TUULA MARIA NIKULAINEN

Date of birth 5.10. 1959,  Turku, Finland,  5 children (-84, -86, -89, -90, -01)

Visual artist (first solo-exhibition 1984), folklorist 

Manager and co-curator with G. Dietzler of Halikonlahti Green Art Trilogy 2006, 2008 (Art and Ecology project)

Project enginer of the Floating School (Art-Environment-Ecology education unit in flux) 2008-

The project-coordinator of the evironmental art project by Jackie Brookner: The Macig of the

Water, bird nesting and water restoring biosculpture and a remediation project  2007-2010(Salo city/Halikonlahti)

International workshops of Felt making, teacher since 1990 (Sweden, England, Denmark,

Holland, Mongolia, Hungary, Norway, New Zealand 2007)

Environmental, ecological and educational art projects, publications and lessons since 1991

Artist of the Residence – Province Varsinais-Suomi 1992-1995

INVITED AND JURIED EXHIBITIONS (selected from -90)

Villa Village, Circulo de Bellas Arrtes Madrid, with theatre Quo Vadis -09

Kaksi kuvaa, kaksi runoa, Yoskhar-Ola National Museum, Mari (Russia) -09

Faces, Billnäs -08

Tusina, Salon Taiteilijaseuran 40-vuotisjuhlanäyttely, Turku -08      

Tip Of The Iceberg, New Zealand (SOLO-exhibition with invitation), Southland Museum

Invegarcill -07, Reflection Gallery, Nelson -07

Halikon huiput (Jäävuoren huippu), Halikko Rikalanmäki -07                                                             In the Jurt, Faces – ethnic music -festival, Billnäs -05
The Felt artist of the Year (the prize solo-exhibition) Vaajakoski -04                                               NoMad, Roundhouse, Salo  Artmuseum (solo exhibitions, with invitation) -04
Dialog, the Art Museum of Karelia, Petroskoi, Russia -04
Dialog, Salo Roundhouse Art Museum -04
Felt Hungary, the National Gallery of Budapest –04
In the jurt, Yhteinen Maa, WAM Turku Art Museum -04
Musta tuntuu, Rauma Art Museum -04
Jurtastaden, Östersund, Sweden -03
Dimensio Nordico - Pohjoinen ulottuvuus, Tolosa Art Museum , Spain  –03
Felt Art, international exhibition, Österbrukgård (Uppsala), Sweden –02
Felt towards 2000, Bergen, Norway; Jurt, the Culture City of Bergen, Norway -00
Felt Without Boundaries, Six Countries, Ten Languages: Lillehammer -96, Bergen -96,

Herning (Norway)-97, Reykjavik (Iceland) -97, Tórshavn (Fär-Islands) –97, Södertälje -97

(Sweden), Jyväskylä -98, Porvoo –98
Shamans Still Flying, Nordic Women’s   Forum, Turku –95
15th International Lausanne Biennial, Homage to the Nomads, Switzerland -92
Finnish Design VIII, VII, 90, Design Museum of Finland, Helsinki -89, -90

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Selected from -91 )

Winter camp. Arsnet gallery Turku -09

Tip of the Iceberg, New Zealand, Invercargill, Southland Museum and Art Gallery -07 ,

Nelson WOW-museum, Reflectins Gallery -07 

The Wintercamp , Talvileiri 1, Salon taidelainaamo, Salo -05

The White Camp, Valkea leiri, Kulttuurigalleria Kraft, Turku -05
NoMad,  Roundhouse - Salo Art Museum -04.
Children of the Great Bear, Halikko –01
Primeval Felt, Ikihuopa, Kulttuurigalleria Kraft, Turku -01, Saaristokeskus, Helsinki -01
Travellers, Vaeltajan tarinoita, Rauma Art Museum -99/-00
Feel Felt Felt, Vaajakoski -99,
Earth Story, Galleria Nefret, Turku (with sculptor Jan Sandman) –99
The First Felt, Salo –99
Shamans Still Flying,  Kasvis, Helsinki -95
For Wanderers, Vaeltajille, Hesinki Railwaystation -91

