Curriculum Vitae
Anni Rapinoja lives and works in Hailuoto, Finland
Education and professional training
1995 Advanced training in Enviromental Art, Imatra Art School
1974–1988 Art courses
1974 MA, Faculty of Science, University of Oulu
Member
Finnish Association of Sculptors
Oulu Artists Society
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Art of Nature, Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna
2018-19 NATURALLY Anni Rapinoja, Regional Art Museum Oulu, Oulu
2016 Nature of Man, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland
2015 Wardrobe of Nature, ARTag-galleria, Helsinki, Finland
2013 Another Side of Europe – portraits, Gallery Huone N:o 8, Hailuoto, Finland
2013 Another Side of Europe – photographs, Gallery Luoto, Hailuoto, Finland
2012 Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland
2011 Wardrobe of Nature, Arte Sella, Malga Costa, Italy
2011 Naturally, Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki, Finland
2009–2010 San Paolo Albenese with Finnish eyes – photographs, Gallery Commune San Paolo Albanese, Italy
2009–2010 Cameradrawings, Regional Art Museum Oulu – touring exhibition
2007 Wardrobe of Nature, Antiruggine, Castelfranco, Italy
2007 Gallery Colmio, Oulu, Finland
2007 Wardrobe of Nature, Galleria Spazi Rossi, Arte Sella – Contemporain Art Center of Nature, Borgo
Valsugana, Italy
2007 K.H. Renlund Museum, Kokkola, Finland
2006 Wardrobe of Nature, Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki, Finland
2005 Naturens Garderob, Gallery Stefan Anderson, Umeå, Sweden
2003 Phragmites australis, Gallery Valööri, Helsinki, Finland
1999 Gallery Art & Weise, Wien, Austria
1998 Gallery Becker, Jyväskylä, Finland
1998 Gallery Valööri, Helsinki, Finland
1997 Hailuoto Library, Finland
1997 Gallery Saskia, Tampere, Finland
1996 Gallery Harmaja, Oulu, Finland
1996 Bror Hjort -hus Museum, Uppsala, Sweden
1996 Galleri Konstepidemin, Göteborg, Sweden
1993 Gallery Vapauden Aukio, Helsinki, Finland
1993 Hailuoto Library, Finland
1993 Arktinen Galleria, Oulu, Finland
1992 Arktinen Galleria, Oulu, Finland
1991 Kriittinen Tila, Helsinki, Finland
1989 Oulu Art Museum, Finland
1989 Gallery Saskia, Tampere, Finland
1989 Tornio City Library, Finland
1987 P´Art Gallery, Oulu, Finland
1987 Gallery Saskia, Tampere, Finland
1984 Hailuoto Library, Finland
1984 Raahe City Library, Finland
1981 Ylivieska Library, Finland
1981 Liminka Library, Finland
1980 Liminka Library, Finland
Group Exhibitions
17.2.2022 - 9.4.2023 This Play, Arter Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
2019-2020 En Vacker Utställning, Art Museum in the North, Norrbotten County Art Museum, Kiruna, Sweden
2019 Good Wood, 30-year jubilee exhibition, Poleeni Center for the Arts, Pieksämäki
2018 RYSCH & PYSCH - Beautiful Clothes - Walk in Closet, K.H. Renlund Museum, Kokkola
2018 THE SECOND SKIN, Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau, Germany
2018 Hat on tilted, Museums of Vaasa - Tikanoja Art Museum, Vaasa
2017 Every moment is an exception – Contemporary art from the collection of the State Art Museum
2016 THE SECOND SKIN, Museum Sinclair Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany
2016 Nature of Man, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland
2016 Tillbaka till Naturen, The Nordic Gardens 2016, Stockholmsmässan, Stockholm, Sverige
2016 Kaisu's Choice, Oulu Museum of Art OMA, Oulu, Finland
2016 Five rooms – Viisi huonetta, Kajaani art museum, Kajaani, Finland
2015–2016 Opdagelser, Galleri Heike Arndt DK, Kettinge, Danmark
2015 Five rooms – Viisi huonetta, South Karelia museum, Lappeenranta, Finland
2014 Nature and More, Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany
