BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1972, Helsinki, Finland. Lives and works in Finland and France.EDUCATION
2000 Master of Arts (Photography), University of Art and Design Helsinki (UIAH)
1997 Master of Science (Analytical Chemistry), University of Helsinki
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Elina Brotherus, Arthotèque d'Angers, France
Elina Brotherus, Video Works, The Wapping Project- Bankside, London
Elina Brotherus, Bloomberg SPACE, in the Comma series, London
Time Series, Titanik Gallery, Turku, Finland
2009 The Wapping Project - Bankside, London.
Artist and her model, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen.
Correspondences, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, together with Hannele Rantala.
The New Painting, ZAMEK Cultural Center & PF Photography Gallery, Poznan, Poland (cat.).
2008 ELINA BROTHERUS, Adventure Istiklal 6, Yapi Kredi Kazim Taskent Art Gallery, Istanbul (cat.).
Etudes d'après modèle, danseurs, Ama Gallery, Helsinki.
My Happiness is Round, The Wapping Project, London.
Paesaggi con montagna, Malga Valarica, Spera, Italy.
V.M. 21 Arte contemporanea, Rome.
Elina Brotherus, in Artist File 2008, The National Art Center, Tokyo (cat.).
2007 The New Painting, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg.
gb agency, Paris.
Le Bleu du ciel, Le traitement contemporain, In resonance with the Biennale d'art contemporain, Lyon.
The New Painting, Centre pour l'image contemporaine, Genève.
2006 Model Studies, Musée des Beaux-arts, Caen, in Les Boreales.
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Berlin.
The New Painting, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône.
Iitti Music Festival, Iitti, Finland.
The New Painting, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin.
The New Painting, Millesgården, Stockholm.
The New Painting, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki.
2005 "Brotherus, tyttö", Finnish-Norvegian Cultural Institute, Oslo.
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt/M.
Contemporary Art Centre Tinglado, Tarragona (cat.).
FRAC Haute-Normandie, Rouen.
Baigneurs, Maison de la Culture, Amiens
Model Studies, gb agency, Paris.
2004 Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå.
The New Painting, Mai Manó, Hungarian Photography Center, Budapest.
"Brotherus, tyttö", Photography Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki.
Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen.
The New Painting, Chateau d'eau, Toulouse (cat.).
Baigneurs, The Wapping Project, London.
2003 Kunsthalle Lophem, Lophem (cat.).
Cassina Art Project, Tokyo, in Blue Horizon / Feel Finland (cat.).
Baigneurs, Istanbul Biennial side event organised by FRAME, Hotel Marmara, Istanbul (cat.).
The New Painting, Pärnu uue kunsti muuseum, Pärnu ; Draakoni Galerii, Tallinn.
Suites Françaises 2, Image/Imatge, Orthez.
The New Painting, Espace Photographique Contretype, Brussels (cat.).
Sala Caballerizas, Murcia, in Fotoencuentros (cat.).
2002 Galeria Noua, Bucharest.
Real Jardin Botánico, Madrid, in PhotoEspaña (cat.).
Encontros da imagem, Braga (cat.).
INOVA (Institute of Visual Arts), Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna.
Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås.
Lunds Konsthall, Lund.
Orchard Gallery, Derry.
2001 Spring, The Wapping Project, London (cat.).
Suites Françaises 2, gb agency, Paris (cat.).
The New Painting, Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå.
2000 Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra.
Suites Françaises 1, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki (cat.).
Galerie i8, Reykjavik (cat.).
1999 Northern Photography Center, Oulu.
The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki.
Dance Portraits, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki.
1998 Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå (cat.).
Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, with Andrei Lajunen.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Felicità, Centre PasquArt, Biel/ Bienne
Cool Water, Korjaamo Gallery, Helsinki
Vom Dunkeln Gescluckt, Ars Auttoinen, Padasjoki, Finland
Billnäs Bruk, Raseborg, Finland
Spazio, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
Starter, ARTER, Istanbul
Helsinki10, Contemporary photography and video from The Helsinki School in the Statoil art Collection
2009 Rencontres littéraires nordiques, Lieu Unique, Nantes.
Fly me to the MØØn, 44 Moen, Denmark (cat.).
Ecology of Emotions, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland (cat.).
Works, Deeds, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki.
Wonderful dreadful life, South-Karelia Art Museum, Lappeenranta.
Gioia, FotoGrafia Festival, Palazzo delle esposizioni, Rome (cat.).
Teatri possibili. Dall’arte rinascimentale alla video-art, Palazzo Ferrero, Biella (cat.).
Faire la peau de l’inconscient, Galerie Nei Liicht, Dudelange, Luxembourg, in connection with
Mutations2, Moving stills (cat.).
Myth of Childhood, Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf, Swizerland ; CCA Andratx, Mallorca.
La Ruche, cité des artistes, Palais Lumière, Evian (cat).
Dance over the border, Dansens hus, Stockholm.
2008 Heijastuksia / Reflections, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art and Tikanojan taidekoti, Vaasa ; Wäinö
Aaltonen Art Museum, Turku ; Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna (until 2009).
Je reviendrai, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine.
REAL, Photographs from the DZ BANK collection, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main (cat.).
Fennofolk, Design Museum, Helsinki (cat.).
1% Water, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium.
Nordiske stemninger, ARKEN, Ishöj, Denmark (cat.).
Las implicaciones de la imagem, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes, MUCA, Mexico City.
The Return of the Prodigal Son, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa (cat.).
Maan asema / La position de la terre, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch.
Sept ans de reflection, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône.
2007 Collection Neuflize, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon.
Merveilleux!, Château de Malbrouck, Manderen (cat.).
Territoires partagés – peinture et photographie aujourd'hui, Château de Villeneuve, Vence (cat).
Je est il, Je sont ils?, Abbaye Saint André, Meymac.
Shot and go, A vision of today's international photography, Island of San Servolo, Venice.
Into the Landscape, Preus Museum, Horten (cat.).
De l'Europe, Prix Mosaïque, Dudelange (cat.).
L'oeil écran ou la nouvelle image, Casino Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg (cat.).
Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum, New York (cat.).
So Close so Far Away, H&F Collection, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch ; Be-Part Platform voor Actuele Kunst, Waregem ; Museum Het Domain, Sittard (until 2008) (cat.).
Sguardi da nord/Northern Lights, Galleria Civica di Modena (cat.).
2006 Eine Frage (nach) der Geste/A Question(ing) of Gesture, Opera Building, Leipzig ; Fotohof, Saltzburg (until 2007).
Dreamlands Burn, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest (cat.).
Nouveaux Horizons, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch.
Brussels to Infinity, International Cultural Centre Gallery, Krakow ; Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris ; Museo de Arte Brasileira, Sao Paulo (until 2007) (cat.).
Ars Fennica 2007, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki ; Embassy of Finland, Washington ; The Scandinavia House, New York (until 2008) (cat.).
Art, Life & Confusion, October Salon/Belgrade Biennial, Belgrade (cat.).
Journées photographiques de Bienne/Bieler Fototage, Bienne/Biel (cat.).
Dimensions intérieures, Le Botanique, Brussels.
Estivales photographiques de Trégor, Lannion (cat.).
Intersection - between past and future, Pori Art Museum, Pori.
Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (cat.)
Outside the Living Room, gb agency, Paris.
Mar Mater Materia, Espace photographique Contretype, Brussels.
Absolutely Private, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (cat.).
Clarities, Kopavogur Art Museum, Gerdarsafn, together with Rúri and Thor Vigfusson.
Galleria Heino, Helsinki, together with Sirpa Päivinen and Anu Suhonen.
2005 Self-Timer/Selbstauslöser, Kunsthalle Fridericanum, Kassel ; Nikolaj, Copenhagen ; National Museum of Bucharest (until 2007) (cat.).
Centrale Montemartini, Rome, in Gemini muse (cat.).
Helsinki International, Korjaamo, Helsinki.
Pyyteetön rakkaus, Rauma Art Museum, Rauma.
Tampere Museum of Contemporary Art, TR1, Tampere.
Under your skin, White Box, New York.
Enea Righi Collection, Hotel de Caumont, Collection Lambert, Avignon.
2004 Galeria Salvador Diaz, Madrid.
Nordic Art, MKM Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg (cat.).
PHOTOfesta, Maputo, Mosambique.
Vague II – Hommages et digressions, Musée Malraux, Le Havre (cat.).
Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF 04), Svolvaer (cat.).
The Helsinki School, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki ; Kulturhuset, Stockholm ; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (until 2005) (cat.).
Startistes, Association pour le Développement des Initiatives Sportives et Culturelles, Brussels.
Tusenfryd, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen.
France – Terre d'Accueil, New Gallery, Jerusalem (cat.).
