ARTIST
MARIANNA UUTINEN
FINLAND
ARTIST STATEMENT
Transcendent, 2018
Various Dimension
MixedMedia, Plastic, Pigments, Foil
Property of the artist
Painting transmuting all that plastic nightmare and the obsession for the material into another state of being.
Recreating itself into freedom and amorphous beauty.
BIOGRAPHY
1961 born in Pieksämäki, Finland lives and works in Helsinki, Finland and Berlin, Germany
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2017 WAIT LIGHT, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg,
Germany Artist’s Space – Marianna Uutinen, Weserburg
Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
2016 Free, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, Germany
2015 Plastic Sky, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
Trans, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, Germany
2013 Last Supper, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany
(together with Anselm Reyle)
2007 Ytimestä / Coring, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland;
Mikkeli Art Museum, Mikkeli, Finland; Turku Art Museum,
Turku, Finland
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2017 Dreamaholic / Miettinen Collection, Weserburg Museum
of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
2016 Illumination, Lousiana Museum of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014 Einblicke, Collection Wemhöner, Osram Höfe, Berlin, Germany
Kosketus, EMMA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Espoo,
Finland Superpop!, Serlachius Museum, Mänttä, Finland
2013 Curated By: Why Painting Now, Kerstin Engholm Gallery,
Vienna, Austria
Kiasma Hits, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art,
Helsinki, Finland
Lies about painting, Museum of Modern Art, Malmö,
Sweden ICASTICA 2013, Arezzo Biennial, Arezzo, Italy
2010 Memory Traces, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany;
The Finnish Institute in Germany, Berlin, Germany
Carnegie Art Award, Listasafn Islands, Reykjavik, Iceland;
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden;
Kunsternes Hus, Oslo, Norway; Kunsthalle Helsinki,
Helsinki, Finland
2008 Image and after, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art,
Helsinki, Finland
Zuordnungsprobleme, Johann König Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2006 The Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection, EMMA –
Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
Immaginaire Féminin, OPEN2002, Venice Lido, Italy
2000 Premio Michetti, Museo Michetti, Palazzo San Domenico,
Francavilla al Mare, Italy
North, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
The Nordic Postmodernism, Kiasma Museum
of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
1998 Momentum, Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Moss,
Norway This Side of the Ocean, Kiasma Museum
of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
1997 The Venice Biennale, The Nordic Pavilion, Venice, Italy
1995 ARS ‘95, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki,
Das Abenteuer der Malerei, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande
und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany; Württembergischer
Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany