
Finland / Nigeria
painter
BAYO
Bayonle Adelakun is a Finnish-Nigerian artist based in Helsinki. A delicate melancholy clouds his work — an exploration of a personal language of the indecipherable in oils. Moving between rigid structures and abstracted forms, he intensifies space through color and composition. His paintings hold an aura of the surreal and the mystical, seeking meaning through reflections of memory rather than conceptual restraint.