Annette Arlander (b. 1956, Helsinki) is an artist, researcher and teacher living and working in Helsinki. The representation of landscape has been a central theme in Arlander’s artistic work, which in recent years has focused on vegetation, especially on trees. Her work includes site-specific, camera-based performances, recorded speech, video installations and various environmental experiments. Her work is situated at the interface between performance art, media art and environmental art. Arlander graduated as a theatre director from the Theatre Academy in 1981 and received a doctorate in theatre arts in 1999. Arlander was awarded the Avek Prize for Media Art in 2014 and the State Prize for Multidisciplinary Art in 2018.
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