BIO
Ari-Pekka Leinonen is a sound artist and underground musician developing currently a paradigm shift for his personal artistic practice. Lately he has been performing with fierce Helsinki local legend status owning rock band HASH and finished a residency at Art Quarter Budapest in Hungary. During his residency he composed a rap album called Yo!and and created a puppet show influenced performance ADONNER. The performance and the rap album explore the act of giving.
Before AQB residency, Ari-Pekka explored the potential of his 9-channel sound system ele-gi-eli as a platform for sonic art purposes for himself and for others. He toured across European artist-run spaces and initiatives both organising and performing his fluid sonic work ele-gi-eli.
His current main operation lies in speculative artistic research and development through everyday anthropological attitude and a pursuit to understand the scales and proportions of human life. Also vast time is spent learning carpeting skill using saw and chisel. Slowly he is reinventing Finnish log house building technique and proposing a new series of sculptures. To accomplish this he has to listen to the trees until they stop speaking.
contact
aapee.leinonen (a) gmail.com
CV
Ari-Pekka Leinonen
aapee.leinonen (a) gmail.com
ari-pekkaleinonen.com
https://www.instagram.com/amigoismyfriend/
EDUCATION
2012-2015Master of Arts, Sound in New Media, Department of Media Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Finland
2008-12
Bachelor of Arts, Audiovisual Media Culture studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Lapland, Finland
ARTWORKS AND PERFORMANCES
ADONNER, sound performance Art Quarter Budapest Project Space, Budapest, Hungary 14.12.2024-10.1.2025 ele-gi-eli, sound performance and sound art event Kvaka22, Belgrade, Serbia 17.9.2024 Remont Galerija, Belgrade, Serbia 13.9.2024 Guvernanta Bar, Belgrade, Serbia 6.9.2024 Die Unikale performance festival, Magma Maria & Die Diele, Offenbach, Germany 17.8.2024 Hot Pot, Brussels, Belgium 8.8.2024 SPOOKY HOUSE - Night of Queer Interventions, Espaco Agora Now, Rotterdam, Netherlands 3.8.2024 Samenschool, Antwerpen, Belgium 14.7.2024 Casco Art Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands 11.7.2024 Stol Powszechny, Warsaw, Poland 7.7.2024 Radio Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania 5.7.2024 Sodas2123, Estafete, Vilnius, Lithuania 4.7.2024 Schick Toikka + TSTO open studios, Helsinki, Finland 17.5.2024 Film Tonight, Helsinki, Finland 20.4.2024 TuTu Studio, Tallin, Estonia 18.4.2024 Kaņepes Kultūras centrs, Riga, Latvia 17.4.2024 Cechownia, Gliwice, Poland 10.4.2024 Hectolitre, Brussels, Belgium 25.2.2024 Kiosk Radio, Brussels, Belgium 7.1.2024 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻é𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗶𝗿é𝗲 𝘅 𝗘.𝗔.𝗥. 𝗜 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟱𝟴, Brussels, Belgium 26.11.2023Hectolitre, Brussels, Belgium 19.11.2024 Hectolitre, Brussels, Belgium 16.11.2024 ||: o / dear<3 :|| aka Rekordarling, sound performance with 11 loudspeakers Galerie Perpétuel, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29.10.2022 L=10, sound performance with 13 loudspeaker-headed-puppets Art Quarter Budapest, Budapest, Hungary 26.10.2024 Hectolitre, Brussels, Belgium 6.1.2024 Roskot Festival 2023, Aalst, Belgium 1.-3.9.2023 Paltamon kesäteatteri, Paltamo, Finland 19.8.2023 Titanik-galleria, Turun Taiteiden yö 2023, Turku, Finland 17.8.2023 Gallery Serce Człowieka, Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2022, Warsaw, Poland 1.10.2022 Jazz Club Hipnoza, Biuro Dźwięku Katowice, Katowice, Poland 30.9.2022 Domie, Poznan, Poland 23.7.2022 Gasthof, Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 5.7.2022 Hupa Brajdič Produkcija, Ljubljana, Slovenia 25.6.2022 Termokiss, Prishtina, Kosovo 19.6.2022 Zelenata Arka ”The Green Ark”, Skopje, North-Macedonia 17.6.2022 Буква / Bookva, Skopje, North-Macedonia 16.6.2022 Bajramovic Unlimited, Athens, Greece 7.4.2022 Aristotle Hall, Chalkida, Greece 4.4.2022 To Pikap, Thessaloniki, Greece 15.3.2022 Ostavinska, Belgrade, Serbia 10.-11.3.2022 Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Helsinki, Finland 12.9.2021 Apatia & Ital, sound installation Ostavinska Galerija, Belgrade, Serbia 4.-10.12.2017 Välittäjä, video installation Ti-La 2016, Jyväskylä, Finland 9.2-13.2.2016 Pesula, 10-channel sound installation Gallery K6A6, Jyväskylä, Finland 17.5.–8.6.2014
