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12.4.24-6.4.25 / Way of the World – works from the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation Collection,  Korundi, Rovaniemi, Finland

26.10.24.-12.1.25 / Feast for the Eye – Works by the Young Artist of the Year, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland

10/2025 / Solo exhibition Kunstverket Gallery, Oslo, Norway

Recent

4.-21.11.2024 / Displaced with Tatu Tuominen, Academy of Fine Arts Gdansk , Gdansk, Poland

30.8.-12.10.24 / Manifesto, Lokal Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

14.6.-10.8.24 / Gpraphein, Cultural Center Poleeni, Pieksamäki, Finland

6.-29.10.23 / To Unfold Colour, AMA Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

Works

Works

BIO

Bio

FI

Ari Pelkonen (s. 1978) on Helsingissä asuva ja työskentelevä kuvataiteilija ja taidegraafikko. Pelkosen taiteellinen työskentely linkittyy voimakkaasti painetun taiteen kenttään. Pelkosen teoksissaan käyttämät painotekniikat, maalaus, liikkuva kuva ja kolmiulotteisuus ovat kaikki tapoja hahmottaa painetun taiteen kenttää ja laajentaa käsitystä siitä, mitä painettu taide ja taidegrafiikka voivat olla tässä ajassa ja nykytaiteessa.

Omakohtaisten aiheiden ohella Pelkosen teosten lähtökohdat ovat painetun taiteen käsitteistössä. Rakennetut kuvat, peittyminen ja paljastuminen, siirtyminen ja välittyminen ovat läsnä. Yhteistyö painetun taiteen menetelmien ja materiaalien kanssa, sekä käsillä tekeminen ovat Pelkosen taiteentekemisen keskiössä.

Pelkosen teoksia on ollut esillä mm. Saatchi Galleriassa Lontoossa, Mäntän Kuvataidepäivillä, Tarton taidehallissa ja EKA Galleriassa Virossa, Graphica Creativa -näyttelyssä Jyväskylän taidemuseossa, IMPACT10 Printmaking -konferenssissa Santanderissa Espanjassa ja Galleria Forum Boxissa ja Galleria AMAssa Helsingissä.

Ari Pelkosen teoksia on kokoelmissa, kuten Nykytaiteen museo Kiasma Helsinki; Saastamoisen säätiö; Paulon säätiö; Jenni ja Antti Wihurin säätiö, sekä useiden suomalaisten taidemuseoiden ja Suomen valtion taidekokoelmassa.

Pelkonen palkittiin Vuoden nuori taiteilija -tunnustuksella ja hän oli ehdolla kansainvälisen Queen Sonja Print -palkinnon saajaksi (molemmat 2012). Vuodesta 2009 lähtien Pelkonen on työskennellyt Taideyliopiston Kuvataideakatemian taidegrafiikan opetusalueella erilaisissa tehtävissä, muun muassa Taidegrafiikan opetusalueen vastuuprofessorin tehtävässä.

 

EN

​​Ari Pelkonen (born 1978) is a visual artist living and working in Helsinki. Pelkonen’s artistic work is strongly linked to the field of printed art. The printing techniques, painting, moving image and three-dimensionality that Pelkonen uses in his works are all ways to visualize the field of printed art and contribute to expanding the perception of what printed art and printmaking can be in our time and in contemporary art..

In addition to personal subjects, Pelkonen’s works are based on the concept of printmaking. Constructed images, covering and revealing, displacement and mediation are present. Cooperation with the methods and materials of printed art, as well as making things by hands, are at the center of Pelkonen’s art-making.

Pelkonen’s works have been exhibited in e.g. At the Saatchi Gallery in London, at Mänttä Art Festival, at Tartu Art Hall and EKA Galleria in Estonia, at the Graphica Creativa exhibition at the Jyväskylä Art Museum, at the IMPACT10 Printmaking conference in Santander, Spain, and at Gallery Forum Box and Gallery AMA in Helsinki.

Ari Pelkonen’s works are held in the collections of  e.g. The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma Helsinki; the Saastamoinen Foundation; the Paulo Foundation; the Jenni and Antti Wihuri Foundation; and several Finnish art museums, as well as the art collections of the State of Finland.

Pelkonen was awarded the Finnish Young Artist of the Year Award and nominated for the International Queen Sonja Print Award (both 2012). Since 2009, Pelkonen has worked at the University of the Arts Helsinki in the Printmaking Department in various capacities, including substituting for the Head of Department.

CV

CV

ARI PELKONEN

Born in Pori, Finland 1978
Lives and works in Helsinki, Finland

Studies

2007 MFA, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
2004 BFA, Turku Arts Academy, Turku, Finland
2000 Satakunta Arts and Crafts, Graphic design studies, Nakkila, Finland
1998 Länsi-Pori kuvataidelukio, Pori, Finland

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023 Pori Printmakers gallery, Pori, Finland
2023
To Unfold Color, Gallery AMA, Helsinki, Finland
2021
Still Life, Gallery Himmelblau, Tampere, Finland
2020 Lavastaja, Gallery AMA, Helsinki, Finland
2017 Remain a Stranger, Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Takkahuone, Turku, Finland
2016 Gallery Himmelblau, Tampere, Finland
2015 Visible Inside, Gallery AMA, Helsinki, Finland
2014 Printedpainted, Gallery Pictor, Nummela, Finland
2014 Remain a Stranger, Gallery G, Helsinki, Finland
2013 Whats the Story, Gallery Joella, Turku, Finland
2012 Young Artist of the Year 2012 -exhibition, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
2010 Forestfalls, Gallery Aarni, Modern Art Museum of Espoo, Espoo, Finland
2009 Wood Is Paint, Gallery G, Helsinki, Finland
2009 Black Light, Poriginal gallery, Pori, Finland
2008 Night Sight, Gallery Topelius, Helsinki, Finland
2007 Woods, Gallery Huuto, Helsinki, Finland
2006 Slower line, Glass Palace exhibition Space, Helsinki, Finland
2004 Mountain Lines, Gallery G, Helsinki, Finland
2004 Guest Room, Gallery Joella, Turku, Finland

