Riitta Nelimarkka
| Riitta Nelimarkka |
Riitta Nelimarkka |
| Born |
July 6, 1948 (1948-07-06) (age 63)
Helsinki |
| Nationality |
Finnish |
Riitta Nelimarkka ( Nelimarkka-Seeck) (born 6 July 1948 in Helsinki) is a Finnish artist and professor.
Studies
Nelimarkka studied painting in Paris and at the Free Art School in Helsinki, art education at the University of Helsinki, piano playing at the Sibelius Academy, and photography, film, and art education at the Konstfacken Academy of Art in Stockholm. She became a graduate art teacher in 1972 and earned her Master of Art in 1998. She studied at the Institute of Industrial Arts, Department of Film and Television, in Helsinki. She successfully defended her doctoral thesis of arts in 2001 at the University of Art and Design Helsinki. Nelimarkka was awarded the title of Professor on 6 December 2008.
Art career
Nelimarkka's production includes graphics, animations, photographs, videos, paintings, art and poetry books, art textiles, and broad exhibition fairs. Since 1973, she has held numerous private and museum exhibitions in Finland and abroad. She has also held several commissions of trust within the film and art industry.
She is granddaughter of professor and painter Eero Nelimarkka, and daughter of Antti Nelimarkka, founder of Neles Oys.
Ph.D.
Nelimarkka's thesis, Self Portrait: Variation of Variation (2000), illustrated her relationship with her own works and reflected on philosophers like Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer. Permission was granted to print the thesis, but in November 2000, the degree council rejected her thesis. Nelimarkka insisted on a correction; the degree board overruled the degree council’s decision. Self Portrait was approved in February 2001. Nelimarkka wrote a pamphlet about the experience that was published in 2005 under the title "Thesis Farce".
Exhibitions
Nelimarkka has held private exhibitions since 1974. She has a permanent exhibition in the hundred-year-old Castle Bonga in Lovisa since 1998. She has participated in joint exhibitions in Finland and abroad. Nelimarkka's textile works are held by private and public collections, international corporations, in several Finnish embassies, and in the residency of the President of the Republic of Finland.
Awards and recognition
- Awards and honorable mentions at international festivals in in Bologna (1990 and 1992) and in Brno (1992)
- Jury's Special Award at the children’s movie festival in Giffon, Italy, in 1980
- Risto Jarva Award in 1985
- Jussi honorary book in 1979
- Kalevala Fellowship Youth Award in 1975
- Critics Spur in 1974
- Government movie award in 1972
- Movie awards in 1972, 1973, and 1979
- Several art grants, from the Cultural Fund
Work series
- Elysium or not Elysium, photographs, collages, and sculptures (2010)
- Girls are Girls are Girls, screen prints and paintings (2010)
- Wild Horses, paintings (2010)
- Elise Now, mixed collection (2010)
- Easy Living, woolen reliefs and screen prints (2009–2010)
- Birds are Birds, screen prints (2009)
- Donna Est Mobile, woolen reliefs and mobiles (2009)
- Grand Piano Heads II, collages (2008)
- The Annual Prize of the Apple of the Good Knowledge, The Association of Journalists of Medicine (1992–2008)
- The Secret Planet, photographies (2008)
- Unique Kiss, woolen reliefs, drawings, and paintings (2007–2008)
- Secret Colours, mixed technique (2007)
- Golf is Cool!, coal&chalk -drawings and woolen reliefs (2007)
- Elise Loves Life, woolen reliefs (2007)
- Angels and Lemons, woolen reliefs (2007)
- Dangels and Evils, woolen reliefs and drawings (2006)
- Dogs and Foxes, screen prints (2005)
- Grand Piano Heads II, screen prints and drawings (2005)
- 102, watercolour paintings (2005)
- Creatures and Things, woolen reliefs (2005–2006)
- The Peace Family, woolen reliefs and watercolors (2004)
- Oceania, screen prints (2003–2004)
- Right and Wrong colours – Aquarelle garden, watercolour paintings (2002)
- Soulscapes, watercolors (2004)
- Impressions, watercolors and monotypes (2002)
- Mystery Rabbit, photographs (2001–2002)
- Northern Brights, woolen reliefs and screen prints (2001)
- Elise is symphatetic, woolen reliefs (2001)
- Grand Piano Heads, screen prints (2000)
- Flygelise, velvet pictures and woolen reliefs (1997–1998)
- Teared off the cat skin, coal drawings (1982–1989)
- Babylonia, coal and chalk drawings (1980–1990)
- Apollon, velvet and linen pictures and screen prints (1992–1994)
- Sophisticated, woolen reliefs (1993–1994)
- Eroica, chalk drawings (1987–1995)
- The Joyful Sea, woolen reliefs (1987–1989)
- Karmelia, velvet pictures (1983–1993)
- Dogs and Foxes, velvet pictures (1976–1979)
Books
- Elise's Unmemories, Tammi, 2008
- The Marginal – Coloring Book: not for the Weak of Heart, art print and Seneca, 2005
- Thesis Farce, Seneca 2003
- Self Portrait: Elise's Dissertation: Variation of a Variation, Seneca, 2000
- Giovanna, Seneca & Tammi, 1996
- Apollon, Seneca & Tammi, 1996
- Oceania, Seneca & WSOY, 1993
- Babylonia, Seneca and Tammi, 1991
- Karmelia's ABC, Seneca and Tammi, 1990
- Tabula Rasa, WSOY, 1987
- Eero Nelimarkka (with Jaakko Seeck and Pekka Suhonen), Weilin & Göös, 1984
- The Gallery (with Leena Krohn), WSOY, 1983
- The Big and The Small in the Universe, Weilin & Göös, 1983
- The Seven Brothers, Weilin & Göös, 1980 (1999 Tammi)
- Bishop Henry and Lalli, Gummerus, 1975
- The Robbing of the Sampo, Gummerus, 1974
- The Space (Appelqvist-Jännes-Nelimarkka), Gummerus, 1972
Movies
- The Seven Brothers 2, French-English, 2008, 2011 (co-production Les Filmes du Paradoxe and Seneca)
- The Seven Brothers DVD, 2008, 2011
- Birth of Rabula, 1995
- Bagatelles, op. 1–13, 1985–1986, 2011
- The Seven Brothers, 1979
- Coloured Globe, 1975
- Bishop Henry and Lalli, 1974
- The Legend of the Sampo 1–3, 1972–1974
References
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Nelimarkka, Riitta |
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| Short description |
artist and teacher |
| Date of birth |
6 July 1948 |
| Place of birth |
Helsinki |
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