Heidi Hänninen

1982
Artist (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’m an almost graduated art teacher (B.A). I started my MFA- studies in Finnish Academy of Fine Arts (sculpture) in September 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.

Teaching art brings another point of view also to the school-world. The school-world lies today 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. I make performances, videos and installations, draw, paint and cast. I don’t want to get stuck using one technique or just one theme. I choose material which helps me the best way to show my thoughts. Lately it has been mostly concrete.

For me Russia is a great source of inspiration, ‘maja myza’. I was studying in Saint Petersburg in the State academy of art and design, in the faculty of monumental painting, as an exchange student in 2008-2009. Russia interests me in many different levels: language, culture, art, animations, toys, history, politics, people, places, architecture, the way how people take over the surrounding space and so on.

In Russia, I have also found a concrete view of my own mind. Through art 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

Studies:
2011 Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. MFA - studies/Sculpture. Helsinki, Finland.
2010 – 2011Aalto University, Fine Arts. Helsinki, Finland.
2009 – University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design. Art Education Program (B.A 2011)
2008 – 2009 St.Petersburg State Academy Of Art and Design. Faculty of Monumental Arts.
2005 – 2008 University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design. Art Education Program
2004 – 2005 University of Art and Design Helsinki (TaiK)
2003 – 2004 University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design. Art Education Program
2002 – 2003 University of Helsinki
2001 High school graduate. Helsingin kuvataidelukio. Helsinki art high school.

Solo exhibitions:
2011 Ideological Alphabet. Videoinstallation + workshop. Container-square, Kalasatama, Helsinki.
2011 Natural Blue. Videoinstallation. Container-square, Kalasatama, Helsinki.
2011 ”Animal stories”. Kitch (cafe-bar) and Bistro Artesana. Helsinki, Finland.
2010 “Avovaunujen turkoosit pylväät.” My travelling-diary through myself and Russia, and the way back to the starting
point. Videos, installations. Gallery Kilo. University of Lapland. Rovaniemi.
2009 “Black and white animal stories.” Paintings, drawings. Gallery Borey. St. Petersburg, Russia.
2009 “Black and white animal stories.” Paintings, drawings. Café Zoom. St. Petersburg,Russia.
2009 “Mortuus non multus”. Video-installations, (online) performance. Vyhod Media-center. Petrozavodsk, Russia.
2008 “Ja Znaju – Mä snaijaan”. Installations and videos. “Katve”- gallery, Rovaniemi, Finland.
2004 “Olla tyttö” (“Being a girl”). Woodcuts. University of Lapland. Rovaniemi, Finland.

Upcoming solo exhibitions:
2012 December/ FaFa-gallery/ Helsinki.

Group exhibitions:
2011 ”Lookin’ Good Finland”. Installation by Riina & Heidi Hänninen. Suvilahti, Helsinki.
2011 ”Inspiration”. Sodankylä, Finland.
2011 “Äärellä”. Gallery Becker. Jyväskylä, Finland. (Members of Artists´ Association Of Lapland)
2011 “Ahne”. (Students of Aalto University) Videos. Tallinn, Estonia.
2010-2011 ”Jasli” ERARTA, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
2010 Lapin taiteilijaseura NYT! /Artists´ Association Of Lapland NOW! Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki.
2010 Annual exhibition by Union of Finnish Art Association. Järvenpää. Finland.
2010 ERARTA, opening exhibition, presentation of young artists. Saint Petersburg, Russia.
2010 Kesänapa. Paintings. Napa- gallery. Rovaniemi, Finland.
2010 Pan Barentz workshops. MurmanskMotion2009. Insea conference 2010. University of Lapland. Rovaniemi.
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 “šah mat”. Department of Decorative and Mural Painting (Monumental Arts). Video-installation and painting.
St.Petersburg State Academy Of Art and Design. Russia.
2009 “Arkki”. Installations and videos. Helsinki, Finland.
2008 “Christmas”. Paintings. Conservatory of Saint Petersburg, Russia.
2008 “Colouring the north”. Gallery Verligheten, Umeå, Sweden.
2008 “Russian roulette”. Video: “Pussyan roulette”. Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany.
2008 Faces etnofestival. Installations and videos. Billnäs, Finland.
2008 “Human’s nature”. Video: “Circulation”. Rovaniemi, Finland.
2006 Ice-sculptures (installation). Luleå Vinterbiennal, Luleå, Sweden. (workshop + exhibition)
2005 “Redo India”- installation. University of Lapland. (workshop + exhibition)
2005 Paintings. Library of Vallila, Helsinki, Finland.

