CV
CURRICULUM VITAE
Kristiina Koskentola
born in Helsinki, lives and works between Amsterdam, Helsinki and Beijing
www.kristiinakoskentola.com
Education:
2017 PhD, Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, UK
2007 MFA, Dutch Art Institute, The Netherlands
2000 BFA, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, The Netherlands
RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS (SELECTION)
2022 ‘Enfleshed- On Ecologies of Entities and Beings’ (working title) publication, exhibition and public program, in collaboration with art institute ONOMATOPEE, the Netherlands
2020 – 2021 ‘Enfleshed -Elaborated’ a series of collaborative exhibitions and public programs as incubator for knowing and experiencing otherwise, in collaboration with Museum of Impossible Forms, Titanik, Sinne gallery, Pro Artibus in Finland and puntWG, the Netherlands.
2017-2018 ‘Soils, Séances, Sciences, and Politics- On New Materialism and the Posthuman’ Seminar and publication, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut, Institute for Provocation, Beijing, and RanDian Magazine, Hong Kong.
EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS (SELECTION)
2022
‘No-Mad’ Konzepthaus Laboratorium, Thun, Switzerland Curated by Alessandro Rolandi
‘Unearthing the Present- Core Readings’, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Mi You in discussion with scientists Li Li and Yongming Han.
2021
‘Macao Biennial- Advance and retreat of globalization’, China
Curated by Qiu Zhijie
'Our Bodies Have Turned to Gold' Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam (Solo)
‘Enfleshed- Elaborated’ Gallery Titanik, Turku
Collaborative exhibition with You Mi, German Popov, Jussi Koitela, Han Xiaohan, Stephan Dudeck,
Rick Dolphijn, Zoénie Deng and Bo Wang
2021
‘Enfleshed- Elaborated’ Gallery Sinne, Helsinki Collaborative exhibition with Pia Lindman,
Han Xiaohan, German Popov, Jussi Koitela, You Mi, Stephan Dudeck
2020-2021
‘A Sequence of Events in the Lives of the Dormant’ Temporary Gallery, Cologne wi†h ao. Jumana
Emil Abboud, Mohamed Abdelkarim, Black Quantum Futurism, Karrabing Film Collective
Curated by Lara Khaldi and Aneta Rostkowski
2020
‘Enfleshed- Elaborated’, puntWG, Amsterdam
Collaborative exhibition with German Popov, Han Xiaohan, Jussi Koitela, Pia Lindman, Mark
Kremer, Rick Dolphijn, Zoénie Deng and Bo Wang
‘Political Activism, Art and the State of the Earth’ with Rick Dolphijn and TJ Demos. Sonic Acts
Academy & University of Amsterdam
‘Rehearsing Hospitalities- Ecologies of Access’ Frame Contemporary Art Finland (Screening
and online dialogue with You Mi, Pia Lindman and Lars Bang Larsen)
2019
‘Rehearsing Hospitality/ Epistemic Hospitality’ Frame Contemporary Art Finland/
Bio Art Society, Helsinki Screening and dialogue with Rick Dolphijn
'Multispecies StorytellIng' Linneaus University, Sweden
'Mutating Ecologies’ Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), Barcelona (Screening)
2018
'Our Bodies Have Turned to Gold' Wu Jin, Beijing (Screening)
'Our Bodies Have Turned to Gold' Museum Ullens Centre (UCCA), Beijing (Screening, pulled)
'Our Bodies Have Turned to Gold' Dimensions Art Centre, Chongqing (Screening)
'Home Sequence', with Ibrahim Quraishi, Amsterdam
2017
'The Unknown Future' NIU Art Museum, Shijiazhuang, China
'Hot Rocks. Hot Meat' with Rania Ho, Institute for Provocation, Beijing (Interactive)
'Gold Coins to the Headsmen', Goethe-institute, Beijing (Screening)
2016
'Sharing' Arts and Human Rights in China and the EU,
by the EU Delegation to China in collaboration with Embassy of Finland, Beijing (Solo)
