Antti Laitinen

Broken Landscape VII, 2019
pigment print, Diasec
130 x 180cm
Ed. 6

Looking at ANTTI LAITINEN’S works – photographs, videos, installations and conceptual objects – one can sense the physical labour behind them: the hours of digging, moving, building, re-organizing, chopping, arranging and documenting. Laitinen’s practice has long revolved around trees and the forest. He may, for example, cut a tree to pieces and then reconstruct it, or encase the tree in a piece of armour made from sheet metal. The process involves a great deal of work combined with an act of seemingly light character, performativity, and a sincere and playful way of portraying the relationship of man and nature. 

Antti Laitinen (b. 1975, Raahe) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki in 2004. Laitinen’s most recent solo exhibitions include WAM Turku City Art Museum, Finland; GSA Gallery, Stockholm; and La Patinoire Royale/Galerie Valérie Bach, Brussels. He has participated in several important international group exhibitions, including at Borås Art Museum, Sweden; Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul; Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; Riverside Museum, Beijing; and The Art Gallery of Alberta, Canada, among others. In 2013, Antti Laitinen represented Finland at the Venice Biennale. His works are included in numerous private and public collections, including the Saatchi Collection, the Zabludowicz Collection, the Saastamoinen Foundation Collection, ArtCenter/Istanbul, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma and Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art.
 

Wanderer
6 – 30 Jun 2024

installation view
Photo: Jussi Tiainen

Broken Landscape III, 2017
pigment print, Diasec
130 x 180 cm
edition of 6

Broken Landscape
6 – 30 August 2020

installation view
Photo: Jussi Tiainen

Forest Square III, 2013
C-print
180 x 180 cm
Edition of 6

Fall and Rise, 2019 (clip)
4K HD video
11 min 13 sec
Edition of 6

Grid Garden, 2017
lilac, wire netting

Nail Cube, 2016
wood, nails
28 x 28 x 28 cm

In Saastamoinen Foundation collection

2D Tree (1), 2017
willow, staples, nails, wire, MDF, glue
255 x 145 cm

In private collection

Attempt to Split the Sea, 2006
c-print, Diasec
115 x 115 cm
edition of 5

In Wihuri Foundation Collection

Self-Portrait on the Swamp, 2002
C-print, Diasec
70 x 104 cm, edition of 7
115 x 160 cm, edition of 5

Bark Boat, 2010
C-print, Diasec
80 x 60 cm
edition of 6

Lake Shift, 2016 (excerpt)
4K HD video
15 min 31 sec, 4K
Edition of 6

Selection of available works. For the full list, please contact galerie(at)anhava.com

Autumn Act II, 2021
C-print, Diasec
80 x 173 cm
ed. 6

Charcoal and Ice I, 2023-24
pigment print
158 x 123 cm
ed. 6

Untitled, 2022
pigment print
121 x 200 cm

Marionette, 2017 (still)
4K HD video
11min 13sec
edition of 6

Broken Landscape IV, 2018
pigment print, Diasec
100 x 250 cm
edition of 6

Willow Piece, 2020
willow
133 x 133 x 11 cm

Untitled (Nails and Wood), 2013
wood, nails
15 x 20 x 10,5 cm

Lake Deconstruction II, 2011
c-print, Diasec
60 x 80
edition of 6

It’s my Island, VI, 2007
c-print, diasec
115 x 115 cm
edition 6

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Looking at ANTTI LAITINEN’S (b. 1975) photographs, videos and installations, one can sense the physical labour behind them: the hours of digging and chopping, moving, building and reorganizing. Laitinen is often pushing the boundaries of his physical endurance in order to engage with nature and thus question stereotypes like the natural romantic way of experiencing nature, national identity and masculinity. His work attests to the presence and attitude of an artist who is aware of the tradition of experimental performance art, and skilled in representing his often extreme experiences in nature in different media.

