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KAISU KOIVISTO
born 1962, lives and works in Helsinki, Finland
Studies
1982-86 Art Institute of Kankaanpää, Finland
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2005
Faunomania, Röda Sten, Gothenburg, Sweden
2004
Rinnakkaisia järjestelmiä/Parallel Systems, Galleria Heino, Helsinki
Cargo, Suomen Paperitaidegalleria/Finnish Paper Art Gallery, Kuusankoski
Willa Mac, Tampere
2002
Maassa kiinni/Bound to Earth, Galleria Ama, Turku
Suuri lihakirja/The Big Neat Book,
Galleria Sculptor, Helsinki
Galleri Verkligheten, Umeå
2001
Studio Lipoli, Rome, Italy
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,
New York; 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
2005
SHIFTscale - Extended Field of Contemporary Sculpture, Estonian Art Museum, Tallinn
Kiihdytys, Helsingin Taidehalli ja Lönnströmin taidemuseo, Rauma
2004
Gokann, Suomen taiteen triennaali, Helsingin Taidehalli
Kipinä kengässä, Poriginal-galleria 1984-2004, Pori
2003
Gokann, Suomen taiteen triennaali, Kioto, Japani
Sinitaivas, Himmelblaun grafiikkaa, Retretti, Mäntyharju ja Oulun taidemuseo
Lehmä näkyvissä, Lapinlahden taidmeuseo
Mäntän kuvataideviikot, Mänttä
2002
Klosterstrasse/Berlin, Ruine der Franziskaner Klosterkirche
Northern Borders, Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston, GA, USA
Pohjoinen postmodernismi, Kiasma, Helsinki
2001 Iho muodostaa kartan/Skin Forms Map. Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy;
Galleria Uusikuva, Kotka, Finland Art-Cattle-History.
Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn, Holland Surfaces and
Whirlpools. Borås Art Museum, Borås, Sweden
Neljä taiteilijaa Keravalla, Keravan taidemuseo
6th KCAA - Seoul International Art festival, Seoul, Korea
Ikuinen paluu, Suomen Kuvanveistäjäliiton näyttely Korkeasaaren eläintarhassa
TOP7, Etelä-Karjalan taidemuseo, Lappeenranta
2000 No es sólo lo que
ves: Pervirtiendo el minimalismo. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
WAM suosittelee, Wäinö Aaaltosen museo, Turku
Maailmanlopun rajalla, Kemin taidemuseo, Kajaanin taidemuseo, Lönnströmin taidemuseo ja Riihimäen taidemuseo
1999 Animal. Anima. Animus. PS 1, New York (Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland; Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, 1998; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
1998) 1998 Galerie Wolfram Bach, Düsseldorf, Germany
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
Awards
Young Artist of the Year 1996
Nordic Drawing Triennial 1995
City of Pori: Culture Award 1992, 1996
Culture Award Satakunnan Kansa 1991
Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
Statens Konstråd, Sweden
Helsinki City Art Museum City of Skellefteå, Sweden
Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma Paulo Foundation
Pori Art Museum Saastamoinen Foundation
Tampere Art Museum
Turku Art Museum
Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku
Selected Bibliography
Catalogue Essays
Hannu Castren, " What Horsehair Conceals and Reveals", Young Artist of the Year, Tampere Art Museum, 1996
Mika Hannula, "Slaughterhouse 55", 1998
Marketta Seppälä, "Magical Talisman", Animal.Anima.Animus. Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Holland, 1998; PS 1, New York, 1999
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
Gerardo Mosquera, No es sólo lo que ves: Pervirtiendo el minimalismo. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2000
Books
Fresh Cream. Phaidon Press, London, 2000
Articles
Hannu Castren, "Jouhet ja hiukset solmivat yhteen vallan ja sukupuolen",
Taide 3 / 1994
Leena-Maija Rossi, "Seeing Red. Ideology, Politics and the Finnish Art of the1990´s". Magazin Sztuki no. 4 / 1995
Pessi Rautio, " Kaisu Koivisto Duchampin jäljillä", Helsingin Sanomat, 25 October 1997
Gerardo Mosquera," Minimal Animal", Lapiz no. 144/1998
Paco Barragán, "Animales por Naturaleza", Artnotes 1/1999
Marja-Terttu Kivirinta, "Lehmät palasivat New Yorkiin", Helsingin Sanomat, 17 Sept. 2000
Writings by the Artist
"Animal Energy", Koivisto, Peill, Orfalian; Loggia del Temanza, Venice, Italy 1997
"Metamorphosis of a Brush into Art", Nainen taiteilijana, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland 1997
"Inseparable",Surfaces and Whirlpools. Borås Art Museum, Borås, Sweden 2001
"Life Eating Death", Top 7, Etelä-Karjalan Taidemuseo, Lappeenranta, Finland 2001
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