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Uutta / News 2019-2020 Afrikanda - havaintoja koneista ja laiteista / - On Machines and Devices. Turun taidehalli, Turku, Finland 2019 Location/Dislocation. Between remembering and forgetting. Art Station Dubulti, Jūrmala, Latvia 2019 Topophilia. Yukon Arts Centre Art Gallery, Whitehorse, Canada 2019 Capriccio. Gallen-Kallela Museo, Espoo, Finland 2018 Nuuk, Greenland, 2018 Maisema riisinjyvässä / Landscape on a Rice Grain 2018 Der lieben Mutter [volkskunst] Axel Obiger, Berlin Viterbo - Miltä keskiaika näyttää nyt? Porvoo Triennial, Porvoo A Clear Day. Nääs slott, Lerum, Sweden Hiilisatu / Coal Fairy Tale. Galleria Orton, Helsinki 2017 Teoksia myytävänä / Works available Ultramarin. Bortom Havet / Beyond the Sea. Gocart Gallery, Visby, Sweden. Jossain muualla / Elsewhere. Kirja / book Jossain muualla / Elsewhere. Galleria AMA, Helsinki 2015 Piirrän kartat uudelleen / Drawing Maps Anew. 2015 Think : North The End of The End Northern Soul: Landscapes of Longing Liquid Spaces. Linnagalerii, Pärnu, Estonia 2015 Environmental Art in Fall, Söndre land, Norway, 2014 Kesä / Summer 2014 Maiseman kaipuu / Longing for a Landscape. Galleria Harmaja, Oulu; P-galleria, Pori Techno Nature. Schuebbe Projects, Düsseldorf 2013 The Arctic Circle 2013 Intersezioni / Intersections. Claudia Peill and Kaisu Koivisto. Rome, 2013 Kesä / Summer 2013 Äänekäs hiljaisuus / Loud Silence. Vaasa 2013 Äänekäs hiljaisuus / Loud Silence. Turku, 2012 Perfect Circle. 2-channel video installation, 2011 Rakennettu, unohdettu / Built, abandoned Urban and Forest 2011-12 Kesä / Summer 2011 Tasavallan presidentin kutsunäyttely Kultarannassa 14.6.–28.8.2011 / The President of Finland’s Invitational Exhibition at Kultaranta Toisessa valossa / In a Different Light. Forum Box, Helsinki 2011 Hurmiollisessa tilassa, tanssiteos / In an Enchanted State Bambiesque - Monsters and Cuties Jalostettu laji / Cultivated Species. Tampere 2010 Index 2010 Mansikkapaikka / Strawberry Patch, Turku 2010 Richtung Norden. MAERZ, Linz Changelings, 2009-2012 mURBAN. Artborg, Sipoo 2009 Turku Biennial 2009 Vaihdokkaita. Galleria Harmaja, Oulu 2009 Galleria Sculptor, Helsinki 2009 Työhuoneella / At the studio 2009 Observatorio / Observatory Vaihdokkaat 2007 - 2009 Sisäkuvia / Interiors, 2007 Pintapyydyksiä / Surface Traps. Galleria Heino, Helsinki 2006 Mid-Career Retrospective, New York City, 2004 New Yorkin lehmät: lajin palauttaminen / Cows in NYC: Reintroducing the Species, 2000 Rakenteita / Structures Tilateoksia / Installations Piirtämisestä / On Drawings Links Arkisto 1 / Archive 1 2006 - 2009 Arkisto 2 / Archive 2, 1993-99 Arkisto 3 / Archive 3, 2000-05 kk-market
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Think : North I am inspired by the rough wilderness of the North. Mountains. I have a soft spot for semi-urban places in which the processes of erosion and growth are visible. I depict the scenes that I photograph in a very matter of fact way, emphasizing the often surreal sights.
The abandoned sites do not offer a promise of a return. I do not find this pessimistic; the way nature regenerates itself is very positive and brings forth optimism. Rather, I want to underline the way in which nature strikes back, nature always wins.
The relationship between natural phenomena and technologies is an ongoing subject of exploration for me. I investigate the intersections of nature and culture and the modes in which mankind harnesses and exploits - or attempts to control - natural phenomena. How do we look at animals and nature? What is nature? How is the impact of technologies visible in the environment?
An important factor for me is the questioning of how and why we look at the environment in which we live in, what filters our ways of looking and perceiving. I am interested in an ambivalent aesthetic, the simultaneity of attractiveness and repulsiveness, the synthetic and the organic, stark geometry and the ornamental. Creating contradictions rather than smooth entities.
I photographed the images on the Svalbard Islands in the High North, in autumn 2013, while participating in the Arctic Circle, an expedition residency. Pyramiden is an abandoned coal mine community established by the Soviet Union, whereas in Barensburg, also established by the Soviet Union, still maintains some mining activity by a small community of Russians.
I Had the opportunity to visit Svalbard in Autumn 2015, to continue the work began in 2013. The visit was kindly supported by Nordic Culture Point. http://www.kulturkontaktnord.org/en/about
For a more extensive selection of images see http://kaisukoivisto.pictures.fi/kuvat/Think+North/
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