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STUDIES
Riitta Nelimarkka-Seeck is a graduate art teacher 1972, Master of
Art (MA) 1998 and Doctor of Art (DA) 2001 at the University of Art
and Design Helsinki (UIAH).
She has also studied at the University of Helsinki, at the Sibelius
Academy, at the School of Applied Arts and design in Stockholm, Sweden
and at the Institute of Industrial Arts, Department of Film and Television.
Since 1971 she has been working together and separate with her husband
Jaakko Seeck as an artist and producer in the fields of film, literature
and pictorial and textile art, creating and producing e.g. animated
films, large exhibitions and art & poetry books.
FILMS
 Animations
by Nelimarkka & Seeck (SENECA OY) include "The Legend of
the Sampo" (60 min), based on the Finnish national epic Kalevala in 1972-1974,
the old ballad of "Bishop Henry and Lalli" (11min) in 1974, the
first Finnish full-length animated motion picture "The Seven
Brothers" in 1979 and a series "Bagatelles op. 1 - 13, semi-sad
human fates in the nut shell" (25 min) in 1972-1974 and "The Birth of
Rabula (11 min.), a musical animation on creation in 1995.
AWARDS AND PRIZES
Riitta Nelimarkka has received a number of prizes for her books and
animations including the honorary award by the Union of Finnish Critics
in 1974, the State quality award for motion pictures in 1972, 1973
and 1979, the Jussi honorary award (the Finnish "Oscar")
in 1979, a Special honorary prize at Tampere International Short Film
Festival in 1979, Jury´s Special prize at Giffony, Italy 1980
and Risto Jarva prize in 1985.
BOOKS
 Praise
has also been bestowed on her picture books and children's books,
which include "The Robbing of the Sampo" (rewarded e.g.
by the Finnish Society of Kalevala), "The Seven Brothers",
"The Space", "The Big and The Small in the Universe",
"The Gallery", "Karmelia's ABC" (which received
an award in Bologna, Italy, 1990), "Babylonia" (rewarded
in Bologna and in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1992), "Oceania"
(invited to Biennale Brno 1993) and "Apollon". She has also
published two illustrated collections of poems, "Tabula Rasa"
and "Giovanna Idiaatta" (1996) and also a romantic, philosophical
poem by the title "Self Portrait Elise´s Dissertation,
Variation of a variation" (2000). Elise´s Unmemories (2008).
THE LATEST BOOKS IN ENGLISH
  
Self Portrait, Elise´s Dissertation, Variation of a variation
an associative research exbedition to the existence of "Flügelism".
A romantic, ironic and philosophical poem of the artistic process
of "Elise". CD-ROM SENECA 2001, 140 pages with colour pictures
and drawings.
The Marginal, coloring book - not for the weak of heart. SENECA/ART-PRINT
2005, 48 pages.
SELECTED PRIVATE EXHIBITIONS
 Amos
Anderson art museum, Helsinki - Finland 1990.
Art Centre of Pyrri,
Savonlinna - Finland 1991. Wäinö Aaltonen museum, Turku
- Finland 1994. Kunsthall, Helsinki - Finland 1994. Savonlinna Art
museum, Savonlinna - Finland 1995. Tikanojan taidekoti, Vaasa - Finland
1996. Maurizberg Castle, Sweden 2000. Finnish Cultural Institut, Berlin
- Germany 2000. EXPO 2000, Hannover - Germany 2000. FIDM, Los Angeles
- USA 2001. Culture centre DOM, Moscow - Russia 2005. Gallery Tšeretelji,
Moscow - Russia 2005. The Fortress of St. Peter and Paul, St. Petersburg
- Russia 2006. Museo de la Nacion, Lima - Peru 2006. EU parliament,
Brussels - Belgium 2006. Hallwylska museet, Stockholm - Sweden 2007,
 a few pictures from the exhibition
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La ”MAISON DE L´AMÉRIQUE LATINE DE MONACO”, Monaco 2008. In addition to several gallery exhibitions
as well as a number of joint art exhibitions, graphic biennales and
film festivals in different countries.
POSITIONS OF TRUST
Her positions of trust include membership on the board of the Finnish
Film Archive and the Finnish film magazine Filmihullu ("Film
Freak"). She has also served at the National Council for Cinema,
the Finnish Film Foundation and the Finnish Cultural Section of Unesco.
Since 1987 she has been the president of Nelimarkka Foundation, since
1973 the president of board of Seneca, since 2001-2003 a member of the National Council for Design and 2003 -2005 a member of Design and Public display grant.
Many of Nelimarkka´s big textile works have found homes abroad
especially in Finnish embassies and consulates in several cities all
around the world.
A remarkable work is the huge art textile Con Calore
I - II commissioned for Mäntyniemi,
the official residence of
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