Isabella Chydenius (Helsinki, Finland / Los Angeles, United States / South Africa) 

Isabella Chydenius b. 1988 is a Finnish interdisciplinary artist working and living between Helsinki, Finland and Cape Town, South Africa.

Chydenius’ practice focuses on people and the relationship to oneself and the other. Within Isabella’s work she explores the relations to our physical and emotional environments, experimenting and challenging set ideas and norms through the use of varied paint material applications and layered palimpsests of gestural mark making.

Chydenius’ paintings are representations of the mindsets that she commonly encounters within everyday life. The works serve as layered autobiographies whilst reflect a mapping and performative element rich in subtle palimpsets and layers. These abstracted landscapes and subjects visualize and reflect experiences within our world whilst also serve as introspections.

With regards to Isabella’s installations, the artist creates momentary escapes from the current reality, meditations of sorts, while focusing on important subjects, such as environmental, human- and equal rights. Isabella pays particular focus on public installations in between her paintinerly production in urban landscapes and parks.

Isabella has exhibited at The Everard Read Gallery in Cape Town, Creat Gallery in Helsinki and the new One11 Contemporary Art Space in Cape Town. Recent projects include an artist residency at ESXLA, solo exhibition at Dalton Warehouse in Los Angeles, Maiden LA in Los Angeles and 100 Boobs at Night of the Arts in Helsinki, Finland.

' The burning bones and marshmallows found in a pit behind your fuckboi cottage' 
Isabella Chydenius
Oils and mixed media on canvas
600 x 600 x 400 mm

R15 000.00 excl. vat

' On the other side of the lake, in the lakehouse's large windows, you can see two moving bodies escaping their housewife roles, into each others vaginas.'

Isabella Chydenius
Oils and mixed media on canvas
1000 x 1000 x 40 mm

R 18 000.00 excl. vat

' A figure reaching out, looking for love, only to be torn into pieces on the meat market.'
Isabella Chydenius
Oils and mixed media on canvas
600 x 600 x 400 mm

R 15 000.00 excl. vat