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CURRICULUM VITAE

Vesa Kaleva Varrela

0503 1957 Born in Turku

Studies:
1979-82 University of Turku, Teacher training college of handiwork, Rauma
1982-96 University of Industrial Arts, Helsinki, industrial design
1996 M.A. University of Industrial Arts, Helsinki,

Training:
1984 The Glasshouse, London
1985 Jussi`s Keramik, Maarianhamina, the Åland Islands
1986 The Nuutajärvi Glass, Nuutajärvi

Work:
1987- Own workshop
1987- Design Studio Varrela Vesa
1987-93 Part time lecturer, glass art & design, UIAH, University of Industrial Arts, Helsinki, Finland
1987-90 Designer, the Finnish Science Centre
1990-96 Exhibition architect, "Kalevala-people"-touring exhibition, U.S.A. & Europe
1993 Course leader, International Nuutajärvi glass workshop, Venetian techniques with Lino Tagliapietra, Further Training Centre, University of Industrial Arts, Helsinki
1993-96 Head of Art Department, Tampere School of Art and Communications
1995 Exhibition architecture, Stone Museum, Metso-library, City of Tampere
1996-97 Head of Arts, Tampere Polytechnic University, Tampere, Finland
1997-2000 President, Tampere School of Art and Communications
1997-2001 Dean, School of Art and Media, Tampere Polytechnic
2001- Curator, exhibition architect, Finlandia. Vanguardia en Vidrio, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Germany

Grants:
1987 Stipend, the City of Turku
1988 Finnish Cultural Foundation, Fund of Varsinais-Suomi
1988 Quality support of Arts and Crafts, State Committee for Craft and Design
1989 Group exhibition grant, Art Council of Finland
1989 Group exhibition grant, the City of Helsinki
1990 Finnish Cultural Foundation
1990 Alfred Kordelin Foundation
1991 Finnish Cultural Foundation
1991 State of Czechoslovakia
1992 City of Tampere
1993 The Province of Häme
1993 Alfred Kordelin Foundation
1994 Art Council of Finland
1994 Ministery of Education, Finland
1995 City of Tampere
1995 Finnish Cultural Foundation
1996 Ministery of Culture, Finland
1997 City of Tampere,
2000 Finnish Cultural Foundation
2000 Arts Council of Finland
2001 Board of Compensation Grants to Visual Artists
2001 Oskar Öflunds Foundation
2001 Greta and William Lehtinen Foundation
2001 Alfred Kordelin Foundation
2002 Finnish Cultural Foundation

