BIO NOTE
Minna Henriksson (b. 1976, Oulu, Finland, lives in Helsinki) is a visual artist working with a disparate range of tools including text, drawing, painting and linocut. She studied art in Brighton, Helsinki and Malmö. Henriksson’s work relates to leftist, anti-racist and feminist struggles. Her works are often based on extensive archival research and draw from real historical events aiming to bring forth marginalisation and oppression, and to highlight positions of power. Dealing with historical cases she hopes to politicise processes in the present that seem neutral and inevitable. A thematic in her work is the ideological nature of history writing itself. She is also interested in exploring language of political art and modes of representation.
Henriksson has been active in various collectives, and often works collaboratively. She is member of leftist art workers’ association Kiila (The Wedge). In 2017 she was awarded the Anni and Heinrich Sussmann Artist Award, a Viennese foundation promoting artistic work committed to the ideal of democracy and antifascism.
CV Minna L. Henriksson
BORN 1976 Oulu, Finland
EDUCATION
2006 Critical Studies, postgraduate course, Malmö Art Academy and Rooseum Contemporary Art Centre, Malmö
2004 MA Time and Space -multimedia dept., Fine Arts Academy, Helsinki
1999 BFA Fine Art Painting, University of Brighton
1996 Liminka School of Art, Finland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Genesis, with Ahmed Al-Nawas, Serlachius Museum Gustaf, Mänttä
2022 The Statement of Facts, Vantaa Art Museum Artsi, shared exhibition with Diego Bruno
2020 Sensitometric Experiment with Polaroid, Kuvakulma, Finnish Photography Museum
2020 Fake Star, with Ahmed Al-Nawas, Turku Art Museum Studio
2019 Iasi X-Ray, Tanzit project space, Iasi
2019 Minor Characters, MAA-Tila projektitila Helsinki, with Tero Nauha
2016 Works on Paper, Third Space, Helsinki
2015 Works on Paper, Tobacna 001 Cultural Center, Ljubljana
2015 Kätketty, Galleria Uusikuva, Kotka
2015 Noise After Babel, Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki (collaboration with Sezgin Boynik)
2013 Public and Privatized – Lenin of Turku and Riga, Lenin Museum, Tampere
2013 Follow the Money, Temporary artwork in public space, Romsås Center, Groruddalen, Oslo. Produced by Kulturbyrået Mesen in collaboration with Finno
2012 Lenin in Aurakatu, Studio of Turku Art Museum, Turku
2012 Hidden, Galleri Bergman, Helsinki
2010 Asik Olan Dogru Söyler, light work in public space, publication and exhibition, Trabzon, Turkey, My City project, British Council in Istanbul
2009 Belgrade Notes, Kontekst Galerija, Belgrade
2009 Maps, Meeting Point, Cinema Rex, Belgrad
2008 Construction, Rizoma, Prishtina
2008 North State, Gallery MAA-tila, Helsinki
2008 Ljubljana Notes, Galerija Kapelica, Ljubljana
2007 Istanbul Map, PIST/// 24 – 7 Window Space, Istanbul
2006 Zagreb Notes, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb
2005 Paraskaikest Kaupunni, Cultural Centre NUKU, Oulu
2004 With Love From Finland, INTER, Finnish Embassy, London
2002 4 friends, Kluuvi gallery, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki
2002 Berlin Drawings, Görlitzerstraße 39, Berlin
2001 Chewing Gum Installation, Bar9, Helsinki
2001 Snow Man, CSKX Projection Project, London
2000 Kävi Täällä, Kulttuuriareena Gloria, Helsinki
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 New Directions May Emerge, 2. Helsinki Biennial 2023
2023 Speaking Back – Decolonizing Nordic Narratives, Hamburg Kunsthaus, Hamburg
2023 Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities, The Showroom, London
2022 Softy, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki
2022 The South in US: Constructing and Performing Ideology, City of Women, Ljubljana
2022 Mapping (Un)solidarity, A.M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah
2022 For Obvious Reasons, Lappeenranta Art Museum and the Cavalry Museum