'Parabiosis- Communication and co-existence', Changjian Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chongqing
'Eating Disorders III' with PAE, Charlois Speciaal, Rotterdam (Performance)
'Dwellers on the Threshold', Qiu JiongJiong, Tal R and Kristiina Koskentola, Star Gallery, Beijing
'Gold Coins to the Headsmen' , Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam (Solo)
'Coalworks', Gallery Huuto, Jätkä 1, Helsinki (Solo)
2015
'Movement Theater' Boguyan Art Centre, Beijing
'Eating Disorders II' LIVE/LIFE Ledeberg, Ghent, Belgium (performance)
'Balls of Coal, Spirits, Sand and Dust: Conversing the Informal' Huangbian Station Research
Center, Times Museum, Guangzhou (Screening)
'Gold Coins to the Headsmen' Kone Foundation, Saari Manor, Finland (Solo)
'Hot Rocks, Diy Sauna',with Rania Ho, Iowa Community, Beijing (Interactive)
2014-2015
'Two Rivers' Skaftfell Center for Visual Art, Iceland (Solo)
Earlier
2014
'PPA- Prophetic Prediction Agency' with Yu Bogong, I: Project Space, Beijing
'Uneasy Trip in Asia', Star Gallery, Beijing
'PPA- Prophetic Prediction Agency' (performance)
'Eating Disorders' (performance),
Yu Bogong's Vodka Art Project, Action Space, Beijing
'Aerial Views' Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam
Earlier (Selection)
‘Resistance and Prayer’, Organhaus, Chongqing, China (Solo)
‘One Hundred Ten Thousand’ 2nd Festival of Public Art, Shantou, China (Solo)
‘One Hundred Ten Thousand’ Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam (Solo)
‘Groupshow- Kristiina Koskentola, Otobong Nkanga, Jens Pfeifer, Ibrahim Quraishi and More’
Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam
‘Jean Bernand Koeman, Monali Meher and Kristiina Koskentola’ Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
‘Recollected’ Glazenhuis, Amsterdam
‘Art Beijing 2011/ Art Platforms’ Agricultural Exhibition Center Beijing
‘Dialogue with the Flows’ Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing (Solo)
‘Body Language’ Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam
‘Art Rotterdam’, Rotterdam
‘Tangible Spiritualities’ XAFA Art Museum, Xian, China
‘Urbanization Gargoyles’ CCD 300 Beijing, China (Solo)
‘Art Beijing 2010 / Art Platforms/ Public Art, Agricultural Exhibition Center, Beijing
4th Biennial of Conceptual Art ‘Aluminum’ Baku, Azerbaijan
‘Gobi’ Gallery Hippolyte Helsinki (Solo)
‘Traverse Condition’ co-project with Hao Nan Gallery Sign in collaboration with, Groninger
Museum ‘Go China’, Groningen (Solo)
‘Art Fair Suomi’, MUU Gallery, Cable Factory, Helsinki
‘Intrude: Art&Life’ Zendai MoMA, Shanghai
‘Search and Research’ (solo) Imagine Gallery Studio, Beijing
‘Here as the Center of the World’, Villa de Bank, Enschede, The Netherlands
‘Olfactoric Memory’ (Solo) Wg terrain, Amsterdam
‘Brains Unlimited’ Museum De Lakenhal, Scheltema, Leiden, The Netherlands
‘KlankLangWelle’ Gasometer, D.A.I.R.O, Tonic Train and Xentos and JohnButher,
soundperformance, Oberhausen, Germany
‘Here as the Centre of the World’, Damascus, Syria
‘Inhalexhale‘, De Kunstvlaai 06, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
‘Some Body’ Gallery Link, Dusseldorf (Solo)
‘Hole in the brain’ University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
‘Body Mapping and Big Mouth Radio Beaming (Bimrab)' Planet Art,
Enschede, The Netherlands
‘Body Mapping and Big Mouth Radio Beaming (Bimrab)', Gallery W 139, Amsterdam, The
Netherland and a live broadcast at cultural broadcaster Resonance FM, London
‘Innerbeat’, De Veemvloer, Amsterdam
TALKS / LECTURES/ WORKSHOPS/ OTHER ACADEMIC WORK (SELECTION):
2022
‘Collaborative Modes and Curating’ University of Utrecht ,Department of Media and Culture, with Rick Dolphijn
2021
Enfleshed-Elaborated
