Collection: Elina Ojakangas

Elina Ojakangas is a Swedish / Finnish painter with a background in tattooing. After moving from tattoo work to oil painting, she completed her art studies at the Gerleborg School in Stockholm.

A year ago, she chose to deepen her practice and is currently studying at the Swedish Academy of Realist Art in Simrishamn.

Her work draws inspiration from neo-classicism, cubism, and surrealism. Symbolism plays central role in her imagery, with each object chosen carefully and deliberately. Every painting contains a hidden narrative, often rooted in her own experience.

Contrasts feature prominently in her work and express her own inner complexity: dynamism against stillness, humor against dysthymia (a form of chronic, long lasting depression). The human figure is always at the center, reshaped and sculpted into new and unexpected forms.

Exhibitions: 

2026

19Karen Contemporary Artspace “In time” Mini solo, Gold coast, Australia
Husby art salon, Juried Group exhibition, Stockholm

2025

Rhodes Contemporary Art Gallery, Solo exhibition, London

2024

19Karen Contemporary Artspace,
“Common people” Mini solo, Gold coast, Australia
Rhodes Contemporary Art Gallery,
“Embraced” Group exhibition, London
Grythyttan konstrunda, Group exhibition, Hällefors, Sweden
Rhodes Contemporary Art Gallery,
“Origins” Group exhibition, London
Untitled Art Fair, Miami, USA

2023

Galleri Killgissa, Group exhibition, Stockholm.
Fearless Art Gallery, Group exhibition, Stockholm
Galleri Grip, Group exhibition, Stockholm
Fearless Art Gallery, Group exhibition, Umeå

2021

Mölndals Museum, Group exhibition, Sweden

Education:

2024 - Swedish academy of realist art

2021 - 2023 Gerleborg school of art

Bibliography:

2025

The Heroine journey, online publication 
The London standard, review
Cosmic detour podcast, interview

2024

Karlavagnen, radio interview

2023

SVT2 Finnish with Liam, tv program/interview

2021

Djävulens kulturattaché, Book, writer Robert Johnson, photos of paintings.