2014 One Celebration! Emil Aaltonen museum, Tampere, Finland
2014 Where are you from? Vaasa Arthall, Finland
2014 Where are you from? Seinäjoki Arthall, Finland
2014 Echoes of Eco – Winter Festival of Arts, included in the culture program of the Sochi Winter Olympic
Games, Sochi Theatre, Russia
2013–2014 Kiasma Hits, Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
2013 To Island, Finnish Sea Museum, Kotka, Finland
2013 To Island, Annantalo, Helsinki, Finland
2013 To Island, Valve Gallery, Culturehouse Valve, Oulu, Finland
2013 Kui? Textil Art Triennal, Oulu Art Museum, Finland
2012 Kui? Textil Art Triennal, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku, Finland
2012 SNOWBALLEFFECT – Northern Finland Biennal, Oulu Art Museum, Finland
2012 Retretti, Punkaharju, Finland
2012 Arctic Hystery, State Museum and Exhibition Centre for Photography – ROSPHOTO, St. Petersburg,
Russia
2012 Ecologic Country, Lahti Art Museum, Finland
2012 Garderobe of Nature – photographs, MOT Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2011 Taju - An Event of Contemporary Art, Hyvinkää Art Museum, Finland
2011 Nature Gives – Nature Takes, Kajaani Art Museum, Finland
2011 Nature Gives – Nature Takes, K.H. Renlund Museum, Kokkola, Finland
2010 Biodiversity Art exhibition – Ethical Fashion Show, Docks-en-Seine, Paris, France
2010 Arctic Heat, Art from North-Finland and Lapponia, Finland-Institute, Berlin, Germany
2010 Close to Nature, Current Finnish Art, KunstLANDing, Aschaffenburg e.V. Germany
2010 Arctic Hysteria, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland
2010 Highlights – 100th Anniversary of Association of Finnish Sculptors, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art,
Turku, Finland
2010 Nature gives – Nature takes, Salo Art Museum, Finland
2010 Forecast: Warmer – The Climate Change in Visual Arts, Joensuu Art Museum, Finland
2010 Histeria Artica, DA2 Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
2009 Arctic Hysteria, Art Hall, Helsinki, Finland
2009 Fly me to the Moen, 44 Moen, Denmark
2009 Summer Exhibition, Taidekeskus KulttuuriKauppila, Ii, Finland
2009 Sense of Ecology, Mänttä Art weeks XIV, Mänttä, Finland
2009 Farmers Dream, Salo Art Museum, Finland
2009 Northern Life – Finnish Art and Design, Medium Art Centre, Haidian District, Peking, China
2009 Sarkvidéki Hisztéria – Arctic Hysteria, Ludwig Múzeum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest,
Hungary
2009 Irreverent: Contemporary Nordic Craft Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
California, USA
2008 Artists and Innovators for the Enviroment, Streaming Museum New York, USA. (Exhibition was on
seven Continents 3.10.2008 – 3.4.2009)
2008 4 artist was invited from Artists and Innovators for the Enviroment -exhibition and were featured on
the BBC´s Big Screens in 17 cities throught the UK during the October
2008 Arctic Hysteria, MoMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
2008 Supernaturale, Gallery Brancolinigrimaldi Artecontemporanea, Firenze, Italy
2008 Une certaine Finlande, Gallerie Sztuki BWA, Wroclaw, Poland
2008 Une certaine Finlande, The center of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland
2007 PEWNA FINLANDIA, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice, Poland
2007 Art for Sustainability, Lunds Stadshall, Sweden
2007 Art for Sustainability, Galleria Abbekås, Abbekås, Sweden
2007 Summer Exhibition, PURNU, Orivesi, Finland
2006 Plants in Contemporary Art, Festival Couleur Café, Bruxelles, Belgium
2006 Art in The City, organizer BWA-gallery in Bydgoszcz, Poland
2006 Far-Off deceitful world, Saarijärvi Art Museum, Finland
2006 Halikonlahti Green Art Trilogy, Salo Art Museum, Finland
2006 Ihme, Regional exhibition of Oulu Province, Oulu Art Museum, Finland
