RIIKO SAKKINEN
is a visual artist and political dissident. He is the founder of TURBOREALISM, an anti-capitalist art movement. Sakkinen was born in 1976 in Helsinki. He lives in Spain since 2003 and is headquartered in Pepino, Province of Toledo. Sakkinen studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, graduating in 2002.
Sakkinen has exhibited his works widely around the world including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Camden Arts Centre, London, Artipelag, Stockholm; Musac, León, Spain and Serlachius Museums, Mänttä, Finland.
His works are in the permanent collections of several museums including the Museum of Modert Art, New York; Kiasma Museum of Contemporay Art, Helsinki; HAM, Helsinki; Amos Rex, Helsinki; Serlachius Museums, Mänttä, Finland and Bury Art Museum, United Kingdom
THE MANIFESTO OF TURBOREALISM
- TURBOREALISM is the only real art movement of the 21st century.
- Art is a weapon and weapons can change the world.
- All other art is unnecessary and outdated.
- All other artists are selling used cars. TURBOREALISM sells car bombs and we are going to have our bombs in every museum and every bank.
- TURBOREALISM is against your regime and its ass-lickers.
- TURBOREALISM is against the globalized capitalism and all other capitalisms.
- TURBOREALISM shows the mechanisms and meanings of capitalism with a mocking verisimilitude.
- After seeing TURBOREALISM you can’t go home. You can’t go to a hypermarket. There is no way back.
- TURBOREALISM will be against post-capitalism, and we will be the first artists interned in its camps.
- We will be smashed but you can’t kill our turbo boosted ideas