Resume
Solo Exhibitions
2024 - The Tears Shed Because of You, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
2023 - Reaching Light , Brescia, Brescia Capital of Culture, Chiesa di Borgo Trento, Brescia, Italy
2023 - Waves of Life, Bergamo, Brescia Capital of Culture, Via Tasso, Bergamo, Italy
2023 - Flying Waters, Riverrun Festival, The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., USA
2022 - Kaarina Kaikkonen-Tied together - M77 Galleria, Milano, Italy, curator Francesca Alfano Miglietti
2022 - Tied together, site specific installation, Rotonda della Besana, Milano,Italy, curator Francesca Alfano Miglietti
2022 - We Need Some Hope, Kunsthalle Charlottenborg façade, Copenhagen Denmark
2020 - I No Longer Hear You Singing, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki Finland
2020 - Kaarina Kaikkonen, Hanaholmen Gallery, Espoo, Finland.
2019 - Kaarina Kaikkonen, Z2O galleria Sara Zanin, Rome, Italy
2018-19 - We Are Still The Same, SALT Art Center, Oslo, Norway.
2018 -From The Bottom Of My Heart, Uppsala Art Museum, Sweden
2018 - You Remain In Me, KUNSTEN Museum for Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark
2018 - If I had Wings, Elevator of Marolles, Brussels, Belgium
2018 - Close To The Heart, ANNA3, Antwerpen, Belgium
2018 - Kaarina Kaikkonen, KUNSTEN Museum for Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark
2017 - Kaarina Kaikkonen, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, France
2017 - Kaarina Kaikkonen, Uppsala Art Museum, Sweden
2017 - Growing The Sun, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
2016 - Falling Light, Blooming Spirit, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2015 - Layers, Hyvinkää Art Museum, Hyvinkää, Finland
2015 - We Share A Dream, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo Niagara International Airport, Buffalo , USA
2015 - A Waltz to Life, Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2015 - Kaarina Kaikkonen, Z2O galleria/Sara Zanin, Rome, Italy
2014 - Kaarina Kaikkonen, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland
2014 - Kaarina Kaikkonen, Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
2014 - Whereabouts, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
2014 - Touching The Sky, CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain
2013 - Kaarina Kaikkonen, K11 Art Space, Shanghai, China
2013 - Time Passing By, Brighton Festival, Clock Tower, , Brighton, UK
2013 - The Blue Route, Fabrica, Brighton, UK
2013 - The Blue Route, Fabrica, Brighton, England
2013 - Two Projects—Traces and Dialogues, El Museo de la Memoria y Derechos Humanos (Museum of History and Human Rights) and El Museo National de Bellas Artes (The National Museum of Fine Arts), Santiago, Chile. 2013. Curator Julia P. Herzberg
- Traces, Museo de la Memoria (MNDH), Santiago, Chile.
- Dialogues, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA), Santiago, Chile.
