Leevi Haapala

Introduction

Haapala is Dean, Academy of Fine Art, Uniarts since 2024, and a curator, an art writer and a researcher of contemporary art. Haapala has worked as a Museum Director, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art/The Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki in 2015-2024.
He was a Praxis Professor, Exhibition Studies, MA Program in Academy of Fine Arts, University of Arts, Helsinki 2014-15; a Curator and Deputy Chief Curator for Collections in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Helsinki (2007-2014) and a researcher at the Central Art Archives in Finnish National Gallery (1997-2003).
Haapala is a member of KUNO steering group in 2024-26. KUNO is a lively and ambitious Nordplus network comprising 18 Nordic-Baltic Fine Art Academies.
Haapala is a Board Member of CIMAM (International Committee of Museums and Collections of Modern Art) and a member of its’ working group Outstanding Museum Practice Award and Sustainablity Working Group, 2023-25.

Leevi Haapala (PhD) has worked as a Museum Director, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art/The Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki 2015-2024, as a Praxis Professor, Exhibition Studies, MA Program in Academy of Fine Arts, University of Arts, Helsinki 2014-15; a Curator and Deputy Chief Curator for Collections in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Helsinki 2007-2014, and a researcher at the Central Art Archives in Finnish National Gallery (1997-2003). He was also a member of the editorial team at the FNG Research online publication 2015-2024.

Leevi Haapala has been a member of the Uniarts Helsinki Board for 2022-2024.