Profile
Born in Maaninka, 1969.
Lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.
Member of The Union of Artist Photographers since 1998 Helsinki, FI.
2002 Master of Arts, University of Art and Design, Helsinki, FI – Department of Photography
1998 Bachelor of Art, University of Art and Design, Helsinki, FI – Department of Photography
https://www.riittapaivalainen.com
Biography
[Selected Solo Shows]
2019
Galleri Andersson Sandström, Stockholm, Sweden
2018
Gallery TaiK Persons, Berlin, Germany
2016
Gallery Valo, Arktikum Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland
Gallery Camara Oscura, Madrid, Spain
2015
Yumiko Chiba Associates, Viewing Room, Tokyo, Japan
2014
Korjaamo Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Galleri Andersson Sandström, Umea, Sweden
Galleri Andersson Sandström, Stockholm, Sweden
2009
Skövde Art Museum with Pasi Välimaa, Sweden
Gallery Confluence, solo exhibition, Nantes, France
2008/09
Kerava Art Museum, “Wanderings and Imaginary Meetings”
with Ari Saarto, Kerava, Finland
2008 Gallery Camara Oscura, with Aino Kannisto, Madrid, Spain
Kemi Art Museum, “Wanderings and Imaginary Meetings”
with Ari Saarto, Kemi, Finland
2007/08
Galleri Andersson Sandström, Umea, Sweden
2007
National Museum of Szczecin, “Wanderings and Imaginary Meetings” with Ari Saarto, Szczecin, Poland
Jönköping Art Museum, Jönköping, Sweden 2006 Haninge Art Museum, Haninge, Sweden
Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle, Sweden
2005
Gallery Archifax, with Ari Saarto, Genoa, Italy
2004
Gallery Valo, Rovaniemi, Finland
City Library of Jönköping, Jönköping, Sweden
2003
Gallery Dina4Projekte, München, Germany
Gallery Stefan Andersson, Umea, Sweden
Arktikum-centre, Rovaniemi, Finland
2002
Gallery Artina, Helsinki, Finland
Gallery Romfeia, with Ari Saarto, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2001
The Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, England
Photographic Centre Nykyaika, Tampere, Finland
2000
VB Photographic Centre, with Nanna Hänninen, Kuopio, Finland
Northern Photographic Centre, Oulu, Finland
1999
Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, Finland
1998
Gallery Zinc, Stockholm, Sweden
[Selected Group Shows]
2021
“New Perspectives Through Photography – 25 years of the Helsinki School”, group show, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland
“Kenen luonto?/Whose nature?”, curated group show, NorthernPhotographic Centre, Oulu, Finland
“Kenen luonto?/Whose nature?”, curated group show, Kunsthalle Turku, Finland
“TamingNature”, Jaakko Kahilaniemi, Sandra Kantanen and Riitta Päiväläinen, Gallery Valerius, Luxemburg
2020
“The Nature of Being“, group exhibition, Gallery Persons Projects, Berlin, Germany
“Frischer Wind aus dem Norden/ Naturmotiven In der Helsinki School”, curated group exhibition, Kunsthalle St Annen, Lubeck, Germany
2019-20
“LandEscapes”, collections of Boras Art Museum, Boras, Sweden
2019
“Finnish Aalto”, curated group exhibition, Busan Art Museum, Busan, Korea
“Forest.Enter.Exit.”, curated group exhibition, MEWO Kunsthalle, GER
2018
“Nature as Playground”, Gallery H, Trade Center Store, Seoul, Korea
“New Territory, Landscape Photography Now”, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA “Nature as Playground”, Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea
“Elèctric i llunyà. Fotografía contemporánea”, Colección OlorVISUAL, Barcelona, Spain
“Kuvitteellinen Kohtaaminen”, Collections of Wihuri Foundation, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
2017/18
“Real Celebration!”, Collections of Jenny and Antti Wihuri, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
2017
“Independence Through The Lenses”, touring exhibition: Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga/ FLUSS, Wolkersdorf, Germany/ Robert Capa Contem- porary Photography Center, Budabest, Photographt Museum in Siauliai, Lithuania
“Beautiful Horror”, Collections of Kuopio Art Museum, Finland
“Fabric Works”, Louise Bourgeois, Angela de la Cruz, Meta Isaeus-Berlin, Riitta Päiväläinen, Ulf Rollof, Galleri Andersson Sandström, Stockholm, Sweden
“Smell of Málaga: olfactory perceptions of colección olorVisual”, Museo del Patri- monio Municipal, Málaga, Spain
2016/17
“Second Skin”, Museum Schloss Moyand, Bed-Burghau, Germany/ Sinclair House, Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe Germany
2016
“My silence”, Collections of Kuopio Art Museum, Finland
2015
“Daikanyama Photo Fair”, Tokyo, Japan
“Ellas – Creadoras de los siglos XX Y XXI”, CAC Vélez-Málaga Francisco Hernán- dez, Vélez-Málaga, Spain
2013 “Sensibility”, group show, Korjaamo Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
“New Wave Finland – Contemporary Photography from the Helsinki School”, ASF/ Scandinavia House, New York, USA
2012/13
“7th Wave – Wihuri and Visual Art”, Kunsthalle Helsinki, FI
2012
“Helsinki Abstract”, Gallery Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
“Alice in Wonderland”, ECCO Espacio de Creación Contemporánea, Cádiz, Spain
“Female View”, FotoRaum, Wien, Austria
2011
“Helsinki School”, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
“Within/Beyond Borders”, European Investment Bank, Byzantine & Christian Museum, Athens, Greece
“Alice in Wonderland”, Logomo, Turku, Finland
2010
