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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.. Rannikkos 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

1993-98        Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki , Department of Media Studies, (BFA 1997)              

1996              Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts , School of Media Arts

1989-95        University of Art and Design Helsinki , Department of Ceramics and Glass, (MA 1995)

1988-89         University of Oulu, Department of Architecture

   

Selected Solo Exhibitions

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 *

                          Three Legs, Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä

                           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

                            Specimen, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York

                            Gallery Husa, Tampere

                            Terrarium, Eskiltuna Art Museum, Sweden*

                            Örebro konsthall, Sweden

2006                    Gathering, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki

                             Casting, Pori Art Museum, Project Room*

                              Staging, Nelimarkka museum, Alajärvi

2004                      Fiction, Gallery Artina, Helsinki

                               Gallery K, Huittinen

2003                       Amos Anderson Art Museum (with Markus Kåhre)

2001                       Galleri Leena Kuumola, Helsinki

2000                        In between ,Galleria Sculptor , Helsinki

                                 New works ,Galleria Titanik , Turku

1998                         Kluuvi Galleria , Helsinki

 
 

Selected group exhibitions

2021                         Resonance, Verksmidjan Hjalterey, Iceland

2020                         Water of Life, Kling & Bang Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland

2019                          Barfotastigen, Korppoo

2018                          Nordic deLights, Soho streets, London

                                   Monkey and Waterfall, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere*

2017                           Constellations, Exhibition laboratory, Helsinki*

                                    Selfportrait, Helsinki Kunsthalle

                                    “Lehmä pitää viedä jäälle, että se tanssii” Samuelis Baumgarte Gallery, Bielfield , Germany*

                                     Rajataide 20-years, Rajatila Gallery, Tampere

                                     Public Art Now, Dipoli, Helsinki*

2015                             Bright Nights, Dark  Days, Painting from Finland,  Kemper Art Museum, Kansas City, U.S.A.,

                                      Take Space!, Korundi, Rovaniemi

2014                             Mänttä Art Weeks*

                                      This year’s Model, Porsgrunn Kunsthall, Norway*

                                      Festen, Forum Box, Helsinki

                                       Polyfoni2, Galleri Thomas Wallner, Simris, Sweden

2013                               7th Wave, Helsinki Kunsthall*

                                        Poyfoni, Galleri Thomas Wallner, Sweden

2011                                Väinö, Gallery Maaret Finnberg, Turku*

                                         Kind of Nice, Galleri Anhava, Helsinki*

2010                                The Many Faces of Death, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku

2009                                 Kicks, Forum Box ,Helsinki

                                         Murban, Artborg, Sipoo *

2008                                 Fluid street, Kiasma 10 years, Kiasma , Helsinki*

                                         Sculpture and Object XIII, Bratislava, Slovakia*

                                         Carnegie Art Award  2008* :

                                         Insiders in Landscape, An Lanntair, Outer  Hebrids, Scotland*

2007                                Carnegie Art Award, Kiasma, Helsinki *

                                        Beginnings: Sculptors as Draftsmen, Nancy Margolis gallery, New York

                                        Zoo, Gallerie Anhava, Helsinki

                                       Boogie woogie, Helsinki  Kunsthalle*

2006                              Flower as picture, Gallerie Anhava ,

                                       Eye to eye, Anttolanhovi, Anttola*

                                      Moving in Margins, Vantaa Artmuseum,

2005                             Beijing Biennale, Beijing, China*

                                      Turku Biennale, Aboa Vetus Ars Nova, Turku*

                                     WIEW05, Forum Box, Helsinki

                                     MUU 18 v., Kunsthalle Helsinki ,

2004                             European Triennal  of Small-scale Sculpture, gallerija Murska Sobota, Murska Sobota, Slovenia

                                      Vaiheilla, Nakkila

2003                              Forum Box , Helsinki

                                      K´03, South Karelia Art Museum , Lappeenranta

                                      Mänttä Art Festival , Mänttä

2002                              Finnish Artists’ Association Annual Exhibition, Kunsthalle Helsinki

2001                              Galleria K, Huittinen

                                      Aniceto Ortega 117, Mexico City

1998                              Artgenda98, Stockholm

1997                              In&Spiritum ,Galleria Rajatila , Tampere

1996                             District heating, former Criminal Investigation Department premises, Helsinki

                                     Corner, Museum of Jakobstad

1995 -91                      Exhibition of Young Artists, Kunsthalle Helsinki

                                     We must prepare for action, ,Galleria Uusikuva, Kotka and Jyväskylä City Library

Film festivals and screenings

2021                         Concorto Film festival, Piacenza , Italy

2020                         Tampere Short Film festival

                                   International Short Film Festival Oberhasen,

2006                          Wiew 2006, The Korjaamo culture factory, Helsinki

Vera  filmfestival, Marienhamn, Åland

2000                           Neige sur neige , Quebec, Canada

1999                           Nuit Blanche, Nordic Videotour

                                   VideoKapuum, Galleria Titanik Turku

                                   Nuit Blanche, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

1997                          AV-Biennale, Lahti

                                   MuuMedia festival, Helsinki

 

Public works of art

2020                          Sparrow talk , Koivukylä Vantaa

                                   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, Helsinki

 

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

                                 William Thuring award

2003                         Fine Arts Association of Finland Ducat Prize

2003                         University of Jyväskylä, Ylistönrinne sculpture competition, 2nd place, honorary mention

                                  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