2005 Une certaine Finlande, Atelier 340 Muzeum, Bryssel, Belgium
2004 Beached brushes – Artists and Hailuoto Island, Oulu Art Museum, Finland
2004 Vaiheilla 04 – Visual Art in Villilä, TV and Film Centre of Western Finland, Nakkila, Finland
2004 Yhteinen Maa (Shared Land), Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku, Finland
2003 Luleå Summer Biennal, Norrbotten Museum, Museum Park and Art House, Sweden
2003 Yhteinen Maa (Shared Land), Contemporary and Applied Art of the Northern Peoples, Sami Museum
Siida, Inari, Finland
2003 Summer – Old and Contemporary Visual Art, Kerava Art Museum, Finland
2003 Siltojen välissä (Between Bridges), Enviroment Art Exhibition, Jämsä, Finland
2003 Summer Exhibition, Kivipankki-Gallery, Jämsä, Finland
2003 Yhteinen Maa (Shared Land), The Gallen-Gallela Museum, Espoo, Finland
2002 Regional Exhibition of Oulu Province, Art Hall Kajaani, Finland
2002 Regional Exhibition of Oulu Province, Oulu Art Museum, Finland
2002 Maasta käsin (Earth Keepers), Oulu Art Museum, Finland
2002 Girls, Gallery 5, Oulu, Finland
2001 Mänttä Art Weeks, Honkahovi Art Centre, Mänttä, Finland
2001 Berenice´s Hair, RMIT Project Space and Spare Room, Faculty of Art, Design and Communication
Gallery RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2000 Sechs Himmelsrichtungen, Galleria Station 3, Wien, Austria
2000 Art Hailuoto, Hailuoto School Centre, Finland
2000 Palapeli, (Jigsaw Puzzle), Oulu Art Museum, Finland
1999 Berenice´s Hair, Gallery Otso, Espoo, Finland
1999 Berenice´s Hair, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
1998 Summer Exhibition, Honkahovi Art Centre, Mänttä, Finland
1998 Gallery Art & Weise, Wien, Austria
1996 Art in Suitcases, Jyväskylä, Finland / Lillehammer, Norway / Svolvaer, Norway
1995 Art in Suitcases, Luleå, Sweden / Vilnius, Lithuania / Gallery Täysikuu, Rovaniemi, Finland
1995 Regional Exhibition of Oulu Province, Kajaani Art Museum, Finland
1994 Summer Exhibition of the Oulu Artists Society, Linnansaari, Oulu, Finland
1993 Laituri, Gallery Mosabacka, Helsinki, Finland
1991 Lama, Yorth and Culture Centre NUKU, Oulu, Finland
1991 Summer Exhibition of the SKjL Association, Forssa, Finland
1991 Rantalakeuden Talavivalakia Exhibition, Liminka Art School, Finland
1990 Exhibition of the Oulu Artists Society, Seinäjoki Art Hall, Finland
1990 52nd Annual Exhibition of the SKjL Association, Poleeni Cultural Centre, Pieksämäki, Finland
1990 Madetoja weeks exhibition, 2 artist in Madetoja Hall green room, Oulu, Finland
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 Nordkalottens Höstsalong, Arcus Hall, Luleå, Sweden
1987 Annual Exhibition of Art from Oulu, Oulu Art Museum, Finland
1985 Exhibition of the Oulu Artists Society, Taidepiste, Oulu, Finland
1983 Exhibition of the Oulu Artists Society, Rovaniemi Library, Finland
1982 Summer Exhibition of the Oulu Artists Society, Lampi Museum, Liminka, Finland
1981 Regional Exhibition of Oulu Province, Oulu Art Museum, Finland
1981 Annual Exhibition of Art from Oulu, Oulu Art Museum, Finland
1979 Young Artists Exhibition, Art Hall, Helsinki, Finland
Other professional activities
2020 Finlayson Art Area, Tampere, artworks: "Circle of Life" - color wheel, floral installation, perennial
"Green" - edible green installation, perennial "Paradise Experiment" - greenhouse installation,
perennial
2016 Earth Window, plant installation, Satamapuisto - Kuntsi Museum, Vaasa
2012 Fallen from Wood, community art piece, EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art
2011 Workers, wood ant, video 5 min, part of the project of See the ants of Turku and Turku cultural main
city program 2011, SOK-screen on Turku marketplace 2.5.–31.8.
