| Born on December, 29, 1947, Räpina, Estonia
EDUCATION
1966 - 1971 Estonian Academy of Arts, architecture
MEMBERSHIPS
1977 Estonian Artists' Union
1982 Association of Estonian Architects
1992 Association of Estonian Printmakers
PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITY
Since 1990 Estonian Academy of Arts, lecturer
Since 1992 Art School "MAA", Helsinki, Finland, lecturer
Since 1995 Estonian Academy of Arts, professor
Since 1991 Estonian architectural review "Ehituskunst", editor-in-chief
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1973 2nd Floor Gallery of the Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
1973 Tartu University Café, Tartu, Estonia
1973 (with Sirje Runge) Tartu University Café, Tartu, Estonia
1975 Langsam Gallery, Armadale, Australia
1977, 1996 Gallery of theTallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
1977 Theatre "Endla", Pärnu, Estonia
1980 Council of Ministers' Motor Depot, Tallinn, Estonia
1981 National Library of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
1981 Library of the Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia
1983 Cinema House, Tallinn, Estonia
1984 Gallery "Draakon", Tallinn, Estonia
1986 Stockholm City Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden
1987 Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
1987 Pirkkala City Council, Pirkkala, Finland
1987 The Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn
1987 Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn, Estonia
1988 Rakvere Museum, Rakvere, Estonia
1989 Gallery "Nemo", Eckenförde, Germany
1990 Art Leonardo, Tampere, Finland
1990 Gallery of the Estonian Art Foundation, Helsinki, Finland
1991 Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland
1991, 1996 Gallery "Vaal", Tallinn, Estonia
1992 Gallery "P.U.N.K.T.", Hamburg, Germany
1992 (with Andres Tali) Gallery "Mosabacka", Helsinki, Finland
1992 Gallery "Roma", Liepaja, Latvia
1993, 1994, 1995 Gallery "Deco", Tallinn, Estonia
1993 Gallery "Sebra", Tartu, Estonia
1993 "Rüütli" Gallery, Tartu, Estonia
1994 Gallery "Ephémre", Montigny-le-Tilleul, Belgium
1994 (with Raul Meel) Musée Matisse, Musée Départemental,
Le Cateau-Cambresis (Nord), France
1994 (with Sergei Isupov) Gallery "Vasa", Falun, Sweden
1994 Architecture du Silence (with Juhani Pallasmaa). Institut Finlandais,
Paris, France
1994 Gallery "Titanik", Turku, Finland
1994 Gallery "D'Arte", Helsinki, Finland
1995 Finnish Museum of Architecture, Helsinki, Finland
1995 Chaplin Art Centre, Pärnu, Estonia
1996 Latvian Foreign Art Museum, Riga, Latvia
1996 Tammsaare Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
1996 Helsinki Art Hall Studio, Helsinki, Finland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
Since 1971 Estonian annual art exhibitions, Estonia
1969 SOUP '69. Pegasus Café, Tallinn, Estonia
1970 Estonian Progressive Art. Pegasus Café, Tallinn, Estonia
1971 Exhibition of six artists. Gallery of the Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn,
Estonia
1971, 1973, 1975 Ljubljana Graphic Art Triennial, Slovenia
1973 SAKU '73. Institute of Agriculture, Saku, Estonia
1973 Joan Mir Prize exhibition, Barcelona, Spain
1973, 1975 Frechen Graphic Art Biennial, Germany
1973, 1975 Vienna Graphic Art Biennial, Austria
1974 Tokyo Print Biennial, Japan
1974 Warsaw Poster Biennial, Poland
1974, 1976 Rijeka Drawing Biennial, Croatia
1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1992, 1995 Tallinn Print Triennial,
Estonia
1974, 1981 Estonian drawing exhibition, Tallinn, Estonia
1975 HARKU '75. Institute of Experimental Biology, Harku, Estonia
1975 Kyoto-Tokyo Print Biennial, Japan
