Lives and works in Amsterdam.
Education
2005-2007
Dutch Art Institute, Enschede, The Netherlands
1995-2000
Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
Exhibitions (selection)
2009
4th Baku Biennial of Conceptual Art ‘Aluminum’ Azerbaijan
‘Gobi’ Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki
2008
Traverse Condition with Nan Hao (solo) Gallery Sign in collaboration with Groningen Museum and ‘Go China’, Groningen, The Netherlands
Suomi Art Fair MUU RY, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki
Kunstvlaai / API Art Pie International 08 Curetad by James Beckett Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
‘Intrude:Art&Life’ with ao Wenda Gu, Wang Jianwei, Yang Fudong, Xu Zhen, Qui Zhijie, Shanghai Zendai MoMa, Shanghai, China
‘Critical Mass’, organized by The:Artist:Network, New York, Curators: Zhu Qi, Marc Hungerbuhler, Laetitia Gauden, Huang Yan, Alfredo Martinez, Zhang Zhaohui, Huang Yan Contemporary Art Center (HYCAC), Beijing, China
‘Search and Research’ (solo) and a collaborative project ‘Traverse Condition’ with Nan Hao, Imagine Gallery Studio, Beijing, China
2007
‘Here as the Centre of the World’; Curator James Beckett, Villa de Bank, Enschede, The Netherlands
‘Olfactoric Memory’ (solo), Wg terrain, Gate building, Amsterdam
2006
‘Brains Unlimited’, Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden
‘KlankLangWelle’, D.A.I.R.O (Dutch Art Institute Radio Orcherstra); Tonic Train and Xentos and John Butcher, soundperformance, Gasometer, Oberhausen, Germany
‘Here as the Centre of the World’, public intervention at the Midhat Bashat street with Rana Hamadeh (Lebanon) and Bassael Al Saddy (Syria) Damascus, Syria
‘Here as the Centre of the World’, presentation at NIASD (The Netherlands Institute for academic studies).
‘Here as the centre of the world’ is a trans-national research project of the Dutch Art Institute. Curated by Lucy Cotter, Alite Thijsen, Gabriëlle Schleijpen. Damascus, Syria
De Kunstvlaai 06, Inhalexhale; curators Irina Birger and Katja Sokolova, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
‘Somebody’ (solo), Gallery Link, Dusseldorf, Germany
‘Hole in the brain’, presentation at the symposium of the Dr.G.J.Hoytema Foundation, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
2005
‘Body Mapping and Big Mouth Radio Beam’ (BIMRAB), Planet Art, Enschede, The Netherlands
‘Body Mapping and Big Mouth Radio Beaming (BIMRAB), In collaboration with artists Felix Kubin and Sasker Scheerder, and a live broadcast at cultural broadcaster Resonance FM, London, Gallery W 139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
‘Innerbeat’, with Fanni Futterknecht, Benoit Goupy, Alexandra Roozen en Krzysztof Wegiel. De Veemvloer, Amsterdam
Projects
2009
'Trans-Actions - On kristiina Koskentola‘
Publication: artists book / theoretical publication on the works in China and Mongolia
Contributions by Mika Hannula, Carol Yinghua Lu, Rubén de la Nuez, Marjolein Schaap
ISBN 978 90 71346 378 Published by 1000&1 Publishers, Amsterdam and the artist
Residency in the Shangyaun Art Museum and Chinese Contemporary Architecture Art Museum in Beijing
2007-8
Artist in Residency, Imagine Gallery, Beijing
2007
'Cutting' Performance-video project , Gobi desert, Mongolia
'Essential Import Export Project', research project on global cooking. With Meiyu Tao and 'Cucina Mobile'
'Beautiful City', Skultur Project Munster, Participation, as an actor, to the project of Maria Pask
'Things Happen in Liminal Zones', Study trip and making of a website, with Paula Bugni and Iris Tenkink. Armenia and Azerbaijan (via Iran) by The Rieveld Academy, Studium Generale
2006
'Here as the Center of the World', Trans-national artistic research project, Syria, The Netherlands
'Writing Space' by Ansuya Blom
'Hole In the Brain', Joined project by Dutch Art Institute, Rebecca Sakoun, Florian Goettke and Dr. Hoytema foundation. Project investigated the visual functioning of the brain and the effects of a stroke on the individuals perception of the world
2005
BIMRAB 'Body Mapping and Big Mouth Radio Beam', In collaboration with artists Felix Kubin and Sasker Scheerder. A live radio broadcast at radio art station ResonanceFM, London.
2004-5
Innerbeat, Co-organization, Amsterdam
2001
Operation Enduring Push. Co-organization, Amsterdam, Artist Talks / Lectures / Teaching
‘Traveling Artistic Practices’, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki Lecture
‘Interventionist Art’, Zendai Moma, Shanghai Lecture
‘Contextualizing Interventionist Art’ Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing Lecture and workshop in collaboration with Professor Song
2009
Launching ‘Trans-Actions – On Kristiina Koskentola’ Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
Artist talk and a panel discussion with Rubén de la Nuez, Kitty Zijlmans, Moderated by John Heymans
Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki: Artist talk and a panel discussion with Mika Hannula Moderated by John Heymans
Timezone 8, Beijing: Artist talk and a panel discussion with Rubén de la Nuez. Moderated by John Heymans
Zendai MoMa, Shanghai: Artist talk and a panel discussion with Carol Lu. Moderated by John Heymans
‘Contextualizing Interventionist Art’ Cheung Kong School of Art&Design, Shantou University, China. Lecture and workshop
2008
‘Traverse Condition’ with Nan Hao, Gallery Sign, Groningen
‘Originalfassung 62’ General Public, Berlin
Memberships
2006 -
MUU Association, Finland
