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VESA, the Neo-Renaissance Artist: Bridging Myth and Technology

VESA (Vesa Kivinen) is a pioneering Finnish artist whose 20+ year career fuses fine art, technology, and storytelling. Recognized as one of the early innovators of crypto art, his work blends body-painting, photography, digital layering, and blockchain to create phygital experiences collected by leading voices in Web3 and beyond.

Exhibited worldwide from The Integral Institute to Museum of the Future in Dubai, his large-scale projects—ranging from art cars working with Dubai Government to metaverse galleries—explore symbolism, sovereignty, and human potential, earning him a reputation as both a cultural provocateur and visionary builder at the frontier of art and technology.

Abstract 1

  • 2014

    Joy

  • 2014

    When I Was Lips

  • 2017

    Break free

  • 2020

    Shake Sphere

  • 2017

    Transporter

  • 2020

    Transporter

  • 2016

    Tunnel Vision

  • 2016

    Entrance

  • 2020

    Enter The Forrest

  • 2017

    Remembering

  • 2016

    Yin

  • 2014

    Red Framed Sunset

  • 2012

    Cocooned

  • 2012

    Breaking Pattern

  • 2012

    Holding Pattern

ABSTRACTS I

VESA’s abstract creations merge paint, photography, and digital collaging into layered visual experiences that bridge the tangible and the virtual. Each work begins with the physical textures of paint and photography, then evolves through intricate digital composition into unique pieces that carry both depth and narrative.

These works are not confined to canvas or screen—they expand into phygital forms: museum-grade prints, large-scale installations, and applications on cars, chambers, and architectural spaces. In the digital realm, they live as NFTs, animated pieces, and immersive metaverse environments, transforming into multisensory journeys that can be collected, exhibited, and experienced worldwide. 

Artevo Series

  • Veena Malik Project

    Mohenjo Daro

  • Veena Malik Project

    Beginning of a New Era

  • Early Artevo work 2009

    Purity

  • 2014

    As Above, So Below

  • 2008

    Elusive Obvious

  • 2008

    The Flood

  • 2008

    Escapist

  • 2017

    Fractal

  • 2009

    Garden Party

  • Veena Malik Project 2013

    Flower of Life

  • From the John Anthony West Project 2014

    Lioness

  • Repair with gold 2017

    Kintsugi

Make It

ARTEVO SERIES

The Artevo series transforms the human body into a living canvas, blending bodypainting, photography, and digital collaging into striking narrative works. Each piece begins with hours of meticulous paint applied directly to the model, captured through photography, and then expanded digitally into layered compositions that fuse myth, archetype, and contemporary storytelling.

Crypto Art Since 2016

  • Bitcoin Ram (artivive AR)

    BitRam

  • Bitcoin is like Kenny, keeps dying and coming back to life (2017)

    Soldier of Fortune

  • First fork of Bitcoin. Made in 2017

    Fork and Flip

  • History of Bitcoin (2020)

    The BR8VE

  • We are all Satoshi (2017)

    I Am Satoshi Nakamoto

  • A Moon To The Sky

  • Tone Vays commission (2020)

    Selling Banks Their Fat Asses Back

  • Bitcoin in NY (2018)

    It Used To Be Wired

  • Bitcoin and justice (2020)

    Block Justice

  • 2017

    Silk Road

  • Dubai & Crypto (2020)

    Refresh

  • DeFi piece in 2020

    Compound Defiance

  • Bitcoin halvening work (2017)

    The Split

  • Postmodern Bitcoin (2018)

    Streoscopic

  • Bitcoin Miami piece (2017)

    T(r)opical

  • Down the rabbit hole (2018)

    RedEye

  • Finland and Bitcoin (2018)

    Compliance Is The New black

  • Bull and Bear (2017)

    Pushback

  • Bitcoin & Hinduism (2018)

    Lakshmi (Resurrection)

  • Bitcoin and Hinduism (2018)

    Truth Or Dare - The Currency of Ganesh

  • Global movements (2024)

    Suns of Eternity

CRYPTO ART

Since 2016, VESA has pioneered a body of work at the intersection of art and the decentralisation movement, creating pieces that capture the spirit, philosophy, and disruptive energy of blockchain. These works combine digital collage, symbolic imagery, and narrative depth, exploring themes such as sovereignty, decentralization, and the cultural impact of Bitcoin and Web3. 

