BioGRAPHY :
Tiina Pyykkinen is an artist whose works are centered on the act of seeing. Using painting as her main medium she utilizes the attributes of the matter itself as inseparable part of the subjects addressed in the paintings. The multicolored, sheer layer of paint composed from single color pigment arouses questions regarding the conflicted relation between knowledge and perception.
The themes of memory, time and sense of the human body are strongly present in hologram-like mirror surfaced paintings in which the changes occur in the surrounding environment modify the information transmitted from the paintings. Pyykkinen’s paintings can be described as disturbance, as a catalyst that prevents the forming of a clear and uniform conception.
Pyykkinen has graduated from Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2014 as Master of Fine Arts. She has also studied in the Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts in 2011-2010. Pyykkinen was selected a Young Artist of the Year 2017 and her works have been presented at museums and galleries in Finland and other European countries. Her latest exhibition was seen in gallery Makasiini Contemporary in 2020. The same year her latest site-specific work was completed and can be seen in the main façade of Nova, Jyväskylä Central Hospital.
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Born in Saarijärvi 1983
Lives and works in Helsinki, Finland
Education
2014 Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, MA, Helsinki
2011–2010 Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany
Upcoming
2023 Catch, Serlachius, Museums, Mänttä, Finland
Solo exhibitions
2023 The Room That Lost its Shapes, gallery Makasiini Contemporary, Turku, Finland
2023 The Presence of Instability, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland
2020 Hidden Knowledge, Galleria Makasiini Contemporary, Turku
2019 Shadows, Gallery Makasiini Contemporary, Turku
2017 The Young Artist of the Year 2017 exhibition, Aboa Vetus, Ars Nova, Turku
2017 The Young Artist of the Year 2017 exhibition, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
2015 Painted Place, Gallery of Finnish Painters, Union, Helsinki
2014 Observed memory, Saarijärvi Museum, Saarijärvi
2012 Mustasta valosta ja valkoisesta varjosta, Cable Gallery, Helsinki
2011 Galleria Fafa, Helsinki
Selected group exhibitions
2023 About Art 2023, Logomo, Turku, Finland
2022 Openings, gallery Anhava, Helsinki, Finland
2021 Color Is A Common Thing, Porvoo Triennale, Porvoo, Finland
2020 Ilmoille haihtuvat polut, Saarijärvi Art Museum, Saarijärvi, Finland
2019- Human, architecture and built environment, EMMA, Espoo, Finland
2017 Attempting Ideal, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany
2017–2016 Fullersta Gård, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
2016 Mindset, Forum Box, Helsinki (together with Anna Hyrkkänen)
2016–2015 New Narrative and Reader, Salo Art Museum, Salo
2016–2015 Matka maan keskipisteeseen, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä
2015 New Narrative and Reader, Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre, Bury, Great Britain
2015 Tosi / Epätosi, Villa Roosa, Orimattila
2015 Cinematic Senses, Exhibition Laboratory, University of the Arts, Helsinki
2013 Unien kaupunki, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä
2013–2012 Annual exhibition of Union of Finnish Art Associations, Hyvinkää Art Museum, Hyvinkää
2012 Gallery of Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
2011 Rundgang, Leipzig, Germany
2010 Real Present MKM, Belgrade, Serbia
2010 Pyhä Tuho, Gallery Maaret Finnberg, Turku
Grants
2023 Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2023 Finnish Cultural Foundation
2022 Frame, Finland
2022 Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2021 Finnish Cultural Foundation, Uusimaa Regional Fund
2021 Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2020 Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2020 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Uusimaa Regional Fund
2020 Oskar Öflund Foundation
2019 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, project grant
2017 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, travel grant
2017 Finnish Cultural Foundation, three-year grant
2016 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, together with Anna Hyrkkänen
2016 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, one-year grant
2015 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, public display grant and project grant
2015 Paulo Foundation, Finland
2015 City of Helsinki, Finland
2014 Finnish Cultural Foundation
2013 Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Finland
2013 Arts Promotion Centre, Arts Council of Uusimaa, Finland
2013 Finnish Art Society, Young Artist Grant
2012 Finnish Cultural Foundation, Uusimaa Regional Fund
2012 Anita Snellman Foundation
2012 Helsinki Saskia Association
2006 Mannila Art Foundation, Saarijärvi, Finland
Awards
2017 The Young Artist of the Year, Tampere Art Museum, Finland
Works in collections
Beda, Katri ja Aune Herala Foundation, Saarijärvi Museum, Saarijärvi
Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi
Paulo Foundation, Espoo
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, long-term loan: Fund of Päivi and Paavo Lipponen, Helsinki
Mannila Art Foundation, Saarijärvi Museum
Saastamoinen Art Foundation – EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo
Salo art museum, Salo
Tampere Art Museum
The Portrait of the President Sauli Niinistö of the Republic of Finland, made together with 100 artists. The Collection of The Prime Ministers Office Finland.
Collection of Finnish State Art Commission
Site specific / Public art works
2021 Centre hospital Nova, Jyväskylä, Finland. In collaboration with JKKM architects Teemu Kurkela.
2020 Central hospital Nova, Jyväskylä, Finland
2019 Comprehensive school Kuokkala, Jyväskylä, Finland
2018 Flow Festival, Helsinki, Finland
2010 European Chemical Agency, Helsinki, Finland
2007 Tarvaala Institute of Bioeconomy, Saarijärvi, Finland
Residencies
2022–2021 Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherland
2019 Citè internationale des arts, Paris, France
2018 Sím, Reykjavik, Iceland
Selected texts and publications
Saarinen, Jussi. The Room That Lost Its Shape. 2023. https://makasiinicontemporary.com/exhibitions/99/overview/ (En)
De Graaf, Rosa. The Turning Mist. The Presence of Instability. Tiina Pyykkinen. Jyväskylä Art Museum 2023. (En)
Sarroff, Amanda. https://openstudios2022.janvaneyck.nl/participants/tiina-pyykkinen (En)
Laulainen, Tuomas, Muukalainen maalauksessa, 2020 (Fi)
Räisänen, Katja, Tiina Pyykkinen & the presence of the viewer, 26.1.2018. http://www.aroundjournal.com/ (En)
Rantanen, Silja, Security Checkpoint, Found Footage and Outrenoir, Young Artist of the Year 2017. Tampere Art Museum (Fi, En)
Mononen, Sini: Mustan kokemus. www.mustekala.info. 16.8.2016 (Fi)
Dickinson, Bob: New Narrative and Reader in Art Monthly. Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Gallery, Art Monthly 7/2015. (En)
Laulainen, Tuomas: Mitä on epäkaupallinen maalaustaide? EDIT I Taidemedia 17.4.2015. (Fi)
Tiina Pyykkinen, art publication series 8, Saarijärvi Museum. (Fi)
Siukonen, Jyrki: Unien kaupunki, Mänttä Art Festival 2013, exhibition catalogue. (Fi)
Pitkänen-Walter, Tarja: About Tiina Pyykkinen’s Dark Matter. Lecture in Dark Matter -seminar 5.3.2012, Northumbria University, Newcastle. (En)
Räisänen, Janne: Tiina Pyykkinen, exhibition catalogue / http://pyhatuho.blogspot.fi/, Pyhä Tuho -exhibition, Galleria Maaret Finnberg, Turku 2010. (Fi)