Heli Rekula

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Heli Rekula
Born28 February 1963 (1963-02-28) (age 59)
Helsinki
NationalityFinnish

Heli Rekula (born 28 February 1963) is a Finnish photographer and video maker. She is a member of "The Helsinki School" of photography. [1]

Life

Rekula was born in Helsinki in 1963. Rekula graduated from the Lahti Institute of Design photography course in 1991.

In the 1990s and early 2000s, she worked as a freelance photographer contributing to the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat . She has taught Art and Design at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 2008 she was chosen to be the Finn who would spend a year in Ireland as part of an exchange. She was based at the Temple Bar Gallery and Studios in Dublin. [2] Between 2009 and 2015, she worked as Professor of Photography at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design before becoming Senior University Lecturer at the Master's Programme in Photography at Aalto University. [3]

In 2001, Rekula participated in the Venice Biennale. [4] Rekula has been awarded the Ars Fennica Award in 2002 [5] photography State Prize in 2005 [3] and the Finnish Art Society Prize for Literature in 2014 of her work Hemingway's Garden. [6] Rekula has made a study of the influences on the writer Ernest Hemingway. [3]

Rekula won the Carnegie Art Award in 2012. [7] Her works from the years 1989–2004 were featured in Kiasma - the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2005 in a large retrospective exhibition DESERT. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Helsinki School, Helsinki School.fi, Retrieved 14 May 2016
  2. 1 2 Irish/Finnish Artist Exchange Award 2008 Archived 2016-06-03 at the Wayback Machine , Finnish Institute, 2008, Retrieved 14 May 2016
  3. 1 2 3 Heli Rekula, HelsinkiContemporary.com, Retrieved 14 May 2016
  4. ↑ Harald Szeemann; Cecilia Liveriero Lavelli; Lara Facco (2001). La Biennale di Venezia: 49. Esposizione internazionale d'arte : platea dell'umanità. Electa.
  5. ↑ Ars Fennica Awards Archived 2015-09-19 at the Wayback Machine , Retrieved 14 May 2016
  6. ↑ Frilander, Aino (3 December 2014). "Taideyhdistyksen perinteikäs Dukaattipalkinto ympäristöteemoja käsittelevälle kuvataiteilija Alma Heikkilälle". HS.fi. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  7. ↑ "Awards 2012: Heli Rekula". Carnegie. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
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