COLLABORATIONS
2024 ON FILM. Group exhibition by Film Tonight! Curated by Mariangela Pluchino
Asbestos Art Space, Helsinki, Finland
2024 Atlantis, electronic music album with Jacbos-Leinonen collaboration, Premiere Kiosk Radio 19.2.2024, Brussels, Belgium
2024 Gustatory Sound, a blindfolded sonic dinner with Asli Hatipoglu, Hectolitre, Brussels, Belgium
2022 ZDRÓJ, 6-channel sound installation for exhibition by Alicja Wysocka, Städelschule Rundgang 2023, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2022 ZDRÓJ, 6-channel sound installation for exhibition by Alicja Wysocka, fffriedrich, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2022 King Combucha, a still image film with Dan Allon, Contemporão in São Paulo, Brazil
2021 King Combucha, film screening with Dan Allon, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway
2020 TV ELDORADO or Clarinet Ivan & Weddinband, film screening & live soundtrack performance with Bert Jacobs, Dom Na Kinoto, Sofia, Bulgaria
2019 TV ELDORADO or Clarinet Ivan & Weddinband, film screening & live soundtrack performance with Bert Jacobs, Adata AIR, Plovdiv2019 European Capital of Culture, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2019 Bad Research 5: ROKKENROLLERS - Unpracticed Knowledge, film screening, VAFT-mobile, Ilmiö2019-Festival, Turku, Finland
2019 Bad Research 5: ROKKENROLLERS - Unpracticed Knowledge, audiovisual performance with Dan Allon, Circle1, Berlin, Germany
2019 Heartbroken Uncle5 Karaokeband, performance with Bert Jacobs, Night Shift: from dusk till dawn, De Studio, Antwerp, Belgium
2019 ELDORADO & KIVIKASA, exhibition with Bert Jacobs and Saku Kämäräinen, The Embassy of Republic of Bulgaria, Helsinki, Finland
2019 Multimadeira artist in residency, production team member, Funchal, Madeira
2018 ERNST PINOSSI Picture Show, exhibition with Dan Allon and Bert Jacobs, Hypercorps, Brussels, Belgium
2018 ELDORADO, film screening with Bert Jacobs, Kino Cosmos, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2017 Bad Research 5: ROKKENROLLERS - Unpracticed Knowledge, audiovisual performance with Dan Allon, De Tank, Bruges, Belgium
2017 Bad Research 4: The Gas Bill, exhibition with Dan Allon, Hanut Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2017 Bad Research 3: Tahini Is Thicker Than Blood, exhibition with Dan Allon, La juan Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2017 A, sound performance with Mikko Varakas, Artur Närvänen and Lauri Solin, Kiilan äänipäivät, Kemiönsaari, Finland
2016 Sampo שמש Sammas Shemesh Towards the New Temple, performance, Alfred Cooperative Institute for Art & Culture, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016 Fusilli, sound performance at LÀ-BAS→ KUILU: SIRPALEET SYVYYDESSÄ-performance festival, Merikaapelihalli, Helsinki, Finland
2016 I'm Helping My Friend to Think — My Friend Is Helping Me to Idle, performances & interventions in a public space, Sound Development City 5th Expedition, Madrid, Spain & Casablanca, Marocco
2015 Why Do We Do the Things We Do?, intervention in public space directed by Ariel Bustamante, Kampintori, Helsinki, Finland
2014 KIVIKASA, 20-channel sound installation with Saku Kämäräinen, Media Lab Helsinki 20th Anniversary Exhibitions, Design Forum Showroom, Helsinki, Finland
2014 KIVIKASA, 20-channel sound installation with Saku Kämäräinen, Sounds from Finland Exhibition, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
SOUND DESIGN
2023, Untitled (Nothing Happens), videowork by Alicja Wysocka, 4-channel sound design, GROTTO – Städelschule Graduate Show 2023, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2023, Untitled (Nothing Happens), videowork by Alicja Wysocka, 4-channel sound design, Jan Van Eyck Academy Open Studios, Maastricht, Netherlands
