Visual artist Kati Immonen | Represented by Helsinki Contemporary

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Kati Immonen is reinventing watercolour painting as a medium for contemporary art. Immonen recognizes the cultural baggage carried by her medium, the watercolour, as being something light, effortless and superficial, and turns this to her own benefit. She has a powerful way of expressing ideas and stories using highly charged subject matter, such as war and ecological problems. In her more recent work the fairy-tale-like imagery holds a dark humour and irony in hidden pictorial references or handwritten texts.

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Latest exhibitions and projects: 

Public commission work Monument in Viljonpolku underpass (Matinkylä, Espoo,). Curated by EMMA-museum (2022).

Photo: Paula Virta/EMMA

Public commission work Sheltered by rhododendrons in Kurkijoenpuisto tram stop (Laajalahti, Espoo). Curated by EMMA-museum (2022).

Photo: Paula Virta/EMMA

 Solo exhibition in Auran Galleria (Turku) 26.10. – 14.11.2021

Monument: Scorpidium scorpioides (watercolour on paper, 40×36 cm, 2021)

Klikkaa alta kevään 2021 työhuonevierailulle suomeksi, englanninkielisellä tekstityksellä. / Below studiovisit in spring 2021 in Finnish, with English subtitles.

Living Matter curated by Julia Aksenova                                       

Tretjakov gallery, Moscow 2.9.-10.10.2021

The large-scale exhibition project 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 is aimed at an artistic understanding of the changes taking place in the planet’s ecosystem, as well as the role of man in these processes.
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𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 showcases projects by Russian and international contemporary artists, whose bodies of work explore various forms of the earthly world order, visualize the flow of endless planetary transformations, and search for ethical roots of human activity in the universe.
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𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 is realised by the Tretyakov Gallery together with the Polytechnic Museum and the Triumph Gallery in the West Wing of the New Tretyakov Gallery, and runs through October 10.

Solo exhibition Wilderness Versus Garden ┃Jyväskylä Art Museum  4.6.-5.9.2021.  

Solo exhibition Overgrown  | Helsinki Contemporary, 5.3.-3.4.2021

Monument: Cup lichen (2020)           photo: Vesa Aaltonen

Public comission painting installation KaveriPiknik | BuddyPicnic
Malminkartano kintergarden (2020), Helsinki

Public comission Pyhähäkki in NOVA -hospital (Jyväskylä, 2019), curated by Teija Iso-Hauta           photo: Marko Kauko/ Keskisuomalainen

Lumous | Enchantment -group exhibition in Purnu, Finland 2019, curated by Eerika Malkki and Jari Granholm Taidekeskus Purnu / Art Center Purnu, Orivesi Finland 15.6.-11.8.2019

Merisiskot antroposeenissa | Sea sisters in antropocene -group exhibition. Vaasan taidehalli | Vaasa city art Gallery 30.3.-27.5.2019. Mukana Merisiskot -taiteilijaryhmässä: | Artists working in group Sea Sisters: Kati Immonen, Mari Krappala, Elina Ruohonen and Tiina Vainio.

Play Forest -solo exhibition | Almost Perfect, Tokyo. 25.2.-2.3.2019

An artist book From the cabin into the woods together with poet Ron Padgett. Publisher: Gervais Jassaud

Group exhibition in Turun taidemuseo | Turku art museum – Neljä elementtiä | Four elements opening 23.11.2018sarjasta Korpi vastaan puutarha: Juhannusruusu (2017) | Midsummer Rose (R. Pimpinellifolia ‘Plena’) from the series Wilderness v. Garden (2017)

Illustrations for David C Winegar (Absolute North)/ Brainsights (2018)

 

Merisiskot antroposeenissa -ryhmänäyttely Örön linnakesaarella, 16.6. – 31.8.2018.        Sea Sisters in antropocene -group exhibition in Örö fortress island 16.6.- 31.8.2018.

Kati Immonen: SuperBLOOM (2018) neonspray paint on dead plants. Mukana Merisiskoissa | Artists working in group Sea Sisters: Kati Immonen, Mari Krappala, Elina Ruohonen ja Tiina Vainio.

   Other Realities Jyväskylä Art Museum  June 8 – October 7  2018
Works from the collection of the Jyväskylä city from the 2000s

Leikkimetsä -yksityisnäyttely | Play Forest -solo exhibition 25.4.-13.5.2018. Auran Galleria, Turku, Finland

 

Ihmisen kuva – teoksia Heinon taidesäätiön kokoelmasta | People in Focus – works from the collection of the Heino Art Foundation | Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art (Vaasa, Finland)  3.2. – 22.4.2018

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kokoelmasta | Contemporary art from the collection of State Art Deposit Collection.        Curated by Marketta HailaSarjasta Talvisatu | From series Winter Fairy Tale (2007)

Åtta konstnärer ur museets samling Nordiska Akvarellmuseet | Nordic Watercolour Museum 7.5. – 3.9.2017

Näyttelyn taiteiljat | Artists:  Solveig Aqualstensdottir, Mats Gustafson, Kati Immonen, Martin Jacobson, Michael Kvium, Lars Lerin, Julie Nord, Maria Nordin.sarjasta Perhealbumista | from the series Familyalbum (2000)

VIhreä maa, kukkiva kaupunki | Green land, blooming city 1.4.- 2.7.2017.              Keravan taidemuseo | Kerava art museum | Tuoreita maalauksiani Keravan Taidemuseon ryhmänäyttelyssä. | Fresh paintings of mine in a group show in Kerava Art Museum.sarjasta Leikkimetsä | From series Play forest (2017)

solo exhibition FLORA  in Helsinki Contemporary 10.2.-5.3.2017photo: Jussi Tiainen                                                                                                                lue lisää | read more: https://helsinkicontemporary.com/exhibition/flora

OTOS. SAMPLE. STICKPROV – Turkulaista nykymaalausta.  Contemporary painting from Turku.  Wäinö Aaltonen museum 20.3.–24.5.2015photo: Jari Kuskelin