Pauliina Pietilä

Former Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation board member Dan Wolgers wrote:

“Memory and life, painting and life, painting and memory. Painting can be a way of remembering, and remembering can be a way of living. When Pauliina Pietilä remembers, she paints. Her paintings await her, like a child waiting to be told a bedtime story. To narrate is to give life; to remember is to dream. Painting is life.”

Pauliina Pietilä (born 1982 in Ilmajoki, Finland) lives and works in Malmö, Sweden. She studied at Malmö Art Academy between 2006 and 2011 and at the Nordic Art School in Kokkola between 2003 and 2006.

Pietilä’s paintings often move between memory, imagination, and observation. Her work explores the relationship between personal experience and visual storytelling, creating images that feel both familiar and enigmatic.

She is represented in numerous public collections in Sweden, including Stockholm konst, Region Skåne, Malmö Konstmuseum, Region Uppsala, and the Nordic Contemporary Art Collection (NoCo).

Pauliina Pietilä
Sopstation
2013
Oil on canvas
160 × 160 cm