1975 Contemporary European Art. Székesfehérvr, Hungary
1975 Prints from the East. St. Laurent Du Point, France
1975 Estonian Prints. Genthin, Germany
1975, 1979 Baltic poster exhibition, Tallinn, Estonia
1976 Estonian Monumental Art. Tallinn, Estonia 1976 - 1977 New Art from
the Soviet Union. AAASS Convention, St. Louis; The Arts Club, Washington
D.C.; The Kiplinger Editors Building; The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of
Art, Ithaca; Cornell University; USA
1976 - 1977 Estonian Prints. Gera, Zwickau; Germany
1977 New York Drawing Biennial, USA
1977 Geometric Art. Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn; Tartu Art Museum, Tartu,
Estonia
1978 Geometric Art. Theatre "Endla", Pärnu, Estonia
1979 Estonian Prints. Brandenburg, Germany
1979 (with Raul Meel, Jüri Okas and Tõnis Vint) Riga Planetarium,
Riga, Latvia
1980 (with Ignar Fjuk, Raul Meel, Jüri Okas and Silver Vahtre) Tartu
Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia
1980 Russian Images. Pittsburgh, USA
1981 "Estonian Artists Group" and the Geometric Tradition in Estonian
Art. The Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn
1981 Estonian Art. Toronto, Canada
1981 Geometric Art. Tallinn Drama Theatre, Tallinn, Estonia
1984 Space and Form. Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
1984 Russian and Soviet Art. Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Hannover; Germany
1985 Estonian and Latvian Poster Art. Montreal, Canada
1986 Form. Estonian Museum of Applied Art, Tallinn
1986 Pro Pax. Moscow, Russia
1987 Exhibition of miniprints, Lodz, Poland
1988 Estonian Industrial Arts and Architecture. Sweden; Germany
1988 Estonian Nudes. Magdeburg, Germany
1988 Glasnost IV. International Images, ltd.; Sewickley, Pennsylvania;
Pittsburgh, USA
1988 The Flying Eros. Hyvinkää Art Museum, Hyvinkää,
Finland
1988 Heidelberg Graphic Art Triennial, Germany
1988/89 Following the Idea of Avant-garde. The Art Museum of Estonia,
Tallinn
1989 Dialogue II. Gallery "Arbat", Moscow, Russia
1989 Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
1989 Soviet Avant-garde. International House Gallery, New York, USA
1989 - 1991 Structure / Metaphysics. Group exhibition of Estonian artists.
Finland: Pori Art Museum, Pori; Helsingi Art Hall, Helsinki; Rovaniemi
Art Museum, Rovaniemi; Germany: Kiel City Gallery, Kiel; Gallery "Nemo",
Eckenförde; Sweden: Stockholm Kulturhuset, Liljevalch's Art Hall,
Stockholm; Linköping Museum, Linköping
1990 Idea, Space, Material. Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
1990 Groningen, The Netherlands
1990 Radar. Group exhibition of artists from Baltic Sea countries. Kotka,
Finland
1990 Distances. Rauma Biennial, Rauma Art Museum, Rauma, Finland
1990 SOUP '69 - 90 (with Ülevi Eljand, Ando Keskküla and Andres
Tolts). Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
1990 Estonian Esplanade. Helsinki, Finland
1991 Arts Graphiques Contemporains En Estonie. Group exhibition of Estonian
printmakers. Centre de la Gravure et de L'Image Imprimée, La Louvière,
Belgium
1991 (with Jüri Kask, Rein Kelpman, Peeter Mudist and Andres Tolts)
L. Cooreman's Institute, Brussels, Belgium
1991 Power. Gallery "Mosabacka", Helsinki, Finland
1992 Forma Anthropologica. Group exhibition of artists from Baltic States.
Tallinn Art Hall, Gallery of the Tallinn Art Hall, Gallery "Luum", Tallinn,
Estonia
1992 Myth and Abstraction. Estonian contemporary art. Karlsruhe, Germany
1992 Baltic Art during Brezhnev Era. Selected works from the collection
of Norton and Nancy Dodge. John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1992 Stone Light. Biennial of contemporary art of Baltic Sea Countries.
