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ÅSA HELLMAN
+ 358 (0)40 5447961

asa.hellman(at)pp1.inet.fi



Makes unique ceramic pieces using a wide range of techniques such as throwing, hand building and slab-building. Her work consists of wall-reliefs and sculptures as well as big plates and pots. Most pieces are made of high-fired stoneware, decorated with coloured engobes and sometime lustres. Her most important public commissions are two big wall-reliefs for the restaurant of the cruising-vessel Birka Princess, as well as a large relief for Kårböle Elementary School in Helsinki. Works in her own studio in Porvoo since 1993.




Studies

1978-1979 Royal College of Art, London, ceramics department

1974-1975 Uniersity of Belgrade, Faculty of Applied Arts

1969-1973 University of Art and Design, Helsinki, ceramics department

1967-1969 University of Helsinki, cum laude degree in art-history



Work
Victoria & Albert Museum, Design museum, Helsinki; Rhösska Museum, Göteborg, Sweden; National Museum of Decorative Art, Trondheim, Norway; Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku; Museum of Applied Art, Belgrade; Museum of Porvoo; Museum of Arabia Factory; Finnish State Guest House; Hotel Vaakuna; Health Center of Porvoo; Fexima Oy; Fortum Art Foundation; Finnish Parliament Art Collection; Telenokia; Finn-Stroi; National Museum,Stockholm; Art Council of Sweden (for the Residence of the Swedish Prime Minister); Saastamoinen Foundation; Craft Museum of Finland, Jyväskylä; Pro Artibus Foundation, Salo Art Museum.






Positions of trust

World Craft Council Finnish Delegate 2012
–2014
Board member, Taidejaosto (Craftsmen of Ornamo) 2010 onwards

Board member of National Council for Design Finland 2007 – 09. 

Board member of Pro Artibus Foundation 2002 -04

Board member of Arts Council of Uusimaa 1994-97 (vice-chairman 98-2000); 

Board member of Artist´s Association of Porvoo 1990ties 

World Crafts Council Finnish Representative 1978-84

Board member of World Crafts Council Europe 1978-83;

Board member of Ornamo, TKO and TAIKO (founding member) during the 1980ties

Member of Finnish Design Council in the 1980ties



Publishing work

Savea, unelmia - Lera, drömmar-  Clay, dreams (autobiography) 2020

Ceramic Art in Finland, Editor in Chief and Principal Author, Thames & Hudson, 2004 (Finnish edition Otava 2004, Swedish edition Söderströms 2006)

Published several articles on design for Crafts (GB), Form (Sweden), Heimatwerk (Swizerland), Helsingin Sanomat and Taito-magazine, (Finland).
Freelance art critic for Hufvudstadsbladet since 1971

Art critic of Borgåbladet 1968-73



Awards and Prizes

Major Art Prize of The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland 2021 

Craftsman of the Year 2005, Finnish Association of Designers Ornamo

Best Art Book 2004 (Ceramic Art in Finland, Otava) 

Cultural Prize of Stina Krook Foundation 2002, 
Cultural Prize of City of Porvoo
1997;
II prize (with a group) L´Europe à Table, Macon, France
Finnish
State Award of Industrial Arts 1981



Professional experience

2014-2015 Chairman of Ornamo  committee for Art&Space exhibition at Design Museum, Helsinki

2008 Keramiikan kevät, exhibition in Galleri Oljemark, curator with K. Riska

2006-07 Uunituoretta and Lisää uunituoretta- exhibitions, curator

1986-87 Part-time teacher, General Studies at University of Art and Design Helsinki

1984-2010 occasional lecturer and evaluator of master degree papers, University of Art and Design Helsinki

1983-86 Part-time teacher, ceramics department, University of Art and Design, Helsinki 

1981-82 Design and commissions for Craftsmen´s Guild, London

1981-82 Kingsgate Workshops, London

1979-81 Steven Braine Ceramic Studio

1973-93 Pot Viapori Ceramic Studio, Suomenlinna 

1971-73 Ceramics Cellar workshop, founding member, Aleksis Kivenk.18, Helsinki

1972 Arabia Factory, laboratory and art-department, apprentice

1971 Bente Lemche Ceramic Studio, Denmark

1968 Amos Anderson Art Museum, exhibition assistant 

1967-69 Museum of Porvoo, cataloguing of ceramic collection 


Selected exhibitions abroad

2021 Encounters, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2019 Helsinki Fat Clay – Spring 2019,  Blås&Knåda Gallery, Stockholm
2018  Contemporary Touch, Sanyi Fu-Guei Gallery, Taiwan
2017 Finite Resource, Stroganov Academy Moscow, 7th International Biennale of Contemporary Art
2015 Finland Designed Environments, Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle U.S.A.
2014 Finland: Designed Environments, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, U.S.A
2014 Finnland – Ein Land präsentiert sich, Galerie Marianne Heller, Heidelberg, Germany

