Anna Retulainen
Unto Rautio
In her working process Anna Retulainen contemplates painting conventions and perceptions of painting. The subjects of her works are merely platforms for the application of paint; for finding a balance between movement, the layers of paint, and the vying between colours. Her paintings consist of details drawn from everyday life, from journeys real and imagined, or from the masterpieces of art history. Her style is expressionistic, and yet refined in a stylized manner. Above all, Retulainen is an exquisite colourist. The themes of her works vary from her beloved vegetable, fruit and flower still lifes, to more intimate drawings of her everyday life and those close to her. For Retulainen drawing is a way of living; it is her way of putting the world in its place. Only at her studio do the drawings become paintings, fusions of life and art.
Anna Retulainen (b. 1969, Orimattila) is one of the leading figures in Finnish contemporary painting. She has been showing works in solo and group exhibitions since 1995. She has twice been nominated for the Carnegie Art Award, most recently in 2014. In 2018, The Finnish Cultural Foundation's (SKR) Uusimaa Regional Fund awarded Retulainen with its annual 15 000 euro award for outstanding performance, and in the same year, Retulainen's paintings became the first contemporary artworks to be permanently presented at the Finnish Presidential Palace. Retulainen’s work is represented in most of the major Finnish public collections, as well as in countless private collections.
Exhibitions
9.8.-8.9.2024
9.9.-9.10.2022
6.5.-29.5.2022
7.2.-8.3.2020
8.9.-1.10.2017
5.6.-28.6.2015
5.9.-28.9.2014
31.8.-31.8.2014
11.1.-3.2.2013
Works
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Dec 2024
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Nov 2024
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Dec 2023
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Aug 2023
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Feb 2022
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Dec 2021
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Sep 2021
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Jan 2021
Anna Retulaisen akvarelleista koottu kirja nyt saatavilla. Lue keskustelu julkaisun taustoista.
Anna Retulaisen akvarelleista kootun, taiteilijan signeeraaman kirjan voi hankkia gallerialta. Painos on rajoitettu.Kirja on Retulaisen kunnianosoitus pölyttäjille sekä selviytymistarina, todistus taiteen parantavasta...
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Apr 2020
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Feb 2020
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Nov 2018
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Nov 2018
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May 2018
Finnish Cultural Foundation awards Anna Retulainen with 15 000 euros
In its annual ceremony on 16 May 2018, The Finnish Cultural Foundation's (SKR) Uusimaa Regional Fund has awarded its annual 15 000 euro award to visual artist Anna Retulainen, "an energetic seeker of memory traces, a chaser of a more colourful...
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Aug 2017
Jukka Korkeila and Anna Retulainen in a joint retrospective exhibition at Helsinki Art Museum
Anna Retulainen: Boukombe, apina, 2017, oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cmArtists Jukka Korkeila and Anna Retulainen participate in a group exhibition Pleasure at Helsinki Art Museum HAM. Running from August 25 through 12 November, the...
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Jun 2017
10
Jun 2017
Jukka Korkeila and Anna Retulainen in the exhibition Pleasure at Serlachius museum Gösta
Jukka Korkeila and Anna Retulainen are part of the exhibition Pleasure at Serlachius museum Gösta in Mänttä 10.6.2017-4.11.2018. Three Finnish contemporary have intuitively selected the works that interested them from the Fine Arts...
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Apr 2016
Anna Retulainen and Tuomas A. Laitinen featured in Kiasma's new collection exhibition
Anna Retulainen and Tuomas A. Laitinen take part in Kiasma's new collection exhibition featuring altogether 27 artists. The chosen works represent multisensory art that might even get under your skin.The exhibition is open...
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Apr 2016
Marcus Eek, Olli Piippo, Anna Retulainen and Janne Räisänen at Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig
Let’s Get Physical: Spatial Confrontations and Narrative Collisions is a group exhibition that presents Berlin-based Nordic and Leipzig-based painters, among them Marcus Eek, Olli Piippo, Anna Retulainen and Janne Räisänen, at...
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Aug 2015
29
May 2015
Andersson, Korkeila, Mäkilä, Retulainen and Räisänen in Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection Exhibition
The second phase of the new Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection Exhibition Touch opens today at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art. This phase called Humanity, Identity and body, presents different tools visual artists use for dealing with...
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Feb 2015
17
Oct 2012
10
Jun 2013
16
Aug 2013
21
Sep 2013
14
Nov 2013
30
Apr 2014
26
Jun 2014
15
Aug 2014
05
Sep 2014
17
Sep 2014
17
Sep 2014
21
Aug 2024
19
May 2022
05
May 2022
13
Jun 2018
23
Sep 2017
04
Sep 2015
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