2005 Microcosmos Big Bang -video, VALOSTA -videoart happening 14.–22.11. Tampereen Marketplace,
Finland
2001 Message... –art work, Hailuoto Library, Finland
2001 Natural Cupboard, cupboard of works of art touring day-care centres, Oulu Art Museum, Finland
2000 Till Versai (garden) -land art piece, National Local Heritage Conference, Hailuoto, Finland
1998 Earthsun -land art work, International forest sculpture symposium Veistossonaatti, Varjakka island,
Oulunsalo, Finland
1996 Set design, Gian-Carlo Menotti: (opera) Amahl and the Night Visitors, Kemi Snow Castle, Finland
1995 Bothnia Sea Scape Art Workshop, tilateos Temppeli jäästä yhteistyössä Karoliina Niemelän kanssa,
torinranta, Oulu, Finland
1994 Set Design, Oliver Kohlenberg: (opera) You and the Coconut Tree, Kajaani Music Centre, Finland
1994 Spatial art work Bar Matangi to Elan in collaboration Oliver Kohlenberg (music) and Sari Lievonen
(dance), Youth and Culture Centre, Oulu, Finland
1993 Installation – performance Bodyscape in collaboration with dancer Sari Lievonen, Kattilankalla
Island, Finland
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, Finland
Scholarships, stipends and awards
2022 Oulu University's 2022 Alumni
2021 Honorary Member of the Finnish Sculptors' Association
2016 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, exhibition costs in Kuntsi Modern Art Museum, Vaasa, Finland
2016 Arts Promotion Centre Finland – region Northern Ostrobothnia and Kainuu, exhibition costs in Kuntsi
Modern Art Museum, Vaasa, Finland
2016 EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art, 10 year anniversary - communal idea of art contest win with
the idea: Puusta pudonneet – Drop from the tree, the work is placed in front of the exhibition center
WG
2011–2012 Ministry of Education and Culture, Wardrobe of Nature -product development project
2009–2013 Arts Council of Finland, 5 year artist scholarship
2009 Oulu Province Art Award
2008 Finnish Association of Sculptors – Atelier Foundation, International Artist Exchange Program Basel,
Austria, ½ year
2007 Arts Council of Finland, Public Display Grand to Visual Art
2007 Arts Council of Finland, exhibition costs
2005 Finnish-Swedish Culture Foundation, catalog printing costs
2005 Frame, catalog printing costs
2004–2006 Arts Council of Finland, 3 year scholarship
2002 Arts Council of Finland, travel grant
2002 Arts Council of Finland, Public Display Grand to Visual Art
2002 Alfred Kordelin Foundation, for working
2001 Arts Council of Finland, travel grant
2001 Finnish Cultural Foundation, North Ostrobothnia Regional Fund, for working
2001 Oulun Saskiat ry, stipend
2000 Arts Council of Finland, travel grant
1999 Arts Council of Finland, travel grant
1999 Frame
1998 Oulu Province Art Commission
1998 Best Artwork of Exhibition, Gallery Art & Weise, Wien
1997 The Finnish Deafblind Association, Sculpture of Year -award
1997 North Ostrobothnia Regional Fund
1996 Nordic Art Association in Finland, Konstepidemin, Göteborg, ½ year
1995 Finnish-Swedish Culture Foundation
1993 Oulu Province Art Commission
1990 North Ostrobothnia Regional Fund
1988 Oulu Province Art Commissio
1987 Oulun Saskiat
1983 North Ostrobothnia Regional Fund
Works in following collections
