L A U R A. M I E T T I N E N

b. 1968 in Helsinki, lives and works in Turku
ART STUDIES Turku Arts Academy, MA2009 / Turku School of Fine Arts1991-1995
Art School of Imatra 1990-1991 / Art School of Liminka 1989-1990

PRIVATE EXHIBITIONS

2007 Illuminations, Gallery G, Helsinki Net-gallery of AMA
2005 Portraits from the paths, Gallery Joella, Turku
2001 Fast Arts - windowgallery, Turku / 2000 Pictures of a long time, Nurmijärvi
1997 Café Agricola, Turku / Laur's room, Turku Art library / Amor Inspires, Gallery 1, Turku

GROUP EXHIBITIONS and COMMON EXHIBITIONS IN FINLAND AND ABROAD...

MEMBERSHIPS
Finlands Graphic Artists Union / Turku Printmakers / Turku Artists Association

GRANTS
Finnish Cultural Foundation, Varsinais-Suomi regional Fund: 1 year working grant, 2009
Public Display Grant for Visual Artists, 2008 / S-W Finlands Art Committee, 2008
Alfred Kordelin Foundation, 2008 / Turku City, 2007 / State Grant for Artist, 1 year working grant, 2007
And others between 1995-2007

ART IN COLLECTIONS
TYKS in Turku, Turku Art Museum, Parliament House of Finland, Art collection of State of Finland, Wäinö Aaltonen
Art Museum, County of Nurmijärvi, Visegrad City Gallery, BIH. The County of Jönköping, Örebro
and Gävle Lands-
tinget, Västra Götalandsregionen, Bolander & Co, Sverige. Turistica organizacija Kraljeva, Serbia.

OTHER DUTIES
member of National Counsil for Visual Arts 2007-Teaching printmaking at Art Academy of Turku
Polytechnic: degree program of Fine Arts
Turku
Dialogue Cities
Cologne




My interest lies
in the idea
of Two Cities.
I search for the
dialogue between
two realities, different
layers of past in
these cities.
How these cities lay
in their roots now?

Night at the pond, 50x40 cm + frames, 2007

Solitude, 3-parts, 210x150 cm each+stand. 2008

The end of an era, 190x145 cm, 2007
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