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 Maailman menoa – Works form Jenny and Antti Wihuri Collections, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland
2021
Showstopper, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2021
Err is Human, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland
2020
Recemblence Through Contact: Grammar of Imprint, EKA Gallery, Tallin, Estonia and Tartu Art House, Tartu, Estonia
2019
 Graphica Creativa 2019, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland
2019 HIT-exhibition, Haugesund Billedgalleri, Haugesund, Norway
2019 Playing GroundsInka Bell, Inma Herrera, Päivikki Kallio, Suvi Sysi, Galleria G, Helsinki, Finland
2019 Summer Exhibition 2019 (With Ville Anderson, HC Berg, Samuli Heimonen, Nanna Susi, Niidome and Lautenbacher) Sysmä, Finland
2018
 Private Archives/Yksityiset Arkistot, Jussi Juurinen, Ari Pelkonen and Tatu Tuominen, Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland
2018 IMPACT 10, Collaborative print project ”Devotions upon Emergent Occasions” (after John Donne) with KuvA Printmakers, Santander, Spain
2018 Toisia Todellisuuksia, Jyväskylän Art Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland
2017 Kasvotusten Summer Exhibition 2017, (with Kuutti Lavonen, Ville Löppönen, Heikki Marila and Sirpa Särkijärvi) Sysmä, Finland
2017 6th Ulsan International Woodcut Exhibition, Korea
2014 Helsingistä – Twelve Galleries Project, Providence collage Galleries,
2014 Providence, USA (with Valpuri Remling, Curator Jamilee Lacy)
2014 3rd Shanghai International Printmaking Exhibition, China Art Museum, Shanghai
2014 Meidän Katu, Vantaan Art Museum, Vantaa, Finland
2014 Helsingistä – Twelve Galleries Project, Western Exhibitions Gallery,
2014 Chicago, USA (With Valpuri Remling, Curator Jamilee Lacy)
2013 Vuoden nuoria taiteilijoita 1985 – 2012, Gumbostrand Kons&Form, Söderkulla, Finland
2012 Fire Grefiske Fortellinger, Gallery Kunsverket, (with Annu Vertanen, Tiina Kivinen, Jaana Paulus) Oslo, Norway
2012 Pritns Tokyo 2012, Tokyo, Japan
2012 Ikuinen kivi (with Matti Hintikka, Kuutti Lavonen, Anna Retulainen, Elina Sipilä, Kaisu Sirviö, Miikka Vaskolan kanssa) Savonlinna, Finland
2012 Retretti, Punkaharju, Finland
2012 Graphica Creativa 2012, Jyväskylä Art museum, Jyväskylä, Finland
2011 Finnis Printmakers 80 years – scholarship exhibition, Gallery Harmonia, Jyväskylä, Finland
2011 The 1st International Moguhanga Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan
2010 Puberty, Finnish Printmakers 80 years -Anniversary Exhibition, Salo Art Museum, Salo, Finland
2009 Young 2009 – Exhibition, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
2009 Salon de Mai, Paris, France
2006 Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Spring Exhibition, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland

Works in Collections

Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma
The Saastamoinen Foundation
Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation
The Paulo Foundation
Finnish State Art Collection
Finnish Art Association Collection
Helsinki City Hospital Art Collections
The Collection of the Prime Minister Office Finland; The Portrait of the President Sauli Niinistö of the Republic of Finland, made together with 100 artists
Tampere Art Museum
Vantaa Art Museum
Jyväskylä Art Museum
Lahti Art Museum
Kuopio Art Museum
Academy of Fine Arts
Pori Saskia Association

Awards and Nominations

2022 Public Art work, Kuopio University Campus, Kuopio, Finland
2016 Public Art work, Senaatti -properties, Helsinki, FI
2014
Garnagie painting competition nominee
2013
SGN Group, Prize in Young Printmakers print portfolio
2012 Queen Sonja Print Award nominee
2011 Young Artist of the Year 2012 Nomination
2011 Finnish Printmakers 80 yars, Exhibition Scholarship
2009 Maecenas Guild Young Artist Award in NUORET09 exhibition

Teaching and Position of Trust

2023 – 2025 Member in Finnish State Art Collections
2021
Kankaanpää Art School, Satakunta University of Applied Sciences
2021
University of Arts Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts, Lecturer, Printmaking responsible professors tasks
2021
Kankaanpää Art School, Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, Printmaking
2020 – 2022
Member of Finnish State Art Collections
2019
Turku Art Academy, Printmaking
2018 – 2021
University of the Arts Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts, Lecturer and hour based teacher, Printmaking
2010 – 2012
 University of the Arts Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts, Tecnician and hour based teacher, Printmaking
2009 – 2010 Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, department assistant, Printmaking
2005 – 2009 Kankaanpää Art School
2003 – 2004 Folk School of Southwest Finland

Memberships

Helsinki Artists’ Association
Finnish Woodcut Artists Society
Finnish Printmakers

Contact

Contact

Ari Pelkonen
+358 40 776 1165
aripelkonen@hotmail.com

 

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