Falling Towards a Hole

Pamela Brandt is a painter. She constructs scenes in which everyday and imaginary elements merge, freeing them from the constraints of their original functions. At the same time, she weaves into them a symbolic language rooted in art history and mysticism. She renders them on paper or on canvases created using a process unique to her practice: aluminum sheets coated with gesso made from animal bones, which serves to stretch and securely hold the canvas in place.

Pamela Brandt was born in Helsinki in 1950. In the 1970s, she studied at the Free Art School in Tor Arne’s studio, where she herself taught from 2013 to 2017. She has had several solo exhibitions, notably at Kohta Kunsthalle (2021), Galerie Anhava (between 1993 and 2021), the Finnish-Norwegian Culture Institute (Oslo, 2010), and the Gothenburg Art Association (Gothenburg, 2003), among others. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, notably at Pitted Dates (Helsinki, 2025), Gallery SIC (Helsinki, 2024), and Elverket (Tammisaari, 2015 and 2019). Some of her works are included in the collections of the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, the Art Museum of Helsinki, the Gothenburg Art Museum, the PricewaterhouseCoopers Collection, and the Amos Anderson Art Museum.

Her exhibition Falling Towards a Hole is her first solo exhibition in France and outside the Nordic countries.