jonna.kina(at)gmail.com
Represented by: Helsinki Contemporary
Distributed by: Av-arkki, Arsenal – Institut Film und Videokunst e.V., Internfilm
Photo: Aleksi Kraama l IASPIS
Jonna Kina (b. 4.11.1984) works across a variety of mediums including sound, sculpture, film, language, performance and installation. By unveiling and deconstructing forms and methods, her works often incorporate narratives of translation and transformation. She graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and from Aalto University, School of Arts, department of photography. She has also studied at the School of Visual Arts, New York, and in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Palestine.
Kina’s works have been widely presented in numerous international exhibitions and festivals, such as KW Institute for Contemporary Art (2024), e-Flux Video & Film, Words Takeover program, curated by Julian Ross (2022); Berlinale Forum Expanded (2021,2020); Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (2022); Espoo Museum of Modern Art EMMA (2019); Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn (2022), Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (2021); International Film Festival Rotterdam (2018); Moscow Biennale for Young Art (2018). Her film ‘Arr. for a Scene’ was awarded Best Nordic Short Film (2017) by Nordisk Panorama. She was shortlisted for the VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize in Florence (2017) and was the winner of the VIDS Media Art Prize by Lappeenranta Art Museum (2021). In 2022 She received the William Thuring Prize by The Finnish Art Association. Kina’s works are represented in collections of such as Musée de l’Elysée, Fundación RAC – Foundation of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki City Art Museum, Saastamoinen Foundation, City of Levallois, Sara Hildén Art Museum, France, Finnish Museum of Photography, Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation among others. She is represented by the Helsinki Contemporary Gallery. Next her works will be featured at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg as part of the Poetics of Encryption exhibition curated by Nadim Samman (28.9-12.1.2025) and at the Salo Art Museum (19.10-5.1.2025).
UPCOMING & LATEST:
Poetics of Encryption, curated by Nadim Samman, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic (13.2.-11.5.2025) Upcoming
Poetics of Encryption, curated by Nadim Samman, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark (28.9.2024-12.1.2025)
Espoo Modern Art Museum, Collection Exhibition of Saastamoinen Foundation, together with Louise Bourgeois, Jesse Darling, Ida Ekblad, Nan Goldin, Giorgio Griffa, Heidi Hahn, Samia Halaby, Camille Henrot, Barbara Kasten, Jonna Kina, Harriet Korman among others (14.11.2024 – onwards)
Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces, curated by Minna Nyqvist, Salo Art Museum, Finland (19.10.2024-5.1.2025)
Visio Moving Images in Europe Since the 2010s -book, edited by Leonardo Bigazzi, published by Lenz
Kiasma Finnish National Gallery, Rock, Paper, Scissors – Kiasma’s Collection Exhibition, maanantai collective, Helsinki 14.2.2025–18.1.2026
Kirpilä Art Collection (14.10-17.12.2024)
Drive Recovery, v.2 screening, programmed by Maja Čule, Kaje gallery, New York, USA (October 2024)
Poetics of Encryption, curated by Nadim Samman, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (17.2-26.5.2024)
Reading performance for two voices, Secret Words and Relates Stories, with Shade Théret und Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 6th March at 7pm 2024
40. Kasseler DokFest, November, Kassel
September Sessions, Secret Words and Related Stories reading performance, curated by Emily Fahlén, IASPIS, Stockholm
IASPIS, September-November 2023, Stockholm
e-flux Video & Film IV. Words Takeover, curated by Julian Ross, Featuring: Ephraim Asili, Fluid Frontiers (2017); Dora García, The Joycean Society (2013); Jonna Kina, Secret Words and Related Stories (2013-16); Natsuka Kusano, Domain (2019), November 3 – Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Infinite Delay, exhibited artists: Jonna Kina (FI), Alison Nguyen (US), Jens Settergren (DK), OK Corral Experimental Space, Copenhagen (3.9-24.9.2022)
After Life followed by Red Impasto Jar, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (16.-21.8.2022)
Music for 4 Sculptures in 15 Pieces in 9 Movements for 2 Performers by Jonna Kina and Lauri Supponen, Kumu Art Museum (11.8.2022 at 6pm)
Greatest Hits, 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)
Secret Words and Related Stories reading performance with Taavi Eelmaa and Inga Salurand, curated by Maria Helen Känd, Finissage at the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, EKKM, Tallinn (7.8.2022)
Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces, Kumu Art Museum, project room, curated by Tiiu Saadoja, Tallinn, Estonia (1.4-2.10.2022)
Kokoelma näyttely isolla K:lla, Lappeenranta Art Museum, Finland (11.6-4.9.2022)
Recontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Ecosystem Assembly program, Beaux-Arts de Paris (2.-8.5.2022)
Ecstatic.static, Alternate Alternate Alternate, curated by Jason Evans, presented artists: Rocio Mesa, Luke Fowler, Andrés Baron, Andrew Lambert, Jonna Kina, Charlotte Prodger, Elke Marhöfer & Mikhail Lylov, 2022
Arctic Moving Image and Film Festival, Harstad, Norway, 2021
4th Filmfest Sundsvall, International Short Film Competition, Sweden, 2021
71st Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale Forum Expanded Cinema Program, German, 2021
After Life, Helsinki Contemporary,Finland, 2021
Conditional Cinema, curated by Mika Taanila, Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany, 2021
Love and Anarchy, Next Level Shorts -Program, Helsinki, 2021
MSSNDCLRCQ, Brussels, Belgium, 2020, artists: Adam Henry, Hongyan, Sofia Hultén, Jonna Kina,
Claudio Parmiggiani, Benoît Platéus, Evariste Richer, Thu Van Tran
Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2020
Objects and Sounds, curated by Manuela Pacella, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome, Italy, 2019