Rostock Art Hall, Rostock, Germany
1992 Gallery "Fnack", Paris, France
1992 Contemporary Art from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Walter Philips
Gallery, Banff, Canada
1992 Exhibition of the Gallery "Vaal". Gallery "La ventana", Valencia;
Gallery "Colegio de Arquitectos", Malaga; Spain
1992 Quality '92. Riga, Latvia
1992 Masters of Estonian Avant-garde. Gallery "Luum", Tallinn, Estonia
1992, 1993 ARCO. International art fair, Madrid, Spain
1992, 1993, 1995, 1996 Art Cologne. International art fair, Cologne, Germany
1993 Selected works from the 9th Tallinn Print Triennial. Rauma Art Museum,
Rauma, Finland
1993 Falubiennalen '93. Contemporary graphic fine art from Baltic States.
Dalarna Museum, Falun, Sweden
1993 Substance - Unsubstance. The 1st annual exhibition of the Soros Center
for Contemporary Arts, Estonia. Tallinn, Estonia
1993 The Helsinki Art School "MAA". Helsinki Art Hall, Helsinki, Finland
1993 Rationalized Eternity (with Siim-Tanel Annus and Raul Meel). Contemporary
Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
1993 (with Eve Kask, Ly Lestberg and Priit Pärn) Hyvinkää,
Finland
1994 Graveurs Baltes. Gallery "Détour", Jambes, Belgium
1994 Pro Natura Baltica. Helsinki, Finland; Tallinn, Estonia; Stockholm,
Sweden; Lübeck, Germany
1994 Island Project. International multimedia workshop, Gdansk, Poland
1994 International conference on colour EDUCATION. Exhibition at the University
of Crafts and Design, Helsinki, Finland
1994 Sollentuna international art fair, Stockholm, Sweden
1994 Man & Woman. Chaplin Art Center, Pärnu, Estonia
1994 International Biennial of S‹o Paulo, Brazil
1995 Graphic Map: Tallinn - Helsinki. Gallery "Deco", Tallinn, Estonia;
Gallery "Laterna Magica", Helsinki, Finland
1995 Harku 1975 - 1995. City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
1995 Tokyo Miniprint Triennial, Japan
1995 From Gulag to Glasnost. Nonconformist art from Soviet Union. Zimmerli
Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
1996 Estonian Painting 1903 - 1993. Rotermann Salt Storage, Tallinn, Estonia
1996 Chaplin Art Center, Pärnu, Estonia
1996 Talking Things. Exhibition of Still-life. The Art Museum of Estonia,
Tallinn
1996 Personal Time. Joint art exhibition of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
The Zacheta Gallery, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; Manege, St. Petersburg,
Russia
1996 Estonia as a Sign. The 4th annual exhibition of Soros Center for
Contemporary Arts, Estonia. Tallinn, Tartu, Estonia
1996 Tallinn - Moscow 1956 - 1985. Joint exhibition of Estonian and Russian
unofficial art. Tallinn Art Hall, Gallery of the Tallinn Art Hall, City
Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
1996 Ilmar Laaban. Liljevalch's Art Hall Studio, Stockholm, Sweden
1996 Harku 1975 - 1995. Tartu Children Art School, Tartu; Chaplin Art
Centre, Pärnu, Estonia
1996 Silence of MAA. Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, ARCHITECTURE
1978 Library of the Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia
1978 Association of Latvian Architects, Riga, Latvia
1982/83 Ten Architects in Art Salon. Gallery of the Tallinn Art Hall,
Tallinn, Estonia
1984 Nine Architects from Tallinn. Helsinki, Jyväskylä, Rovaniemi;
Finland
1985 Estonian Architecture. Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
1985 Estonian Architecture. Riga, Latvia
1986 Estonian Architecture. Moscow, Russia
1986 Architecture of the 20th Century. Tallinn, Estonia; Kiel, Hamburg,
Germany
1988 Architecture du Papier d'URSS. Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris,
France
1990 Ten Architects from Tallinn. Stockholm Museum of Architecture, Sweden;
Zürich Museum of Architecture, Switzerland
1990 International city installation exhibition, Groningen, The Netherlands
1990, 1993 Nordic-Baltic Architecture Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia
1993 Toisin. Functionalist and Neofunctionalist Architecture in Estonia.
Finnish Museum of Architecture, Helsinki;Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
1993 Estonian Architecture Drawing. National Library of Estonia, Tallinn
1995 Neofunctionalist Architecture and Constructivist Art: Estonia - The
Netherlands. Vrije Academie, Haag, The Netherlands
AWARDS
1973 Ljubljana Graphic Art Biennial, Slovenia - prize
1974 Tokyo Print Biennial, Japan - prize
1987 Estonian Artists' Union annual painting prize
1987 Soviet Union Architecture Competition - prize
1989 Tallinn City art prize
1989 Kristjan Raud annual art award, Estonia
1990 Installation exhibition, Tallinn - 1st prize
1991 Estonian architecture prize
1991, 1992 Estonian book design prize
1992 Estonian printed graphic prize
1997 Estonian Cultural Prize
PRIZES FROM ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS
1973 Pirita Olympic Yachting Centre, Tallinn, Estonia (group of architects,
leaded by A.-H. Looveer) - 1st prize
1988 Haljala Chapel, Haljala, Estonia - 1st prize
1992 Tallinn Town Hall, Estonia, idea project - 1st prize
1993 Vabaduse Square, Tallinn, Estonia (with Kristel Jaanus) - 2nd prize
1995 Memorial to the victims of World War II, Tõnismägi,Tallinn,
Estonia - 1st prize
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
The Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn
Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia
Architecture Museum of Estonia, Tallinn
Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
Finnish Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki
City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Niemistö Foundation, Helsinki, Finland
Finnish Bank, Helsinki, Finland
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, Sweden
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, USA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Cremona Foundation, Minneapolis, USA
Bridgestone Art Museum, Japan
Private collections: Matti Milius, 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
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Personal catalogues
Leonhard Lapin (compiled by H. Liivrand). ESSR State Art Museum, Tallinn,
1987
Leonhard Lapin. Architectons, Graphics (articles by Anu Liivak, Juhani
Pallasmaa, Jorma Hautala. Catalogue of an exhibition). Alvar Aalto Museum,
Jyväskylä, 1991
Lapin. Toomik. 22nd International Biennial of S‹o Paulo, Soros Center
for Contemporary Arts, Estonia, Tallinn, 1994
Leonhard Lapin. Rhythms in the Sphere. Galleria Titanik, 1994 (Turku,
Finland)
Raul Meel. Leonhard Lapin. Musée Matisse, Musée Départemental,
Le Cateau-Cambrésis (Nord), 1994
Catalogues
New Art from the Soviet Union. Selected works on paper. AAASS Convention,
St. Louis, 1976 (USA)
The Avantgarde in Soviet Estonia. "New Art from Soviet Union" (edited
by S. C. Feinstein). New York, Washington, 1977
Eesti graafika 1976. 1977. 1978. Kirjastus "Kunst", Tallinn, 1980
Nine Architects from Tallinn (edited by M. Komonen). Helsinki, 1984
Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts in Tallinn (edited by H. P. Brandt).
Stadtplanungsamt Kiel, 1986
Architecture du papier d'URSS. (Edited by H. Larroche) Paris, 1988
Structure / Metaphysics. Estonian contemporary art, Porin Taidemuseo,
Satakunnan Kirjateollisuus Oy, Pori, 1989
The New Soviet Avangarde (edited by E. Kornetschuk). New York, 1989
Tio arkitekter fran Tallinn (edited by K. Winter). Stockholm Museum of
Architecture, Stockholm, 1990
Radar. International Art Exhibition in the City of Kotka / Finland, 1990
Rauma Biennale Balticum '90. Distances, Rauman Taidemuseo, 1990 (Finland)
Arts Graphiques Contemporains En Estonie. Centre de la Gravure et de L'Image
Imprimée, Communaute Franaise de Belgique, 1991 (La Louvière,
Belgium)
Baltic Art During the Brezhnev Era: Nonconformist Art in Estonia, Latvia
and Lithuania (edited by N. Dodge). Toronto, 1992
Eesti graafika 1982 - 1989. Estonian Prints. Kirjastus "Kunst", Tallinn,
1992
Das steinerne Licht. Ostsee-Biennale 1992 (edited by N. Weber). Kunsthalle
Rostock, 1992
Myth and Abstraction. Actual art from Estonia. European Days of Culture
at Karlsruhe 1992, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, 1992 (Germany)
Forma Anthropologica. Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia (edited by Ants Juske).