2012 Helsinki Fat Clay in Faenza and Milan, MIC Faenza and Officine Sassi, Milan

2010 Weich Hard Finnish, Nordische Botschaften, Gemeinschafthaus, Berlin

2010 Luxus 09, L’Arthotèque de Caen, France 

2010 Feuer und Eis, Keramikmuseum Westerwald and Galerie Marianne Heller, Heidelberg

2009 Glass and Ceramics in landscape, Elagin Palace Museum, Saint Petersburg

2009 Millelaghi sogni e segreti, Åsa Hellman/Merja Winqvist, Estile Gallery, Rooma  

2005 The 11th National Pottery & Ceramics Festival, Hatfield House, Englanti

2003 The 10th National Pottery & Ceramics Festival, Hatfield House, Englanti

2002 Artspace, Barn Galleries, Aston, Englanti
2001 The Hawker Gallery, Bucks, Englanti

2000 Neighbours, Pietarin Taideteollisuusmuseo

2000 5th Cairo International Biennale for Ceramics, Oopperan näyttelytila, Kairo

2000 Northlands festival, Åsa Hellman/Ulla-Maija Vikman, St. Fergus Gallery, Wick, Skotlanti

1999 Lera, fiber+färg, Åsa Hellman/Ulla-Maija Vikman, Galleri IngerMolin, Tukholma

1998 Craftsmen TAIKO, Contemporary Ceramics from Finland, Morley Gallery, Lontoo

1998-2000 Nordic Ceramic Triennale
1998, travelling exhibition: Historic Museum Stockholm, Rackstad Museet, Arvika, Höganäs Museum,
Kolding Art Museum Denmark, Nordische Botschaften Berlin, Rhösska Museum Göteborg

1997 Collection Design Maggi, Musée de l’Alimentation, Vevey, Sveitsi

1997 Pro Arte, Gjerstad, Norway

1996 L’Europe a table, Musee des Ursulines, Macon, Ranska

1995 Galleri Norby, Copenhagen

1995 Nordisk keramik, Galleri Lejonet, Stockolm

1991 Galleri Lief, Los Angeles

1990 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid

1990 Contemporary Nordic Ceramics, Galleri F15, Moss, Norway

1990 World Triennale Exhibition of small ceramics, Zagreb

1989 Scandinavian ceramics & glass, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

1988 Frydendal Galleri-Verksted, Norway

1988 Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburg

1987 Utblickar/Konst och konsthantverk från Finland, Växsjö, Sweden

1985 Finnish Design, Madrid and San Sebastian, Spain

1984 Design Finland, Australian Design Centre, Adelaide, Australia

1984 Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, Sint Pietersabdij, Gent, Belgia 

1984 Museo Arte Moderno, Mexico City

1983 Artisaanit, Nordic House, Reykjavik

1983 Två keramiker – två temperament, Åsa Hellman/Lou Schmidt, Form/Design Center, Malmö, Sweden

1982 Finnland gestaltet, Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf

1982 Artisaani, Galleri Vognremissen, Oslo
1982 "Scandinavia Today", Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York 

1982 Four hands and clay, Åsa Hellman/Lou Schmidt, Het Wapenschild, Antwerpen

1982 Contemporary Scandinavian Craft, Kenmin Hall Gallery, Kanagawa, Japani

1982 Scandinavia and Japan craft design exhibition, Kanazava, Japani

1982 Unikate Finnischer Kunstler, Das Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt am Main

1982 Mostra internazionale dell’arredamento, Villa Reale, Monza, Italia

1982 Finnland Gestaltet, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg

1982 Exhibition MIA, Milano

1981 Craft and Folk Art Museum, LosAngeles 

1980 5 Finska Konsthantverkare, Rhösska Muséet, Göteborg, Sweden

1979 Pejling, Fredrikshavn, Denmark 

1979 "Exempla" München

1978 Åsa Hellman/Birgit Dyhr, Konsthantverkarna, Stockholm 

1977 II Ceramics Triennale, Museum of Applied Art, Belgrade 

1976 Antverpen-Brügge-Bryssel, (Travelling Finnish design exhibition)



Selected exhibitions in Finland

2021  Kohtaamisia-Encounters, U-galleria, Helsinki
2021 On the Edge,  Art Museum of Rovaniemi Korundi
2020  From form to surface, Vantaa Art Museum Artsi
2019 Grand opening, KWUM ceramics museum, Fiskars


2016 Kotona XI, Studio Karin Widnäs, Fiskars
2016 Behind the Seen, Porvoo Art Hall, Porvoo
2015-2016 Kyllikki Salmenhaara 100 - Works by five of her students, Copper Smithery, Fiskars
2015 Kohti Valoa, Galleria Uusitalo Kauppakeskus Strand, Inkoo
2015 Stone Paper Scissors, O Galleria Helsinki

2014–2015  Ceramics & Space, Design Museum, Helsinki
2014 Helsinki Fat Clay, Arabia Gallery, Helsinki
2013 Pinnan alla, Auran Galleria, Turku

