About
Dreamestate
One-bedroom apartment
Quiet Protocols
Equine maintenance
Efficiencies
Recess
Lucky potato under the bed
Counting stars, shooting sheep
Biomechanist
Lyy Raitala (1999) is a Finnish artist living in the Netherlands. She works with video, photography, and spatial installation, and stages reality through composed scenes and interventions in space. She is interested in the friction between control and care, how objects, systems, and spaces quietly witness our lives. Spatial experience is at the center of her practise and the spaces don’t only appear as a backdrop but as actors revealing choreographies of labour, care, and efficiency.
lyy.raitala@gmail.com
Instagram @lyyraitala
CV
Forthcoming
2026 Nesting, Photo North entrance gallery, solo exhibition, Oulu
Exhibitions
2026 Full Pivot, group exhibition, The Servers & Väistotila Practise, Helsinki
2026 Nuoret 2026, group exhibition, Helsinki Art Hall, Helsinki
2026 A Box Set With Three Corners, group exhibition, Het Archief, Rotterdam
2026 The Coldest Day of The Year, group exhibition, The Servers, The Hague
2025 Post Ludens, group exhibition, TROEF, Leiden
2025 Soft Assembly, group exhibition, Oblong, Copenhagen
2025 Waiting Field, group exhibition, Quartair, The Hague
2025 Please RSVP, group exhibition, The Servers, The Hague
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 Artsemester Summer 2023, group exhibition, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, 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, Nicosia
Grants
2026 Stroom Den Haag, Pro Invest, NL
2025 Arts Promotion Center Finland, grant for artistic work, FI
2025 Amarte Fonds, project grant, NL
2023 Oulu Educational Foundation, grant for artistic work, FI
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
Associations/Initiatives
2025 Haagse Kunstenaars STROOM, The Hague
2025 Co-founder of The____Servers artist initiative and project space, The Hague
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
lyy.raitala@gmail.com
Instagram @lyyraitala
CV
Forthcoming
2026 Nesting, Photo North entrance gallery, solo exhibition, Oulu
Exhibitions
2026 Full Pivot, group exhibition, The Servers & Väistotila Practise, Helsinki
2026 Nuoret 2026, group exhibition, Helsinki Art Hall, Helsinki
2026 A Box Set With Three Corners, group exhibition, Het Archief, Rotterdam
2026 The Coldest Day of The Year, group exhibition, The Servers, The Hague
2025 Post Ludens, group exhibition, TROEF, Leiden
2025 Soft Assembly, group exhibition, Oblong, Copenhagen
2025 Waiting Field, group exhibition, Quartair, The Hague
2025 Please RSVP, group exhibition, The Servers, The Hague
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 Artsemester Summer 2023, group exhibition, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, 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, Nicosia
Grants
2026 Stroom Den Haag, Pro Invest, NL
2025 Arts Promotion Center Finland, grant for artistic work, FI
2025 Amarte Fonds, project grant, NL
2023 Oulu Educational Foundation, grant for artistic work, FI
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
Associations/Initiatives
2025 Haagse Kunstenaars STROOM, The Hague
2025 Co-founder of The____Servers artist initiative and project space, The Hague
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