2013 - Are We Still Afloat? The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., USA
2012 - Towards Tomorrow, MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
2012 - Are We Still Going On? Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy2012 (curator Marina Dacci)
2011 - As A Tree I Can Feel The Wind, Special Project, Art Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
2011 - Life Paths, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
2011 - I Would Have Wanted to Blossom Out, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
2009 - From Generation to Generation, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere and Z2O galleria / Sara Zanin, Rome, Italy
2009 - Kaarina Kaikkonen, Oulu Art Museum, Oulu, Finland
2009 - Changes of Directions, Tampere Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampere, Finlandia (Finland)
2008 - Kaarina Kaikkonen, Örebro Konsthall, Örebro, Sweden
2008 - ForgetMeNot, Korjaamo Culture Factory, Helsinki, Finland
2008 - Kaarina Kaikkonen, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
2008 - Kaarina Kaikkonen, l´Espal, Le Mans, France
2008 - Kaarina Kaikkonen, Norrtälje Konsthall, Norrtälje, Sweden
2007 - Inner Borders, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2007 - And It Was Empty, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming USA
2006 - Across the Deep, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida, USA
2006 - Kaarina Kaikkonen, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland
2006 - Kaarina Kaikkonen, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
2006 - Reaching Far, Rochester Cathedral, Rochester, England
2006 - The Presence of Absence, Remy Toledo Gallery, New York, USA
2005 - Kaarina Kaikkonen, Helsinki Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
2005 - The Queen of the Night, Gallery Artina, Helsinki, Finland
2004 - And It Was Empty, Gallerie Stefan Andersson, Umeå, Sweden
2003 - Beyond Reach, Fabrica, Brighton, England
2003 - Too Far from Home, Galleri 21, Malmö, Sweden
2002 - Wohin, Rastatt Schloss, Rastatt, Germany
2001 - From Generation to Generation, Gallery Artina, Helsinki, Finland
2001 - And The Wind Blows Over You, Helsinki Kunsthalle, Studio, Helsinki, Finland
2000 - Way, Helsinki Cathedral, Helsinki, Finland
Group Exhibitions
2024 - NATURA, RIUSO, PROGETTO, UTOPIA, Palazzo Baldeshi, Perugia, Italy, curator Marco Tonelli
2024 - Contrappunti, z2O Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome, Italy
2023 - Home, Art, History, Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki Finland
2023 - Galerie Forsblom´s 45th Anniversary Exhibition, Helsinki Finland
2023 - Baltic Horizons, State Gallery of Art, Sopot, Poland
2022 - Kunsten Retro, KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark
2022 - Threads of memory, Numeroventi, Firenze, Italy
2021 - Porvoo Triennial, Porvoo, Finland
2021 - Harsomaa, Gallery Himmelblau, Tampere, Finland
2021 - Koivukujabiennaali 2021, Iisalmi, Finland
2021 - UNITY/PEACE/FORWARD, The John F. Kennedy Center, Washington DC, USA
2020 - Changwon Sculpture Biennale, South Korea
2020 - Landscape, KUNSTEN Museum for Modern Art, Denmark
2020 - Dreaming Room, z2O Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome Italy (curator Marina Dacci)
2020 - Finlayson Art Area, Tampere, Finland
2020 - Traces, Museo Civico Medievale, Bologna, Italy (curator Marina Dacci)
2020 - Explorations, Turku Art Museum, Finland
2019 - Im kleinen Format, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany
2019 - Ready to go!, Münchner Stadtmuseum, München, Germany
2019 - Sculpture Biennale Blickachsen 12, Frankfurt/Bad Honburg, Germany (curators Christian K. Scheffel, Elisabeth Millqvist, Mattias Givell)
2019 - Finnish Wave, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea
2019 - When is now? Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku, Finland
2018 - Die Zweite haut, Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau, Germany
