ANNI LAAKSO
artist , lives and works in Helsinki, Finland
www.annilaakso.net
Curriculum vitae
education
2012- Doctoral candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
1997 MA, the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, department of sculpture
1990-95 BA, the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, department of sculpture
selected solo exhibitions
2021 Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki
2015 Temporary Monument, Gallery Jangva, Helsinki
2014 Gallery Uusikuva, Kotka , Finland
2013 MUU- gallery, Helsinki
2012 Urban Art Gallery, WSP Finland, Helsinki
2012 Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki
2010 Gallery Forum Box, Helsinki
2008 Galérie Perpétuel, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2008 Huuto Gallery , Helsinki
2007 MUU-gallery, Helsinki
2007 HIAP, Project room, Helsinki
2004 Helsinki City Art Museum, Kluuvi Gallery
2000 Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki
selected group exhibitions
2022 Windpavilion, Notgalerie, Seestadt, Vienna, Austria
2022 Summer exhibition, Art House Brander, Mänttä, Finland
2021 Camping, Art House Brander, Mänttä, Finland
2020 Wriggling, MAA- projectspace, Helsinki (with Martta Tuomaala)
2020 Object 6, Espoo centrum
2019 InfoLab, Research Pavilion#3, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki
2019 Disrupted processes-group, Research Pavilion #3, Venice, Italy,
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/702990/702991
2017 Future diaries, Lapinlahti park, Helsinki
2016 Gaps and interruptions, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki (with Henna-Riikka Halonen, Jaana Kokko and
Bodily exercises-group)
2016 Gaps and Interruptions, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki
2015 Finland- Sweden 5-5, Hanasaari cultural centre, Espoo, Finland
2013 AIM Europe, Cable Gallery, Helsinki
2013 OpenArt2013, Örebro, Sweden
2012 5.TampereTriennale. Art in the residental areas, Housing Fair, Tampere, Finland
2011 New Sculpture, Lahti Art Museum, Finland
2010 Le Petit Festival du Téatre, Dubrovnik, Croatia
2010 URB10-festival, Kiasma, Contemporary art museum, Helsinki
2009 Home as a stage for art, Private homes in Loviisa, Finland
2008 Trash weeks, Hyvinkää Art Museum, Finland
2008 Simple Life, Fiskars, Finland
2008 Mänttä ArtExhibition, Mänttä, Finland
2006 Places of departure and arrival, Helsinki, Kamppi area
2006 Cold Climates, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2006 Placing Sense, MUU- gallery and www.ps.kuten.net
2005 MUU 18 years, Helsinki Kunsthalle , Lab of Change with biologist Antti Halkka
2004 Cold Climates, APT Gallery, London, U.K
2003 Poetry of water, Russian museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2002 CAPSULE, Lights of the Harbour-exhibition in the Helsinki Southern Harbour
2002 The Association of finnish artists, Helsinki Kunsthalle
2000 Feeling the city, Helsinki, European cultural capital 2000-event
2000 The Association of finnish artists, Kunsthalle, Helsinki
1998 MuuMediaFestival98, Cablefactory, Helsinki
1998 ArtGenda98, Stockholm, Sweden, PARASITE-project, with Pasi Mann and Tea Mäkipää
1997 PARASITE-project in Espoo City bureau, Finland, with Pasi Mann and Tea Mäkipää
public works of art
2011 Leinelä kindergarten, Vantaa, Finland
2002 Kivikko social centre, Helsinki
1995 Congrecational centre, Espoo, Finland
artist-in residence stays
2022 Paris, Cité internationale des arts
2019 The finnish institute in Rome, Italy, Villa Lante
2017 Paris, Cité internationale des arts
2013 Finnish cultural foundation in New York
2006 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, HIAP (Helsinki International Artist-in -residence Programme)
2002 Qaqortoq, Greenland, NIFCA (Nordic Institute of Contemporary Art)
2001 Paris, Cite`internationale des arts
2000 NewYork. Finnish foundation for visual arts