Online panel discussion with Stephan Dudeck, You Mi and Jussi Koitela
Yvonne Billimore as moderator
2020
‘A Sequence of Events in the Lives of the Dormant’ Temporary Gallery, Cologne (lecture)
‘Rehearsing Hospitalities- Ecologies of Access’ Frame Contemporary Art Finland (with You Mi,
Pia Lindman and Lars Bang Larssen)
‘Political Activism, Art and the State of the Earth’ with Rick Dolphijn, TJ Demos. Sonic Acts, Amsterdam
2019
Dialogue ‘Rehearsing Hospitality/ Epistemic Hospitality’ with Rick Dophijn, Frame Contemporary
Art Finland/ Bio Art Society, Helsinki
Symposium 'Mutating Ecologies In Contemporary Art III: Posthuman Becomings' Macba,
Bardelona
Conference 'Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices' Linneus University,Sweden
2018
Conference 'Posthumanism in Modern Chinese Culture' University of New Hampshire
Moderator 'Soil, Seances, Sciences and Politics' booklaunch and discussion, Goethe-Institut,
Beijing
2017
Curator and moderator 'Soil, Seances, Sciences and Politics - Seminar on the Posthuman and
New Materilism' with,among others, Rick Dolphijn, Mi You, Jussi Koitela, Jo Wei, Zheng Bo and
Fu Xiaodong incollaboration with Intitute for Provocation, Goethe Beijing
2016
Talk 'Sharing' Arts and Human Rights in China and the EU,
by the EU Delegation to China in collaboration with Embassy of Finland, Beijing
Talk 'Sharing' UN Women Conference, Beijing
2015
Lecture 'Interconnected In-Between', Associate PhD Research Collective (APRC), Dutch Art
Institute
'The Constructed Image', Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing
Talk 'On Unexpected Encounters' Dushanbe Art Ground, State University of Visual Arts and
Design of Tajikistan
2014
Lecture 'Bodies of Resistance- – Reflections on contemporary Chinese performance art and
experimental photography', The Union of Artist Photographers/ Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki
Artist talk, Saari Manor, Finland
‘External Reviewer MFA Thesis’ Dutch Art Institute
Workshop ‘Photography as a conceptual tool and as a medium for story telling’, Three Shadows
Photography Art Center, Beijing
'Symposium', the Research Network, University of the Arts, London
2013
Lecture ‘Subjectivity and Local Knowledge’ Institute for Provocation, Beijing
Talk ‘Monument Unrealized’, presentation on Expodiums’ program at Academy of Fine Arts,
Helsinki
Talk ‘On Materiality’ Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
Talk ‘Resistance and Prayer’ Organhuas, Chongqing
Talk ‘Dialogue’ Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts/ Organhaus Chongqing
2012
‘Roundtable discussion’ 2nd Cheung Kong festival of Public Art, Shantou, China
'Symposium', the Research Network, University of the Arts, London
2011
Lecture ‘On Nomadic Practices’, Himalayas' Art Museum, Shanghai
Invited lecture ' On Nomadic Practices’ by the University of Pittsburgh Multi-Region Academic
Program (PittMAP), Pittsburgh, USA
Location: Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
Lecture ‘On Nomadic Practices’ Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing
2010
Lecture ‘Reactions and Transformations’ Himalayas’ Art Museum, Shanghai
Workshop ‘Crossover Interventions- Intervening Hutong’ Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing
2009
Talk ‘Substances’ 4th Baku Biennial of Contemporary Art,
Talk ‘Kauttakulkijoita- Suitcases and Surroundings’ Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
-Launching ‘Trans-Actions – On Kristiina Koskentola’
Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
Artist talk and a panel discussion with Carol Lu, Kitty Zijlmans, Moderated by John Heymans
