L E O N H A R D  L A P I N Born in Räpina, Estonia 29. XII 1947                            STUDIES                            1966-71 Studied architecture at the Estonian Art Institute                            TEACHING                            since 1990 teacher and since 1995 professor in Tallinn Art Academy, Head of the Chair of Composition and Colour Studies 1991- 03 Editor in Chief of Estonian Architectural Review EHITUSKUNST 1992- 98 Professor in Helsinki Art School Maa, Finland 1994- Visiting professor in Helsinki University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture 2001- 02 Free Arts professor in University of Tartu, Estonia                            PRIZES                            1973 Ljubljana Print Biennial prize 1974 Tokyo Print Biennial prize 1987 Soviet architectural prize 1989 Tallinn City Art prize 1989 The Kristjan Raud Prize for painting 1997 The Estonian State's Cultural prize 1997 The Baltic Watercolor Triennial prize 2001 The Estonian State´s Order of the White Star of IV Class 2003 Estonian Graphic Association prize of Year                            SOLO EXHIBITIONS                            1973-04 - 73 solo exhibitions f.e. 1975 Langsam Gallery, Armadale, Australia 1986 Stockholm City Theatre 1987 Pori Art Museum, Finland Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn 1991 Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland 1992 P.U.N.K.T. Gallery, Hamburg Gallery Roma, Liepaja, Latvia 1994 Gallery EPHÉMáRE, Montigny-le-Tilleul, Belgium Matisse Museum, Le Cateau-Cambresis, France Gallery D'Arte, Helsinki Gallery Titanik, Turku, Finland 1995 Finnish Museum of Architecture, Helsinki 1996 Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland Latvia Museum of Foreign Art, Riga 1997 Tartu Art Museum, Estonia Estonian Art Museum,Tallinn 1998 Gallery Laterna Magica, Helsinki Gallery Ruben Forni, Bruxelles 1999 Pärnu City Gallery, Estonia Kuressaare Gastle Gallery, Estonia 2000 Latvian Press House Gallery, Riga Gallery Raatuse, Tallinn 2001 Museum of Rakvere, Rakvere City Gallery, Estonia Gallery Raatuse, Tallinn Zimmerly Art Museum, USA Art Museum of University of Tartu, Estonia 2002 Galery Promenad, Hyvinkää, Finland Gallery Minna, Kuopio, Finland _iurlonis National Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania Gallery Kaj Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland 2003 Tartu Art Museum, Estonia Tallinn Art Hall gallery, Estonia Gallery Draakon, Tallinn Gallery Deco, Tallinn Valga City Gallery, Estonia Taagepera Gastle Gallery, Estonia 2004 Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn 2005 Haus Gallery, Tallinn Estonian Bank Gallery, Tallinn                            SELECTED INSTALLATIONS                            1987 Homage to Finland, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland 1989 Noah's Ark, Helsinki Art Hall, Helsinki 1990 Architecton Urania, Groningen, Holland 1990 Obelisk to Substance, Kotka , Finland 1990 Architecton Tree, City of Helsinki 1991 Socialist Work, Linköping, Kalmar, Stockholm Art Museums, Sweden 1991 Order and Spontaneity II, Stockholm Kulturhall, Stockholm 1992 Broken Time, Rostock Art Museum, Germany 1994 Estonian Forest I, São Paulo 22. Biennial 1998 Suprealistic City II, City of Huittinen, Finland 1999 Mirrored Cross Paide City, Estonia 2001 Fire-installation "Ode to the Officer", Kananahk-Festival, Rakvere, Estonia 2003 Labyrinth, Viinistu Art Museum, Estonia 2003 Clock of Freedom, City of Tallinn (together with Kristel Jaanus)                            GROUP EXHIBITIONS                            1969 SOUP 69, Cafe Pegasus, Tallinn 1973 Saku 73, Estonian Institute of Agriculture, Saku, Estonia 1975 Harku 75, National Institute of Experimental Biology, Harku, Estonia 1992 Contemporary Art from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada 1993 Rationalized Eternity, Contemporary Art Centre of Vilnius 1994 Graveurs Baltes, Gallery Détour, Jambes, Belgium Pro Natura Baltica, Helsinki, Tallinn, Stockholm, Lübeck International Multimedia Workshop Island Project, Gdansk, Poland 1996 Silence of Maa, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku, Finland 1998 Estonian Painting, Borchette Centre, Bruxelles 2000 Word Wild Flags, Liege, Aachen, Knokke, Luxembourg 2004 WWW.Transeuropa, Kulturverband Favoriten, Wien 2005 12 Künstler aus Tallinn, Actioncenter, Munich, Germany                            THEME EXHIBITIONS                            First showing at the young Estonian artists exhibition in 1970. Lapin has taken part in national exhibitions since 1971, and in the Tallinn exhibitions since 1972. Tallinn Graphics Triennial in 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2001, 2004 Ljubljana Graphics Biennial, 1971, 1973, 1975 Rijeka Drawing Biennial 1974, 1975 Vienna Graphics Biennial 1973, 1975 1973 Joan Miró Prize Exhibition, Barcelona 1974 Tokyo Print Biennial Warsaw Poster Biennial Modern Soviet Art, Budapest 1975 Eastern Prints, St-Laurent-Du-Point, France 1976 New Art from the Soviet Union, St. Louis, USA 1977 New York Drawing Biennial Soviet Avant-Garde, The Art Club of Washington; The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca Soviet Avant-Garde, Budapest 1980 Russian Images, Pittsburg, USA 1981 Estonian Art, Toronto, Canada 1982 Russian Samizdat Art, New York 1983 Russian Samizdat Art, Washington, Vancouver 1984 Russian and Soviet Art, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Hannover, Germany Russian Samizdat Art, Los Angeles, New York 1988 V European Print Triennial, Heidelberg, Germany Glasnost IV, Sewickley, USA Art Work of the Soviet Union, New York 1989 Dialogue II, Arbat Gallery, Moscow The New Soviet Avant-Garde, International House Gallery, New York. Structure/Metaphysics, Pori Art Museum; Rovaniemi Art Museum; Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland; Stadtgalerie, Kiel, Germany. 