Awards:
1995 Grand Prix Des Metiers D´art, De la Ville de Lyon, France

Exhibitions:
Group 1984/86/87 Spring exhibition of the University of Industrial Arts, Helsinki, Finland
1985 Nordisk Glas, Reykjavik, Iceland
1987 Metaxis, Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki
1987/88 Zeitgenössisches deutches und finnisches Kunsthandwerk Triennale, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Hannover, West-Germany, Finland
1988 "Jugend formt-glas", Matildenhöhe Award, Rosenthal Ag., Darmstad, West-Germany
1988 Maallinen Paratiisi, Art Center of Punkaharju, Retretti, Finland
1988 International Kanazawa Glass exhibition, Kanazawa, Japan
1988 Hohtoa, Shining, Vaasa, Finland
1988 Paradisus Terrestris, Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki
1988 Nuori Suomi, Art Center of Punkaharju, Retretti, Finland
1988/89 Glas och Keramik, Malmö, Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo, Finland, Sweden, Norway
1989 International Contemporary Exhibition of Glass and Crystal Sculptures, Generale de Banque, Liege, Belgia
1989 "De Facto", New Artglass from Finland, Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki
1989 "L`Europe Des Createurs", Grand Palais, Paris,France
1989 "Glass from Finland", Gallery Pavel Molnar, Hamburg, West-Germany
1990 "80", A Decade, Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki
1990 Galerie Monica Trüjen, Bremen, Germany
1990 Galerie Hermann, Drachselsreid, Germany
1990 "Young Scandinavian Glass", Nielsen Galerie, Malmö, Sweden
1990 "Finnish Glass Lives", Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki, Finland
1990 "The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa `90, Kanazawa, Japan
1991 Antik & Konstmässan, Älvsjö, Stockholm, Sweden
1991 "Finnish Form 8", Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki
1991 Vidrio Finlandes Contemporaneo, La Granja, Spain
1991 "Garden of Form", Art Center of Punkaharju, Retretti, Finland
1991 Galerie Suzel Berna, Antibes, France
1991 IGS-91, Novy Bor, Czechoslovakia
1992 Vidrio Finlandes Contemporaneo, Barcelona, Spain
1992 Neues Glas in Finland, Germany, Austria, Zwitzerland
1992 Galerie Suzel Berna, Antibes, France
1992 From Modern to Today, Sweden, Iceland, Belgia
1992 Le Verre de Finlande, Galerie Suzel Berna, Paris, France
1992 Galleri Glas I, Stockholm, Sweden
1992 FinlandiDA´92, Stockholm, Sweden
1992/93 Galerie Bellarte, Turku, Finland
1993 "Views and Visions", Newcastle, Great-Brittain
1993 "Views and Visions", Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
1993 "Materia", Helsinki City Art Hall, Helsinki, Finland
1993 Unikt Glas, Tammisaari, Finland
1993 Contemporary Glass from Finland, Gallery Bab Rouah, Rabat, Morocco
1993 Reflecting Time-Glass Sculptures from Finland, Finnish Institute, London, England
1993 Contemporary Glass from Finland, Porto, Lissabon, Portugal
1994 World Glass Now ´94, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art,
1994 Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Daimaru Grand Hall, Tokyo, Japan
1994 Ny Finnsk Glerlight, Rathus, Reykjavik, Island
1995 Gallery OTSO, City of Espoo, Finland
1995 "Finnish Glass Lives", Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki, Finland
1995 Exposition Collective, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
1995 Exposition des Metiers D`Art 1995, Hotel de Ville , Lyon, France
1995 Contemporary Art NIKI-gallery, Tokio, Japan
1995 MINIATYR I GLAS, Galleri Glas I, Stockholm, Sweden
1995/96 Autriche, Suède et Finlande, Les Nouvelles Frontières du Verre Européen, Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art à Luxembourg, Museum voor Sierkunst; Gent, Belgia
1996 4th. European Glass Sculpture Exhibition, Generale de Banque, Liege, Belgia, Banque Générale du Luxembourg, Luxembourg,
1996 Finnische Glaskunst, Finland-Institut Deutschland, Berlin, Deutcshland
1996 Reg Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland, England
1996 Holmsröm, Paunu, Varrela, Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives, The Hague, The Netherlands
1996/97 Finnish Post-War Glass, Manchester, England
1997 "Nordisk Glas", Gl. Holtegaard, Denmark
1997 "Useless Things", Tallinn Applied Art Triennial 1997, Tallinn, Estonia
1997 "Le Verre", Institut Finlandes, Paris, France
1997 "Quality Art", Mältinranta Art Centre, Tampere, Finland
1997 "Nordiske Glaskunstnere", Berger, Norway, Finnish Glass Museum, Finland
1997 "Glass, Jewelry, Painting", Contemporary Art Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands
1997 "Lasi ja Valo", Tampere Museum of Modern Art, Tampere, Finland
1998 Form and Function, Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, U.S.A.
1998 Modus-98, Haihara Mansion/Culture Centre, Tampere, Finland
1999 Moderne Zeiten, Finnisches Glas 1929 - 99, Leipzigh, Germany
1999 State of the Art`99, ART COMPANY, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1999 TRANSPARÉNCIA, Vidrio Artistico Contemporaneo, Portimao, Porto, Marinha Grande, Lissabon, Portugal
2000 Galleri Glas Ett 10 år, Brandts Contemporary, Torshälla, Sweden
2000 Finnish Glass Lives 4, Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki, Finland
2000 3 + 3 Dimensions, Tarbekunstmuseum, Tallinn, Estonia
2000 Fragilida Fundida, San Sebastian, Lugo, Santiago de Compostela, Gran Canaria, Spain
2000 Galleri Glas Ett i Doktors Glass, Stockholm, Sweden
2000/01 Galerie Splinter, Berlin, Germany
2000/01 Tallinn Applied Art Triennal 00, Tallinn, Estonia
2001 3 + 3 Dimensions, Rautiainen, Salo, Varrela, Koha, Lill, Prääts, Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki, Finland
2001 - Finlandia. Vanguardia en Vidrio, La Granja, Pontevedra, Spain
2001 SommarUtställning, Galleri Glas Ett, Tukholma, Sweden
2002 Findesignnow 02, Helsinki, Fiskars, Finland
(2002 Gallery Mariska Dirkx, Roermond, The Netherlands)

Exhibitions:
Solo 1990 "Installations", Helsinki Museum of Art, Gallery Kluuvi, Helsinki
1990 "Memories of 90:s", Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki, Finland
1991 "Minne av 90-talet", Nielsen Galerie, Malmö, Sweden
1991 "Installations", Artcentre Mältinranta, Tampere, Finland
1991 Galleri Glas I, Stockholm, Sweden
1991/92 Taidesalonki Bellarte, Turku, Finland
1993 Galleria AnnMari´s, Tampere, Finland
1994 Tampere Concert and Congress Hall, Winter Garden, Tampere, Finland
1994 Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, U.S.A.
1995 Finnish Glass Museum
1997 BAU-gallery, Helsinki, Finland
1999 Tampere-Talo, Tampere, Finland
2001 DeCristal, Madrid, Spain
(2002 Galerie 1oerhause, Gmunden, Austria)
(2002 Benalmadena, Málaga, Spain)

Collections:
Museum Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki, Finland
Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki, Finland
Helsinki Museum of Art, Helsinki, Finland
Fundacion Centro Nacional del Vidrio, La Granja, Spain
Glassexport, Czech(oslovakia)
City of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
Tarbekunstmuseum, Tallinn, Estonia
MAVA, Glass Museum of Alcorcon, Alcorcon, Spain

Company:
INION Oy Tampere, Finland
Tampereen Kiinteistö Invest Oy Tampere, Finland

