KAISU KOIVISTO

Photo: Erkki Valli-Jaakola



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

  Paluu etusivulle/Back to the Beginning