2023 Interactive telephone sound installation with Saku Kämäräinen, Didricshen Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2021 Off the menu – Neapolitan pizza's made with Finnish tomatoes and a secret ingredient, a film by Uzair Amjad, Mänttä Art Festival 2021, Mänttä, Finland
2020 Sauna Culture in Finland, Video by Annamaria Peltokangas, Sound Design, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY__OOcv--M
2020 Phantasmagoria, a film work by Ilona Lehtonen and Tia Hassinen, Aalto Studios, Helsinki, Finland
2020 Leonarda: Flesh Ain't Weak, a short film by Mariangela Pluchino, Music and Sound design
2019 Light of the Forest, Helsinki Art Fair19, sound design for immutocollective.com, Helsinki, Finland
2018 Every Month & My Dream, performances by Dimitar Shopov, live electronic music for the performances, Kulttuuritalo Stoa, Helsinki, Finland
2018 Light of the Forest, sound design for immutocollective.com, Margareth's House, London, United Kingdom
2013 JAA/EI/POISSA -kokoelma todellisuuksia, sound installation & sound design, EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern art, Espoo, Finland
RESIDENCIES
2024 Art Quarter Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
2023 Hectolitre, Brussels, Belgium
2022 Bajramovic Unlimited, Athens, Greece
2020 Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway
2019 Adata AiR, Plovdiv2019 European Capital of Culture, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2018 Hypercorps, Brussels, Belgium
2018 Adata AiR, Plovdiv2019 European Capital of Culture, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2017 Cut The Crap#4, Het Entrepot, Bruges, Belgium
2016 Sound Development City 5th Artist Expedition, Madrid, Spain & Casablanca, Marocco
GRANTS
2024 Arts Promotion Centre Finland Artist Grant
2024 Frame Contemporary Art Finland Mobility Grant
2024 Arts Promotion Centre Finland Project Grant
2023 Arts Promotion Centre Finland Project Grant
2022 Suomen taideyhdistys - Young Artist Grant
2022 Frame Contemporary Art Finland Mobility Grant
2022 Frame Contemporary Art Finland Mobility Grant
2022 Arts Promotion Centre Finland Working Grant
2021 Arts Promotion Centre Finland Mobility Grant
2017 Arts Promotion Centre Finland Working Grant
PUBLICATIONS
2024 ele-gi-eli risoprint booklet, Samenschool, Antwerpen, Belgium2017 "Listening at the Place of Silence" in Why Do We Do the Things We Do?, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
2016 Sound Development City 5th Artist Expedition Documentation, Sound Development & Heller Enterprises, Zürich, Switzerland
RELEASES
2024 Jacobs-Leinonen - Atlantis, digital release2021 Jacobs-Leinonen - Feature Music ~ Nightlover OR ~ Nightlover, digital release
2020 Jacobs-Leinonen - Shipwrecked Waltzhop, digital release
2017 ROKKENROLLERS - Unpracticed Knowledge, 12" limited edition 30 copies
MEDIA COVERAGE
Interview by FinnAgora 4.12.2024https://finnagora.hu/en/blog/guest-of-the-month-ari-pekka-leinonen-and-the-art-of-listening
ele-gi-eli -performance live at Radio Villnius, Vilnius, Lithuania 5.7.2024
https://radiovilnius.live/19623-2/
ele-gi-eli featured in NTS Radio program Onotesla, London/Manchester, UK 4.5.2024
https://www.nts.live/shows/onotesla/episodes/onotesla-3rd-may-2024
ele-gi-eli -performance live at Kiosk Radio, Brussels, Belgium 7.1.2024
https://kioskradio.com/episode/2024-01-07/ele-gi-eli
Kainuun Sanomat 16.8.2023
https://www.kainuunsanomat.fi/artikkeli/kaiken-aanen-voi-ajatella-musiikkina-kansainvalista-uraa-luova-aanitaiteilija-tuo-teoksensa-koti
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 9.7.2022
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/kultur/gasthof-der-frankfurter-staedelschule-studentische-koeche-aus-50-nationen-18159335.html
Interview, Radio Kapital 31.7.2022, Poland
https://radiokapital.pl/shows/domie/4-try-to-find-self-laughter/
Suomen Kuvalehti 28.2.2016
https://suomenkuvalehti.fi/kulttuuri/taiteilijat-pois-mukavista-oloista-uusi-nykytaiteilija-esittelyssa-kerran-viikossa-vuoden-ajan-jyvaskylassa/