Heli Rekula
Photo: Patrik Rastenberger
Heli Rekula is known for both her staged and landscape photography. In her staged work she addresses issues such as cultural ideals of beauty and questions about normative identity constructions. In her recent work, Rekula has focused on the deep-rooted relationship of image, memory and place, where subjective experiences and collective histories intertwine. She combines photography, collected archive material with graphic techniques, such as serigraphy and photogravure.
Heli Rekula (b. 1963, Helsinki) is one of Finland´s key photographers. She has been active in the contemporary art scene since the early 1990s and this long career has brought her international acclaim. In 2002, she received the Ars Fennica Award, and, in 2005, the Finnish State prize for photography. In 2012, Rekula was nominated for the Carnegie Art Award. She worked as Professor of Photography at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design in Norway during 2009–2015. Today she is Senior University Lecturer at the Master’s Programme in Photography at Aalto University. Her latest solo exhibition As the Crow Flies was seen at EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art in 2017.
Exhibitions
4.10.-27.10.2019
9.8.-1.9.2013
Works
20
Jun 2019
20
Jun 2019
08
Dec 2018
02
Oct 2017
24
May 2017
Heiska, Korkeila, Mäkilä, Rekula, Räisänen and Wuorila-Stenberg in Kunsthalle Helsinki's summer exhibition
Rauha Mäkilä: Gerli (2013). Photo credit: Ville LöppönenThe summer exhibition Me: Self-Portraits Through Time at Kunsthalle Helsinki opens shows more than 160 self-portraits from the end of the 19th century until present day....
15
Mar 2017
Heli Rekula and Pekka Jylhä in Vantaa Art Museum Artsi
Heli Rekula, Overflow V, 2008, c-print diasec, 100 x 135 cm.Vantaa Art Museum Artsi celebrates the Finnish centenary with a year long exhibition in four independent settings. Rascal exhibitis over 100 artists, both Finnish and foreign, that deal with...
29
Apr 2016
04
Nov 2015
19
Aug 2015
Jukka Korkeila, Heli Rekula & Henry Wuorila-Stenberg at Amos Anderson
Heli Rekula, Teresa 3 (Visioned), 2015, Cyanotype on aquarelle paper, framed, 54 x 38,2 cm, ed.1. Photo: Stella Ojala, courtesy of Amos Anderson Art Museum.Jukka Korkeila, Heli Rekula and Henry Wuorila-Stenberg are participating in the group...
28
Apr 2015
Heli Rekula at Research Pavilion Experimentality in Venice
University of the Arts Helsinki organises a Research Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. The pavilion is dedicated to research and will consist of an international contemporary art exhibition and a platform for events, both featuring artistic...
09
Oct 2012
17
Oct 2012
07
Feb 2013
29
Apr 2013
10
Jun 2013
29
Jul 2013
Heli Rekula in exhibition Lips Painted Red at Trondheim kunstmuseum
Heli Rekula's photographs are presented in group exhibition Lips Painted Red at Trondheim kunstmuseum, Norway. Lips Painted Red is a project examining how female identities are created and maintained as daily routines, as experiments with personal or...
09
Aug 2013
12
Aug 2013
23
Jan 2014
06
Jun 2014
17
Sep 2014
15
Oct 2014
Book launch of Heli Rekula’s In Hemingway’s Garden in Motto Charlottenborg
Heli Rekula’s book In Hemingway’s Garden will be launched in Denmark in Motto Charlottenborg. The book consists of two esseys and related photographs, inspired by Rekula’s visits to Hemingway’s house and garden in Key West,...
15
Nov 2014
03
Dec 2014
Heli Rekula’s In Hemingway’s Garden awarded for Finnish Art Society’s Literature Award
Finnish Art Society’s literature award has this year been given to Heli Rekula for her artists’ book In Hemingway’s Garden. The Society’s literature award is appointed to works that have significantly furthered...
20
Oct 2019
Share this artist