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ANTTI LAITINEN

Born in 1975; Lives and works in Finland.

EDUCATION

Helsinki Art Academy, MA, 2002-04
Turku Arts Academy, Photography, BA, 1998-02
Virrat, Media School/multimedia, 1996-98
Kuusamo Photo School, 1995-96

Solo exhibition, Alto Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale (1 June - 24 November 2013)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Bark Boat, NETTIE HORN, London (6 May-19 June)

Touched - Liverpool Biennial, (September - November)
Voyage, Museum Kunst der Westküste, (September- January)

Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, 2005
Rantagalleria, Photography Center, Oulu, 2004-05

Sweat work, Gallery of Arts Academy, Helsinki, Finland

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

6th Ventosul – Bienal de Curitiba, Brasil
Landscape Experiences , Tunne maisema (17 June-23 October)
On the Edge – What if?, Obrestad lighthouse, Hå gamle prestegard, Norway (28 May-25 September)
Nuit Blanche 2011, video projection, Garden of the museum of Montmartre, Paris curated by Frank Lamy and Alexia Fabre (1 October)
Water - Sense and Sensation , Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku (April –August)
Journeymen (Antti Laitinen & David Blandy), Air Space Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK (February–March)
Physical Center, Yinka Shonibare's Space, London (January – February)

Rauma Biennial Balticum, Rauma, Finland (June-October)
I-Lands, Fuglsang Kunstmuseum, Toreby, Denmark (May-September)
The Collective, NETTIE HORN, London (July-August)
AVIFF - Art Video International Film Festival, Cannes (May)
I-Lands, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark (September 2009 - April 2010)
Collection exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland (Feb-March)
Wonderland: Actions & Paradoxes, video programme, Centro Cultural Sâo Paolo, Brasil (Feb- April)
Ultra Silvam (Beyond the Forest), Wonderland Art Space, Copenhagen (March)

Earth: Art of a Changing World / GSK Contemporary, Royal Academy of Arts, London
(Dec 2009 –January 2010)

2009

Weimar Art Festival, ACC gallery, Germany (September-October)
Athens Biennale, Greece (15 June - 4 October 2009)
Contemporary Now!, Gallery Anhava, Helsinki, Finland (August)
Mänttä Art Festival, Finland [14 June - 23 August 2009]
Crossover, HoviArt, Anttolan Hovi, Anttola, Finland (June – August)
Medium Art Centre, Beijing, China (25 April - 26 June 2009)
Oulu City Art Museum, Finland (group show)
Monobandes, Les Territoires, Montreal

Monobandes, Les Territoires, Montreal
Hotel Meridian (part of Odyssey 500 project), London (November)
Live Herring 08, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland (November)
Maan Asema / La position de la Terre (100% Finlande), CRAC Alsace (Centre Rhénan d’Art
Contemporain, France
Espace Croix-Baragnon, Toulouse, France
Kerava Art Museum, Finland
Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Museum, Turku, Finland
Gallery Kakelhallen, Mariehamn, Åland
What is Live Art in Finnish?, Muu galleria, Helsinki, Finland then travels to Paris (June 2008) and Helsinki

Beauhemia, Nettie Horn, London
Nordisk Panorama, Nuku, Oulu, Finland
4th Triennal of Finnish Art, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland
Gallery Signe Vad, Copenhagen, Denmark
Oulu City Art Museum
Male Stuff, Peri, Turku, Finland
Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg, Germany

What’s Up North, Rantagalleria, Photography Center, Oulu, Finland
White Box, New York, USA
HIAP, Helsinki
Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg, Germany

Kutsu, Katajanokka, Helsinki, Finland
Helsinki City Art Museum

Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
Kunsthalle Helsinki

Backlight International Triennial, Tampere
Cultural Center of Hämeenlinna, Virne, Finland
Photography Center of Mikkeli, Virne, Finland
Peri, Photography Center, Pojat, Turku, Finland