Je t'envisage, la disparition du portrait, Museé de l’Elysée, Lausanne.
2003 Le pire est à venir–Images contemporaines du monde, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône.
Carnegie Art Award 2003, Royal Art Academy, Stockholm ; Kópavogur Art Museum, Reykjavík ; Kunsternes Hus, Oslo ; Charlottenburg, Copenhagen ; Victoria Miro Warehouse, London ; Helsinki
Kunsthalle (until 2005) (cat.)
Girls' Night Out, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA ; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover MA ; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO ; Contemporary Art Museum, Saint Louis MI ; Blaffer
Gallery, Houston TX (until 2006) (cat.).
GOKANN, IV Trienniale of Finnish Art, Gallery Fleur, Kyoto ; Helsinki Kunsthalle (until 2004) (cat.).
Portraits d'arbres, Musée d'Evreux (cat.).
Paysages, Centre européen d’actions artistiques contemporaines, Strasbourg.
Culturgest / Collection of Museé de l’Elysée, Lisbon.
De bortbjudna – Malmö Konstmuseum gästar Rooseum, Rooseum, Malmö.
Fables de l’identité, Centre national de la photographie, Paris.
Naked before God, Pärnu uue kunsti muuseum, Pärnu (cat.).
Meri, Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna (cat.)
Inhimillinen arki, Vantaa City Art Museum, Vantaa (cat.).
Transparente, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome (cat.).
Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Finnland, Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin ; Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim ; Städtische Galerie, Waldkreiburg ; Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel ; Brandenburgische
Kunstsammlung, Cottbus ; Centrum Kultury ZAMEK, Poznan ; Salo Art Museum, Salo (until 2004) (cat.).
Nya verkligheter, Finlandsinstitutet, Stockholm.
Nostalgic Real, Mullerdechiara, Berlin.
View, Muu Gallery, Helsinki (cat.).
New Realities, Hasselblad Center, Gothemburg.
2002 Face/Off, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (cat.).
La Jeunesse, La edad más bella, Sala de Exposiciones del Canal de Isabel II, Madrid.
Le bâti et le vivant / The Built and the Living, Semaines européennes de l'image, Galerie Nei Liicht,
Dudelange, Luxembourg (cat.)
Carnegie Art Award 2002, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik ; Kunsternes Hus, Oslo ; Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen ; Victoria Miro Warehouse, London ; Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki ; Röda Sten,
Gothemburg (until 2003) (cat.).
Symptomania, Kunsthalle Lophem, Lophem (cat.).
Uusia kuvia, Brotherus Kella Kolehmainen Lajunen Parantainen, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki.
Photographier, Collection Lambert, Avignon.
Valokuva ja video, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere (cat.).
Platform of Encounters, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (cat.).
Attachment +, European Cultural Capital 2002, Brugge (cat.).
Beyond Paradise, National Gallery, Bangkok ; National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur ; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai (cat.).
Citigroup Private Bank Photography Prize 2002, The Photographers' Gallery, London (cat.).
2001 Rendez-vous 3, Collection Lambert, Avignon.
Silence in the City, Gwangju City Art Museum, Gwangju (cat.).
Make me feel, Art Athina, Athens (cat.).
ARS 01, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (cat.).
Théâtres du Fantastique, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse (cat.).
Magnetic North, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall (cat.).
Surface and Whirlpools, Borås Konstmuseum, Borås (cat.).
Fotofinlandia 2000 Award, Kaapelitehdas / Cable Factory, Helsinki.
2000 Jahresgaben, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main (cat.).
One of those days, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim (cat.).
Quinze en Europe, Septembre de la Photo, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice (cat.).
Waterfront, Kulturbro 2000, Helsingborg, Helsingør (cat.).
Narcisse blessé, Autoportraits Contemporains 1970-2000, Passage de Retz, Paris (cat.).
Norden/North, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien (cat.).
Think 2000, The Finnish National Gallery Ateneum, Helsinki (cat.).
Sandroni Rey Gallery, Venice, Los Angeles.
Galerie Lindig in Paludetto, Nürnberg.
1999 Tila – Espaces, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris.
Spaces, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki.
The Passion and the Wave, The 6th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (cat.).
Identité fictive, Contretype, Brussels (cat.).
Finnish line : Starting point, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg (cat.).
