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EERI HALMINEN they/them 
Helsinki, Finland

Born 2003


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saara.halminen@gmail.com

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Halminen (b. 2003, Oulu) is a multimedia artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Currently studying painting in the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, they work across various media, including installation, video, sculpting, 3D, and graphic art. Still mostly focusing on the long background in oil painting, their work is affected by the eyes of a painter.

Currently, Halminen is working with themes around queer worldbuilding, psychoanalysis and combining these two very broad perspectives in concepts of pleasure and art practice itself. Pleasure has been central to their thinking almost violently. Focusing on pleasure in daily life almost obsessively reveals liminalities and a demand for movement and constant transformation.


During the last year (2025), Halminen has been working as an artist and project manager in a long-term production for Oulu 2026 - European Capital of Culture. Halminen has been temporarily studying at the Academy of Fine Art Prague in 2025. Their works have been exhibited in Oulu and Helsinki.


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Untitled, 2026

Exhibited in Fine Art Academy Prague (January 2026)

320cm x 150cm
Oil on canvas
shou sugi ban on found wood
3D-prints

I created a tool or an aid to observe myself. It consists of oilpainted diptych, woodframes charred with shou sugi ban-method and 3D-printed details. The visual work itself is a pilot.

Now that I have returned to the artwork I’ve had to note the symbols. I cannot yet say what each of them mean. Thematics/Realities. Overlappingness. Leaving, returning, many things being true at once. I would compare moving to another country to a spiritual experience or time spend in the unconsious. Both remind there to be many different realities and normally one only lives in one at a time. Realising the overlapping of realities makes life a lot lighter, less serious. Dreams are as true as being awake (the moth). Christian symbols, the donkey. Rising/setting of the sun.