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Kaisu Koivisto
Curriculum vitae
kaisukk@yahoo.com
tel. +358 40 705 1908
www.kaisukoivisto.com
For further information on current shows, see the weblog section Tulossa / Upcoming.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2010 | Strawberry Patch. Galleria Å, Turku |
| 2009 | Galleria Sculptor, Helsinki Changelings. Galleria Harmaja, Oulu; Galleria Himmelblau, Tampere |
| 2007 | Interiors. Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki Planet Bread Almondine, Brooklyn, New York |
| 2006 | Surface Traps. Galleria Heino, Helsinki |
| 2005 | Global Nomad. Galleria Ama, Turku |
| 2004 | Parallel Systems. Galleria Heino, Helsinki Cargo. The Finnish Paper Art Gallery, Kuusankoski |
| 2002 | Earthbound. Galleria AMA, Turku The Great Meat Book. Galleria Sculptor, Helsinki Galleri Verkligheten, Umeå, Sweden |
| 2001 | Cows in New York City: Reintroducing the Species. Photoraphic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki |
| 2000 | Wild. Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku; Galleri Enkehuset,
Stockholm; Hafnarborg Art Center, Hafnarfjördur, Iceland Cows in New York City: Reintroducing the Species. Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NYC, and Pori Art Museum Project Room, Pori, Finland Transplants. St. John´s Art Center, Listowel, Ireland |
| 1999 | Inseparabile. Galleria Arco di Rab, Rome Under the Skin. Studio X, Pori, Finland Revier. Galerie Christa Schübbe, Düsseldorf |
| 1998 | Galerie Mann, Paris |
| 1997 | Milk and Honey. Galleria Sculptor, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1996 | Young Artist of the Year. Tampere Art Museum Cornucopia - Runsaudensarvi. Titanik, Turku, Finland |
| 1995 | Procedures. Argument, Tilburg, Holland |
| 1994 | Knowledge and Emotion. Kluuvin galleria, Helsinki |
| 1993 | Galleri 11, Reykjavik, Iceland |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2010 | Kajaani Art Museum Tähtihetkiä. Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku Joensuu Art Museum |
| 2009 | Richtung Norden, MAERZ, Linz Talent 2009. Between Dream and Reality. Designmuseum, Eindhoven Turku Biennial: Surface. Ars Nova & Aboa Vetus,Turku, Finland mURBAN, Artborg, Sipoo, Finland Parallel Worlds – Fleeting Realities. Scala Mata Exhibition Space, Venice |
| 2008 | Pewna Finlandia. Center for Polish Sculpture, Oronsko and BWA Contemporary
Art Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland The Art of Humanity. Mänttä Art Festival Kivinokka 2008. Environmental art, Kivinokka, Helsinki Nordic Drawings. Skellefteå Konsthall, Skellefteå; Rackstadmuseet, Arvika |
| 2007 | Puska. Environmental Art Project, Nurmijärvi, Finland Pewna Finlandia. BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice, Poland |
| 2006 | SHIFTscale - Extended Field of Contemporary Sculpture. KUMU Estonian Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia Horsepower. Helsinki City Art Museum Art in the City. Bydgoszcz, Poland The 9th International Shoebox Sculpture exhibition. Traveling exhibition in the U.S. 2006-2008. University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii; Oliver Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, California etc |
| 2005 | Acceleration. Kunsthalle Helsinki; Lönnström Art Museum,
Rauma Une certaine Finlande. Atelier 340 Muzeum, Brussels Poles Apart, Poles Together. Parallel Project for the 51.Venice Biennial Une certaine Finlande. Atelier 340 Muzeum, Brussels Sculptor 2005. Salo Art Museum, Salo Faunomania. Röda Sten, Gothenburg, Sweden |
| 2004 | Love Me or Leave Me. Kiasma, Helsinki Gokann. The IV Triennal of Finnish Art. Kunsthalle Helsinki, Open Studio. Triangle Artists Workshop, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2003 | Gokann. The IV Triennal of Finnish Art, Kyoto |
| 2002 | Klosterstrasse/Berlin. Ruine der Franziskaner-Klosterkirche, Berlin |
| 2001 | Skin Forms Map. Museo Laboratorio dell´Universita
