Janne Räisänen
Photo: Jonas Tölle
Janne Räisänen is a painter who constantly shifts between canvas and paper. This movement is reflected in the ways in which the work is displayed, either in classical settings or in messier, cooler installations. His drawings and paintings show and comment on the daily lives of human beings in warm-hearted, humorous and, not to forget, weird ways. In his most recent works, the glint in Räisänen's eye is also directed at himself. As a visual artist Räisänen is the very ur-image of the singer-songwriter, producing little big stories that, in a pleasant and beneficial way, leave us confused, but never cold.
Janne Räisänen (b. 1971, Pudasjärvi) lives and works in Berlin. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki in 1998, was awarded the Finnish Art Society’s Ducat Prize in 1998 and was named Young Artist of the Year 1999, together with Janne Kaitala and Jukka Korkeila. In 1999 and 2001, he was nominated for the Carnegie Art Award and, in 2004, for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. In 2008 Räisänen was awarded the William Thuring Foundation's main prize. Räisänen’s works are in most Finnish public collections - e.g. HAM - Helsinki Art Museum, Kiasma, Sara Hildén Art Museum and Wihuri Collection - and in several collections abroad. His works were shown at Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin, in 2015 and 2017; Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, in 2015; and at Galerie Anhava in 2012 and 2010.
Exhibitions
9.9.-9.10.2022
3.9.-26.9.2021
8.9.-30.9.2018
8.1.-31.1.2016
Works
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Jun 2021
12
Apr 2019
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Jun 2018
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....
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Feb 2017
Andersson, Jylhä and Räisänen in Weserburg in Bremen
Weserburg, the museum for modern art in Bremen, Germany gives some insights to the Finnish art scene through the exhibition Dreamaholic. Art from Finland. Miettinen Collection. The works in the exhibition is from the Miettinen Collection in Berlin...
12
Jan 2017
23
Jun 2016
15
Jun 2016
21
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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Sep 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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Jun 2015
Jukka Korkeila & Janne Räisänen at Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art
Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art’s (Vaasa, Western Finland) group exhibition Out of the Box, presents more than twenty prominent Finnish artists and their most recent works. The exhibition is produced by the Cooperative Forum Box and Kuntsi Museum...
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Mar 2015
Sanna Kannisto and Janne Räisänen nominated for the Fine Arts Academy of Finland art prize
Gallery artists Sanna Kannisto and Janne Räisänen are nominated for the Fine Arts Academy of Finland art prize, now given for the second time. The third nominee is painter Camilla Vuorenmaa.The aim of the prize is to support a...
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Jan 2014
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Sep 2021
02
Sep 2021
29
Sep 2018
07
Sep 2018
07
Jan 2016
30
Oct 2015
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