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Santtu Laine is a Finnish
multidisciplinary artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Working across
installation, sculpture and photography, Laine’s practice focuses on
exploring alternative and sustainable methods of art-making, with a particular
emphasis on bioplastics derived from seaweed. Laine holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Time and Space Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, and a Bachelor of Arts in Photography from BTK University of Art & Design in Berlin. Contact Tel. +358 40 743 2383 email: email (at) santtulaine.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/santtu.laine/ |
EXHIBITIONS // FEATURED
• 2025 - Searenity - Interpretations | HUUTO Gallery | Helsinki
• 2024 - AIR - the art of breathing in the architecture of breathing | Paimio Sanatorium | Finland
• 2024 - Claws and Connections – All the World’s Senses | Kuva/Tila Gallery | Helsinki
• 2023 - Open Studios | Scottish Sculpture Workshop SSW | Lumsden |Scotland
• 2023 - Time and Space Group Exhibition | Kuva/Tila Gallery | Academy of Fine Arts | Helsinki
• 2021 - It has neither name nor place | OpusOne | Concertgebouw |Bruges| Belgium
• 2021 - Farmers Fetish | Taiteen Kotitalo | Kerava
• 2020 - How To Handle The New Apparatus | Exhibition Laboratory | Helsinki
• 2019 - It has neither name nor place | MFA Exhibition | Project Room | Helsinki
• 2018 - Eggplant, I Love You | Fondia Gallery | Helsinki
• 2017 - Toward The Blue Peninsula | Chickadee, My Mother, And The Oddities Of Nesting | Berlin
• 2017 - Fnder Magazine | NullToleranz | Berlin | Germany
• 2016 - Blurring the lines | Paris College Of Art | Lonely Moments | Paris | France
• 2016 - European Month of Photography | Null Toleranz | Berlin | Germany
• 2016 - SubZero | Traveling Exhibition | Finland, Germany, Monaco, Singapore
• 2016 - BUNKER Exhibition | Grünfläche 36 | Arles | France
• 2015 - Revolution | Contact Photography Festival | Toronto | Canada
• 2015 - Desire | INTAC | Fruits of Nature | Künstlerhaus Bethanien | Berlin | Germany
• 2015 - MAVIBLAU | Queens of Tarlabasi | Istanbul | Turkey
• 2015 - Revolution | INTAC | University of Arts | Osaka | Japan
• 2014 - Rundgang | BTK | 100 Famous Views of Ego | Berlin | Germany
• 2013 - Final Exhibition | (M)other Earth | Lahti | Finland
GRANTS // RESIDENCIES
• 2025 - Saari Residence | KONE Foundation | Residency
• 2024 - Imagining Godzilla |A Floating Art Research Platform | Residency
• 2024 - The Finnish Cultural Foundation SKR | Grant
• 2023 - Saastamoinen Foundation | Scholarship | Cove Park & Scottish Sculpture Workshop | Scotland
• 2022 - The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike)
• 2021 - The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike)
• 2021 - Frame Contemporary Art Finland
• 2019 - Anita Snellman Foundation | Grant
• 2018 - Winner of the Public Art Competition for the Helsinki University Hospitals HUS | Ukonvaaja
• 2018 - Production Grant | Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki | Eggplant, I Love You
• 2016 - Bunker Exhibition | Residency | Arles | France
• 2016 - Subzero Scholarship | University of the Arctic | Oulanka | Finland
• 2015 - Subzero Scholarship | University of the Arctic | Oulanka | Finland
• 2014 - Subzero Scholarship | University of the Arctic | Oulanka | Finland
HONOURS
• 2018 - Winner of the Public Art Competition for Helsinki University Hospitals HUS | Ukonvaaja
PUBLICATIONS // BOOKS
• 2017 - Chickadee, My Mother, And The Oddities Of Nesting