Nasu 12.9.2003–29.7.2004 and other bronze casts
FIAC 09, Grand Palais & Louvre, Paris, France, 22 – 25 October 2009
Galerie Anhava, Grand Palais B 08: ANNE KOSKINEN (born 1969) is a versatile conceptual artist whose works have often addressed the problematic of originals and copies. She is remembered for her photographically detailed watercolours as well her bronze casts of road-kill animals and carved wooden reproductions of paintings.
Frottage
First shown in: "Beyond the Rainbow", Galleria G18, Helsinki, Finland, 14 – 27 September 2009
The Frottages are made by using the frottage technique: pigment is rubbed on the canvas. What is shown here is the materiality of the painting. The Frottages reveal the structure of and the constructions behind the canvas.
Little Farm and other works
"mURBAN", Artborg, Nikkilä, Sipoo, Finland, 26 June – 30 August 2009
Drawings from life
Anne Koskinen's slow art project includes metalpoint drawings from life
The technique of silverpoint, already known in the antique, is an ancestor of modern pencil. It is a comparably time consuming and labour intensive technique that flourished in Europe during the 15th century.
Solo Show at MARKET 2009
Galerie Anhava, MARKET 2009, Stockholm, Sweden, 13 – 15 February 2009
Among other works the installation Last Meal was displayed in the Solo Show. The piece consists of 13 bronze casts of mice and mouse traps. The sculptures are dated according to the date the animals were killed.
Last Meal
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.
Birds Nest
First shown in: Retrospective in Helsinki City Art Museum Tennis Palace, Helsinki, Finland, 28 November 2008 – 25 January 2009
Karuna 26.6.2008 is a bronze cast of a bird nest with a dead baby bird Anne Koskinen found on her farm in Karuna.
Anne Koskinen - Familie Koskinen
Retrospective in Helsinki City Art Museum Tennis Palace, Helsinki, Finland, 28 November 2008 – 25 January 2009
Selected works 1992 – 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.
"I"
First shown in: Galerie Anhava / Projectroom, Helsinki, Finland, 10 May – 28 July 2006
The installation consists of 6 watercolors, paper size 76×56cm each, and 6 bronze sculptures, various sizes, 2006.
No Other Alterations in Elevations
Galerie Werner Klein, Cologne, Germany, 26 August – 1 October 2005
Anne Koskinen hat eigens für die Ausstellung die aus mehreren Zeichnungen und Aquarellen bestehende Arbeit “Keine anderen Veränderungen an der Fassade“ geschaffen.
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.
VerLust (Stiefmütterchen)
First shown in: Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland, May 2002
Series of 10 watercolors, each 76×56cm, 2001
X
First shown in: Off Skene, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland, 2002
Oil on photographic print, 10 parts, à 46,7×70 cm, 2002
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 - A Valedictorian Burnishing Her Image
First shown in: Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, 29 March – 22 April 2001
Anne Koskinen’s Autoportraits are bronze casts of paintings.
Ellen Thesleff, Autoportrait, 1894-95, Finnish National Gallery, Atheneum
First shown in: Galerie Artek, Helsinki, Finland, 11 – 30 September 1998
Digital imaging signed printed sheet, series of 60 pieces, 1998, ca. 40.5×33×2cm when assembled, dimensions of sheet 100×68.5cm, unassembled
Sculpture
First shown in: Galerie Artek, Helsinki, Finland, 11 – 30 September 1998
Birch sculptures made of works, mainly paintings, of famous artists: an investigation on painting, sculpture and the demand for artistic originality. Through the medium of sculpture, the visual becomes haptic, the painting a sculpture.
Anne Koskinen auf dem Holzweg / 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.
Painting after Peter Dreher / 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
The paintings were painted after Peter Dreher’s series Tag um Tag guter Tag.
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.