Upcoming group exhibitions:
3.12.2011-8.1.2012. . Nuoret 2011. Taidehalli. Helsinki, Finland.
2012 February. International BELA Biennale (by AVA- gallery). Portugal.
2012 January. New Masters- exhibition, FaFa- gallery, Helsinki, Finland.
2012 Street art- exhibition. Pori Artmuseum. Finland.

Other projects:
2011 “Peace can be found in colours – PoliticalBird”. Helsinki/ Baltic/Berlin.
2011 Multicoloured Dreams presents: Multicoloured Peace/ Summer 2011. Organizer, painter.
2011 Kalasatama Container Square/ Summer 2011. Organizing, planning, implementation.
2009 – 2010 "Pilvenpiirtäjät". Heidi Hänninen and Grigorij Pisarenko (architect, St. Petersburg, Russia). Paintings for
public spaces. (Cakelabs/ St.Petersburg, Russia 2009. Pilvenpiirtäjät in Berlin/ Berlin, Kreutzberg, 2010. Multicoloured
Dreams/ Helsinki, Finland 2010)
2009 "Pan Barentz"-project. Architecture- workshop "MurmanskMotion". Murmansk, Russia. (teacher, researcher)
2007 "Arctic children"-program. Lovozero, Russia. (teacher)
2007 "Tulikettu" (“Fire-fox”) Cross-artictical and –scientifical performance-workshop and show. Utsjoki, FI. (teacher)
2007 "Tuulikettu" (“Wind-fox”) Performance- and painting workshop. Utsjoki, Lapland. (teacher)

Performances:
2008 Anonymous. At the exhibition opening (“Human’s nature”). Rovaniemi, Finland.
2008 “Luullun arvausta”. Performance. Art-museum of Rovaniemi, Finland.
2008 “Border exercises”. Installation + performance. Barents Spektakel. Kirkenes, Norway.
2006 “My fear”. Performance. Rovaniemi, Finland.
2005 “Marras-kalenteri”. Train-performance. Rovaniemi area, Finland.

Workshops (selected):
2011 Poison & Play. by Pia Lindman. Oxid Bungalow at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. (participant)
2011 MCD Muralpainting- workshop. Happi, Youth Department of Helsinki, Finland. (teacher)
2008 Media expression workshop (+ exhibition). “Livingroom”. University of Lapland.
2008 “Border exercises”-workshop. Barents Spektakel. Kirkenes, Norway. (participant)
2007 “How do we do”. First-Artsmo- program, State Academy of Art and design. St.Petersburg, Russia. (participant)
2007 “Hot Arctic”-workshop by performance-group Blue Noses (Russia). Barents Spektakel. Kirkenes, Norway.
(participant)

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.

Art Residencies:
2011 February. Berlin, Germany.
2010 August. Berlin, Germany.

Groups:
Multicoloured Dreams, Helsinki. Visual movement to transform temporary contruction-sites in the city into vehicles of
street art. Organizer, artist, teacher.

Memberships:
2011 Artists´ Association Of Helsinki, Finland
2010 Artists´ Association Of Lapland, Finland

Grants:
2011 Grant by Faculty of Sculpture/ Finnish Academy Of Fine Arts

Others:
Curating: 2011 Kalasatama Container Square/ Summer 2011/ TaiK Container (exhibitions).
Presentations: Site-specific art education. MurmanskMotion 2009. Insea conference 2010. University of Lapland.