Estonian Artists' Union, Tallinn Art Hall, 1992
Kvalitate 1992 (edited by H. Demakova). Riga, 1993
Toisin. Funktsionalism ja neofunktsionalism Eesti arhitektuuris (articles
by M. Kalm and K. Kodres). Tallinn, 1993
Spirit of MAA (edited by E. Pirtola). Art School MAA, Helsinki, Finland,
1993
93 Falubiennalen. Baltisk Grafik Nu. Dalarnas museum, 1993 (Falun, Sweden)
22. International Bienal of S‹o Paulo, Fundac‹o Bienal de S‹o
Paulo, 1994 (Brazil)
Substance - Unsubstance. Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia.
The 1st annual exhibition, Tallinn, 1994
Architecture du Silence. Juhani Pallasmaa - Leonhard Lapin. Helsinki,
1994
The Tenth Tallinn Print Triennial, Association of Estonian Printmakers,
1995
Harku 1975 - 1995. Exhibition "Harku 1975 - 1995" in Tallinn City Gallery,
Tallinn, 1995
From Gulag to Glasnost. Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union. The Norton
and Nancy Dodge Collection, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey (edited by A. Rosenfeld and N. T. Dodge).
Thames and Hudson, (New York) 1995
Lapin, L. Pimeydestä valoon (Estonian Avant-garde Art).Otava, Helsinki,
1996
Personal Time. Art of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania 1945 - 1996. The Zacheta
Gallery, Warsaw, 1996
Tallinn - Moskva 1956 - 1985. Exhibition at the Tallinn Art Hall 20. 12.
1996 - 19. 01. 1997 (editor Anu Liivak). Tallinn Art Hall, 1996
Magazines
Laaban, I. Mediatoner och Mashiner. "Paletten", 1977, no 4
Leonhard Lapin. "A-YA", 1980, no 2, (Unofficial Russian art revue, Moscow)
Siltavuori, E. New architecture from Tallinn. "Form. Function. Finland"
1984, no 2
Poslawski, G. Koneiden maailma. "Taide", 1985, no 5
Hautala, J. Suprematistinen tuoli. "Taide", 1987, no 1
Hautala, J. Kaksi näyttelya - kaksi temperamenttia. "Arkkitehti",1987,
no 4 / 5
Juske, A. Lapini kunst muutuvas ajas. "Vikerkaar", 1988, no 2
Liivrand, H. Leonhard Lapin Kadriorus. "Kunst",1989, no 1
Siltavuori, E. Mission under the Pole Star. "Form. Function. Finland",
1989, no 3
Pilgud kuldsete kuuekümnendate fassaadi taha. Interview by Heie Treier.
"Kunst" 1993, no 1
Kultermann, U. Leonhard Lapin - Visionary of a New Estonian Culture. "Architectus",
St Paul, Minnesota, USA, 1993, fall / winter
Kalm, M. Domestizierter Funktionalismus; Kodres, K. Formenkult und Widerstand;
Künnapu, L. Aktuelle Tendenzen der estnische Architectur. "Bauwelt",
Berlin, 1994, no 43
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Helme, S. Kollastest sandaalidest ruumini, millel pole mõõdet.
"Sirp ja Vasar", 1987, no 40
Kivirinta, M.-T. Viron Nykytaidetta 1 (Leonhard Lapin). "Helsinkin Sanomat",
1988, 24. 11.
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FILMS
Lapin. Eesti Kultuurfilm, Tallinn - Tampere, 1991
Estonian Contemporary Art. Leonhard Lapin. Estonian Television, 1991
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