Visual artist

Anni Rapinoja

address:

Luovontie 403

90480 Hailuoto

Finland

tel +358 (0)8 8100 476

+358 (0)40 5161474

email: anni@rapinoja.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

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 Kolmio, 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 Group exhibition, 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 Berenice´s 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 Berenice´s 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

Municipalities; Hailuoto, Oulunsalo, Liminka, Tyrnävä, Rantsila

Swedish State Collection, Sweden

Saastamoinen 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