Kaarina Kaikkonen
Iisalmi, 1952. Lives and works in Helsinki.
Among her recent solo shows: Mes oiseaux de passage, Musée archéologique Saint-Laurent, Grenoble, France (2025); J'aimerais tant éclore, Musée dauphinois, Grenoble, France (2025); Ne m´oblie pas, Musée Hébert, La Tronche Grenoble, France (2025); Dancing Together A Ballad, solo exhibition at ArtHouse Jersey Gallery, St Helier, Jersey (2024); The Tears Shed Because of You, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland (2024); Reaching Light , Brescia, Brescia Capital of Culture, Chiesa di Borgo Trento, Brescia, Italy (2024); Waves of Life, Bergamo, Brescia Capital of Culture, Via Tasso, Bergamo, Italy (2023); Flying Waters, Riverrun Festival, The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., USA (2023); We Need Some Hope, Kunsthalle Charlottenborg façade, Copenhagen Denmark (2022); Kaarina Kaikkonen, z2o galleria Sara Zanin, Rome, Italy (2019); You Remain In Me, KUNSTEN Museum for Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark (2018); Kaarina Kaikkonen, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, France (2017); Kaarina Kaikkonen, Uppsala Art Museum, Sweden (2017); Kaarina Kaikkonen, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland (2017); Falling Light, Blooming Spirit, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland (2016).
Among her most recent group exhibitions: True Colors. Tessuti: movimento, colori e identità, MAXXI L'Aquila, Italy (2025); This Body Made of Stardust, Viviane Sassen, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2025); Natura/Utopia. L'arte tra ecologia, riuso e futuro, Palazzo Baldeschi, Perugia, Italy (2025); Contrappunti, z2o Sara Zanin, Rome, Italy (2024); Baltic Horizons, State Gallery of Art, Sopot, Poland (2023); Kunsten Retro, KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark (2022); Threads of memory, Numeroventi, Florence, Italy (2022); 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 (2021); Non-Sculpture: Light or Flexible, Changwon Biennale, South Korea (2020); Sharing Our Dreaming Room, z2o Sara Zanin, Rome, Italy (2020); Traces, Medieval Civic Museum, Bologna, Italy (2020); Finnish Wave, Busan Art Museum, Busan, South Korea (2019); ITSENÄISYYS, Uppsala Art Museum, Sweden (2017); Dreamaholic, Museum for Contemporary Art Weserburg, Germany (2017).
Her works are in important public and private collections, amongst others: Albright – Knox Art Gallery; State of Finland; Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia; MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome; Foundation of Jenny and Antti Wihuri; Malmö Art Museum; Helsinki Art Museum; Borås Art Museum; Wyoming University Art Museum; Kuopio Art Museum; City of Iisalmi; Lapinlhati Art Museum; Oulu Art Museum; EMMA Museum for Modern Art; Kiasma Museum for Contemporary Art; Collection Swanljung; Joensuu Art Museum; Mikkeli Art Museum; Aine Art Museum; City of Pieksämäki; Sara Hildén Art Museum; Collection Kaisa Blomstedt.