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selected from -90)

Intuitio, with K. Juhola and T. Mendelin, Helsinki

Aurinkojuhla, Kulttuurikeskus, Turku, -07   

Sunny Future, Art and Ecology,  Kemiö -04.
Yxan, integrating ethnographics, folklore and art, Turku -03, Halikko -04
The Sky and The Earth as employers, Kulttuurigalleria Kraft, Turku -03
Aistillisesti, Salo Artist Association 35-anniversary, Salo Art Museum -03
Summer, Halikon Rikalan mäki –02
Art Factory, Porvoo -00,
The Bearteeth, Rikalan mäki, Halikko –00
Animal movement, Salo city - outside art -97.
The Landing of Vandals, Manchester (England) -95
Vandalst: Salo Art Museum -93
Muu ry: Contemporary Art Museum, Moscow –92
Muu ry: Art and Space Billnäs -89, Death, Vapauden Aukio, Helsinki –90

WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Collections of  Salo Art Museum -04, -03, -02, -99. -94
Collections of Finnish Craft Museum, Jyväskylä -03
Halikko Community Collections -08, -07, -02, -02, -97
Collections of Turku Newspaper, Turun Sanomat -00, -99
Education Center, Koulutuskeskus Luova tila, Turku -99
Forest Museum, Lusto, Punkaharju –95
Kokoomuksen Piiritoimisto (office) Turku -91
Salo-Uskela Parish -89
Culture Center of Children, Lasten Kulttuurikeskus Turku -88
Collections of Vaajakoski Commun -87 (stolen)

GRANTS (From 2000) 

2009 Varsinais-Suomi Regional Art Counsil:     6 months artist working grant

2008 and 2009 nessling Foundation: The enviromental art project "water remedation and 

bird island"  with Jackie Brookner The Magic of the Water

2007    FRAME, Finnish Fund for Art Exchange
2007    Art Council of Finland, for Halikonlahti Green Art                                                                 2006    Finnish Cultur Foundation, for Halikonlahti  Green Art – Art and Ecology project (with Pirkko Paranko)                                                                                                                                             2006    Art Council of Finland, for Art and Ecology-project                                                               2004    Finnish Cultur Foundation for artist working 
2003    Varsinais-Suomi Regional Art Counsil:     6 months artist working grant
2000    Arts Council of Finland: exhibition scholarship
2000    Arts Council of Finland: travel scholarship participation in a foreign exhibition

CULTURAL AND ART EXCHANGE:

Mongolia 2 months, specialist of feltmaking, Cimo, 1992
Mazi, Norway, Artist-residence, 2 months, Nifca 1995
Kökar, Finnish archipelago, artist-residence, 1 month, Kökar-cultur 2006

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Artwork and articles in professional magazines:

Vävmagasinet 4, -02 (Sweden); Form. M., 6, -02 (Sweden); Slöjdforum 6, -02 (Sweden);
Sisustusvinkki, autumn –00 (Finland); Vävmagasinet 3, -98 (Sweden);
Taito 1, -95; Taide 1, -92; Muoto 2, -92 (Finland);
Hemslöjden 1 -91 (Sweden); Taito1, -91 (Finland); Husfild 4 -90 (Denmark)

Artwork and articles in Books:

Annette Damgaard: ‘Filt. Kunst. Teknik. Historie.’ Hovedland, Denmark 1994
Gunilla Paetau-Sjöberg: ‘Tova.’ LTS, Sweden 1994
Venke Aure og Kirsten E. Ekern: ‘Kunst og håndverk 3’. Fantasi og virkelighet, Norway 1998
Mari Nagy-Istvan Vidak: ‘Huopalelut.’ Kecskemét, Hungary 1998.

Artwork television documentary:

The feltmaker Tuula Isojunno (Nikulainen) Halikosta’, TV 2, Riitta Lehtonen -88, repetition –92. Performed in the Mongolian, Swedish and Danish televisions.
Taito TV, The Language of the handicraft, Nea Pitkänen, TV 1, -06 

Attachments in pdf-format 

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