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Visual artist

Anni Rapinoja

address: Luovontie 403  90480 HailuotoFinland

mobil; +358 (0)40 5161474

email: a.rapinoja@gmail.com

www.rapinoja.com

 

Livs and works in Hailuoto

Education and professional training

1974  MA, Faculty of Science, University of Oulu

1974-1988 art courses

1996  Advanced training in enviromental art,

          Imatra Art School

 

Member

Finnish Association of Sculptors

Oulu Artists Society

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2009 Arctic Hysteria, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary

2009 Irreverent: Contemporary Nordic Craft Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California U.S.A

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Solo exhibitions

2007  Antiruggine, Castelfranco, Italy

2007  Arte Sella - Contemporain Art Center of Nature , Gallery Spazi Rossi, Borgo

          Valsugana, Italy

2007  Renlund Museum, Kokkola

2007  Gallery Colmio, Oulu

2006  Gallery Sculptor , Helsinki

2005  Gallery Stefan Anderson Ab, Uumaja,   Sweden

2003  Gallery Valööri, Helsinki

1999  Gallery Art&Weise, Vienna, Austria

1998  Galleriy Becker, Jyväskylä

1998  Gallery Valööri, Helsinki

1997  Hailuoto Library

1997  Gallery Saskia, Tampere

1996  Gallery Harmaja, Oulu

1996  Bror Hjort-Hus Museum, Uppsala, Sweden

1996  Gallery Konstepidemin, Goethenburg, Sweden

1993  Gallery Vapaudenaukio, Helsinki

1993  Hailuoto Library

1993  Arktinen Gallery, Oulu

1992  Arktinen Gallery, Oulu

1991  Kriittinen tila, Helsinki

1989  Oulu Art Museum

1989  Gallery Saskia, Tampere

1989  Tornio City Library

1987  PÁrt Gallery, Oulu

1987  Gallery Saskia, Tampere

1984  Hailuoto Library

1984  Raahe City Library

1981  Ylivieska Library

1981  Liminka Library

1980  Liminka Library

Group exhibitions 

2008 Artists and Innovators for the Enviroment, Streaming Museum New York, October 3.-2008-April 3.2009 on seven Continents, it was featured on the BBC´s Big Screens in 17 cities throught the UK during the month of October

2008  Arctic Hysteria,  MoMA  P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA

2008  Supernaturale, Gallery Brancolinigrimaldi Artecontemporanea, Florence, Italy

2008  Un certaine Finlande, Center of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland

2007  Finnish art in Poland, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice, Poland 

2007  Art for Sustainability, Gallery Abbekås, Abbekås, Sweden

2007  Summer Exhibition, Purnu, Orivesi

2006  Plants in Contemporary Art, at the Festival Couleur Café, Bruxelles, Belgium

2006  Art in the city, organizer BWA-gallery in Bydgoszcz, Poland

2006  Far-Off deceitful world, Saarijärvi Art Museum

2006  Halikonlahti  Green Art Trilogia 2006, Salo Art Museum

2006  Regional exhibition of Oulu Province, Oulu Art Museum

2005  Un certaine Finlande, Muzeum Atelier 340, Bruxelles, Belgium

2004  Beached brushes, Artists and Hailuoto Island,

          Oulu Art Museum

2004  Visual Art in Villilä, TV and Film Centre of  Western Finland, Nakkila

2004  Shared Land, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku

2003  Luleå Summer Biennal, Norrbotten Museum, Museum Park and Art House,

          Sweden

2003  Shared Land, Contemporary and Applied Art of the Northern Peoples, Sami      

          Museum Siida, Inari

2003  Summer, Old and Contemporary Visual Art, Kerava Art Museum

2003  Summer Exhibition, Kivipankki-Gallery, Jämsä

2003  Between Bridges, Enviroment Art Exhibition, Jämsä

2003  Shared Land, The Gallen-Gallela Museum, Espoo

2002  Regional Exhibition of Oulu Province,  Art Hall Kajaani

2002  Regional Exhibition of Oulu Province, Oulu Art Museum

2002  Maasta käsin (Earth Keepers), Oulu Art Museum

2002  Girls, Gallery 5, Oulu

2001  Mänttä Art Weeks, Honkahovi Art Centre, Mänttä

2001  BereniceLs Hair, RMIT Project Space and Spare Room, Faculty of Art, Design and      Communication Gallery,  RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

2000  Gallery Station 3, “Sechs Himmelsrichtungen”, Vienna, Austria

2000  Art Hailuoto, Hailuoto School Centre

2000  Palapeli (Jigsaw Puzzle), Oulu Art Museum

1999  Bereniken Hiukset (Berenice´s Hair), Galleriy Otso, Espoo

1999  BereniceLs Hair, Rovaniemi Art Museum

1998  Summer Exhibition, Honkahovi Art Centre, Mänttä

1996  Art in Suitcases, Jyväskylä, Finland

1996  Art in Suitcases, Lillehammer, Norway

1996  Art in Suitcases, Svolvaer, Norway

1995  Art in Suitcases, Gallery Täysikuu, Rovaniemi,  Finland

1995  Art in Suitcases, Vilnius, Lithuania

1995  Art in Suitcases, Luleå, Sweden

1995  Regional Exhibition of Oulu Province, Kajaani Art Museum

1994  Summer Exhibition of the Oulu Artists Society, Linnansaari, Oulu

1993  Laituri, Gallery Mosabacka, Helsinki

1991  Lama, Yorth and Culture Centre, Oulu

1991  Summer Exhibition of the SKjL Association, Forssa

1991  Rantalakeuden Talavivalakia Exhibition, Liminka Art School

1990  Exhibition of the Oulu Artists Society, Seinäjoki Art Hall

1990  52nd Annual Exhibition of the SKjL Association, Poleeni Cultural Centre, Pieksämäki

