Born 1965, Turku, Finland
Lives and works in Turku
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2011 Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
2010 Excess and Ascesis, Gallery Kalhama&Piippo, Helsinki
2009 Changers, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
2008 A Single Charm is Doubtful, Galerie Centrum, Graz, Austria
Liquid Life, The Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden
Explaining Darkness, Turku Art Museum, Studio, Turku, Finland
2007 No Body, Gallery Ama, Helsinki, Finland
Nothing Elegant, HIAP – Project Room, Cabel Factory, Helsinki, Finland
Invisible, 300m3 Art Space, Göteborg, Sweden
2006 Grotesque & Arabesque, Republican museum of Rio de Janeiro/ Galeria Lago, Brazil
How to kiss a sleeping beauty, Samoilov museum, Pro Arte Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia Taidesalonki Husa, Tampere, Finland
2005 Grotesque & Arabesque, Helsinki Festival, Amos Anderson Art Museum Visitation, Galleria Artina, Helsinki, Finland
2004 Viimeinen oksa, Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland Taste me, Galleria Ama, Turku, Finland
2003 Mnemonic, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
2002 Mothers of Pearl, Taidesalonki Husa, Tampere, Finland
2001 Flight, Galleria Kari Kenetti, Helsinki, Finland Nursery, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland faith/hope/charity, Retretti Art Centre, Punkaharju, Finland
2000 Seascape, The Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden
1999 Rosary, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Skin in Bloom, Kakelhallen, Mariehamn, Åland
1998 Carnation, Galleri 54, Göteborg, Sweden
1997 A Rose is Sorrows, Galleria G, Helsinki, Finland Riippuvat Puutarhat, Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland
1996 Bonded, Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
Votives, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, USA
1995 Anatomy of Love, Galleria Titanik, Turku, Finland
1994 Fragments, Gallerie Slunkariki, Isafjord, Iceland
1994 l’adoration, TML-Galleria, Helsinki, Finland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2010 Highlights, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Finland
Reykjavik Art Festival, Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland
2010 Stressed Beauty, Plateforme Finlande, Art Paris + Guests, Grand Palais, Pariisi, Ranska
Reykjavik Art Festival, Nordic House, Reykjavik,
Iceland
Memory Traces, Ludwig Museum, Kobelenz, Germany; Galerie Kuma, Berlin, Germany Carnegie Art Award, Listasafn Islands, Reykjavik, Island; The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden; Kunsternes Hus, Oslo, Norway; 796 Art Space, Bejing, China; Royal College of Art, London, England; Kunsthalle, Helsinki.
2009 Carnegie Art Award , Kunsthal Charlottenburg, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009 Pulse NY/Richard Levy Gallery, New York City, USA
Surface – Turku Biennial, Ars Nova & Aboa Vetus, Turku, Finland
Ecology of the Emotions, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland
Visuell Förvirring, Ålands konstmuseum, Mariehamn, Åland
2008 Incertitude de la Vision, Tour&Taxis, Brussels, Belgium
Persistance Des Rêves, Bibliothèque Mériadec, Bordeaux, France
Visible – Invisible, Vaasa and Göteborg Art Museums, Finland and Sweden
Nature, Dalslands konstmuseum, Sweden
Festart08, Tampere Film Festival, TR1, Rautahalli, Tampere, Finland
VIEW08 – Festival of Finnish Media Art, Andorra, Helsinki, Finland
Brave New World, Galerie Mánes, Prague, Czech Republic
Kukinta, Pro Artibus, Elverket, Tammisaari, Finland
The flower, Kuopio Art Museum, Kuopio
Art Fair Suomi 08, Cabel Factory, Helsinki
Art Helsinki 2008, MUU ry, Wanha Satama, Helsinki
2007 Ondertussen – Meanwhile, Stroom Contemporary Art Centre, The Hague, The Netherlands
Conversations, Kerava Art Museum, Finland
Sighing – just out of earshot, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, New Zeeland
Wild - Fantasia ja Arkkitehtuuri, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland
Come Ashore, 12th International Environment Art Symposium, Geoje Art Center, South Korea
Transparent, Fiskars, Finland
In Between, The Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden
2006 Light and Shadow, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Ephemeral - a flash for eternity, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, Japan
Drawinglust - drawing in digital times, Kunsthalle Lophem, Belgium
Kuuntele kokoelmia, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
2005 Light Treatment, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland
Faunomania, Röda Sten, Göteborg, Sweden
Aqua Forte, The Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden
Sediments, Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland
2004 Buitenspel, GEM – the Museum of Contemporary Art, Haag, Alankomaat
LoveMe or Leave Me, The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki (luettelo)
The Garden of Eden, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Mänttä Art Festival, Honkahovi, Mänttä, Finland
2003 Night Train, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
2002 Ars Fennica 2002, Lappeenranta and Hämeenlinna Art Museums, Finland
2001 Sub Rosa, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark; Södertälje Konsthall, Södertäje, Sweden; Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Natur, Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland
2000 Happiness, Union Quartair, The Hague, The Netherlands
1998 Tangents, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
Näkyjä, Knipnäs, Tammisaari, Finland
Collect, Union Quartair, Haag, Alankomaat
1997 Growth, Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland
1996 Art Chicag ’96, International Artfair, Chicago Pier, USA
Womens´ International Exhibition, Gallery Soho20, New York, USA
MATRIX International ’96, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA, USA
Postspace, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma and OTSO, Espoo, Finland
1995 Nordisk Teckningstriennal, touring exhibition, Sweden and Norway
Suomen Taiteilijain Vuosinäyttely, (also –94 ja –93), Helsinki
Nuorten Näyttely, (also –94), Helsinki Kunsthalle
1994 Paradise and suffering, South-Carelian Art Museum, Lappeenranta, Finland
1993 Crime Passionel, Galleri Fabriken, Göteborg, Sweden
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Finnish State Art Collection
The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
Helsinki City Art Museum
Pori Art Museum
Tampere Art Museum
Turku Art Museum
Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art
Amos Anderson Art Museum
Saastamoinen Foundation
Paulo Foundation
Turku and Kaarina Parish Union
City of Kaarina
Saaren kartano/Koneen säätiö
Turun Osuuspankki
Åbo Akademi
Pro Artibus
Sampo-group
Svenska Statens Konstråd
Göteborgs konstmuseum, Sweden
Göteborgs Konstnämnd, Sweden
Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Sweden
Northern Arizona University Art Museum, USA
PUBLIC ART WORKS
Strömberg Elementary School, Helsinki
Arcada Nova, Helsinki
Tietotalo, Tampere Technical University, Tampere
City Library, Turku, Finland
OAMK, Polytechnic University, Oulu
Vähätori, City of Turku, Finland
NOMINATIONS
Carnegie Art Award 2009
Ars Fennica, 2002
AWARDS
Aboa-award, 1994
Dukaatti Prize of the Finnish Art Association, 1995
Matrix international exhibition, USA, 1996
RESIDENCIES
Youkobo Art Space, TokYo, Japan, 2009
Graz, Cultural City Network, Astria, 2008
Källskär, Åland-islands, 2008
Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, Japan, 2006
Rome, Villa Lante, 2003
Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, New York, 2003
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Tutta Palin: Grotesque & Arabesque / “The Smiling Patograph”, 2005
Patrik Söderlund: Grotesque & Arabesque / “ Beneath the Tamarind Tree”, 2005
Petr Rehor: “Ornamentti on kuvakieli”, Taide, 1/ 2004, Art-Print Oy, 2004
Tomas Träskman: “ Mnemonic”, Pori Art Museum publications, Koteva, 2003
Berndt Arell: Ars Fennica 2002 / “Still life – life with death in it”, Art –Print Oy, 2002
Robert Storr: Ars Fennica Exhibition, 2002, www.arsfennica.fi
Charlotte Brandt, Pia Thunholm: Sub Rosa - Flowers in Contemporary Nordic Art / “Love, Eroticism, Happiness and Unhappiness”, Fihl-Jensen Grafisk Produktion A/S, 2001
Tuula Karjalainen, Berndt Arell: Seascape / “Om ingenting är svårt, hur skall du kunna känna lättnaden, tror du?”, Koteva, 2000
Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary