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| Studies | 2003-06 2005 1998–02 1997–98 1994–98 | University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland, Fine Arts, MA Kyoto City University of Arts, KCUA, Japan, Conceptual and Media Art Turku University of Applied Sciences, Fine Arts, Turku, FI Liminka Art School, FI University of Tampere, Department of Philosophy, major in Theoretical Philosophy |
| Selected Community Art Projects & one-to-one Pieces | 2026 2024 2023–25 2021– 2021 2021 2016–18 2008–12 2008–10 2006–08 2006 | Down to Earth: Manchester – Oulu Co-production of Sick! Festival, UK and Cultural Cooperative ILME’s Here to Art, part of Oulu2026 Cultural Capital programme. New Roots Together with migrant women without regular status in Turku, part of Between Happiness and Despair -project, FI, DK Aspen, Communal public artwork for protecting old aspen. Luonnonmaa Family house, Naantali, FI Apart we shall perish, multidisciplinary project about importance of soil, Art & Science workshops in mines in North of Finland for over 100 students, creating therapeutical microforest to Tyks Compass Hospital 2028, Soil and plant Nursery as Living lab and Design Studio (2025–2028) FI,FR RADIANTCampus, one-to-one work for 6 moths, Turku, FI Weighing, one-to-one piece, Kehä-festival, Oulu FI We are all animals, Mietoinen, FI Community Artist in Saari Residence, Kone Foundation Remembrance of Landscapes Past, Mynämäki, FI Rebuilding Arsoned Church, Porvoo, FI True Romance, M/F Stryn, Drawing on skin of sailors, Dale, NO |
| Selected Solo Exhibitions | 2009 2008 2008 2008 2007 2006 2002 | Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki Galleria AMA, Helsinki Galleria AMA, Turku Latva, 8 site specific work in Helsinki city centre, Helsinki Festival, Helsinki Media Centre Lume, Helsinki Gallery Titanik, Turku |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | 2024 2022 2019 2009 2008 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2004 2002 2002 2001 | Between Happiness and Despair, Kunsthal Nord, Aalborg, DK Sculpture as CO2 storage, Turku Art Hall, Turku FI Scenes, Turku Cathedral, Turku FI Mäntän kuvataideviikot, Mänttä, FI Art Copenhagen, The Nordic Art Fair 2008, Copenhagen, D Changing Lines. 150 Year of Art of Drawing, Lillehammer Art Museum, NO Placing Sense 2, Kuten Association with ID: I Gallery, Stockholm, S Norse Ferry Tales, M/F Stryn, Mannheller-Fodnes, NO Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, JAPAN Urban Spaces, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art and city space, Helsinki Rahtia! Environmental art project, city space, Helsinki, FI ARTGENDA 2002, biennial, Hamburg, Germany Forum Box, Helsinki Young artists of the Barents Sea region, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi |
| Working in Residence | 2023 2006 2005 | Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR Nordic Artist’s Centre Dale, N Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, J |
| Selected Lectures & Expert Roles | 2024–26 2023– 2025 2025 2024 2024 2023 2023 2023 2022 2022 2020–21 2018–21 2016– 2016–22 2017 2009–10 | Turku Circular -collaborative development project, biodiversity team, Turku, FI Sensory room working committee, Tyks psychiatric Compass hospital in Turku Culture and Health Forum, EU- co-founded, workshop and lecture, Funds Supporting Culture in the Sustainability Transition, panellist, Puistokatu 4, Seminar on Ecological Sustainability and Public Art, City of Turku, lecture The Invisible Supports the Visible, Soil microbes and Climate Change conversation with Professor Marc-André Selosse, Museum de histoire naturelle Paris, Puistokatu 4, house of Science and Hope, Helsinki, FI Soil matters! Alusta Pavillion conversation, Design museo, Helsinki, FI Conversation with professor AbdoulMaliq Simone, The University of Sheffield, about emerging forms of collective life as part of his visit in Paris University, Paris, FR Apart we shall perish Conversation, Institut Finlandais, Paris, FR Artist in Work Community, KampusART-arts programme, Turku, 6 months Communal possibilities of public art -lecture, Public Art seminar Turku Drawing assistant Lands of Treasure animation, artist duo IC–98 Master School programme Contemporary Contexts of Arts, Turku Arts Academy TUAS Space and Time I, lecturer and thesis supervisor, TUAS, House for girls in Turku, Community artist Sound and Space workshop, Turku City LIbrary, Community artist Community Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Lecturer |
| Grants and Awards Selected | 2024 2024 2023 2023 2018 2018 2016 2008 2008 2007 2007 2006 2004 2003 2002 | Kone Foundation, ‘Metsän puolella’ grant Finnish Cultural Foundation Arts Council of Finland Mai and Tor Nessling Foundation Arts Council of Finland Proper TOP Foundation Kone Foundation Arts Council of Helsinki Metropolitan Region Art Council of Finland Paulo Foundation City of Helsinki Foundation of Environmental Art Art council of the south-western province of Finland Finnish Art Association Wäinö Aaltonen Art Museum |
| Selected texts and publications | Niemelä, Riikka (2022) Compositional worlds on Nina Rantala’s Cosmos Kotilainen, Riina (ed.) (2022); Taidetta kampuksella – Julkisen taiteen käytännöt, pedagogiikka ja uudet avaukset Haapala, Leevi (2008) Bodily exercises. Galleria AMA publication on True Romance, drawings on sailors’ skin. Rantala, Nina (ed.) (2026) Down to Earth: Manchester– Oulu Rantala, Nina (ed.) (2023), SÄTEILEVÄKampus (2023), publication about being work community artist. Rantala, Nina (ed.) (2010) Remembrance of the landscape Past. Kone Foundation publications. | |
| Memberships | Association of Finnish Sculptors Artists’ Association MUU Jöötti ry. Foundry association for Sculptors in Turku | |
| Public Works and Collections | Luonnonmaa Family House Saari Residence, Kone Foundation Sensory Room, Tyks Compass Hospital Turku University of Applied Sciences Private collections |