2021 Actually, The Dead Are Not Dead, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
2021 Little Did They Know, EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art 2020, Limerick
2021 Sustainable Societies for the Future, two-part exhibition in Malmö Art Museum and Chicago
2020 Conditions of Peace, Transit.ro, Iasi
2020 Two Men Standing. Part 3, Out of Sight, Antwerp
2019 Schooooooool With Many Holes, group exhibition, Amos Rex Museum, Helsinki
2019 Stasis — Taking a Stand, 7th Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki
2019 Actually, The Dead Are Not Dead, Third Bergen Assembly, Bergen
2019 EXHIBIT A, Ljubljana City Gallery, Ljubljana
2019 On the Utopia of the Diagrammatical, Kunstraum, Munich
2019 Objection, Helsinki City Museum
2019 Now is the Time, 2019 Wuzhen International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Wuzhen
2019 Dark Energy, Xhibit gallery, Vienna Art Academy
2018 Shared History, Riga Bourse Art Museum, Riga
2018 Under Pressure – On Forms of Authority and Decision-Making Power, Q21 MuseumsQuartier Vienna
2018 Suomi 101, Vantaa Art Museum Artsi, Vantaa
2017 Nordic Trouble, Konsthall C, Stockholm
2017 Gelecek Olarak Hatırlamak, Utopia, Tuyap Book Fair, Istanbul
2017 Utopia / Dystopia: Architecture, City, Territory, City Art Gallery Ljubljana
2017 Red Rijeka Assembly, SIZ gallery Rijeka
2017 Totuus Suomesta – Truth about Finland, Pori
2017 Menneen ja tulevan välissä – State of the Art – The Finnish State Art Commission 60 years, Mikkeli Art Museum
2016 History Unfolds, Swedish History Museum, Stockholm
2016 Ja sama asia nykyaikaisesti käsitettynä – State of the Art – The Finnish State Art Commission 60 years, Visavuori Museum, Valkeakoski
2016 Where does poetry nest?, Tampereen 10. Maailmantangofestivaali, Tampere
2016 Where Do We Migrate To? DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana
2016 Rakvere Sculpture Festival, group exhibition in Rakvere, Estonia
2016 Finnish Landscape, Seurasaari, Helsinki with Helsinki Checkpoint
2016 No Play – Feminist training camp, nGbK, Berlin
2016 Untitled (two takes on crisis) – You Must Make Your Death Public, de Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam
2016 Uncanny Materials, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2015 Apricots from Damascus, SALT, Istanbul
2015 Crises and new beginnings: Art in Slovenia 2005 – 2015, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana
2015 SOS – Self-organising Systems, 2nd Tbilisi Triennial, Tbilisi
2015 Where Do We Migrate To? Varmlands Museum, Karlstad
2015 Do we need to grow up?, NewBridge Project, New Castle
2015 Tunnel Vision, 8th Momentum Nordic Biennial for Contemporary Art, Moss
2015 New Present, XX Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä
2014 Make Arts Policy, Baltic Circle festival ja Helsinki Checkpoint
2014 Politicization of Friendship, Moderna Galerija + MSUM, Ljubljana
2014 Objekti, Espoo Kunsthalle
2014 Parallax, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City
2014 PORTIZMIR3 Triennial, Izmir
2014 The Invisible Wall, Studio 17, Stavanger
2013 Survival Kit – Contemporary Arts Festival, Riga
2013 Täällä!, Group exhibition of artworks in public space, Oulu Art Museum
2013 Kipinä, Political Art and Design, Fiskars Summer exhibition
2013 Still Light, HIAP summer exhibition, Gallery Augusta
2012 Mikset Puhu Suomea!, together with Fatmir Mustafa-Carlo in Hippolyte Studio, Helsinki
2012 Polaroid, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
2011 On the Tresholds of Privacy, Kunstpflug, Brück
2011 Cultural Policy Group – Helsinki, März Project Space, Tallinn
2011 Pizzalist III, Untold Stories, Tallinn Art Hall, together with Kalle Hamm, Dzamil Kamanger, Sezgin Boynik
2011 Cultural Policy Group – Helsinki, Kibela Gallery, Multimedia Center Kibla, Maribor
2011 BRG, 1st Biennial ‘Time Machine’ No Network, ARK-01, Konjic