2018 - Nordic Views, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017 - ITSENÄISYYS, Uppsala Art Museum, Sweden
2017 - Donne di Colore, Torre dei Lambardi di Magione, Perugia, Italy
2017 - Suloisessa Suomessamme, Iisalmi birch alley, Iisalmi Finland
2017 - Dreamaholic, Museum for Contemporary Art, Weserburg, Germany,
2017 - Extension.fi, Victoria Gallery, Samara, Russia
2017 - Extension.fi, Triumph gallery, Moscow, Russia
2016 - Let´s Match, KUNSTEN Museum for Modern Art, Denmark
2016 - Sublimina, Museo delle Mura, Roma, Italy
2016 - Second Skin, Museum Sinclair-Haus,Bad-Homburg, Germany (curator Andrea Firmenich)
2016 - Sculpture Quadrennial, Riga, Latvia
2016 - SKILLS, Oulu Art Museum, Oulu, Finland
2015 - Kvindesind, KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark
2015 - In Other Worlds, Städtische Galerie, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Stuttgart, Germany
2015 - SKILLS, Konsthallen Luleå, Luleå, Sweden
2015 - Touch, EMMA Museum of Art, Espoo, Finland
2015 - Face to Face, Kiasma Museum of Art, Helsinki, Finland
2015 - Industriale immaginario, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2015 - Face to Face, KIASMA Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2015 - Finlayson Art Area, Tampere, Finland
2015 - SHOEting STARS, Die Stadtgalerie Klagenfurt, German
2015 - Occupie Space! Finnish Sculpture Now, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
2015 - FINLAND, Galleri21, Malmö, Sweden
2015 - Under The Rainbow, Kerava Art Museum, Finland
2014 - SKILLS, Nord Norsk Kunstnersenter, Svolvaer, Lofoten, Norge
2014 - Le vol en provenance d´Helsinki, CRAC, Montbeliard, France
2014 - Arts plastiques, Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris, France
2014 - Parallelwelten, Stadtgalerie Kiel,Kiel,Germany
2014 - Nature And More, Rostock kunsthalle, Rostock, Germany
2014 - SHOEting Stars Kunst Haus Wien, Museum Hundertwasser, Wien, Austria
2014 - IX Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland
2014 - RE-art, MEKEN, Smedjebacken, Sweden
2014 - V Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo de la Fundación ONCE, CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain
2014 - Prato Contemporanea. Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
2014 - Resonance(s), Maison Particuliere, Brussels, Belgium
2013 - ICASTICA, 1.Biennale International d´Arte di Arezzo, Italy
2013 - Out Of Fashion, Gl Holtegaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012 - Where Is My Home? “USE-United States of Europe,” Récollets, Paris, France
2012 - A Connection, “USE–United States of Europe,” Pharos Arts Foundation, Nicosia, Cyprus
2011 - Like A Whisper of Wind, “Memory–New international Sculpture,” Rosenfeld Porcini, London, England
2011 - The Gate, “IL Caos-Conflicts,” Venice, Italy/Collateral Event Venice Biennale
2011 - Is There A Better Future? “Critical Mass,” St. Petersburg, Russia
2010 - Hanging On To Each Other, “Liverpool Biennial,” England
2010 - Hiding Memories, “No Longer Empty,” Governors Island, New York, USA
2010 - Growing Connections, “Vancouver Biennale,” Vancouver, Canada
2010 - My Outline, “Cosmos,” Silkeborgbad Art Center, Silkeborg, Denmark
2010 - The Queen of the Night, “Ệtre Ainsi,” Espace culturel Boris Vian, Les Ulis, France
2010 - Networking, “Here and Now,” Art First Bologna, Bologna, Italy
2009 - We Are All In The Same Boat, “Ei saa peittää,” Eskilstuna Art Museum, Eskilstuna, Sweden
2009 - Des Profondeur, “Confections,” Biennale du lin, Quebec, Canada
2008 - The Arch That We Are, “My Space,” Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy
2008 - And It Was Empty, “Cairo 11th Biennale,” Cairo, Egypt
2008 - Ur havets mörka djup, “Örebro OpenART 2008,” Örebro Konsthall, Örebro, Sweden
2008 - Ashes to Ashes, “Hoviart,” Anttola, Finland
2006 - Like a Bridge Over Troubled Water, “Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial,” Niigata, Japan
2006 - My Outline, “Influenced Identity,” Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida,
2006 - From the Depths, “Biennale Balticum,” Rauma Art Museum, Rauma, Finland