1998 Galleri Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Amos Andersson Art Museum, Helsinki
Apotekets Kulturförening, Stockholm
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP), France
Carnegie Art Collection, Sweden
Centre national de l’audiovisuel, Luxembourg
City of Lund, Sweden
City of Nice
Colección H+F, Barcelona
Collection Lambert, Avignon
Collection Neuflize, France
Coppel Collection, Mexico City
Corcoran Gallery, Washington
County Councils of Gävleborg, Halland, Jönköping, Skåne, Uppsala and Västerbotten, Sweden
DZ Bank, Frankfurt/Main
Finnish State Art Collection
Fondation Kadist, Paris
FRAC Alsace, Sélestat
FRAC Haute-Normandie, Rouen
Galeria Civica d’Arte, Modena
Galerie municipale de Château d’eau, Toulouse
Gothemburg Art Museum, Gothemburg
Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle, Sweden
Hasselblad Center, Gothemburg
Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki
Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna, Finland
L’Imagerie, Lannion, France
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Koç Foundation, Istanbul
MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine
Malmö Art Museum, Malmö
Mestizo, Murcia, Spain
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne
Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône
Museo da Imagem, Braga, Portugal
Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (MAXXI), Rome
NSM Vie, Paris
Oulu Art Museum, Oulu, Finland
Saatchi Collection, London
Saastamoinen Foundation, Finland
Société Générale, Paris
SOK Art Collection, Helsinki
South Carelia Art Museum, Lappeenranta, Finland
StatoilHydro, Stavanger, Norway
Swedish State Art Council
Tampere City Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
Umeå municipality, Sweden
Västerås Art Museum, Västerås, Sweden
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
2009 Arts Council of Finland
2008 Finnish State Prize for Photography
2007 Grönqvist Stiftelse, Finland
2006 Ars Fennica 2006 nomination
2005 Prix Niépce, Gens d'images, France
Finnish Cultural Foundation
Book publishing grant (for The New Painting), Arts Council of Finland
2004 5-year Artist’s Grant, Arts Council of Finland
2003 Carnegie Award 2004, Young Artist’s Scolarship
The Best Books of the Year, Finnish Committee of Book Art (for Decisive Days)
2002 Carnegie Art Award 2002, shortlist
Citigroup Private Bank Photography Prize 2002, shortlist
2001 Prix Mosaïque, Centre National de l'Audiovisuel, Luxembourg
Fotofinlandia 2000 Award
3-year Artist's Grant, Arts Coucil of Finland
BOOKS
Etudes d'après modèle, danseurs. Text: Marc Donnadieu, interview: Patrick Scemama with Elina Brotherus. Les éditions Textuel, 2007, distributed by Volumen.
Elina Brotherus : The New Painting. Text: Susanna Pettersson, Andrea Holzherr, interview: Sheyi Antony Bankale with Elina Brotherus. Next Level, London 2005. Distributed by Thames & Hudson.
Decisive Days, valokuvia-photographies-photographs 1997-2001. Interview: Jan Kaila with Elina Brotherus. Kustannus Pohjoinen, Oulu 2002.
SOLO SHOW CATALOGUES
ELINA BROTHERUS, The New Painting. Text: Pawel Leszkowicz. Galeria Fotografii PF, Centrum Kultury Zamek, Poznan 2009.
ELINA BROTHERUS, Adventure Istiklal 6. Text: René Block, Timo Valjakka. Yapi Kredi Kazim Taskent Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul 2008.
ELINA BROTHRUS, Artist File 2008. Text: Yayoi Motohashi-Mäki-Mantila. National Art Center, Tokyo 2008.
ELINA BROTHERUS. Text: Susanna Pettersson. Tinglado2, Tarragona 2005.
The New Painting. Text: Evelyne Biver, Elina Brotherus. Carnets de Résidences #2, Editions Contretype,
Brussels 2004.
The New Painting. Text: Paolo Colombo. Chateau d'eau, Toulouse 2004.
Baigneurs, 2001-2003. Text : Hannele Rantala. FRAME, Helsinki 2003.
Spring. Text: Sophie Howarth, Jane Rendell. The Wapping Project, London 2001.
Suites françaises 2. Text: Andrea Holzherr, Val Williams. & : gb agency, Paris 2001.
ELINA BROTHERUS. Text: Caryn Faure Walker, Elina Brotherus. i8 Galleri, Reykjavík / Galerie Anhava,
Helsinki, Reykjavík 2000.
ELINA BROTHERUS. Text: Yrjänä Levanto, Elina Brotherus. Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå 1998.