MATTI TAPIO VAINIO’s solo exhibition „Playground“
Opening March 8, 2025 atl 11.30.
Open 09.03. – 30.03. 2025,
Tue – Fri 15.00 – 18.00, Sat-Sun 12.00 – 15.00
Tallinna mnt. 3b, Rapla

This exhibition is part of the NÖFF-i Women’s Nights Film Festival programme. The seventh Women’s Nights Film Festival will take place from 7 to 9 March 2025. in Rapla and Märjamaa. The recurring theme is WOMAN and MAN.

The exhibition “Playground” features oil paintings, prints and large black-and-white maze-like drawings. The works deal with a wide range of topics that focus on human exploration and relating to the world around them. The artworks express the dynamics between people’s personal and social identities and their impact on the world around them. Through the works presented at the exhibition, the artist explores how the roles and identities of men and women intertwine in the “playgrounds” of our everyday lives, reflecting desires and fears, flexibility, aspirations, challenges and relationships. If we look at life as a playground where our actions and choices affect each other and the environment around us, we can better understand that every work of art or human act is part of a larger game in which everyone has their own role and impact.

With the help of fine arts, it is possible to express both concrete and invisible processes of human behaviour. At the same time, art opens up the possibility of simulating different scenarios that could potentially take place. We are all looking for the most suitable ways to exist in the world among a thousand possibilities.

Matti Tapio Vainio, born in 1978, is a freelance artist from Finland and since 2021 the director of Viimsi Art School. Vainio holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Aalto University and lives and works in Estonia. His main mediums are drawing, painting, printmaking, and performance. He has participated in exhibitions in Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Germany and he United Kingdom. The space created in his work explores the phenomenon of everyday life and the possibilities of the individual in social conditions, and he sees art as an opportunity to practice meditative and philosophical thinking.