Visual Artist
about me
In the year 2000, stepping out the door of my art school as a newly graduated visual artist, I identified myself as an artist for the first and last time. That tiny moment when everything was so utterly clear, the future so set in my mind, soon settled itself in the correct perspective alongside my work as an artist, and in its shadow. I found a researcher within me, and a sort of burning to an anthropologist approach to observe the world around me, to fit myself in it.
I soon understood that art is about movement, searching and rigorousness. You have to learn not to build a nest to the spot where you feel good, learn to experience uncertainty. You have to be loyal to the work, uncompromisingly, and search for new feelgoods to pass.
I am a periodic artist and I will work with frenzy as long as it takes until I have had my say. I will empty the bottle at one take, shying away from pauses.
It is necessary for me to renew myself every day, to know how to listen to the strongest manners for me to be good at my work. I have passed through extremely quiet colorful paintings to completely monochromatic delicate presentation, only to find myself in the midst of the core of abstract expressionism.
I have also made glass art and sculptures, but my core competency is in painting. The tools in that are my strong skill and those are the tools I use unscrupulously while searching for questions for the abysmal answers the surroundings offer.
Curriculum Vitae: Panu Ruotsalo
Date of Birth: 11th May 1971 Hämeenlinna, Finland
Education
1996–2000 Art school MAA
Private exhibitions
2024 Culture house Björkboda, Kemiön saari
2023 Gallery Kajaste, Oulu
2023 Gallery Bronda, Helsinki, Finland
2022 Gallery Nuovo, Lahti, Finland
2021 Gallery AVA, Helsinki, Finland
2021 Gallery Bronda, Helsinki, Finland
2020 Gallery KONE, Hämeenlinna, Finland
2019 Gallery AVA, Helsinki, Finland
2019 Gallery Q, Tampere, Finland
2019 Gallery Bronda, Helsinki, Finland
2017 Vaasa City Art Gallery,Finland, Heräämisen värit ja muodot
2012 Gallery Ruutikellari, Hamina, Finland
2009 Gallery Eva Pinomaa, Panu Ruotsalo & Reidar Särestöniemi, Hanko, Finland
2008 Gallery Uusitalo, Helsinki, Finland
2006 Galley Nunes, Helsinki, Finland
2005 Gallery Bakeliittibambi, Helsinki, Finland
2002 Paperihuone exhibition space, Hämeenlinna, Finland
2002 Gallery Focus, Karjaa, Finland
2000 Gallery Ulaani, Helsinki, Finland
Group/cooperative exhibition
2023 Tammisaari art museum Chappe, Finland, opening exhibition, in March
2023 AVA Galleria, Finland
2022 Karjaa culture center Fokus, Finland, opening exhibition “Transparent world” Helmi Remes & Panu Ruotsalo
2022 Billnäs gallery, Finland
2021 Rovaniemi art museum, Finland Elämänviiva
2021 Gumbostrand Konst&Form, Sipoo,Finland
2020 Finland Glass museum, Riihimäki, Ikävän anatomia, Panu Ruotsalo & Helmi Remes
2019 Gallery Bronda, Helsinki, Finland, summer exhibition
2018 Lapinlahden Lähde, Helsinki, Finland, Group OOO
2016 EARTH, New York. United Nations, New York, The essence of survival
2016 Mältinranta art center, Tampere,Finland Group OOO
2016 Gallery Huuto, Helsinki, Finland Group OOO
2015 Gallery Uusitalo, Inkoo, Finland
2015 Nordic Season, Finland In Lisbon, Portugal
2013 Järkeä tekijänoikeuslakiin exhibition, Helsinki, Finland
2013 Konst&Form Gumbostrand, SIpoo, Finland
2013 Helena Karihtala Interior design, Helsinki, Finland
2011 Billnäs Summer exhibition, Finland
2009 RPM New Substances, Sundsvall, Sweden
2010 Billnäs Summer exhibition, Finland
2009 Billnäs Summer exhibition, Finland
2009 RPM, Artisin Gallery, Jyväskylä, Finland
2007 RPM, The Baltic Sea Delegation, Tallinn, Estland
2007 Gallery Uusitalo, Summer exhibition, Helsinki, Finland
2007 Gallery Eeva Pinomaa, Summer exhibition, Hanko, Finland
2006 Gallery Eeva Pinomaa, Summer exhibition, Hanko, Finland
1998 Modern Art Museum, Pärnu, Estland
1998 Gallery Porthan, Helsinki, Finland
1997 Hotel Korpilampi, Espoo, Finland, Installations
Memberships
Finnish Painters´Union
Other
2015 Bukowski, profits from an auctioned piece for New Children´s Hospital 2017, 2600 €
2012 Annual report of The National Emergency Supply Agency, illustration
2010 Factory Superstars, Culture Center Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, Finland
2010 Art Fair, Gallery Uusitalo, Helsinki, Finland
2008 Art Fair, Gallery Uusitalo, Helsinki, Finland
2007 Art Fair, Gallery Nunes, Stockholm, Sweden
Artwork in collections
Benetton Foundation collection
Collection of Raasepori town, Finland
Paulo Foundation
Finnish State Art collection
Collection of Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation
Swanljung¨s collection
Aalto University
Pekka Mattila collection
Konst i Norr museet , Kiiruna, Sweden
Grants
2022 Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike)
2020 Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike)
2018. The Finnish Cultural Foundation
2005 Alfred Kordelin Foundation
2016 Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland (team)
2016 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Taike (team)
Public artwork
2016, 2018, 2021 Aalto University (Aalto EE)
2012 Sipoo high school, Finland
Publications
2017 Imago mundi, Luciano Benetton Collection. Myth and Innovation Contemporary Artists from Finland
2010 Suomalaisia nykytaiteilijoita lähikuvassa, Pirkko Vekkeli, Ilpo Vainionpää. WSOY
2016 Earth, The essence of survival, Saphira & Ventura Gallery