CURRENT

Ari-Pekka Leinonen is currently developing a 5-piece sculptural loudspeaker series that takes its foundation from traditional log house building technique. The upcoming work begins its thematic exploration from home, storage and conservation and expands to various uncharted territories. Current working title could be "escape series". The project is kindly supported by Finnish Arts Promotion Centre.

PAST

9.5.2025 ele-gi-eli : SunMa at Art Quarter Budapest

Photos by Cosmin Codri

2024 ADONNER sound performance

L=10 at MűvészetMalom, Szentendre Hungary 13.4.2025

L=10 at Art Quarter Budapest, Hungary 26.10.2024 photos by Barnabas Neogrady-Kiss

Igor Stangliczky and Jakov Čaušević performing with ele-gi-eli at Guvernante Bar, Belgrade, Serbia 6.9.2024

Miloš Dimitrijević performing with ele-gi-eli at Kvaka22, Belgrade, Serbia 17.9.2024

ele-gi-eli at Remont Galerija 17.9.2024, Belgrade Serbia

ele-gi-eli at Die Unikale by Die Diele and Magma Maria 17.8.2024, Offenbach Germany

ele-gi-eli at Hot Pot, 8.8.2024, Brussels Belgium

ele-gi-eli riso print booklet made at Samenschool print atelier, July 2024, Antwerp Belgium

ele-gi-eli at Radio Vilnius 5.7.2024, Vilnius Lithuania

ele-gi-eli at Samenschool 14.7.2024, Antwerp Belgium

ele-gi-eli at Casco 11.7.2024, Utrecht Netherlands

ele-gi-eli at Stol Powszechny 7.7.2024 with Zoi Michailova, Kamil Piotrowicz and Pola Trabinska, Warsaw Poland

ele-gi-eli at Sodas2123 4.7.2024 with Venusian HC x Sub Rosa and DJ Hildå, Vilnus Lithuania

ele-gi-eli featured in a monthly program Onotesla by Michael Holland in NTS radio 4.5.2024

ON FILM.

Group exhibition by Film Tonight!
Curated by Mariangela Pluchino

7.-10.6.2024 at Asbestos Art Space, Helsinki, Finland

Gustatory Sound — blindfolded sonic dinner with Asli Hatipoglu at Hectolitre 26th January, 29th February and 2nd of April 2024

A new album Atlantis by Jacobs-Leinonen

Kiosk Radio · Jacobs-Leinonen @ Kiosk Radio 19.02.2024

2023 ele-gi-eli 9-channel sound sculpture — conceptually fluid

2022 ||: o / dear<3 :|| 11-channel sound installation

2019 L=10 sound performance with 13 loudspeaker-headed-puppets

2022 ZDRÓJ 6-channel sound installation with Alicja Wysocka

2022 EQ UINºXIIN sound performance with 11 loudspeakers

2021 King Combucha still-image-film with Dan Allon

2019- Jacobs-Leinonen Music releases with Bert Jacobs

2018-19 ELDORADO and TV ELDORADO or Clarinet Ivan & Weddingband film with Bert Jacobs

2018 ERNST PINOSSI Picture Show installation, performance and radio show with Dan Allon and Bert Jacobs

2016-2019 Bad Research collaborative work with Dan Allon

2017 Apatia&Ital 2-channel sound installation

2016 Sound Development City Artist residency

2016 Välittäjä video installation with 6-channel audio

2016 Tyhjäntoimittaja - Reporter of Nothing performative soundwalk

2014-15 Why Do We Do the Things We Do? assistant for Ariel Bustamante

2014 KIVIKASA 20-channel sound installation with Saku Kämäräinen

BIO

Ari-Pekka Leinonen is a sound artist and underground musician based in Helsinki. Lately he has been performing with fierce Helsinki local legend status owning rock band HASH and finished an artist 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 the individual and collective sonic art purposes. 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 a speculative artistic research that reinvents its aims 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

2012-2015
Master 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 26.11.2023
Hectolitre, 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
MűvészetMalom, Szentendre, Hungary 13.4.2025
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, Belgium
2017 "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 release
2021 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 4.12.2024
https://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/