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Terike HaapojaBIOGRAPHY / SHORT INTRODUCTION
Terike Haapoja (b.1974) is a visual artist, working and living in Helsinki, Finland. Her work consists of videos, installations and performance projects, characterized by the innovative use of new media and new technlogy. Haapoja's work deals with human - non-human relations and the clash of subjective experience of the world with objective knowledge of it.
She has had several solo and group exhibitions in Finland (Including UM festival, Lisbon, Prague Biennale, L'Art en Europe, Reims, Insitute Finlandais, Paris, Gallery Rekord, Oslo, Rauma Art Museum, Finland, Pori Art Museum, Finland, Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Oulu Art Museum). She also works as a director and visual designer in contemporary performance projects (including Kiasma-theatre 2005, 2006, 2007, dance-theatre Zodiac, Helsinki, 2005, Alexander Theatre, Helsinki, 2009).
She was honoured with Dukaatti-prize, one of Finlands most prestigous prizes for young artists in 2008, and with Finland Festivals' Young Artist of the year –prize in 2007. She has received numerous project- and working grants form the Finnish State Art Fund and private foundations since 2001.
Haapoja's exhibition projects are usually highly spatial, using the tools adopted from theatre for creating immersive installation experiences. The exhibitions are built around thematic framing, and often include collaboration with professionals from other fields of studies. The work is not bound to any specific medium; video, experimental camera devices, scientific technologies, light, sound or organic materials function as viewpoints to different questions.
Haapoja has a master´s degree from the Theater Academy of Finland (dep. of Performance art and -theory) and from the Academy of Fine Arts in Finland. She is currently working on her artistic reasearch Phd in the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. Haapoja's articles and essays have been pubished in all major art journals in Finland, as well as in international publications.
Terike Haapoja is represented by Gallery Kalhama&Piippo Contemporary, Helsinki.
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