ARTIST

Marianna-Uutinen

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

WORKS