Heidi Hänninen

1982
Artist/ Sculptor, Art-educator (B.A.)
Tel: +358-50-9104162
xeugux (at) gmail (dot) com  

For me, art is the lifeblood. Art is another, more humane, point of view in our society that depends on the constant growth of economy.

I have done my bachelor-studies in art pedagogy, in the University of Lapland (2010) and started my MFA- studies in Finnish Academy of Fine Arts (sculpture-department) in autumn 2011. Being an artist and an art teacher goes hand-in-hand in my thinking and they are both important parts of me. Making art and teaching it can work together reflectively, through discussions and working with other people I get more perspective to my own art-making process too. Art has a capacity to bring new viewpoints also to the school-world. As the whole capitalistic world, the school-system today lies on the efficiency - thinking which is limiting creativity. Art can be an alternative for all of us, one way or another.

I use many different materials and techniques in my art but most of all I feel like a sculptor and mainly I'm casting concrete. I like to ensemble photography and video with my sculptures. After studying in the State academy of art and design in Saint Petersburg, in the faculty of monumental painting (2008-09) I have been also actively painting on big scale: making murals and street art in Finland and abroad. Since I have been also teaching mural-art in different workshops.

Our neighbor-country Russia is a great source of inspiration for me. It's culture (language, art, architecture, animations, toys), history with soviet past, politics, people, places, the way how people for example take over the surrounding space and deal with the death, are all interesting aspects for me when I look at Russia. Children's culture in whole is one of the most interesting fields for me in my art, I really think that in toys, films etc. offered to kids we can see and really strongly feel the atmosphere of surrounding society with it's (hidden) aims and (unspoken) values.

In Russia I have also found a concrete landscape of my own mind. Through aesthetics, culture and politics I travel to these views of my mind over and over again, deeper and deeper. And I hope that these views that I’m presenting, my art, can bring something new to someone else's lives as well. Maybe even offer a different kind of aspect to the everyday life.

Curriculum Vitae

HEIDI HÄNNINEN (s. 1982)
Artist/ Sculptor, Art-educator (B.A)

EDUCATION
2011 - MFA studies, Finnish Academy of Fine Art. (sculpture)
2010 - 2011    Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland. (Fine Arts)
2010   Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), University of Lapland. (art education)
2008 - 2009    St.Petersburg State Academy Of Art and Design. (monumental painting/ exhange)
2004 - 2005    University of Art and Design Helsinki/ TaiK. (arteducation)
2003 - 2004    University of Helsinki.
2001 High school graduate. Helsingin kuvataidelukio. Helsinki art high school.

BECOMING EXHIBITIONS:
2015 February: Gallery Becker/ Jyväskylä
2015 July: Photo center Raseborg/ Karjaa
2015 December: Napa- gallery/ Rovaniemi

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 "Surullisten piknik". Sculptures and installations. Rajatila gallery/ Tampere.
2013 “Konretian häilyvyys/ Kaatumaton II”. Sculptures and graphics. Napa- gallery/ Rovaniemi.
2013 “Russian Blues”. Photos. Cultura- foundation/ Helsinki.
2012 “Kaatumaton I”. Final Work for KUVA, 1. part. FAFA- gallery/ Helsinki.
2012 “Russian Blues”. Photos. Art-Cafe Zoom/ St. Petersburg, Russia. 
2010 “Avovaunujen turkoosit pylväät.” Videos, installations. Gallery Kilo/ Rovaniemi, Finland.
2009 “Mortuus non multus”. Video-installations, (online) performance. Vyhod Media-center/ gallery/ Petrozavodsk, Russia.
2008 “Ja Znaju – Mä snaijaan”. Installations and videos. Katve- gallery/ Rovaniemi, Finland.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 "Samat naamat taas". Sculpture. 69' annual exhibition/ Artist's Association of Jyväskylä. Museum of Central Finland.
2014 Summer Exhibition. Sculptures. Pyhäniemi Manor/ Hollola.
2014 "Venäjä@fi." Photosculpture/ Installation "Russian Blues". Photo center Peri/ Turku.
2013 Kuvan Kevät. "Surullisten piknik", photosculptures. Finnish Academy of Fine Art/ Kasarmikatu gallery/ Helsinki.
2012 "Napapaita". Young artists from Artist's Association of Lapland. Arktikum/ Rovaniemi.
2012 “Tutkielmia muutoksesta”. Videosculpture. Gallery Rantakasarmi/ Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland.
2012 ”Urban”. Helsinki photo-biennal. FAFA- gallery/ Helsinki, Finland.
2012 International BELA Biennale (by AVA- gallery). Porto, Portugal.
2012 “Street art – The New Generation”. Pori Artmuseum/ Pori, Fi. Curator: Pia Hovi-Assad.
2012 New Masters- exhibition. FAFA- gallery/ Helsinki, Finland.
2011 Nuoret 2011. Taidehalli/ Helsinki, Finland.
2011 ”Lookin’ Good Finland”. Installation by Riina & Heidi Hänninen. Suvilahti/ Helsinki.
2011 “Äärellä”. (Members of Artists´ Association Of Lapland) Gallery Becker/ Jyväskylä.
2011 “Ahne”. (Students of Aalto University). Videos. Tallinn, Estonia.
2010 ”Jasli”. Installation. ERARTA/ St. Petersburg, Russia.
2010 Lapin taiteilijaseura NYT! /Artists´ Association Of Lapland NOW! Kaapelitehdas/ Helsinki.
2010 Annual exhibition by Union of Finnish Art Association. Järvenpää library/ Finland.
2010 ERARTA/ opening exhibition, presentation of young artists. St. Petersburg, Russia.
2010 Kesänapa. Paintings. Napa- gallery/ Rovaniemi, Finland.
2010 “Osen. Gorod. Poet”. (“Autumn. The city. Poetry”.) Painting. St. Petersburg, Russia.
2009 “šah mat”. video-installation and painting. V- gallery/ St. Petersburg, Russia. 

2009 Pan Barentz, Ideal Cities. Installation. Napa- gallery/ Rovaniemi, Finland. 

2009 “Arkki”. Installations and videos. VTTK/ Helsinki, Finland. 

2008 “Christmas”. Paintings. Conservatory of Saint Petersburg/ Russia. 

2008 “Colouring the north”. Gallery Verligheten/ Umeå, Sweden. 

2008 “Russian roulette”. Video. Nassauischer Kunstverein/  Wiesbaden, Germany. 

2008 Faces etnofestival. Installations and videos. Ruukki/ Billnäs, Finland.

2008 “Human’s nature”. Video: “Circulation”. University Of Lapland/ Rovaniemi, Finland.

FILM FESTIVALS
2009 Frik Film Festival/ Skopje, Macedonia.

2008 Videonotsh/ Petrozavodsk, Russia.

2008 No Festival/ Tsheljabinsk, Russia. 

2008 Golden tambourine, tv- and video- festival/ Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.

2008 Videoholica, August in art/ Varna, Bulgaria.

PUBLIC WORKS
2013-2014 Wallpaintings by Draamateam. (http://draamateam.wordpress.com/)
2013 "Kaatumaton, kommunismin ja kapitalismin muistomerkki". Concrete-sculpture. Rovaniemi
2012 Mural at underpass in Kauniainen, Finland. With Multicoloured Dreams.
2012 "Illuminated". Mural. Sonnenallee 221, Berlin, Germany. With Solja Temmes.
2012 “In the park”. Mural. Sanerva-koti. Myllypuro, Helsinki, Finland.
2009 "Pilvenpiirtäjät". Paintings. Heidi Hänninen and Grigorij Pisarenko. Cakelabs/ St.Petersburg, Russia.

WORKS IN THE PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2014 Finnish Labour Museum Werstas/ Tampere. Wallpainting by Draamateam.
2013 Rovaniemi City. Scale model of  "Kaatumaton, Kommunismin ja kapitalismin muistomerkki".

OTHER (projects)

2014 "Vieljärvi Manifesta". Karelia/ Russia. Wallpainting and workshops by Draamateam.
2013 I < 3ISM. As part of ORBITA's/ "Poetry- citymap" -project. Riga, Latvija. 
 (painter/murals)
2012 Manbird (and Co.) in Berlin/ RAW/ Schönhauser allee 1. Germany. (painter/murals)
2011 “Peace can be found in colours – PoliticalBird”. Helsinki/ Baltic/Berlin. . (streetart)
2011 Kalasatama Container Square/ Summer 2011/ TaiK Container. Helsinki. (curator)
2011 Kalasatama Container Square/ Summer 2011. (Organizing, planning, implementation).
2010 Site-specific art education/"MurmanskMotion 2009”. Presentation at Insea conference/ University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland. (researcher)
2010 Pilvenpiirtäjät @ Berlin. Mural. Berlin, Germany. (painter/murals)

