Terike Haapoja
Sex / Female
Year of birth / 1974
Website / www.terikehaapoja.net
Terike Haapoja (1974) is a visual artist, working and living in Helsinki, Finland. Her work consists of videos, installations and stage projects, characterized by the innovative use of new media and new technology. Haapoja’s work deals with human - non-human relations and the clash of subjective experience of the world with objective knowledge of it. Haapoja works extensively with professionals from natural sciences, and different fields of art.
Haapoja’s work has been show widely in solo –and group exhibitions and festivals both nationally and internationally. She also works as a director and visual designer in contemporary performance projects.
She was honoured with Finnish Art Association’s Dukaatti-prize in 2008, with Finland Festivals’ Young Artist of the year –prize in 2007, and received a SÄDE – prize for best visual design in theatre in 2010. She has received numerous project- and working grants form the Finnish State Art Fund and private foundations since 2001. Haapoja’s articles and essays have been pubished in art journals in Finland and internationally.
Haapoja has a MA degree both 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. The research, titled ”Technologies of Encounter”, examines connections between the use of new technology in contemporary art with natural scientific worldviews and environmental ethics.
Haapoja is represented by Gallery Kalhama&Piippo Contemporary.
Haapoja’s work has been show widely in solo –and group exhibitions and festivals both nationally and internationally. She also works as a director and visual designer in contemporary performance projects.
She was honoured with Finnish Art Association’s Dukaatti-prize in 2008, with Finland Festivals’ Young Artist of the year –prize in 2007, and received a SÄDE – prize for best visual design in theatre in 2010. She has received numerous project- and working grants form the Finnish State Art Fund and private foundations since 2001. Haapoja’s articles and essays have been pubished in art journals in Finland and internationally.
Haapoja has a MA degree both 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. The research, titled ”Technologies of Encounter”, examines connections between the use of new technology in contemporary art with natural scientific worldviews and environmental ethics.
Haapoja is represented by Gallery Kalhama&Piippo Contemporary.
Filmography
- Community (2007)
- Cat valley (2007)
- UNTITLED (a portrait) (2007)
- In And Out Of Time (2005)
- Mind Over Matter Over Mind (untitled, 1 – 3) (2005)
- Passings (2005)
- Entropy (2004)