1990  Exhibition of the Oulu Artists Society, Art Centre Gävle, Sweden

1989  Nordkalottens Höstsalong, Arcus Hall,  Luleå, Sweden

1989  Drawing Exhibition, Skellefteå, Sweden

1988  Five Artists from Oulu, Museum of Russian Art, Odessa, Soviet Union

1987  Exhibition of the Oulu Artists Society, Hyvinkää

1987  Nordkalottens Höstsalong, Arcus Hall, Luleå, Sweden

1987  Annual Exhibition of Art from Oulu, Oulu Art Museum

1985  Exhibition of the Oulu Artists Society, Taidepiste, Oulu

1983  Exhibition of the Oulu Artists Society, Rovaniemi Library

1982  Summer Exhibition of the Oulu Artists Society, Lampi Museum, Liminka

1981  Regional Exhibition of Oulu Province, Oulu Art Museum

1981  Annual Exhibition of Art from Oulu, Oulu Art Museum

1979  Young Artists Exhibition, Art Hall, Helsinki

Enviromental Art Works

2003  A Big Message “Sana”, earth work, Between Bridges, Enviroment Art Exhibition, Jämsä

2001  Message, earth work, Hailuoto school centre and library

2000  Towards Versailles, Kitchen Garden, earth work, Hailuoto

1998  Earthsun, International Forest Sculpture Symposium Sculpture Sonata, Varjakka Island, Oulunsalo

1995  Bothnia Sea Scape Art Workshop, spatial art work Temple made of ice in collaboration with Karoliina Niemelä, Oulu

Other professional activities

2005  Microcosmos Big Bang – video, The Lights – videoart happening 14.-22.11. Tampere

2001  Natural Cupboard, cupboard of works of art touring day-care centres, Oulu Art Museum

1996  Set design, Gian-Carlo Menotti: (opera) Amahl and the Night Visitors, Kemi Snow Castle

1994  Set Design. Oliver Kohlenberg: (opera) Sina and the Coconut Tree, Kajaani  Music Centre and Kuhmo Music Centre

1994  Spatial art work Bar Matangi to Elau in collaboration Oliver Kohlenberg (music) and Sari Lievonen (dance), Youth and Culture Centre, Oulu

1993  Installation performance Bodyscape in collaboration with dancer Sari Lievonen, Kattilankalla Island

1993  Spatial art  work performance Marja Niemi, statement against the unesthetic development of Marjaniemi port at Hailuoto and its effects on the enviroment, in collaboration with Sari Lievonen, Gallery Rannanmatala, Oulu

Works in following collections

          Finnish State Collections

          Municipalities; Hailuoto, Oulunsalo,  Liminka, Tyrnävä, Rantsila                                                                                             

          Swedish State Collection, Sweden

          Saastamoinen Foundation

          Wihuri Foundation

          Oulu Art Museum

          Goethenburg Art Museum, Sweden

          Norrbotten Province, Sweden

          Evangelican-Lutheran congregations of Oulu

          Lakeuden Kansanterveystyö intermunicipal health-care

          Hailuodon Osuuspankki

          Oulun Osuuspankki

          Pohjoinen Publishers, Oulu

          Municipality Umeå, Sweden

          Landstinget Gävleborg, Västerbotten,

          Sweden    

          Värmland, Sweden

          Gävle Artcenter, Sweden

          Art Museum Vesterås, Sweden

          Vesternorrlands Landsting, Sweden  

          Gävleborgs Landsting, Sweden

          Landstinget Örebro, Sweden

          Landstinget Vesterås, Sweden

          Landstinget Jönköping, Sweden

          Landstinget Västernorrland, Sweden

 

Public artworks

        ”Välitä”, material dark gray concrete,    location Oulu Technology center    Mikropuisto        

         “Viesti”, material dark gray concrete, location Oulu Technology center

           Elektroniikkatie  - Viestipolku

         “Suolaiset”, fellow worker Cotton grass, municipality Oulunsalo Pitkäkangas   school

 

Publications, Interviews 

      .    Joyce, revista, Pro Natura  Valores eternos, ss. 146 – 151. No 135,
           noviembre/Diciembre 2008, Madrid, Espanol

      .    Arctic Hysteria, TranceState of Contemporary Finnish Art

           P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, June 1 – September 15,   

           2008  s. 22, ss. 92-97, Finland

       .   Corriere Della Sera/ Fiorentino 26.3.2008 s.14, Italia

      .    Casamica 03/2008,  ss. 49-50, Italia

         Read Up on Reed, edited by Iiro Ikonen and Eija Hagelberg, Turku 2007

           Southwest Finland Regional Enviroment Centre, ss.88-89, Finland

         Pewna Finlandia – Une Certaine Finlande – A certain Finland – Muuan Suomi, BWA Katowice, Atelier Muzeum 340 Beuxelles, 2007, Belgium

     .    Art eon – magazyn o sztuce, nr 12(68) grudzien 2005, ss.12-13,

          Poland

     .    Bereniken Hiukset – Berenice's Hair – Coma Berenices, Leena Lohiniva, Rovaniemi Art Museum 1999, ss.65-75, Finland

     .    Dagens Nyheter, Anni skapar konst av kottar och älgskit, 18.08.1996,

          Sweden

 

 

        

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