1990 Structure/Metaphysics_, Linköping, Kalmar, Kulturhuset Stockholm, Sweden. Radar, Kotka, Finland Biennale Baltikum, Rauma Art Museum, Finland Estonian Prints, Zutphen, Holland 1991 Estonian Prints, La Louisiere, Belgium Estonian Painting, Cooremans Institut, Brussels 1992 Estonian Art, Karlsruhe, Germany Baltic Art During the Brezhnev Era, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Canada Contemporary Art from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania_, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada Ostsee-Biennial 1992, Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany Quality, Latvia Exhibition Hall, Riga, Latvia Helsinki Art School Maa, Helsinki Art Hall 1993 Baltic Graphic, Dalarnas Museum, Falun, Sweden Contemporary Baltic graphic, Falun Art Museum, Sweden 1994 Stockholm Art Fair 22. Biennial of São Paulo, Brazil 1995 From Gulag to Glasnost, Zimmerli Art Museum, USA 1996 From Gulag to Glasnost, New York Personal Time, Zacheta Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland; St.Petersburg Art Hall Tallinn-Moskva 1956-1985, Tallinn Art Hall Tribute to Ilmar Laaban, Stockholm, Liljevalchs Konsthall 1997 Baltic Watercolor Triennial, Exhibition Hall Latvia,Tallinn Conteptual Works of nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, Rutgers University, USA 1998 Kanagawa Graphic Triennial,Japan Mini-print biennial,Tokyo Malaysia International Graphic Exhibition,Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Graphic Triennial Inter-Kontakt-Grafik, Prague 1999 Art and Spirituality in Latvian Museum of Foreign Art, Riga 2000 Word Wild Flags, Exhibitions in Liége, Aachen, Knokke, Luxembourg Duchamp´s Suitcase , Arnofini Gallery, Bristol, England 2001 Mini Print Biennial, Gluj, Romania XII Tallinn Graphic Triennial, Estonia Estonian Art, Gallery Tersaeus, Dansens Hus, Stockholm Estonian Art, Gallery of Grinnell College, USA International Art Festival KANANAHK, Rakvere, Estonia Estonian Architecture, Gallery of Art Academy of Germany, Berlin 2002 Estonian Architecture, Gallery of Free Art Academy of Hamburg, Germany 2003 Estonian Architecture, Moscow Art Hall, Russia Estonian Graphic, Lemonstreet Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Academics from Estonia, Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania Friends of Iceland, Hafnarborg, Iceland 2004 Estonian Graphic, Retrett Museum of Art, Finland 2005 Identity, Tallinn Art Hall II Beijing Art Biennial, China Tallinn München, Aktionsforum, München, Germany International Mini-Art Triennial, Tokyo, Japan 2006 Empty Space, Gallery Bercholdvilla, Salzburg, Austria Estonian Art Museum KUMU - permanent exhibition, Tallinn                            WORKS IN COLLECTIONS                            The Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia Architecture Museum of Estonia, Tallinn Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn Finnish Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki Niemistö Foundation, Helsinki Finnish Bank, Helsinki Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland Oulu Art Museum, Oulu, Finland "Kaleva" Publishers, Oulu, Finland Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia Tretyakov's Gallery, Moscow, Russia Swedish National Gallery, Stockholm L. Cooreman's Institute, Brussels, Belgium Charlottenburg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark Museum of Modern Art, Yerevan, Armenia Skopje Art Museum, Skopje, Macedonia White House Library, Washington D.C., USA Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA New York Public Library, New York Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA Cremona Foundation, Minneapolis, USA Bridgestone Art Museum, Japan Private collections: Tartu, Estonia; in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, USA, Yugoslavia                            BOOKS                            Void and Space. Helsinki University of Technology. Helsinki, 1994. Pimeydestä valoon. (Estonian avant-garde art). Otava. Helsinki, 1996. Kaks kunsti. (Two Arts). Kunst. Tallinn, 1997. Tühjus ja ruum. Void and Space. Estonian Art Academy. Tallinn, 1998. Tühjus. Void. Estonian Art Academy. Tallinn, 2003. Avangard (Estonian avant-garde art). Tartu University. Tartu, 2003. Tühjus ja ruum II. Void and Space II. Estonian Art Academy. Tallinn, 2004. Dokument ja loovus (Document and creativity). Sirbi Raamat, Tallinn, 2005. On Architecture in Life and Ethics. Umeå, 2006.