“Suu kuin seitsemän leivän uuni”, Adel Abidin, Pasi Eerik Karjula, Pentti Kaskipuro, Hilda Kozári, Riitta Päiväläinen, Vantaa Art Museum, Finland “The Helsinki School at Daegu Photo Biennale Korea”, Daegu, Korea
“Highlighted Contemporary Finnish photography from the collection of Pieter and Marieke Sanders”, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, Holland
2009
“Regards croisés, Les oeuvres de la BEI à la BCEE”, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2008
“XIII Mänttä Art Festival”, Mänttä, Finland
2007
“6th Biennale de la Photographie Arficaine”, curated group show, Mali, Africa
“Photo Festival, Voies off”, Arles, France
“Photo Finnish”, The Helsinki School, Sternersen Art Museum, Oslo, Norway “Helsinki School”, Art Foyer DZ Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
2006/07
“Facing East: Contemporary Landscape Photography from Baltic Areas”, Yard Gal- lery, Nottingham, England
2006
“Vad är Fotografi?”, Helsinki School, Boras Art Museum, Boras, Sweden “Kolme Tietä”, Kuopio Art Museum, with Nanna Hänninen and Taina Kontio, Kuopio, Finland
“The Helsinki School, Finnish photography from the 21st century”, Hôtel de ville de Bruxelles, Grand-Place, Brussels, Belgium
“Facing East”, Tullie House & Art Gallery, Carlisle, England
“Various Artists: The Helsinki School”, Gallery Photology, Milan, Italy
2005
“Helsinki School, The New Approach”, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Ger
“Peinture Fraîche II: Jeune Création Finlandaise”, Kerava Art Museum, Finland “Personally”, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
“Under Your Skin”, Gallery White Box, New York, USA
“30 by TaiK”, Museum of Finnish Photography, Helsinki, Finland
2004
“Gokann, 4th Triennial of the Finnish Artists’ Association”, Helsinki Kunsthalle, Fi
“Facing East, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, England/Impressions Gallery, York, England
“Peinture Fraîche: Jeune Création Finlandaise”, Nanterre, France
“Zeitgenössische Fotokunst Aus Finnland”, Salo Art Museum, Finland
2003
“Gokann, 4th Triennial of the Finnish Artists’ Association”, Kyoto, Japan “Summer”, Kerava Art Museum, Kerava, Finland
“Ordinary everyday”, Vantaa Art Museum, Vantaa, Finland
2002
“Zeitgenössische Fotokunst Aus Finnland”, touring group exhibition, Germany “Artstorm”, touring group exhibition, Sweden, Denmark, FI, Iceland, Norway
2000
“Jatulintarha”, finnish-brittish artists exhange 2000-2002, Finland, England “Our Friends From The North”, Hatfield, England
1999
“Exhibition ́99”, The Association Gallery, London, England
[Grants]
2020
Finnish Cultural Foundation, working grant
2019
Arts Council of Finland/ National 1 year working grant
2018
Alfred Kordelin Association/ Arts Promotion Centre Finland/ FRAME
2017
Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2015
Frame Visual Art Finland/ Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2013
National 5 years working grant/ Frame
2012
Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2011
National Culture Foundation
2010
National Culture Foundation
2009
Arts Council of Finland
2008
Arts Council of Finland (Quality Support for Publications of Photographic
Art)/ Finnish Cultural Foundation/ FRAME
2007
Arts Council of Finland
2006
Arts Council of Finland
2005
National 3 years working grant/ Finnish Fund for Art Exchange
2004
National 1 year working grant, Niilo Helander Foundation/ FRAME
Hasselblad Foundation
2003
Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation Recidence and Working Grant in Rovaniemi, FI
National Grant/ Oskar Öflund Association National Culture Foundation
Finnish Fund for Art Exchange/Finnish- Swedish Cultural Fund
2002
National 1 year working grant
2001
Finnfoto
Oskar Öflund Association
National 1/2 year working grant
2000
Finnish Fund for Art Exchange (FRAME)/ 2000 Finnish Cultural Foundation
1999
Finnish Fund for Art Exchange (FRAME)
Arts Council of Finland Finnfoto
Alfred Kordelin Association
Oskar Öflund Association
University of Art and Design Arts Council of Finland
1998
Arts Council of Finland
Finnish- Swedish Cultural Fund The City of Helsinki
Finnish Fund for Art Exchange (FRAME) University of Art and Design
[Commissions]
2021
Mariatorget metrostation, “Shelter”, Stockholm, Sweden
2004
The City of Jönköping, “Unwritten History, Memory, Landscape”, Sweden
[Awards]
2020
Lensculture Exposure Award Winners 2020/ Juror’s Pick
2011
William Thuring prize of the Fine Arts Society of Finland
[Public Collection]
Kiasma, Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland Museum of Finnish Photography, Helsinki, Finland
Finnish State/ The State Art Council, Sweden
Jönköping Art Museum, Sweden/ Kuopio Art Museum, Finland
Saastamoinen Foundation, Finland/ Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, Finland The City of Jönköping, Sweden/ The City of Tampere, Finland
The City of Skellefte, Sweden/ The City of Umea, Sweden/The City of Boras, Sweden Balticgruppen Umea, Sweden/ County Council of Västerbotten, Sweden
Kultur Gävleborg, Gävle, Sweden/ Haninge Kunsthalle, Haninge, Sweden
Edition Eklund, Sweden/ Uppsala Landsting, Sweden/ Apotekets Kunstförening, Sweden Region Östergötland, Sweden/ Stockholms läns landsting, Sweden
DZ-Bank Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
European Investment Bank in Luxemburg, Luxemburg Collection olor VISUAL, Spain