Peri, Photography Center, Turku
Tampere Hall, Tampere
Peri, Photography Center, Turku

Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki

PERFORMANCES

Bark Boat”, Liverpool Biennial, UK, 25 September
“Bark Boat”, Helsinki-Tallinn, Gulf of Finland, 5 August
"Voyage", Rauma Biennial Balticum, Rauma, Finland, June

2009

Walk the Line, Anti Festival, Kuopio, Finland, September
Voyage, The Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece, September
Voyage, The XIV Mänttä Art Festival, Mantta, Finland, June-October

Voyage, as part of the Hotel Meridian exhibition, London, November
Walk the Line, Live Herring ´08 , Walk the Line, Jyväskylä, Finland, 27 October

Verbo Performance art festival, Galeria Vermelho, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Taidepanimo, Lahti, Pair 01
Szentendre, Danube, Hungary
Forum Box, Helsinki
Taidepanimo, Lahti, Pair 02

White Space Gallery, London
Kiasma, Helsinki, Ars 06 Performance event
Circulo De Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain, Jámon-Kinkkua!
Taidepanimo, Lahti, Pair 01
City of Toijala, Näkymä

Anti-festival, Kuopio
Helsinki Art Academy
Puskinskaja-10, St. Petersburg, Russia
Zodiak, Helsinki, (with The Blackroom Act)

Myymälä 2, Forces of Light, Helsinki
Lábas, Helsinki

Vapriikki, Backlight, Tampere
Häme Gallery, Lahti

RESIDENCIES

Artists’ Associsation of Oulu, Berlin, 2006
Centre for Contemporary Art at Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw,Poland, 2005-2006
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, 2005

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• URBAN Magazine / FRANCESCA BONAZZOLI, “L’Isola Che Non c’e », July-August 2010, pp.50-51.
• LA LIBRE BELGIQUE Newspaper / CLAUDE LORENT, “Les rêves de sauvegarde de la beauté du monde”, mercredi 6 janvier 2010, p.2.
• VOGUE Magazine / SARA WHEELER, “Ice Breakers”, December 2009, p.125.
• DE STANDAARD Newspaper / GEERT SELS, 19 December 2009, C17.
• THE OBSERVER Newspaper / LAURA CUMMING, “Earth – but not as we know it”, 13 December 2009, p.16.
• THE INDEPENDENT Newspaper / JOHANN HARI, “At last our artists are confronting the reality of climate change”, Wednesday 9 December 2009, p.31.
• INTELLIGENT LIFE Magazine / TIM DE LISLE, “One man and his island”, Vol.3, Issue 2, Winter 2009, pp.24-25.
• ARTWORLD Magazine / ALEXA CSIZMADIA, “Interview”, Issue 12, August-Sept 2009, pp.78-81.
• FRAMEWORK Magazine / JUHA-HEIKKI TIHINEN, “Que Vide See These Things”, Issue 10, June 2009, pp.108-116.

PETER SUCHIN, / “O-Skaber / I-Lands”, Kunsthallen Brandts, Fuglsang Kunstmuseum, Odense, 2009, pp.64-82.

 “HoviArt’09 / CROSSOVER”, Anttolanhovi, Anttola, 2009, pp.40-45.

ONLINE

1. THEDAILYBEAST.COM / OLIVIA COLE, “The Hottest Show on Earth”, 10 December 2009.
2. FINEMB.ORG.UK (Ambassy of Finland) / TIINA HEINILA, “Review”, 8 December 2009.
3. BFFSF.BLOGSPOT.COM / ANDREW TAYLOR, “Antti Laitinen”, Tuesday 5 May 2009.
4. WIRED.COM / DYLAN TWENEY, “No-B.S. GPS Art: From Geocaching to Geodrawing”, 30 May 2008.

COLLECTIONS

Saatchi Collection
Helsinki City Art Museum
Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art/Turku City Art Museum
Helsinki Art Academy
Northern Photographic Centre
Geological Survey of Finland
Private Collections worldwide