JOEL RÄNNÄRI™
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Joel Rännäri, b.2001 (Helsinki, Finland)Based in Amsterdam (NL)
Education:
2026 – ongoing
Sandberg Instituut: Dirty Art Department (Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design)
2025 – 2026
Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Programme in Fine Art and Design)
2024 – 2026
Aalto University: Master of Science in Economics (Multidisciplinary studies)
2023
University of Helsinki: World Politics (Programme in Politics, Media and Communication)
2020 – 2024
Aalto University: Bachelor of Science in Economics (Major in marketing)
Selected exhibitions:
2026
Dear Books at UNFAIR Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL – (group presentation / artist-book fair)
2026
Makers Exchange, Centrale Markthal, Amsterdam, NL – (group)
2025
Art industrial exhibition: COPIUM, Tapiola Central Tower, Espoo, FI – (group)
2025
Välillä Väärässä, Väärätalo, Imatra, FI – (group)
2025
Rapakivi Soundings: Story Ecologies and Vuosaari Perspectives, Villa Lill Kallvik, Helsinki, FI – (group)
2025
Landfill Metaphysics, Väre Gallery V1, Espoo, FI – (solo)
2024
Demo Days, Marsio Event Studio, Espoo, FI – (group)
2024
Mediums and Materials, Aalto University, Espoo, FI – (group)
2024
Sapiens Never Left The Cave, The Cave, Helsinki, FI – (solo)
Selected performances, interventions and screenings
2026:
– I’ve Never Been to a Swamp (performance), Rietveld/Sandberg, Amsterdam, NL
2025:
– Execution by Firing Squad (interventionist performance), realized in the campus area of Rietveld/Sandberg, Amsterdam, NL
– Less-than-human (performance), Rapakivi Soundings: Story Ecologies and Vuosaari Perspectives, Villa Lill Kallvik, Helsinki, FI
– Landfill Metaphysics: Performative Exhibition Tours (performative lectures), Väre Gallery V1, Espoo, FI
– Infestation of Academic Poster Session (intervention), performative lecture and installation realized in an academic poster session, Aalto University, Espoo, FI
2024:
– Hot Porn Videos in Finland as Algorithmic Fetishization (screening), Power and Performativity exhibition, Aalto University, Espoo, FI
– Opening Speech (performance), Power and Performativity exhibition, Aalto University, Espoo, FI
– THEY (performance and screening), Monstrosity in Art and Science, Aalto University, Espoo, FI
Other artistic activity:
– Grant for artistic research project Landfill Metaphysics: HSE Support Foundation, 2025
– Audio and music design in collaboration with Jonas Jokinen for short film Heaven will wait, directed by Silver Tjepkema, 2025 (LUCA Graduates Bachelor Film Brussels 2025)
– Artworks in various private collections
– Art commissions by private individuals and companies
Bibliography:
– Rännäri, J. (2026), INEVITABILITY IN FOUR ACTS. Self-published in collaboration with Gerrit Rietveld Academie BB & Co.
– Rännäri, J. (2026), Landfill Metaphysics. Aaltodoc. https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:aalto-202608206570.
– Rännäri, J. (2024), Schizoanalytic Critique of Consumer Subjectivity. Aaltodoc. https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:aalto-202405263626.
Press releases, publications and mentions:
– O FLUXO (2025). COPIUM. O FLUXO online platform. https://www.ofluxo.net/copium-taideteollinen-nayttely-espoo/.
– Experimental Contemporary Art Exhibition in Imatra (2025). Aalto.fi. https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/experimental-contemporary-art-exhibition-in-imatra.
– The Sometimes Wrong exhibition opens at Vääräntalo on August 23.8.2025, XNUMX. (2025). Imatra.fi. https://www.imatra.fi/en/The-exhibition-in-danger-opens-at-the-danger-house-2382025.
– Aalto Media Lab, (2024). The Collective Metabolism of Extremophiles. Aalto Media Lab Demo Day. https://medialabdemoday.aalto.fi/authors/berenike-melchior-joel-r%C3%A4nn%C3%A4ri/.
Contact details:
joel.rannari@gmail.com
https://joelrannari.com/
IG: @joel_raennaeri
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