Private:
Finland, Sweden, Germany, Italy, USA, Spain

Bibliography:
1987 Zeitgenössisches deutsches und finnisches Kunsthandwerk 4.Triennale, West-Germany, Finland, p. 402-403
1988 The international Exhibition of Glass Craft 88, Japan, p. 38
1989 Contemporary European Sculptures in Crystal and Glass, Belgia, p. 163-164
1989 Glas & Keramiek, mei/juni, Netherlands, p. 12-13
1989 L`Europe Des Createurs, France, p. 92
1989 Muoto, Finland, 4/89, p. 58-59
1990 Form/Function, Finland, 1/90, p.13
1990 "Finnish Glass Lives 2", p.8/18/46/76/89, Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki, Finland
1990 Form/Function, Finland, 3/90, p.67
1990 Helsingin Sanomat, Monthly Rewiev, 25/90, p. 48-49
1990 The international Exhibition of Glass Craft 90, Japan, p. 60
1991 Vidrio Finlandes Contemporaneo, La Granja, Spain, p. 40/44/84-85
1991 Koko Hajanainen Kuva, Finnish Art in the 80`s, WSOY, Finland, p. 105
1992 Neues Glas in Finnland, p.4/27/44
1992 Från Modern till Nutid, p.63/65/84
1992 New Glass Review, 2-3/92, p.12/31
1992 NEUES GLAS-magazine 3/92, p.18-25
1992 FinlandiDa ´92, p.84-85
1992 Design from Finland/Who is who in Finnish Design, p.47-49/316/318
1992 Views and Visions, Contemporary Art from Tampere, Tampere Art Museum, p.25-26
1992 The Survey of Glass in the World 6, Kyuryudo Art Publishing Co, Ltd, Tokyo, Japan, p.47/219-220/
1993 MUOTO, Finnish Form no 49, 1/93, p.50-55
1993 Materia, TAIKO-10 Years catalogue, p.22-23
1994 World Glass Now ´94, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan
1994 The Seattle Times, Arts, Critics Aug. 7 th. 1994, Seattle, U.S.A.
1994/5 Glass Magazine, No. 58 1994/95, U.S.A.
1995 Sculpture Magazine, March-April 1995, U.S.A.
1995 Exhibition-catalogue Short Cuts, ISBN 951-8952-33-7
1995 "Finnish Glass Lives 3", Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki, Finland
1995 Autriche, Suède et Finlande, Les Nouvelles Frontières du Verre Européen,
1996 Contemporary Sculptures in Crystal and Glass, Belgia, Luxemburg, s. 154/209-10
1996 Finnish post war glass: 1945 - 1996, p.43, plate 64
1996 NEUES GLAS-magazine 2/96, p. 44-45
1997 Glashelder, 2/97, Belgia
1997 "Nordisk Glas" - exhibition catalogue, Gl. Holtegaard, Denmark
1997 "Useless Things"-Triennale catalogue, Tallinn Applied Art Triennial 1997
1997 "Nordiske Glaskunstnere"-catalogue, Berger, Norway, Finnish Glass Museum, Finland
1998 This Side Up-magazine, 3/98, p. 29
1999 Moderne Zeiten, Finnisches Glas, 1929-1999- catalogue, p.62, p.93
1999 "State of the Art `99"-exhibition catalogue, p. 144-151, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2000 Finnish Glass Lives - exhibition catalogue, p., Finnish Glass Museum, Finland
2001 Tallinn Applied Art Triennial 2000 - catalogue, p. 86, Tallinn 2000
2001 Finlandia. Vanguardia en Vidrio-exhibition catalogue, p.7/15/19/32-34/138-141Fundacion, La Granja, Spain
2001 Catalogue "VESA VARRELA", recent works

Teaching/workshops:
1987- Part time lecturer, glass art & design, UIAH, University of Industrial Arts, Helsinki, Finland
1993 Course leader, International Nuutajärvi glass workshop, Italian techniques with Lino Tagliapietra, Dante Marioni, Charles Parriot, ...,
Further Training Centre, University of Industrial Arts, Helsinki
1993- Courses in different field of art, Tampere School of Art and Communications
1996- Courses in different field of art, Art and Media, Tampere Polytechnic, Finland
1997- Lectures in Glass, Lahti Polytechnic, Lahti, Finland
1997 Workshop in glass and design, Real Fabrica de Cristales, La Granja, Spain
2000 Lectures, critics, department of glass and ceramics, Estonian Art Academy
2000 Lecture, critics, CCS, Detroit, U.S.A.
2001 Lecture, Fundacion Centro des Nacional del Vidrio, La Granja, Spain
2001- Lectures in Glass, Hämeenlinna Polytechnic, Wetterhof, Hämeenlinna, Finland

Membership:
1988- Pro Glass Art Finland
1991- Tampere Art Association
1991- ORNAMO/Association of Industrial Arts, Finland
1995- SCULPTOR/Finnish Sculptorers Association, aspirant membership
2001- MODUS, Pirkanmaa association of Design and Industrial Arts

2001-2003 Pirkanmaa Art Council

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