City of Vaasa, Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art, Arte Pollino Basilicata region San Paolo Albanese Italy, Vehbi Koc Foundation Istanbul Turkey, Wihuri Foundation, Saastamoinen Foundation, Finnish State Collections, Swedish State Collections, Oulu Art Museum, Goethenburg Art Museum, Vesterås konstmuseum, Norrbotten Province – Sweden, Gävle konstcentrum, Umeå municipality, Landstinget Gävleborg, Landstinget Västerbotten, Landstinget Värmland, Konst Gävleborgs Landsting, Landstinget Västernorrland, Landstinget Örebro, Landstinget Vesterås, andstinget Jönköping, City of Oulunsalo, Liminka municipality, Hailuoto municipality
Enviromental and public Art Works
2022 - 2042 Ruijanpolku, Siida
2017 Skycleaner, a work produced in honor of the 100th anniversary of Finland, 100 pieces of
twig brooms about 7 meters high, area 20 x 20 m, the twig brooms sweep from the sky,
Folk Arts Center, Kaustinen, Finland
2010 Skycleaner, material: ginestra plant, Arte Pollino Project, San Paolo Albanese, Italy
2003 Care, material: concrete, Technological Center, Oulu, Finland
2003 Message, material: concrete, Technological Center, Oulu, Finland
Publications
2022 Many Forms of Contemporary Art, Kiasma Collection Book, kiasma_nationalgallery, pp. 101 and 112
2022 Intra- and Interactions with Non-Humans, Forest Nature as a Material Agent
Naturally Anni Rapinoja - Exhibition, Sari Räsänen, Master's Thesis, Department of History,
Culture, and Arts Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Turku
2021 Dizzying 5, Mother Tongue and Literature, Textbook pp. 92 - 93
2020 An Art in Love with Nature, Land Art and Its Transformations, Muriel Berthou Crestey, Ides et
Calendes, Lausanne
2016 Die Zweite Haut, Altana Kultur Stiftung, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg; Distanz Verlag
GmbH, Berlin, s.18-19, s.104-105
2013 KIASMA HITS, Nykytaiteen museon julkaisuja 139/2013, s.60, 118, 121
2012 KUI? Tekstiilitaiteilijat TEXO ry, Teollisuustaiteen Liitto Ornamo ry. S.64-65
2010 Close to Nature, Zeitgnössische Finnische Kunst, 2010, Forum Aschaffenburg, Saksa
2008 Arctic Hysteria, TranceState of Contemporary Finnish Art P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York,
June 1 – September 15, 2008 s. 22, 92–97
2007 Read Up on Reed, edited by Iiro Ikonen and Eija Hagelberg, Turku 2007 Southwest Finland
Regional Enviroment Centre, s.88–89
2007 Art For Sustainability, Galleri Abbekås, s.14–15, Grahns Tryckeri, Lund, Sweden
2005 Pewna Finlandia – Une Certaine Finlande – A certain Finland – Muuan Suomi, BWA Katowice,
Atelier Muzeum 340 Beuxelles.
2004 Pensselit Santaan – Kuvataiteilijoiden Hailuoto, s. 43–45, toim. Elina Vieru, Oulun Taidemuseo
2003 Luleå sommarbiennal, s. 98, 119, 123
2003 Pinx – Maalaustaide Suomessa, osa Tarinankertojia, s. 95, Weiling&Göös
2002 Pinx – Maalaustaide Suomessa, osa Maalta Kaupunkiin, s. 53, Weiling&Göös
2002 Maasta käsin, toim. Elina Vieru, s. 38–47, Oulun Taidemuseo
2003 Yhteinen Maa – Gemensamt Land – A Land Shared, toimitus Kerttu Karvonen, Kannas, Anne Pelin,
Tuija Wahlroos, julkaisija Gallen-Kallelan Museo, s. 151
1999 Bereniken Hiukset – Berenice's Hair – Coma Berenices, Leena Lohiniva, Rovaniemi Art Museum,
s. 65–75