Collectors of his work span crypto pioneers, cultural leaders Charles Hoskinson, Charlie Lee, Dr. John Demartini, Dr. Marwan Al Zarouni, H.E. Amna Fikri, Mondoir, Tommi, Saeed Al Darmaki, Colborn, Tone Vays, Coach K, Willy Woo, among many others.

DUBAI ART CARS

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ARTCAR.IO

ART CAR PROJECT

You can commission us to make your own car into art.

The Art Car project transforms cars into a rolling phygital art pieces—merging traditional craftsmanship with blockchain-driven innovation. Here's how it comes to life:

  • Mixed-Media Artwork on a Car
    A striking custom design is applied directly onto the vehicle surface through a unique combination of high-quality printed wrap and hand-painted acrylic details, created live at Dubai’s Market Outside The Box event DIGITAL FINE ART & NFTs.

  • Fully Legal & Road-Ready
    The car holds an official RTA license for road use in Dubai, ensuring it's not just art—it’s fully functional and street legal DIGITAL FINE ART & NFTs.

  • Collector Package—Bridging Physical and Digital
    Acquiring the art car includes a rich blend of physical and digital assets:

    • A signed digital artwork tied to the car, authenticated via blockchain.

    • A framed acrylic-on-canvas painting in VESA’s signature style.

    • Animated AI artwork—for digital displays, AR activations, or NFTs.

    • A coveted lifetime membership (#1) in the Dubai Art Car Club, offering exclusive future access and perks.

    • 3D model and gaming integration potential—enabling your piece to appear in virtual worlds or interactive platforms.

    • Airdrop rights for future digital content or experiences.

    • Art wrap replacement rights, ensuring longevity and preservation.

    • Transferability, even to another vehicle, overseen by the artist.

Mirrors Series

  • 2020

    Voice

  • Caramel (2022)

  • (2022)

    Entity

  • (2023)

    Wow

  • (2020)

    Praying Mantis

  • (2022)

    Cloud 9

  • (2022)

    Yin

  • (2023)

    Joy

  • (2025)

    Ignition

  • (2023)

    Shake Sphere

  • (2023)

    Cosimo

  • (2023)

    Mecha

  • (2023)

    Kintsugi

  • (2023)

    Portal

  • (2023)

    Mandala

  • Flower of life (2023)

    Folder

  • (2023)

    Lips

MIRRORS SERIES

The mirrors series is a merger of painting, photography, digital collaging and various surface printing as well as AR animation. The first applications of it were for the Dubai Art Car Project, and we are actively looking for new ways to apply it both in the physical and digital realms.

In Studio

VESA was in Abu Dhabi being interviewed in studio by Ken Rutkowski

Public Speaking from Las Vegas To Hong Kong.

  • World Blochain Summit Abu Dhabi

  • World Crypto Con Las Vegas

  • Tmrw Conference Belgarde

  • Future Innovation Summit

  • Biohacking Summit Helsinki

  • Metadecrypt at Museum of the Future

  • Theatre of Digital Art

  • WOW Summit

  • NFT Art Day Switzerland

  • CC Forum London

  • Mohammed Bin Rashid Library

  • Future Blockchain Summit

  • Outer Edge Riyadh

PUBLIC SPEAKING

VESA’s transition into speaking emerged organically since 2014—offering audiences grounded insight from two decades of building. Represented by top Nordic speaking agencies, he brings contrsuctive perspectives shaped by lived experience, not just hype. From Vegas to Zurich, his talks spark cultural reflection and creative momentum.