di Roma, Rome, Italy Galleria Uusikuva, Kotka, Finland Art-Cattle-History.Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn, Holland Surfaces and Whirlpools. Borås Art Museum, Borås, Sweden 6th KCAA - Seoul International Art Festival, Seoul, Korea |
| 2000 | No es sólo lo que ves: Pervirtiendo el minimalismo. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid |
| 1999 | Animal. Anima. Animus. PS 1, New York 1999 (Por iArt Museum, Pori, Finland; Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, 1998; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada |
| 1998 | Galerie Wolfram Bach |
| 1997 | World Award Winners Gallery. Intergrafia 1997. Cracow, Poland Loggia del Temanza, Venice, Italy |
| 1996 | Volcano. Pori Water Tower. Pori Art Museum and NYTE, Pori Beautiful. Honkahovi, Mänttä The Forgotten Present. Vilnius, Lithuania |
| 1995 | Joy, Temptation, Pathos. Alvar Aalto -museum, Jyväskylä Exhibition of Finnish Artists. Helsinki Kunsthalle (also 1992) Nordic Drawing Triennial. Sweden, Denmark, Norway (also 1992) |
| 1994 | Grafinnova 1994. International Print and Drawing Biennial,Vaasa,
Finland Young Artists. Helsinki Kunsthalle (also 1987,1990, 1992,1993) AU. Tokyo Meropolitan Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
Studies
1982-86 Art School of Kankaanpää, Finland
University of Art and Design Helsinki 2007–2009 (MFA)
University of Helsinki, studies in art history and aesthetics
Awards
Young Artist of the Year 1996
Nordic Drawing Triennial 1995
City of Pori: Culture Award 1992, 1996
Culture Award of Satakunnan Kansa 1991
Collections
Amos Anderson Art Museum Helsinki
Helsinki City Art Museum
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Kumu, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma
Oulu Art Museum
Paulo Foundation
Pori Art Museum
Saastamoinen Foundation
City of Skellefteå,Sweden
Statens Konstråd, Sweden
Tampere Art Museum
Turku Art Museum
Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2010 Villa Lante, Rome
2000 Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, New York
1999 Finnish Cultural Institute in New York
1999 Circolo Scandinavo, Rome
1997 Höherweg Studios, Düsseldorf
1995 Villa Lante, Rome
1992 Finnish Cultural Institute in New York
1991 Konstepidemin. Gothenburg, Sweden
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
CATALOGUE ESSAYS
Pewna Finlandia. Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej BWA, Katowice 2007
Silmästä silmään. Anttolanhovi 2006
The 9th International Shoebox Sculpture exhibition. University of Hawaii
Art Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2006
Pauline von Bonsdorff, "Behind the Wall". Kiihdytys/Acceleration,
Kunsthalle Helsinki, 2005.
Leevi Haapala, " Animality as a Mirror of Humanity". Poriginal
Galleria 1984-2004. Poriginal galleria, Pori, Finland 2004
Gerardo Mosquera, No es sólo lo que ves: Pervirtiendo el minimalismo.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2000
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, "Parking Lot Pastures", Cows in New
York City: Reintroducing the Species. Newhouse Center for Contemporary
Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York and Pori
Art Museum, 2000
Augusto Pieroni, "Skin Forms Map", Skin Forms Map. Museo Laboratorio
di Arte Contemporanea, Rome, 2000
Marketta Seppälä, "Magical Talisman", Animal.Anima.Animus. Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Holland,
1998; PS 1, New York, 1999
Mika Hannula, "Slaughterhouse 55", 1998
Hannu Castren, " What Horsehair Conceals and Reveals", Young
Artist of the Year, Tampere Art Museum, 1996
BOOKS
Love me or Leave me. Favorites from the collections of Kiasma, the Museum
of Contemporary Art. Like, Helsinki 2004
El Arte que Viene / The Art to Come. Paco Barragán, Subastas
Siglo XXI, Madrid 2002
Nyrhinen, Tiina and Väisänen, Hannu: Vedostuksia. Suomalaista
taidegrafiikkaa 2000-luvulta. Otava, Helsinki 2003
Fresh Cream. Phaidon Press, London, 2000
ARTICLES
Camilla Wasastjerna; ”Flygande svampar och läderlappar”,
Hufvudstadsbladet 14.2.2009.
