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Born 1968 Turku, Finland
Vesa-Pekka Rannikko is a highly versatile artist who works with sculpture, animated drawing, painting, video art, installation, and photography. Rannikko’s art has been featured in various solo and group exhibitions and video art festivals both in Finland and internationally. Rannikko represented Finland in the Venice Biennale in 2011. He has made several large-scale public works, the most recent of which were commissioned by the cities of Vantaa and Espoo. His works are included in many important domestic and international collections, such as the collections of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, the Helsinki City Art Museum, Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, and the Saastamoinen Foundation.
EDUCATION
Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, Department of Media Studies, (1993-1998, BFA 1997)
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Media Arts (1996)
University of Art and Design Helsinki, Department of Ceramics and Glass, (1989-1996, MA)
University of Oulu, Department of Architecture (1988-1989)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 - Plenty, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
2021 - Lions Eat Grass, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
2019 - Limbo, Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki
2018 - Everything Else, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
2017 - Light on Paper, Gallery Pictor, Vihti
2016 - Foma, Gallery Forum Box, Helsinki
2013 - Canary, Gallerie Anhava, Helsinki
2012 - Various Pictures, Galleri Lars Olsen, Copenhagen
2011 - And All Structures Are Unstable, Finnish Pavillion, Venice Biennale*
2011 - Three Legs, Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä
2011 - Storage, Forum Box, Helsinki
2010 - Unknown untitled, Galleri Thomas Wallner, Simris, Sweden
2009 - Bird and library, Turku Art Museum, Studio, Turku
2007 - Looking at the picture of the mountain with the poet, Galleri Thomas Wallner, Malmö, Sweden
2007 - Specimen, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York
2007 - Gallery Husa, Tampere
2007 - Terrarium, Eskiltuna Art Museum, Sweden*
2007 - Örebro konsthall, Sweden
2006 - Gathering, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
2006 - Casting, Pori Art Museum, Project Room*
2006 - Staging, Nelimarkka museum, Alajärvi
2004 - Fiction, Gallery Artina, Helsinki
2004 - Gallery K, Huittinen
2003 - Amos Anderson Art Museum (with Markus Kåhre)
2001 - Galleri Leena Kuumola, Helsinki
2000 - In between, Galleria Sculptor , Helsinki
2000 - New works, Galleria Titanik , Turku
1998 - Kluuvi Galleria, Helsinki
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 - Resonance, Seinäjoki Kunstahalle
2023 - Summer Salon, Gallery Kodl, Prague
2022 - Mänttä Artweeks
2022 - Riddle, Purnu Orivesi
2021 - Resonance, Verksmidjan Hjalterey, Iceland
2020 - Water of Life, Kling & Bang Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
2019 - Barfotastigen, Korppoo
2018 - Nordic deLights, Soho streets, London
2018 - Monkey and Waterfall, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere*
2017 - Constellations, Exhibition laboratory, Helsinki*
2017 - Selfportrait, Helsinki Kunsthalle
2017 - “Lehmä pitää viedä jäälle, että se tanssii” Samuelis Baumgarte Gallery, Bielfield , Germany*
2017 - Rajataide 20-years, Rajatila Gallery, Tampere
2017 - Public Art Now, Dipoli, Helsinki*
2015 - Bright Nights, Dark Days, Painting from Finland, Kemper Art Museum, Kansas City, U.S.A.,
2015 - Take Space!, Korundi, Rovaniemi
2014 - Mänttä Art Weeks*
2014 - This year’s Model, Porsgrunn Kunsthall, Norway*
2014 - Festen, Forum Box, Helsinki
2014 - Polyfoni2, Galleri Thomas Wallner, Simris, Sweden
2013 - 7th Wave, Helsinki Kunsthall*
2013 - Poyfoni, Galleri Thomas Wallner, Sweden
2011 - Väinö, Gallery Maaret Finnberg, Turku*
2011 - Kind of Nice, Galleri Anhava, Helsinki*
2010 - The Many Faces of Death, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku
2009 - Kicks, Forum Box, Helsinki
2009 - Murban, Artborg, Sipoo*
2008 - Fluid street, Kiasma 10 years, Kiasma , Helsinki*
2008 - Sculpture and Object XIII, Bratislava, Slovakia*
2008 - Carnegie Art Award 2008* :
2008 - Insiders in Landscape, An Lanntair, Outer Hebrids, Scotland*
2007 - Carnegie Art Award, Kiasma, Helsinki *
2007 - Beginnings: Sculptors as Draftsmen, Nancy Margolis gallery, New York
2007 - Zoo, Gallerie Anhava, Helsinki
2007 - Boogie woogie, Helsinki Kunsthalle*
2006 - Flower as picture, Gallerie Anhava
2006 - Eye to eye, Anttolanhovi, Anttola*
2006 - Moving in Margins, Vantaa Artmuseum
2005 - Beijing Biennale, Beijing, China*
2005 - Turku Biennale, Aboa Vetus Ars Nova, Turku*
2005 - WIEW05, Forum Box, Helsinki
2005 - MUU 18 v., Kunsthalle Helsinki
2004 - European Triennal of Small-scale Sculpture, gallerija Murska Sobota, Murska Sobota, Slovenia
2004 - Vaiheilla, Nakkila
2003 - Forum Box, Helsinki
2003 - K´03, South Karelia Art Museum , Lappeenranta
2003 - Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä
2002 - Finnish Artists’ Association Annual Exhibition, Kunsthalle Helsinki
2001 - Galleria K, Huittinen
2001 - Aniceto Ortega 117, Mexico City
1998 - Artgenda98, Stockholm
1997 - In&Spiritum, Galleria Rajatila , Tampere
1996 - District heating, former Criminal Investigation Department premises, Helsinki
1996 - Corner, Museum of Jakobstad
1995-91 - Exhibition of Young Artists, Kunsthalle Helsinki
1995-91 - We must prepare for action, Galleria Uusikuva, Kotka and Jyväskylä City Library
FILM FESTIVAL AND SCREENINGS
2021 - Concorto Film festival, Piacenza , Italy
2020 - Tampere Short Film festival
2020 - International Short Film Festival Oberhasen
2006 - Wiew 2006, The Korjaamo culture factory, Helsinki
2006 - Vera filmfestival, Marienhamn, Åland
2000 - Neige sur neige, Quebec, Canada
1999 - Nuit Blanche, Nordic Videotour
1999 - VideoKapuum, Galleria Titanik Turku
1999 - Nuit Blanche, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1997 - AV-Biennale, Lahti
1997 - MuuMedia festival, Helsinki
PUBLICS WORKS OF ART
2024 - Tribe, Kivisilta Kerava
2022 - Scrace Fritillary, Rykmentipuisto, Tuusula
2022 - Guards, Björkenheim bridge Seinäjoki
2021 - Feenix, Koivukylä Vantaa
2020 - Sparrow talk , Koivukylä Vantaa
2020 - Vuo, Vaakunatori, Espoo
2018 - Feather and Stars, Koivukylä, Vantaa
2015 - Mycelium, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki
2012 - Locals, Leinelä, Vantaa
2011 - Shelter, Rajakylä Library, Oulu
2008 - General plan for public art for new suburb of Leinelä, Vantaa
2005 - Aaumu, Torpparinmäki, Helsinki
2000 - Approx. 6 billion kilometres, Mellunmäki Primary School, Helsink
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
Helsinki City Art Museum
Amos Anderson Art Museum
Sara Hilden Art Museum
Eskilstuna Art Museum
Vantaa Art museum
Arabia Museum
Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation
Saastamoinen foundation
Niemistö Collection
Fine Arts Association of Finland
SOK
Tikkurila
Pohjola Group Plc, Finland
Private collections in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, United States
AWARDS AND COMPETITIONS
2015 - State of Finland Prize for Fine Arts
2013 - National Institution for Health and Welfare in Helsinki, Competition for public art work, 1 st prize
2008 - Arvo Ylppös memorial competition 2 nd prize
2007 - Maire Gullischen foundation award
2006 - Stina Krooks Foundation award
2006 - William Thuring award
2003 - Fine Arts Association of Finland Ducat Prize
2003 - University of Jyväskylä, Ylistönrinne sculpture competition, 2nd place, honorary mention
2003 - Uutela district competition (City of Helsinki), 3rd place
2002 - Raimo Utriainen Foundation award
PUBLICATIONS
2011 - And All Structures are unstable,Catalogue for Finnish Pavillion in Venice Biennale 2011, Laura Köönikkä, Maaretta Jaukkuri, Vesa-Pekka Rannikko, Helsinki 2011
2007 - Terrarium, Jan Kaila, Veli-Matti Saarinen:Vesa-Pekka Rannikko: Tampere, 2007
2006 - Casting, Tarja Pitkänen-Walter, Laura Selin, Pori Art Museum