VESA is represented by Speakers Forum, Scandinavia's biggest professional speaker agency, as well as MySpeaker Agency.

The Senses Project
Season II

  • Amanda N

  • Amanda N

  • Amanda N

  • Sophie

  • Beatrice

  • Marina

  • Marina

  • Mona

  • Mona

  • Mona

  • Tanja

  • Tanja

  • Tanja

  • Tanja

  • Tanja

  • Jana

  • Jana

  • Jana

  • Jana

  • Beata

  • Beata

  • Beata

  • Veera

  • Veera

  • Veera

  • Veera

  • Iida

  • Essi

  • Essi

  • Lila K

  • Lila K

  • Sara

  • Sara

  • Sara

  • Sara

  • Joanna

  • Joanna

  • Joanna

  • Joanna

  • Emilia

  • Emilia

  • Veera K

  • Veera K

  • Veera K

  • Lila

  • Viola

  • Viola

  • Erika

  • Sara A

  • Sara A

  • Sara A

  • Nellie

  • Jenni

  • Jenni

  • New List Item

  • New List Item

  • Laura

  • Terhi

  • Amanda

  • Amanda

  • Sophie

  • Sophie

  • Anna

  • Anna

  • Henna-Jasmiini

  • Melina

  • Melina

  • Melina

  • Melina

  • Kuneli

  • Kuneli

  • Irinja

  • Irinja

  • Irinja

  • Irinja

  • Irinja

  • Jessika

  • Jemina

  • Essi

SENSES SERIES II

The Senses series is a collision of fashion modeling, Instagram culture, and a deep artistic wellness practice.

In fashion, models as well as entrepreneurs are often pushed toward unhealthy lifestyles. The shoots and projects commodify them—they're there to sell the perfume, the car, the makeup, whatever. On Instagram, influencers trade on their beauty, sexuality, and following to sell products.

The Senses project flips this dynamic. It’s not about the product. It’s about the person—down to their human core. Their childhoods, their traumas, their dreams. The art comes later. The “selling” happens once the piece is complete.

The experience itself is a unique and transformational. 

VESA+SUPERWORLD METAVERSE GALLERY

In partnership with SuperWorld, VESA launched a metaverse gallery set in Luxor, bringing together art, culture, and technology in one immersive digital space. Explore curated exhibits under the iconic Egyptian sky, blend physical heritage with virtual innovation, and step into our vision of art without boundaries at vesa.superworldapp.com.

WEBSITE

Year
05/05/2021

  • Top Web3 Artist 2022

  • Given by L'officiel Arabia

  • NFT Artist of the Year 2023

  • Given by AIBC Summit

  • Grand Prize Winner / Korea

  • All Awards

AWARDS

Notable Awards & Recognition

VESA's pioneering work in digital and phygital art has earned notable global recognition:

  • NFT Artist of the Year, AIBC Summit, Dubai — 13 March 2023

  • Web3 Artist Award, l’Officiel Arabia — October 2022

  • Grand Prize, World Artist Award, South Korea — 14 July 2022

Abstract II

  • 2014

    Delicatessen

  • 2012

    Cavalry

  • 2012

    Golden Path

  • 2011

    Music

  • 2010

    Snow Garden

  • 2016

    Eternal: A Selfie

  • 2010

    Tree Of Life

  • 2012

    The Protector

  • 2014

    Persona

  • 2010

    The Battle

  • 2010

    A feeling On Your Skin

  • 2017

    Hot Penguin

  • 2014

    Everything Means Something Different

  • 2014

    Emoji

  • 2012

    Face Pressed Up Against a Glass

  • 2010

    Common Space

  • 2010

    Light Side of the Moon

The Senses Project
Season I

  • Sofia

  • Sofia

  • Sofia

  • Jessica W

  • Jessica W

  • Loulou

  • Mona

  • Mona

  • Mona

  • Hanna-Maaria

  • Anna

  • Hanna-Maaria

  • Anna

  • Anna

  • Anna

  • Anna

  • Anna

  • Anna

  • Lila K

  • Zoe

  • Zoe

  • Noora

  • Sepideh

  • Sepideh

  • Sofie

  • Sofie

  • Sofie

  • Sofie

  • Sofie

  • Viivi

  • Viivi

  • Viivi

  • Viivi

  • Bitcoin Queen

  • Beatrice

  • Laura

  • Laura

  • Laura

  • 3

  • Mystery

  • Mystery

  • Mystery

  • Brittany

Press

  • Forbes 2019

  • CoinTelegraph

  • Vice

  • 500PX

  • BBC World

  • Forbes 2018

  • Suomen Kuvalehti

  • Integral Institute 2013

  • Helsinki Times

  • Veena Malik Project Press

Testimonials

  • “Vesa’s art is amongst the most integrally advanced in the history of Western abstraction – no small claim, but one backed up by the works themselves. Rather than abstraction as a fleeing from life, his works are a diving into the incarnate mystery of human being — direct celebrations of the fullness of Life.”

    — Michael Schwartz, Professor of History and Philosophy of Art, Augusta State University, March 2014

  • “Kivinen’s work had no points of reference. Unlike most local artists, Kivinen wasn’t recycling successful foreign approaches and adapting them within a local context. He wasn’t replicating a preexisting genre or playing out well-known devices. Whether for better or for worse, Kivinen is – as childish as this may sound – an original.”

    — Rory Winston, Cultural editor of the New York Resident August 2014

  • “When Finnish artist Vesa Kivinen captures your “portrait,” he doesn’t just hint at the contents of your soul—your deepest fears, desires, triumphs, and avenues of personal expression. Vesa brings them all to the surface, creating collage imagery that reveal more about his subjects than even the subjects themselves thought possible. While he is not the first to do this kind of work, he may very well be the best.”

    — DL Cade, Editor in Chief of 500px, February 2016

  • “It is a pleasure to recognize and appreciate Vesa’s work before he becomes a global star.”

    — John Anthony West, Emmy Award Winning Documentary Filmmaker / Author

  • “Vesa is credited for inventing an entirely new art form – Artevo is a combination of body painting, photography and image manipulation that allows to create works of incredible vibrancy and depth. I am a big fan of his Share series where extreme close-ups of single brushstrokes create a vortex-like effect with paints and textures melting into each other. His works are a symphony of emotions expressed through colour.”

    — Natalia Rubinstein, Artist Champion at Rise Art

  • “These are beautiful images and nobody would dispute it.”

    — Jeremy Paxman, Journalist, BBC World, 2013

  • “What occurs is a reinvention of cultural norms as we understand them. It is Postmodern in its very essence, but with an added element of natural rudimentary common in the Renaissance period, which counteracts futuristic notions. Great art usually involves the combination of beauty, imagination, and extraordinary skill, and artist Vesa Kivinen is no exception.”

    — Lead Editor Aisha Farooq on Artevo / Veena Malik Project on DesiBlitz 8/2013

  • “Beautiful and haunting.”

    — Dr. Gabor Maté, Author and columnist for Vancouver Sun, Globe and Mail, 2012

  • “Besides the great contemporary visionaries, Vesa is one of the few living artists who manages to sneak in through my visual faculties to stroke the soul I don’t even really believe I have. I was instantly smitten the first time I saw his work.”

    — Dr. Toma Susi, Physicist, Vienna 2014

  • New List Item“Your works have the sensitivity of Leonardo’s drawings and the dreamscape of Chagall.”

    — Antti Heikkilä, Doctor of Traumatology / Author

  • “Vesa is a unique artist with a high-frequency spiritual touch that is visible in all his creations, whether it’s paintings or videos, etc. There are so many layers and dimensions in his work. His art is absolutely amazing and intelligent in a divine way.”

    — Anni Sennov – Spiritual Author, September 2014

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