Reflecting his uncompromising attitude towards both physical work and the artistic process and content, his carefully manufactured artworks often look into the relationship of man and nature and the concepts of natural and artificial.

In Laitinen’s manner of working the essential aspects are an uncompromising attitude, the testing of physical and psychological boundaries, the absurdity of situations – and even humour. Laitinen’s works are often based on performance, the presence of the artist, which is documented with the means of photography or video.

 

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A N T T I  L A I T I N E N

Born in 1975 in Raahe, Finland

EDUCATION
2002–2004 Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, MFA
1998–2002 Turku Arts Academy, Photography, BA
1996–1998 Virrat, Media School/multimedia
1995–1996 Kuusamo Photo School

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2024
    • Wanderer, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
  • 2022
    • Antti Laitinen, WAM Art Museum, Turku
    • Field Studies, GSA Gallery, Stockholm
  • 2020
    • Broken Landscape, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
  • 2019
    • Sofienbergparken, Oslo
    • La Patinoire Royale/Galerie Valérie Bach, Brussels
    • Tournay Solvay Parc, Brussels
    • Efter et nyt Minut, Sæby, Denmark
  • 2017
    • Halki, poikki ja pinoon, Kivimakasiini, Somero
    • Sense of Rhythm, Hyvinkää Art Museum
    • Minän teatteri, Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova, Turku
    • Suloisessa Suomessamme, Koivukuja, Iisalmi
    • Marionette, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
  • 2016
    • In Search of Utopia, Günter Grass Gallery, Gdansk
    • PYRFYR Performance festival, Moscow
    • It’s My Island, Scope, New York
    • Exprmntl gallery, Toulouse
    • It’s My Island, Scope, New York
  • 2014
    • Three Knots, Galleri Image, Aarhus
  • 2013
    • Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
    • Falling Trees, Venice Biennale
    • Galleri Anderson Sandström, Stockholm
    • Nettie Horn gallery, London
  • 2012
    • It’s My Island, College of Wooster Art Museum, USA
  • 2011
    • Bark Boat, Nettie Horn Gallery, London
  • 2010
    • Liverpool Biennale, UK
  • 2008
    • It’s My Island, Nettie Horn Gallery, London
    • Exprmntl gallery, Toulouse
    • It’s My Island, Scope, New York
  • 2005
    • Walk the Line, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
    • Rantagalleria, Photography Center, Oulu
  • 2004
    • Koetila, Helsinki
    • Sweat Work, Gallery of Arts Academy, Helsinki
  • 2002
    • Bare Necessities, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2024
    • Art Alive Festival, Aveiro
  • 2023
    • Navigating North, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland
    • Sequences Biennal, Reykjavik, Iceland
    • Amazing Nature, KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark
  • 2022
    • Wuhan Biennale, Wuhan Art Museum, China
    • Navigating North, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
    • Arvoitus, The Art Centre Purnu, Orivesi, Finaland
    • Someron Kivimeijeri, Pyöli, Finland
    • Openings, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland
    • Vidunderligheter, Borås Art Museum, Borås, Sweden
    • Symbiotic Landscape, the Second Nanhai Public Art Exhibition, Qiandeng Lake, China
  • 2021
    • Touch, EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
    • Water Reterie, Borusan Contemporary, Instanbul, Turkey
    • The Blue Planet, Art and Museum Centre Sinkka, Kerava, Finland
  • 2020
    • PROYECTOR / Video Art Festival, Madrid, Spain
    • Stockfors Art Festival, Pyhtää, Finland
    • Villa Carpentier, Renaix, Belgium
    • minus20degree, Flachau, Austria
  • 2019
    • Columbia Circle, Shanghai
    • LUSTO – The Finnish Forest Museum, Punkaharju, Finland
    • Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
    • Beijing Riverside Art Museum, Beijing
    • Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
    • Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
  • 2018
    • ”Between the Trees”, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
    • OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
    • Mänttä Art Festival, Finland
    • Printmaking In, Riga
    • Maajaam, Estonia
    • Vysocina Regional Gallery, Jihlava, Czech Republic
    • Salon Dahlmann, Berlin
  • 2017
    • Survival Guide, Art Gallery of Alberta, Canada
    • Disruption – Remapping Nature, Baroque park De Oude Warande, Netherlands
    • Force of Nature, Mile End Art Pavilion, London
    • Hyvinkää Art Museum, Finland
    • Aboa Vetus Ars Nova, Turku, Finland
  • 2016
    • Moving Image: Landscape, UMMA, Michigan
    • Force of Nature, Galerie Valerie Bach, Brussels
    • Zabludowicz Collection, Kunsthalle Helsinki
    • Utopia/Heterotopia, Wuzhen, China
    • They come from far away, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Titirangi, Auckland
    • In Search of the Present, EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art
