Reading perfomance for two voices, Secret Words and Related Stories, curated by Maria Helen Känd, with actors Inga Salurand and Taavi Eelmaa, part of Greatest Hits exhibition, exhibited artists: Cyprien Gaillard, Francis Alÿs, Gary Hume, Hannah Black, Jonna Kina, Lucia Nimcova, Pierre Huyghe, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, EKKM, Tallinn, 18.6.2022-7.8.2022 Reading perfomance for … Read more
15′, for percussion instruments, 2022-23 “Curtains are interpreters of the language of the wind” -Walter Benjamin It is said that wind carries messages and that it can talk. Wind is energy increasingly harnessed to sustain our form of life. As a definition, it is created naturally by the different regional temperatures resulting in different pressures … Read more
Music for 4 Sculptures in 15 Pieces in 9 Movements for 2 Performers, performance in Kumu Art Museum, 2022 Music for 4 Sculptures in 15 Pieces in 9 Movements for 2 Performers (2022) is a piece by Jonna Kina and Lauri Supponen written for the fragments of destroyed sculptures by August Weizenberg and Amandus … Read more
Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces, 5min 39sec, 35mm film transferred to 4K/HD, color, sound, installation View, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, 2022 S 430, S433, S436, S 445, archival pigmnet ink print, 46,79cm x 58,5cm, framed with museum glass Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces looks at the themes of creation and destruction. The film … Read more
After Life, 2021, 35mm film transferred to 4K, 5′, 5.1 / stereo, installation view After Life explores transcendental issues through archaeological and illegal excavations of tombs. The film is composed of a sequence of meditative short scenes picturing the ruins of a small Faliscan necropolis of Cavone di Monte Li Santi in Italy and … Read more
Red Impasto Jar, 2021, 35mm film transferred to 4K, 3′ 21″ The film portrays the state of a looted burial object made for afterlife within a three-minute single take. The film focuses on the detailed documentation of the jar with a slow 360° revolution on a robust industrial motor. This ancient Faliscan burial item … Read more
Confession Piece for Voice, 2020-2021, 12″ vinyl, 3’24” Confession Piece for Voice is a sound installation played in an exhibition space on a 12-inch vinyl record upon request. On the recording a young person’s soprano voice interprets poem in the form of a cappella. The libretto is adapted from the autobiographical work Confessions (397- 398) … Read more
2012, Series of 15 photographs, archival pigment print, 44 cm x 35 cm each Objects from the series Aalto Objects belongs to architect Alvar Aalto and his home museum. I have explored the museum as a living space. The idea of home as a museum, as a kind of reconstruction of one’s life, which combines … Read more
2017, framed archival pigment print, series of 6 prints, 30,5 x 35 cm each Objects that were used in the sound process while creating sound effects for the film Arr. for a Scene (2017). Copyright © Jonna Kina. All rights reserved.
Series of 15 photographs, 2015, 11 x 11 inches, archival pigment print, framed