Heli Kaskinen
CV

Born 1981 in Järvenpää, Finland.


Education (selected)

2022 Master of Arts (MA), Photography, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Espoo, FI

2017 Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Time and Space Arts, Academy of Fine Arts of the University of the Arts Helsinki, FI

2016 Bachelor of Arts (BA), Photography, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, FI

2015 Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Time and Space Arts, Academy of Fine Arts of the University of the Arts Helsinki, FI

2009 Visual Artisan, Photography, Keuda Vocational College Pekka Halosen akatemia, Tuusula, FI


Solo Exhibitions

2021 One Dot Rules Them All, Photographic Centre Nykyaika, Tampere, FI

2021 One Dot Rules Them All, Mikkeli Centre of Photography, Mikkeli, FI

2019 Meanwhile, On The Other Side, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, FI 

2017 Notes About Secrets, Galleria Uusi Kipinä, Lahti, FI

2017 Act Like Nothing Happened, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte Studio, Helsinki, FI

2016 Attempts to Reverse Things, Galleria Huuto Jätkäsaari – Pikkujätkä, Helsinki, FI


Joint & Group Exhibitions (selected)

2022 OTOS/22, sales exhibition, Maamusta Galleria, Helsinki, FI

2022 Järvenpään Taideseuran Vuosinäyttely 2022, Galleria Järnätti, Järvenpää, FI

2022 Party, curated by Johanna Vuoksenmaa, Kulttuuritalo Laikku, Tampere, FI

2018 Test Lab: Status Flux, The Space of Free Arts, Helsinki, FI

2018 Guest Room, curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer, online-exhibition, DER GREIF organization for contemporary photography

2017 Test Lab: Duration, The Space of Free Arts, Helsinki, FI

2017 Varasto (Storage), Galleria Lapinlahti, Helsinki, FI

2017 Guest Room, curated by Tiina Rauhala, online-exhibition, DER GREIF organization for contemporary photography

2017 S/N – signal-to-noise ratio, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, FI

2016 Virus, curated by Artist Collective Kunst, Galleria Lapinlahti, Helsinki, FI

2016 Illusion, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte Studio, Helsinki, FI

2015 Oh John!, with Paula Saraste, Galerie Pleiku, Berlin, DE

2015 Kuvan Kevät 2015, curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, FI

2014 Oh John!, with Paula Saraste, pop-up Galerie Ballhaus Rixdorf, Berlin, DE

2013 Young Artists 2013, curated by Villu Jaanisoo, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, FI

2013 Summer School, TR1 Kunsthalle, Tampere, FI

2013 Summer School, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI

2013 Alluring Light – Photographic Art 2013, curated by Ulla Jokisalo, Lahti Art Museum, Lahti, FI

2012 Artists 2012, curated by Ulla Jokisalo, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, FI

2012 valoKuvA, curated by Marko Vuokola, Galleria FAFA, Helsinki


Other Artistic Activity

2018 Co-organizer of the exhibition Test Lab: Status Flux, The Space of Free Arts, Helsinki, FI

2017 Co-organizer of the exhibition Test Lab: Duration, The Space of Free Arts, Helsinki, FI

2017 Curator of the exhibition Varasto (with Noora Sandgren & Paula Saraste), Galleria Lapinlahti, Helsinki, FI

2014 Screening: ‘Regards, Terhi’, Nordic Freelance 2014 Conference, Korsør, DK

2014 Screening: ‘Regards, Terhi’, f 5,6 -club, Omapohja, Finnish National Theatre, Helsinki, FI


Publications, Press & Reviews (selected)

2019 Nämä näyttelyt kannattaa käydä katsomassa viikonloppuna: Eheytymisen estetiikka, maailmanpolitiikan kokemus ja valokuvan nurja puoli, written by Sini Mononen, Helsingin Sanomat 15.11.2019

2019 Konstkollen: Halshuggna, flodhästar, hårdrock och arkivcollage, written by Pontus Kyander, Ny tid 20.11.2019

2018 Tiheä hetki (transl. a concentrated moment), The Finnish Photographic Yearbook 2018, Maahenki / Musta taide

2013 a book of lies: väritettyjä totuuksia, VOry & MUSTA TAIDE/Aalto PHOTO Books

2012 TORSO Magazine, No. 3/2012

Grants

2023 Arts Promotion Centre Finland

2020 Arts Promotion Centre Finland

2020 Olga and Vilho Linnamo Foundation

2019 Arts Promotion Centre Finland

2018 Finnish Cultural Foundation, Uusimaa Regional fund

2017 Arts Promotion Centre Finland

2017 Arts Promotion Centre Finland (working group)

2017 Academy of Fine Arts of the University of the Arts Helsinki

2015 Arts Promotion Centre Finland (working group)

2009 Finnish Concordia Found

 

Awards

2014 1st place: ‘Regards, Terhi’, Multimedia of the Year 2013, Finnish Press Photographers Association, FI

2010 3rd place: Make a better one yourself, then!, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FI

 

Recidencies

2012 Residency of The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Utö, FI

2011 Residency of The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, DE


Works in Collections

Academy of Fine Arts of the University of the Arts Helsinki
Finnish Art Society
Private Collections in Finland


Memberships

Kuvasto
Union of Artist Photographers in Finland
Artists’ Association of Finland
Järvenpään Taideseura
Union of Finnish Art Associations