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Elina Ruohonen

Elina Ruohonen (b. 1970) is a visual, space and conceptual artist whose latest
opening is work with sound art. Her sound works have been exhibited as part
of audio-visual exhibitions and composite works. Ruohonen has been working
on ecological art for several years. She has exhibited works on the condition of
the sea for example in Archipelago Centre Korpoström for art and research,
Kuusisto Art Manor, and Olohuone 306,4 km2, an urban public art festival in
Turku. Ruohonen has studied in Art Institute of Kankaanpää and Krasnoyarsk
State Institute of Art in Siberia. She holds the AMK degree in visual art, and
completed her specialisation education in art in Tampere University of Applied
Sciences, TAMK. The Finnish state has acquired Ruohonen’s works in its art
collection, as have Tampere Art Museum and the city of Turku. She has had
joint exhibitions in Galleria Bronda and tm•gallery in Helsinki and in Taidehalli
Art Hall in Porvoo. Her next private exhibition is opening in Auran Galleria in
Turku in November 2018. Her artworks were exhibited in the Wäinö Aaltonen
Museum in 2015 in the OTOS exhibition of contemporary art from Turku. In
2014, her sound work Gulf of Finland was commissioned by the city of Turku to
be presented in circulating exhibitions in Finland, Russia and Estonia.
Ruohonen worked on performative conceptual art in artist group Bargain from
2003 to 2012. The team gave shows in the visual art weeks of Mänttä, for
example. Ruohonen is currently working in the Merisiskot group of artists
studying the archipelago eco system. Elina Ruohonen lives and works in
Turku.