    • Unknown Landscape – North Coast Art Triennial, Denmark
    • Save Our Souls – Art for a Time of Urgencies / EMAP Ewha Media Art Presentation, Seoul
    • Till it’s gone, Istanbul Modern
    • Force of Nature, Galerie Valerie Bach, Brussels
  • 2015
    • Pretty Straightforward, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna
    • WaterScapes, Stadtgalerie Kiel
    • Chercer le garçon, MAC/VAL Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine
    • Future Fossils, DUTTON, New York
    • Desire – A Selection from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul
    • In Search of the Miraculous, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn
  • 2014
    • The Barefoot Path, Korppoo, Turku archipelago
    • Shifting Identities, MACRO, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome
    • Men – Any Feelings?,Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
    • Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City
    • Songwon Art Center, Seoul
    • Treasure of Lima: Buried Exhibition, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
    • Andratx CCA, Mallorca
    • Silent Barn Art Center, New York
    • Art Center Te Tuhi, Auckland
    • Survival Kit, Umeå
    • Tampere Art Museum
    • MACRO Testaccio, Rome
    • Nordic Outbreak, Umeå
  • 2013
    • Nordic Outbreak, New York
    • Botkyrka konsthall, Stockholm
    • GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Haag
    • Finnish Institute in Stockholm
    • Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
    • Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova, Turku
    • Galerie SAW, Ottawa
    • Events in Nature, EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art
  • 2012
    • Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku
    • Riihimäki Art Museum
    • Salo Art Museum
    • Retretti, Punkaharju
  • 2011
    • 6th Bienal VentoSul, Brasil
    • Nuit Blanche, Paris
    • Nou Gallery, Taipei
    • Köln im Studio, Helsinki
    • AsiloBianco, Ameno, Italy
    • Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
    • Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Norway
    • Jyväskylä City Art Museum
    • AVIFF 2011, Art Vidéo International Film Festival, Cannes
    • Hå gamle prestegard, Norway
    • Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku
    • Air Space Gallery, London (with David Blandy)
    • Physical Center, London
    • Gallery Zebra, Karjaa
    • Z33 House for contemporary art, Hasselt, Belgium
  • 2010
    • Muu Gallery, Helsinki
    • Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
    • Modern Art Oxford, UK
    • Centro Cultural, São Paulo
    • Rauma Biennale, Finland
    • Fuglsang Kunstmuseum, Denmark
    • WAS – Wonderland Art Space, Copenhagen
    • Royal Academy of Arts, London (2009-10)
    • Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense
  • 2009
    • Nettie Horn Gallery, London
    • Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
    • Weimar Arts Festival, ACC Gallery, Germany
    • Athens Biennale
    • Mänttä Art Festival
    • HoviArt, Anttolan Hovi, Anttola
    • Gallery Emil Filla, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
    • Medium Art Centre, Beijing
    • Oulu City Art Museum, Finland
  • 2008
    • Monobandes, Les Territoires, Montreal
    • Live Herring, Jyväskylä City Art Museum
    • New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, Ginger
    • The Rhinelander Contemporary Art Center, La position de la Terre, France
    • Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Museum, Turku
    • Mitä mies? – What’s up man?, Kerava Art Museum
    • Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku
    • Male Stuff, Gallery Kakelhallen, Mariehamn (2007-08)
  • 2007
    • 4th Triennal of Finnish Art, Kunsthalle Helsinki
    • Beauhemia, Nettie Horn Gallery, London
    • ECCE HOMO, The Brick Lane Gallery, London
    • The Brick Lane Gallery, London
    • What is Live Art in Finnish?, Muu galleria, Helsinki
    • Nuku, Oulu, Nordisk Panorama, Finland
    • Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg
    • Gallery Signe Vad, Copenhagen
    • Kollaasi, Oulu City Art Museum
    • Male Stuff, Peri, Turku
  • 2006
    • What’s Up North, Rantagalleria, Photography Center, Oulu
    • White Box, New York
    • HIAP, Helsinki
    • Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg
    • The University gallery, Essex
    • Christmas Absurd, Moogie Wonderland, Rochester
  • 2005
    • Katajanokka, Kutsu, Helsinki
    • Helsinki City Art Museum
  • 2004
    • Benaki Museum, Athens
    • Kunsthalle Helsinki
  • 2002
    • Backlight International Triennial, Tampere
    • New Image Art Gallery (with Tatu Hiltunen), Los Angeles
    • Virne, Cultural Center of Hämeenlinna
    • Virne, Photography Center of Mikkeli
    • Pojat, Peri, Photography Center, Turku
  • 2001
    • Tampere Hall, Tampere
    • Peri, Photography Center, Turku
  • 1999
    • Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

