
Artistic portfolio & compact CV
Pictures below are from 2006 to 2021 in no particular order. From film photography to digital and from gum printing to bromoil and silver gelatin.
Compact art CV
Books / Articles / Works (words) about art
Määttänen, Santtu & Natunen, Juha-Pekka, “Matkailuteos- kulttuurimatkailutuotteen luomisen tuska”, Guide- book, 2011
Natunen, Juha-Pekka & Määttänen, Santtu “Human|Culture” Art book about art festival, 2010
Määttänen, Santtu “Human|Culture”, Kaakkuri, vol 2010, p. 2
As well as several published texts about interactive arts and/or arts in general in local newspapers Uutisvuoksi & Etelä-Saimaa during 2010.
Participatory art pieces
2010 : Earth-hour, large scale participatory art boardgame, game-design and participation design, Imatra
2008 : Modern Day Modesty, held for international audience at FreeFall art festival, Helsinki
2006 : Aikamatka muinaiseen karjalaan, held in Ugrijuhla art festival, Imatra
2005 : Punasilmä, stand-alone 1rst person performance, Imatra
2002 : Lohikäärmeiden sola, stand-alone 1rst person performance, Joutseno
2000 : Kapisen rakin majatalo, stand-alone 1st person performance, Imatra
Role in art communities
2016 – now: Member of Etelä-Karjalan taiteilijaseura ry
2013 - now : Member of The Association for the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
2012 - now : Secretary of Ajantappajat ry (association), Association formed by group of artists. Concept is to produce events and exhibitions in variety of artforms to oppose hurry / support slow-movement, do participa- tory art, increase tolerance and accessibility of arts and to do environmentally conscious art.
2010 - now : Secretary of Nuku ry (association), Association which supports young art forms as well as young artists, mainly by helping to organize exhibitions as well as nancially when ever possible.
2007 - 2014 : Co-Owner of RawIdea Ltd (RaakaIdea Oy), Company specialized in art-based methods of pro- ducing WHP (working health products), sociocultural products for health-care, education and cultural-tourism products for travel-sector. As well as producing events, festivals, books, and other culture / Art related activities.
Works of Art
My photography works are in private collections in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and United-Kingdoms. They have been exhibited in multiple exhibitions in Finland, Sweden, Netherlands and France. List of exhibitions is available upon request. Photographs -by me- have been published in newspapers as well as in books “Human|Culture”, “Matkailuteos- kulttuurimatkailutuotteen luomisen tuska” and in Kaakkuri magazine among few others.
Few projects in detail from RaakaIdea Oy / RawIdea Ltd.
2012 - 2014: Several cultural-tourism products, made for spa resorts, hotels, museums and other tourism des- tinations.
2011: Production model for Cultural Tourism Product. We made in co-operation with Imatra City and funded by KOKO (Regional Cohesion and Competitiveness Programme). RawIdea designed, tested and then published the model.
2010 : Human|Culture, festival of interactive arts, artistic manager, curator and producer, South-Carelia 2010 : Terveyttä kulttuurista hanke (health from culture project), in co-operation with Imatra city and Arts Council of Southeast Finland. My role was in design, curating and nding the artists for the project.
2010: Training product for Caregivers. We designed and held art- and game-based training product for Vanhus- ty n Keskusliitto (elderly Care Federation). Training focused on giving new insights based on arts and games which caregivers can implement in their own work.
2010 - 2014: Sociocultural Products for rest homes, hospitals and other suitable for environments.
2010: Art- and game-based learning workshop, made for Sovella Taidetta Messut at TEAK (Theater Academy Helsinki). RawIdea Ltd designed and held workshop. It was designed to showcase teachers, artists and other professionals of the possibilities of art- and game-based learning.
2008 : FreeFall festival of interactive drama, artistic manager and producer, Helsinki
Teaching and other peculiarities
I’ve been producer of many events and several festivals both during and before my career at RawIdea Ltd. I’ve only listed the ones of note above and below.
2010 : Curated dozen art exhibitions in Human|Culture art gallery in Imatra
2008 : Teacher of photography and design, at HUMAK (University of Applied Sciences), Joutseno
2007 : Teacher of design, at HUMAK (University of Applied Sciences), Joutseno
2006 : Teacher of design, at HUMAK (University of Applied Sciences), Joutseno
2006: City of Imatra, Design of marketing material for City Library.
2006: City of Imatra, Move of City Museum and digitalization of material as well as other work for museum. 2005: Waldorf School of Lappeenranta, Live Action Roleplaying Game (LARP) made for educating childern about Finland’s recent history. All work towards making the game from writing, production and other aspects were made by me.