2005 - My Outline “OMNIART 2” an art event parallel to Art/Basel/Miami Beach International Art Show Miami, Florida, USA, curator Julia P Herzberg and Carol Damien
2004 - And It Was Empty, "OMNIART 1”, an art event parallel to Art/Basel/Miami Beach International Art Show Miami, Florida, USA, curator Julia P Herzberg and Carol Damien
2004 - A Path, “Umedalen Skulptur,” Umeå, Sweden
2004 - In The Darkness, “Den Haag Sculptuur,” The Hague, Holland
2003 - Departure, “8th Havana Biennial,” Havana, Cuba
2003 - Towards Light, “Loud and Proud,” Anttolanhovi, Mikkeli, Finland
2003 - Did I Reach the Harbour? “Night Train,” Kiasma Museum for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Awards
2020 - 1.Prize Matti Nykänen Memorial competition Jyväskylä Finland
2016 - 1. Prize, Sculpture competition of Public art, Kirkonvarkaus , Mikkeli Finland
2013 - The Golden Chimera, 1.Biennale International d´Arte di Arezzo, Italy
2009 - Honorable Mention in Cairo 11th Biennale, Egypt
2004 - The Public Prize, Den Haag Sculptuur 2004, Holland
2001 - The Prize of Environmental Art, Finland
2001 - Finland Art Reward
1989 - State Art Reward, Finland
1985 - Prize in 3rd International Drawing Triennale, Nuremberg, Germany
Public works
2022 - Höyhen, Olympic Champion Matti Nykänen memorial, Jyväskylä Finland
2021 - Flow of Energy, School in Matinkylä, Espoo, Finland
2018 - Lifetime Learning, Tesoma, Tampere Finland
2017 - The Tree of Happiness, Tampere, Finland
2017 - Vasten auringon siltaa, Mikkeli, Finland
2017 - Blowing In The Wind, Stiftung Nantesbuch, Germany
2016 - I Am Part Of This Song, Tampere House, Tampere Finland
2016 - In The End of Rainbow, Vantaa Finland
2015 - Evening Star, Kivistö, Vantaa, Finland
2015 - The Upspringing Spirit, Vuores, Tampere, Finland
2015 - Step by Step, Simpukka Kindergarten , Iisalmi, Finland
2012 - Spread Your Wings! School of Käpylä, Helsinki, Finland
2012 - A Dream, Domodossolo, Italy
2011 - A New Tomorrow, Hyvinkää City Hall, Hyvinkää, Finland
2009 - Proceed, Hanasaari Culture Center, Espoo, Finland
2009 - Towards Deeper Waters, Mikkeli University, Mikkeli, Finland
2006 - Children of Light, Savon Voima OY, Kuopio, Finland
2005 - And the Wind Blows Over You, Ylöjärvi City Hall, Ylöjärvi, Finland
2005 - On the Wing, Heinola School, Heinola, Finland
2004 - A Path, Umedalen Sculpture Park, Umeå, Sweden
2004 - Towards Sun, Towards Moon, Viikki School, Helsinki, Finland
2004 - Song of Songs, Lapinlahti School, Lapinlahti, Finland
2000 - Hope, Espoo Congregation House, Espoo, Finland
1993 - Wall, Kivipankki Museum, Jämsä, Finland
1989 - The Word as the Sword, University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland
Collections
Altana Kulturstiftung, Bad Homburg,Germany
Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark
MAXXI Museo Nazionale Belle Arti, Rome, Italy
Maramotti Collezione, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden
Umedalen Skulpturpark, Umeå, Sweden
Borås Art Museum, Borås, Sweden
Wyoming University Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming, USA
Rafaela & Kaj Forsblom Collection, Finland
Kiasma Museum for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
State of Finland
EMMA Museum for Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Miettinen Collection, Germany
Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland
Collection Swanljung, Vaasa, Finland
Wihuri Collection, Finland
Sara Hilden Museum of Art, Tampere
Wäinö Aaltonen Art Museum, Turku, Finland
Kuopio Art Museum, Kuopio, Finland
City of Iisalmi, Iisalmi, Finland
Joensuu Art Museum, Joensuu, Finland
Mikkeli Art Museum, Mikkeli, Finland
Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland
City of Pieksämäki. Pieksämäki, Finland
Lapinlahti Art Museum, Lapinlahti, Finland
Oulu Art Museum, Oulu, Finland
Grants
State 10 year stipend as Artist Professor, 2012-2022
State 5-year stipend 1994-98, 2000-04, 2006-10
Candidate of Ars Fennica Prize 2001 [short-listed. It is an honor]
Finnish Cultural Foundation Grant 1999, 2005