WORKSHOPS/ TEACHING 2013
2014 "Happiness - too cool for sch...capitalism?". Wallpainting- workshop by Draamateam. Mänttä.
2014 "Love is Hard". Wallpainting workshop by Draamateam/ Viirus- theatre/ Helsinki festival. Helsinki.
2013 X- border Biennal/ "Neighbour-secrets", Stencil-workshop. Rovaniemi. (teacher)
2012 Mural- workshop. Kasavuori School/ Kauniainen, Finland. (MCD -teacher)
2012 "Katujen sankarit". Streetart workshop for children. Pori, Finland. (teacher)
2012 Streetart Workshop. Nuorten työpaja/ Pori, Finland. (MCD -teacher)
2011 Muralpainting- workshop. Happi, Youth Department of Helsinki, Finland. (MCD -teacher)
2009 "Pan Barentz"-project/ "MurmanskMotion"-workshop. Murmansk, Russia.(teacher/researcher)

2007 "Arctic children"-program. Lovozero, Russia. (Art education student/ University of Lapland).
2007 "Tulikettu" (“Fire-fox”) Cross-artictical and –scientifical performance-workshop and show. Utsjoki, Lapland. (Art education student/ University of Lapland).
2007 "Tuulikettu" (“Wind-fox”) Performance- and painting workshop. Utsjoki, Lapland.

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
2013 Internship/ animation studio SHAR/ Moscow, Russia. (animator)
2009 Internship/ Finnish school in St. Petersburg. (art-teacher)

MEMBERSHIPS
2015 Representative of STS (as a member of SKJL, 1. alternate)
2013 Draamateam. Artist-duo. Helsinki. (artist, teacher)
2012 Representative of STS (as a member of SKJL)
2011 Artists´ Association Of Helsinki, Finland   
2010 Artists´ Association Of Lapland, Finland   
2010 Multicoloured Dreams (MCD). Street art- collective. Helsinki. (Organizer, artist, teacher)

SCHOLARSHIPS
2014 Art Promotion Centre Finland. 3000 e.
2013 Grant by Anita Snellman association. 2000 e.
2012 Cultural Foundation (Finland). 2000 e.
2011 - 2012 Grants by Finnish Academy Of Fine Arts. 700 e.


ART RESIDENCIES
2013 July. Riga, Latvija. (ORBITA residency- program / "Poetry- citymap") 

2012 August. Berlin, Germany. Residency of Finnish Academy of Fine Art. 

2011 February. Berlin, Germany. Residency of Arts Promotion Centre Finland/Lapland.
2010 August. Berlin, Germany. Residency of Arts Promotion Centre Finland/ Lapland.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Web:
2013 "Mikä ihmeen kapitalismi? Tai Ihmeen suuri betoninukke (tai joku muu)", ½ -lehti (16.11.2013).

2013 "Kuvataiteen kevätjuhla - Kuvan kevät 2013", Mustekala (23.5.2013).

2011 "Vivahteikasta kannanottoa maailman tilaan - Nuoret 2011", Taide-lehti (Kritiikit 1-12).

2009 Karjalan sanomat

2008 "Näyttelykierros Rovaniemellä – Eemil Karila, Sami Evinsalo, Heidi Hänninen", Taide-lehti (Kritiikit 2-08)

Print:
2013 Lapin kansa

2013 "Hillittyä estetiikkaa mainonnan ikeessä", Taide-lehti (Kritiikit 3-13).

CONTACT INFORMATION

xeugux@gmail.com
+358509104162
Väinö Auerin katu 13 b 42, 00560 Helsinki

Short CV in Finnish:

KOULUTUS

2011 - Kuvataideakatemia, erillismaisteriopinnot/ kuvanveisto.

TYÖHARJOITTELUT

2013 Animaatiostudio SHAR, Moskova. Animaattori.

YKSITYISNÄYTTELYT (valikoidut)

2014 "Surullisten Piknik". Veistoksia, installaatioita, työpajoja. Galleria Rajatila.Tampere.

TULEVAT NÄYTTELYT

2015 Helmikuu: Galleria Becker, Jyväskylä.(solo)

RYHMÄNÄYTTELYT (valikoidut 2010>)

JULKISIA TEOKSIA

TEOKSIA JULKISISSA KOKOELMISSA

JÄSENYYDET

APURAHAT

2014 Taiteen edistämiskeskus. 3000 e. Kohdeapuraha näyttelyyn Galleria Rajatilassa 2014.