  • 2016
    • North Coast Art Triennial, Denmark
    • Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
  • 2015
    • New Performance Turku Festival, Turku
  • 2013
    • Venice Biennale, Venice
  • 2012
    • Performance on the Road, Salo
    • Up to Nature, Vienna/Austria, Bristol/UK, Oslo/Norway, Kuopio/Finland
  • 2011
    • Taking the Stage Over, Shanghai
  • 2010
    • Acción!MAD- festival, Madrid
    • Liverpool Biennale, UK
    • Rauma Biennale, Finland
  • 2009
    • Anti-festival, Kuopio, Finland
    • Athens Biennale
    • Mänttä Art Festival, Finland
  • 2008
    • Hotel Meridian, Thames, London
    • Live Herring, City of Jyväskylä /internet
    • The Gallen-Kallela Museum, Espoo
  • 2007
    • Verbo Performance Art Festival, Galeria Vermelho, Sao Paulo
    • Szentendre, Danube, Hungary
    • Forum Box, Helsinki
    • Pair 02, Taidepanimo, Lahti
  • 2006
    • White Space Gallery, London
    • Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Ars 06, Helsinki
    • Jámon-Kinkkua!, Circulo De Bellas Artes, Madrid
    • Taidepanimo, Pair 01, Lahti
    • Näkymä, City of Toijala
  • 2004
    • Anti-festival, Kuopio
    • Helsinki Art Academy
    • Puskinskaja-10, St. Petersburg, Russia
    • Zodiak, Helsinki, (with The Blackroom Act)
  • 2003
    • Forces of Light, Myymälä 2, Helsinki
    • Lábas, Helsinki
  • 2002
    • Backlight, Vapriikki, Tampere
    • Häme Gallery, Lahti

RECIDENCIES
2007 Artists’ Associsation of Oulu, Berlin
2005–2006 Centre for Contemporary Art at Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2005 Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead

COLLECTIONS
Zabludowicz Collection
Saatchi Collection
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
ArtCenter/Istanbul
Helsinki Art Museum HAM
The Heino Art Foundation collection
Saastamoinen Foundation
State of Finland
Oulu City Art Museum
Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art
/Turku City Art Museum
Helsinki Art Academy
Northern Photographic Centre
Finnish Academy of Fine Arts
Vital Arts
Geological Survey of Finland
AKO Kunststiftelse
Private Collections