2012 Ceramega 2012, Voipaalan taidekeskus

2011-2012 Savi vieköön, Salo Art Museum, Salo

2009 Luksus 09, Design Forum Finland, Helsinki

2008 Keramiikan kevät, Galerie Oljemark, Helsinki (curator together with K. Riska)
2007 Mera ugnsfärskt II, Art Museum of Åland (also curator)

2007 Ennen näkemätöntä! Art Foundation of Fortum, Helsinki Art Hall

2006 Mera ugnsfärskt, Galleri Elverket, Ekenäs (also curator)

2006 Uunituoretta, Uutta suomalaista keramiikkaa, Galleri Sinne, Helsinki (also curator)

2005 Craftsman of the Year 2005, Cable Factory, Helsinki

2004 Syvällä savessa, Suomalaista nykykeramiikkaa, Craft Museum of Finland, Jyväskylä 

2003 Suomalaisen keramiikan vuosisata – A. W. Finchin jälkeläiset, Design Museum, Helsinki

2003 Kaikenkarvaiset ystävämme – eläinhahmot muotoilussa, Design Museum, Helsinki

2002 Potpourri, Arabia Museum Gallery, Helsinki

2002 Finndesignnow, Design Forum, Helsinki and Fiskars 

2001 Naapurit II, Gallery Rantakasarmi, Suomenlinna

2001, 2000 Summer Art Exhibitions of Pyhäniemi, Hollola

1999 Savi, kuitu + väri, Åsa Hellman/Ulla-Maija Vikman, Into Galleria Helsinki 


1998 Savesta syntynyt, international ceramics exhibition, Fiskars

1998 ”33 m2 –kalustettuna”, Artek Oy, Helsinki

1997 Pot Viapori 25 Years, Suomenlinna, Helsinki

1997 Åsa Hellman Ceramics/Raija Siikamäki Glass, Galleria Pintura, Helsinki

1996 Luovat kädet 1996, Kerava Art Museum 

1995 Pro Arte taidon puolesta, Craft Museum of Finland, Jyväskylä

1992 Materia, Craftsmen TAIKO 10 Years, Helsinki Art Hall

1990, -91, -92, -93 Design Forum Helsinki

1988 Käytä, Design Museum, Helsinki

1987, -85, -83, -81, -79 Suomi muotoilee- exhibitions, Design Museum, Helsinki

1986 Suomi haaveilee, Helsinki Art Hall and Historic Museum of Lahti


1984 Artisaani 10 Years, Kluuvin Galleria, Helsinki

1984 Posliinia vapaasti Artekissa, Artek, Helsinki

1984 Metaforum, Design Museum, Helsinki
i

1975 Finnish Association of Applied Art, 100 Years, Atheneum Art Museum

1973 Exhibition of Ornamo, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki

1973 Nuorten näyttely, Helsinki Art Hall

​Solo exhibitions

2021 Lavender Fields and Snow Landscapes, Gumbostrand Konst & Form, Söderkulla

2013 Keramiikka riihessä, Gallerian, Fasars Gård, Porvoo
2011 Magic & Mystery, LB Contemporary Gallery, Helsinki

2008 Keraamisia seikkailuja (Ceramic Adventures), Vanha Kappalaisentalo, Porvoo

2007 Värikkäästi – uutta keramiikkaa (Colourful –New Ceramics), Galleria Johan S., Helsinki

2000 Uniikkivateja (Unique Plates), Design Forum, Helsinki

2001 Jumalattaria Porvoosta (Godesses from Porvoo), Galleria Vanha Kappalaisentalo, Porvoo

1997 Kreikkalaisia jumalia savesta(Greek Gods in Clay) Arabia Museum Gallery, Helsinki

1997 Grekiska gudar i lera (Greek Gods in Clay), Blås & Knåda, Stockholm 

1994 Åsa Hellman - keramiikka, Galleria Vanha Kappalaisentalo, Porvoo

1992 Lyster (Lustre), Blås & Knåda, Stockholm

1992 Ruukkuja saarelta (Pots from an Island), Artek, Helsinki 

1988 Åsa Hellman Keramiikka-Keramik, Galleria Bronda, Helsinki

1987 Åsa Hellman Keramiikka-Keramik, K.H.Renlundin Museum, Kokkola

1984 Viidakkopolkuja (Jungle Paths), Ässä Galleria, Helsinki

1981 Lysteria (Lustre), Artisaani, Helsinki

1980 Photographs: ”Potteries in Devon and Cornwall”, Pohjoisesplanadi, Helsinki Festival

1976 Teekannuja Suomenlinnasta (Teapots from Suomenlinna), Kirjavintti, Helsinki

1975 Åsa Hellman- Keramik, Galleria Amam Knez Milos, Belgrad

1973 Keramiikkaveistoksia (Ceramic Sculpture,) debut,Taidesalongin kellari, Helsinki



























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