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Rute Morais Peixoto is a Portuguese multidisciplinary artist and architect based in Helsinki, Finland. Combining visual art, architecture, and music, her work explores themes of perception, memory, emotion, diversity, obsessive geometrical alignments, and the constant pursuit of singularities in the ordinary. Rute's practice spans media art, paper collage, painting, illustration, songwriting, interior and building design.


Holding an MArch with distinction from the Faculty of Architecture of Porto, she also studied at University of Ljubljana and the Music Conservatory of Porto. Rute has collaborated with renowned studios, including Souto de Moura, Siza Vieira, Fala Atelier, and Lundén Architecture Oy, and has been teaching periodically at Aalto University since 2022.


Her main ongoing project, Living Rooms, has been supported by two working grants from Taike. It centres on audiovisual portraits exploring the emotional connections we form with intimate rooms.

upcoming / ongoing


2024

home cooking, group exhibition, yö galleria, helsinki, FI
date: 24.11 from 15-19h

2024

technophilia and the new society, group exhibition, Kulttuuritila Merirasti, helsinki, FI
dates: 14.11-19.12 / vernissage: 14.11 from 17-20h

2024

arquitectas da nossa casa, group exhibition, casa das caldeiras, coimbra, PT
dates: 26.10-31.1.25

selected exhibitions


2024

home cooking, group exhibition, yö galleria, helsinki, FI

2024

technophilia and the new society, group exhibition, Kulttuuritila Merirasti, helsinki, FI

2024

arquitectas da nossa casa, group exhibition, casa das caldeiras, coimbra, PT

2023

spaces and memory, solo exhibition, mental health art week 2023, helsinki, FI

2013

architectural video games, group exhibition, galerija dessa, ljubljana, SI

awards & recognitions


2022

state artist working grant (3 years), arts promotion centre finland (taike), FI

2021

state artist working grant (1 years), arts promotion centre finland (taike), FI

2013

3rd place competition, "logo katedra za urbanizem", with lovro jelenko, ricardo tomé, monika šafářová, ljubljana, SI

talks & lectures


2024

lecture, design methodologies I, aalto university, FI

2024

lecture, design methodologies II, aalto university, FI

2023

talk, what spaces shaped you?, mental health art week 2023, helsinki, FI

2017

talk, portugal vs the rest of the world, indizajn, zagreb, HR

teaching activities


2024

guest critic, conceptual space, interior architecture master's, aalto university, FI

2024

master's thesis examiner, crafting realistic architectural environments in virtual space by sunqi zhu, aalto university, FI

2024

university teacher, researching space, interior architecture MA course, with antti pirinen, aalto university, FI

2023

spaces and memory workshop, nicehearts oy, helsinki, FI

2022

university teacher, building design studio, architecture master's, with pirjo sanaksenaho, aalto university, FI

2012

teacher, UJR summer school, faculty of architecture of porto, PT

publications & features


2021

article, outeiro house: crafting creativity, BUM edition 4: hone, BUM editions

2017

interview, the architecture of live uncertainty, serralves museum & são paulo art biennial, PT