Jukka Yli-Lassila, "Koivisto on vastakohtaisuuksien mestari",
Helsingin Sanomat, 25.2.2009
Riitta Mäkelä: ”Kun taide saa materiaalit, muodot ja
ajatukset kiertoon”. Kaleva, 5.4.2009
Johanna Ruohonen, "Globaalin ihmisen matka itseensä",
Turun Sanomat, 25.2.2005
Jukka Yli-Lassila, "Notkeaa biologiaa ja mekaniikkaa", Helsingin
Sanomat, 3.6.2004
Angela Rosenberg, Andreas Schlaegel,"Aperto Helsinki and Beyond" Flash
Art May-June 2002
Patrik Back, “Vi och våra tamdjur”, Västerbottens
kuriren, 25.4.2002
Marja-Terttu Kivirinta, "Lihanleikkauskaavioita ja tautikarttoja",
Helsingin Sanomat, 16.3.2002
Mia Tykkyläinen, “Kuolemaa elämän varjossa”,
Turun Sanomat, 24.1.2002
Jukka Yli-Lassila, “Lennokkeja ja turkiksiin verhottuja kyborgeja”,
Satakunnan Kansa, 13.1.2002
Arja Maunuksela, "Lehmät peltilehmien maassa", Helsingin
Sanomat, 24.9.2001
Marja-Terttu Kivirinta, "Lehmät palasivat New Yorkiin",
Helsingin Sanomat, 17.9.2000
Paco Barragán, "Animales por Naturaleza", Artnotes 1/1999
Gerardo Mosquera," Minimal Animal", Lapiz no.144/1998
Antje Klose, "Mein kleiner Elefant als Mammut", Rheinische
Post, 1.8.1998
Leena-Maija Rossi, "Seeing Red. Ideology, Politics and the Finnish
Art of the1990´s". Magazin Sztuki no. 4 / 1995
Hannele Jäämeri,"Eläimenä olemisesta. Serkku
vai orja?", Suomen Kuvalehti, kesäk.1998
Pessi Rautio, " Kaisu Koivisto Duchampin jäljillä",
Helsingin Sanomat, 25.10. 1997
Anne Rouhiainen, "Sarvia, jouhia ja moppitukkia", Helsingin
Sanomat, 16.3.1996
Mika Hannula, "Karkeaa, karvaista ja pehmeää", Taide 1 / 1996
Hannu Castren, "Jouhet ja hiukset solmivat yhteen vallan ja sukupuolen",
Taide 3 /1994
ESSAYS BY KAISU KOIVISTO
"Castles, Houses, Service Stations and Industrial Halls", Poriginal
Galleria 1984-2004.
Poriginal galleria, Pori, Finland 2004
"Life Eating Death", Top 7, Etelä-Karjalan Taidemuseo, Lappeenranta,
2001
"
Inseparable", Surfaces and Whirlpools. Borås Art Museum,
Borås,
Sweden 2001
"
Animal Energy", Koivisto, Peill, Orfalian; Loggia del Temanza, Venice
1997
"
Metamorphosis of a Brush into Art", Nainen taiteilijana, Lönnström
Art Museum,Rauma, Finland1997