition, Photofuss group, Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki
2021 Liminal Spaces, group exhibition, Photofuss group, Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki
Publications
2024 Featured in Issue 1, Fantasy Football Magazine
2024 Catalog of Domestic Daydreams, self-published
2024 Featured in Y-Axis publication, The Drama Corporation (DC)
2022 Featured in Trickle publication, The Fool Collective
2022 Featured in Torso magazine, run by students from Aalto University of Arts, Helsinki
Education
2020-2024 The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Bachelor of Photography
2023 Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague, Fine Art Photography, exchange semester
Grants
2023 Oulu Educational Foundation (Oulun valistusrahaston apuraha), grant for artistic work