2010 People in the Summers Night, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
2010 Export-Import, Helsinki Kunsthalle, Helsinki
2009 Avara Horisontti, Oulu City Art Museum, Oulu
2009 New Pleasure, Ekko Electronic Music and Art Festival, Bergen
2009 Valumateoria, Korjaamo gallery, Helsinki
2009 Happy Together, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn
2008 Museum in the Streets, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana
2008 Nine Voices Nine Places, Institute Camões, Lissabon, and Museum Baluarte de la Candelaria, Cadiz
2007 Pizzeria Babylon, Intervention with Kalle Hamm, Dzamil Kamanger and Sezgin Boynik, Centrifugal-project, Helsinki
2007 Big Family Business, IMC Trade Center, Istanbul
2007 Sobe!, Bilsar-gallery, Galerist, Istanbul
2007 Pizzeria Babylon, public intervention with Kalle Hamm, Dzamil Kamanger and Sezgin Boynik, Helsinki
2007 Centrifugal, SC-gallery, Zagreb
2007 From the owner with a view, Ortaköy, Istanbul
2007 Mapping, Bury Art Gallery, Bury, UK
2006 Artsupermarket Pikasso, Helsinki
2006 Songs of Freedom and Love, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
2006 Normalisation, Critical Studies, Rooseum Contemporary Art Centre, Malmö
2006 Sokerina Pohjalla, Rauman Taidemuseo
2005 Urban Realitites: Focus Istanbul, group exhibition, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
2004 Under the Bridge, Urban Interventions, Biro, Belgrade
2004 Collaborative Statement with Alexander Nikolic, How2End a Message, 45. Octobarski Salon, Belgrade
2004 The Power Out, with Electrelane, Permanent Gallery, Brighton
2003 Georgia On My Mind, BRG with Hüseyin Alptekin and Staffan Jofjell, Leena Kuumola galleri, Helsinki
2003 BRG with Hüseyin Alptekin and Can Altay, Havana Biennial, 4-D, Pavilion de Cuba, Cuba
2003 BRG with Hüseyin Alptekin and Staffan Jofjell, Tirana/Istanbul/Tbilissi, B-Fact, the 2nd Tirana Biennial, Albania and the Sea Elephant Travel Agency, Istanbul
2001 Young Artists’ Exhibition, Helsinki Kunsthalle, Helsinki
1999 New In Town, CSKX-Studios, London
OWN PUBLICATIONS
2023 Bourgeois With a Heart: The Case of Hjalmar Linder, Rab-Rab Press. Print run 400
2023 Kiila Album, Eds. Christine Langinauer, Minna Henriksson, Martta Tuomaala. Print run 500
2021 Fake Star : A Book about an Exhibit in a National Pavilion in the Paris World Exposition 1900. Rab-Rab Press
2017 Works on Paper, Rab-Rab Press
2016 Vuoden 1962 Nuorisofestivaalin Muistityöryhmän Muistikuvia, Muistityöryhmä, toim. Aino Korvensyrjä, Checkpoint Helsinki
2015 Taidetta ja Politiikkaa Tekemässä, ed. Terike Haapoja, Jussi Koitela, Minna Henriksson, 170 kpl
2015 Noise After Babel – Language Unrestrained, Spector Books, Leipzig, print run 500
2015 Art Workers – Material conditions and labour struggles in contemporary art practice. Ed. Airi Triisberg, Erik Krikortz, Minna Henriksson, print run 700
2012 Counter-constructivist Model (La Fontaine Stories for Immigrants) – Paper Film in Nine Acts, co-author with Sezgin Boynik, published by Labyrint Press, Sweden
2011 Maps 2005 – 2009, book about my artistic project of maps of art scenes. Self-published, designed by New Collectivism, printed in Slovenia, print run 400
2010 Asik Olan Dogru Söyler, part of artwork in Trabzon, Turkey. Publisher My City project and British Council Istanbul. Print run 750
2010 Manifestations of Nationalism in Everyday Life, booklet accompanying students’ workshop and exhibition, Helsinki Fine Art Academy and Lens Politica Film Festival. Editors, authors and course leaders S. Boynik and M. Henriksson
2010 One of the authors, Centrifugal Book of Europe, Published by Centrifugal, Belfast
2007 Contemporary Art and Nationalism – Critical Reader, co-editor together with Sezgin Boynik. Exit Institute for Contemporary Art and MM-Publications, Pristina
AWARDS
Heinrich and Anni Sussmann Artist Award for work toward democracy and antifascism, Vienna, 2017