Last Meal (Karuna 4.12.-15.12.2008)
"The 1% Concept", Künstlervereinigung MAERZ, Linz, Austria, 8 December 2011 – 27 January 2012
The installation Last Meal (Karuna 4.12.-15.12.2008) consists of 13 bronze casts of mice in mouse traps. The sculptures are dated according to the day the animals were killed on the artist’s farm in Karuna, Finland.
Backyard Series
Copenhagen Art Fair, Galerie Anhava, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16 – 18 September 2011
Galerie Anhava’s show at Copenhagen Art Fair includes new works from Anne Koskinen’s Backyard Series.
Animals from Riilahti and Surrondings
KIND OF NICE, Galerie Anhava, 18 August – 4 September 2011
The 20th Anniversary of Galerie Anhava
Beyond the old border
"Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother", Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland, 12 June - 31 August 2011
The sculpture installation Beyond the old border (Munakukkula) is based on my father’s notes, drawings and photographies he made in the front during the Winter and Continuation Wars in 1939-1944. The work is on show in the exhibition Honor Thy Father and Thy Father – Kunnioita isääsi ja äitiäsi curated by Otso Kantokorpi.
After the Storm
"Tuttuja ja outoja lintuja", Kuopio Art Museum, Kuopio, Finland, 27 May – 2 October 2011
Installation with sculptures in storm felled trees and bronze casts of dead birds
Reflections
First shown in: Ars Fennica 2010, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, 8 October – 12 December 2010
Reflections (2009-) is a series of oil paintings combined with photography.
In my own hand
Ars Fennica 2010, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, 8 October – 12 December 2010
Anne Koskinen captures photographs in paintings and optician’s eye charts in sculptures. She is interested in the issues of the original, the copy and the durability of materials. Is a mechanically produced original image more valuable than a hand-made copy? Which will endure longer? The slowly produced works have their starting point in conceptual issues, but the motifs are often autobiographical and sometimes humorous. Sanna Hirvonen/Kiasma
Before Imago
First shown in: Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki, Finland, 10 – 28 November 2010
Before Imago (Uninvited Visitors) shows the backs of paintings and sculptures in canvas stretchers.
Uninvited Visitors
Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki, Finland, 10 – 28 November 2010
Solo exhibition by invitation of the Association of Finnish Sculptors
Last Meal (Karuna 23.8.2008-3.12.2008)
First shown in: Retrospective in Helsinki City Art Museum Tennis Palace, Helsinki, Finland, 28 November 2008 – 25 January 2009
Last Meal consists of 13 bronze casts of mice and a rat with mouse or rat trap.
Anne Koskinen - Familie Koskinen
Retrospective in Helsinki Art Museum Tennis Palace, Helsinki, Finland, 28 November 2008 – 25 January 2009
The works of the artist Anne Koskinen (1969, Helsinki) include paintings, drawings, sculptures and bronze casts. Many of her works are multipart installations.
Koskinen is often inspired by her personal experiences and situations in life. She examines and reiterates her experiences and applies the highest technical mastery even to works that deal with tragic emotions. The spare appearance of her art conceals conceptual insights and humour. Often the subjects of her studies are the practices and philosophy of art. She is, for instance, interested in how an original is distinguished from its copy.
Anne Koskinen has shown her works in solo exhibitions since 1996. She has a degree from the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, Germany, and the University of Art and Design Helsinki’s master’s programme in fine arts. In addition to her artistic work, Koskinen has taught and held a professorship at the University of Art and Design Helsinki. The exhibition is a retrospective of her work that covers her entire career. Sanna Hirvonen/Helsinki Art Museum, 2008
Stone
Public art work in Helsinki, Uutela, Finland, 2008 (2003)
In 2003 Anne Koskinen won the Uutela environmental art competition held by the City of Helsinki and the Helsinki City Art Museum. The work consists of one original stone and three bronze casts.
Anaesthetic relation
First shown in: Galleria K, Huittinen, Finland, 4 – 29 August 2004
The works at Galleria K in Huittinen make up a whole whose main theme is anaesthetic relation. Just like everyday life, the process of creating these works both requires and also causes numbness and lack.
La Grande Dame
First shown in: FORUM BOX, Helsinki, Finland, 26 September – 19 October 2003
In her latest works, Anne Koskinen turns to grand emotions and dreams. The exhibition tells about the things that can happen on a journey with someone else. Let La grande dame intoxicate you.
DEUS PROTECTOR NOSTER
First shown in: PORI ART MUSEUM PROJECT ROOM, Pori, Finland, 1 February – 10 March 2002
Anne Koskinen’s work made for the Project Room at the Pori Art Museum is called Deus Protector Noster. The piece consists of roadkill she has found along the route between Pori and Helsinki, which she has cast in bronze.
Autoportraits
First shown in: Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, 29 March – 22 April 2001
Koskinen’s series Autoportraits comprises bronze-casts of her own self-portrait paintings. The original works can no longer be seen because they were destroyed in the process of making the moulds. Koskinen has burnished the surface of her bronze pieces to shine like a mirror: as a result, the works are not merely self-portraits of the artist but of each viewer, too. Helsinki Art Museum, 2008
Sculpture
First shown in: Galerie Artek, Helsinki, Finland, 11 – 30 September 1998
The series Sculptures comprises Koskinen’s sculptural copies of other artists’ paintings. Her detailed facsimiles made from birch reveal the topography of the paintings and the details of their backgrounds: brushstrokes, wedged stretchers, pins, nails and folds in the canvas. Only the painted image is absent. She has transformed paintings made to be looked at into sculptures that appeal to the sense of touch. Helsinki Art Museum, 2008
Forgotten Things
Public artwork in Wolfach, Germany, 1996 – 1997
Forgotten Things is an multipart installation in the bank Sparkasse Wolfach in Germany. The work consists of sculptures made in granite, marble, brass, copper and steel.
I cannot come
First shown in: Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland, 12 – 30 June 1996
The exhibition in the gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts is an attempt to encounter that which is absent. Anne Koskinen explores the material at hand both tangibly and visually, by carving wood by hand, by painting, copying. The works are the result of a contemplative effort, an attempt to approach that which is absent by a variety of methods.
Tag um Tag guter Tag
First shown in: Anne Koskinen – Familie Koskinen, Helsinki City Art Museum Tennis Palace, Helsinki, Finland, 28 November 2008 – 25 January 2009
Tag um Tag guter Tag (‘Day by day a good day’) comprises six oil paintings, two of which were made by Anne Koskinen’s teacher, the artist Peter Dreher. One of the oil paintings is a copy of a Dreher painting by Koskinen. Koskinen also created three paintings depicting the same drinking glass portrayed in Dreher’s paintings. Helsinki Art Museum, 2008
Zugfahrt (Train trip)
First shown in: “Conceptio”, Stoa, City of Helsinki Gallery, Helsinki, Finland, 1994
The installation consists of 50 slides and texts in files showing a train trip from Freiburg to Mainz and what happens when an older man meets a young woman.
