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RIITTA NELIMARKKA-SEECK
art now Lives and works in Tromsoe and Helsinki, Norway

http://www.nelimarkka.com | http://www.bonga.fi

Professor Riitta Nelimarkka’s multifaceted art is the feature that
makes her an exciting artist. Her fertile art is characterized by open-
minded use of color, as well as virtuoso drawing skills and a sense
of form, also humor. She uses techniques from textiles, serigraphy,
and oil painting to glass, video, animation, and photography with
sovereign mastery. She has written 20 books on art, children, and
poetry, and has made films. For example, she directed the first
feature animation of Finland, Seven Brothers. Her works have
been exhibited at major venues including Amos Anderson Art
Museum, Helsinki; Kunsthalle Helsinki; Wäinö Aaltonen Museum,
Turku; Hallwyl Museum, Stockholm; Museo de la Nacion, Lima; the
Russian Academy of Arts’ Tsereteli Art Gallery, Moscow; the art
museum of St. Petersburg; EXPO 2000 in Hannover; FIDM Museum,
Los Angeles; La Maison de l’Amerique de Monaco; and Maison de
l’Europe in Paris. In 2020, her works were exhibited in galleries in
Milano, Hamburg, London, and New York. She has been rewarded
several times by the Finnish state, and by numerous international
biennales and film festivals for her books and animated films. Her
latest prize was awarded for her big textile work at the Florence

Biennale 2021. Nelimarkka received the honorary title of professor
from the President of Finland in 2008. In 2016, she received the
Order of France with the distinction of Officer des Arts et Letters.

 Children on the meadow, 2016 plexiglas 31.4x47.2 in. | 80x120 cm.
 Gnome in the blue forest, 2020 photomontage /plexiglas 39x25 in. | 100x65 cm.
Amor vincit omnia, 2016 photomontage /Plexiglas 31.4x47.2 in. | 80x120 cm.
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