Riitta Nelimarkka (b. 6 July 1948 in Helsinki

Helsinki

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) is a Finnish

Finland

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 artist

Artist

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, professor

Professor

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, graduate art teacher 1972, Master of Art (MA) 1998, and Doctor of Art (DA) 2001.

Studies

Nelimarkka studied painting

Painting

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 in Paris

Paris

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 and at the Free Art School in Helsinki, art education

Art education

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 at the University of Helsinki

University of Helsinki

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, piano

Piano

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 playing at the Sibelius Academy

Sibelius Academy

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, and photography

Photography

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, film

Film

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 and art education at the Konstfack

Konstfack

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en, Academy of Art in Stockholm

Stockholm

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. She also studied at the Institute of Industrial Arts, Department of Film and Television, in Helsinki. She defended her doctoral thesis of arts successfully in 2001 at the University of Art and Design Helsinki

University of Art and Design Helsinki

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 (UIAH). In 6 December 2008, Riitta Nelimarkka was awarded the Title of Professor.

Art career

Nelimarkka's production includes graphics

Graphics

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, animation

Animation

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s, photographs and videos, paintings, art and poetry

Poetry

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 books, art textiles, and broad exhibition fairs. Since 1973, she has held numerous private and museum exhibition

Exhibition

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s both in Finland and widely abroad. She has also held several commissions of trust within the film and art industry.

The artist is a grand daughter of professor and painter, Eero Nelimarkka, and a daughter of Neles Oy's, founder M.Sc (eng.) Antti Nelimarkka.

Ph.D.

Self portrait

Self Portrait

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 Elise's thesis, Variation of variation, 2000, illustrated her own relationship towards her own works and reflected on philosophers like Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer. The thesis was given the permission to be printed and the counter defenders supported the approval. However, in November 2000, the degree council rejected her thesis.

Nelimarkka insisted a correction and the degree board overruled the degree council’s decision. Self portrait was approved in February 2001. Nelimarkka wrote a pamphlet

Pamphlet

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, Thesis farce that was published in 2005.

Exhibitions

Nelimarkka has held private exhibitions since 1974. She has a permanent exhibition in a one hundred year old castle Bonga in Lovisa

Lovisa

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 since 1998. Furthermore, she has participated joint exhibitions in both Finland and abroad. Nelimarkka's textile works are held by both 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

• Title of Professor
• Inhabitant of the year 2003 (Munkkiniemi
  Munkkiniemi
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  , Helsinki)
• Awards and honorable mentions at international Festivals ia. in Bologna
  Bologna
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   1990 and 1992 and in Brno
  Brno
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   1992.
• Jury's special award at the children’s movie festivals in Giffon, Italy
  Italy
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  in 1980.
• Risto Jarva -award in 1985.
• Jussi-honorary book in 1979
• Kalevala fellowship youth award in 1975.
• Critics spur in 1974.
• Governmental movie award in 1972.
• Award of movie in 1972, 1973, and 1979.
• Several art grants, ia. Cultural Fund.

Work series

• Elysium or not Elysium, photographies, collages and sculptures (2010).
• Girls are Girls are Girls, serigraphies and paintings (2010).
• Wild Horses, paintings (2010).
• Elise Now, mixed collection (2010).
• Easy Living, woolen reliefs and serigraphies (2009–2010).
• Birds are Birds, serigraphies (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 the 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, serigraphies (2005).
• Grand Piano Heads II, serigraphies and drawings (2005).
• 102, watercolour paintings (2005).
• Creatures and Things, woolen reliefs (2005–2006).
• The Peace Family, woolen reliefs and aquarelles (2004).
• Oceania, serigraphies (2003–2004).
• Right and Wrong colours - Aquarelle garden, watercolour paintings (2002).
• Soulscapes, aquarelles (2004).
• Impressions, aquarelles ja monotypies (2002).

• Mystery Rabbit, photographies (2001–2002).
• Northern Brights, woolen reliefs and serigraphies (2001).
• Elise is symphatetic, woolen reliefs (2001).
• Grand Piano Heads, serigraphies (2000).
• Flygelise, velvet pictures and woolen reliefs (1997–1998).
• Teared off the cat skin, coal drawings (1982–1989).
• Babylonia, coal&chalk -drawings (1980–1990).
• Apollon, velvet&linen pictures and serigraphies (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 & 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 & Tammi, 1991.
• Karmelia's ABC, Seneca & 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 (5. p. 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 & 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.

External links

• Riitta Nelimarkka's web pages