-Launching ‘Trans-Actions – On Kristiina Koskentola’
Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki
Artist talk and a panel discussion with Mika Hannula Moderated by John Heymans
-Launching ‘Trans-Actions – On Kristiina Koskentola’
Timezone 8, Beijing
Artist talk and a panel discussion with Ruben de la Nuez . Moderated by John Heymans
Launching ‘Trans-Actions- On Kristiina Koskentola’
Zendai MoMA, Shanghai
Artist talk and a panel discussion with Carol Lu , Ruben de la Nuez Moderated by John
Heymans
‘Contextualizing Interventionist Art’ Cheung Kong School of Art&Design, Shantou
University, China. Lecture and workshop
2008
Talk ‘Traverse Condition’ with Nan Hao, Gallery Sign, Groningen
Talk ‘Originalfassung 62’ General Public, Berlin
ARTISTS BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS BY THE ARTIST (SELECTION):
2021
‘Enfleshed -Elaborated’ research and documentation, digital publication
2020
‘Enfleshed -Elaborated I’ exhibition publication
‘Rehearsing Hospitalities- Ecologies of Access’ Frame Contemporary Art Finland (Online
dialogue with You Mi, Pia Lindman and Lars Bang Larsen)
2018 Reportage 'Soils, Séances, Sciences and Politics
On the Posthuman and New Materialism' Avek (The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture)
MAGAZINE:
2018 Editor 'Soils, Séances, Sciences and Politics
On the Posthuman and New Materialism', published by Insitute for Provocation and Ran Dian
2017 'Interconnected In-Between: On the dynamics of abjection, animism, temporality and
location in nomadic art practice' PhD thesis, Chelsea College of the Arts/ British Library, London
2016 'Sharing- Arts and Human Rights in China and the EU'. Catalogue of the exhibition
published by the EU Delegation to China in collaboration with the Embassy of Finland, Beijing
2013 ‘Uncuttalks’ Soundcloud, conversation on social engagement, with Alessandro Rolandi
2013 'Three Conversations in Beijing'. Article with interviews with Chen Shaoxiong, Liu Ding and
Gao Brothers.by the artist Taide magazine 1/2013
2011 ‘Artist Disappears’ article on Ai Weiwei Taide magazine3/2011
2011 ‘in Dialogue with the Flows’ Publication by the artist with contributions by Mika Hannula
and Ni Haifeng, Published by the artist in collaboration with Three Shadows Photography Art
Center, Beijing/
2009 'Trans-Actions – On Kristiina Koskentola'
Contributions by Carol Yinghua Lu, Mika Hannula, Ruben de la Nuez and Marjolein Schaap.
Published by the artist in collaboration with 1000&1 Publishers in Amsterdam
2007 'Black Book', publication by the artist with contributions by Otobong Nkanga and Ruben
de la Nuez, published by Dutch ArtInstitute
2000 'Words and Drawings from the Diaries of Superlatives and Paranoias ' publication by the
artist
PROJECTS AND RESIDENCIES (SELECTION):
2020, 2022 Tohoku and Tokyo research in collaboration with artist Megumi Shimizu, Japan
2020- 2021 ‘Enfleshed – Elaborated’, research in knowing and experiencing otherwise Collaborating institutions puntWG, Sinne gallery, Pro Artibus, Titanik, Museum of Impossible Forms
2020 Aomori Art Center, residency, Japan
2019 Saari Residency with Megumi Shimizu, Kone Foundation, Finland
2017-2018 'Soils, Séances, Sciences and Politics-On the Posthuman and New Materialism'
seminar and publication, with Goethe-Institut, Beijing, Insitute for Provocation and Ran Dian.
2016- Ongoing DIY Sauna with Rania Ho 2015 Residency Dushanbe Art Ground,Tajikistan
2014 Residency HIAP (Helsinki International Artist Program)
2014 Saari Residency Kone Foundation, Finland
2014 Residency Skaftfell Centrer for Visual Art, Nordic Culture Point Stipend, Iceland
2013 Residency Finnish Artists’ Studio Foundation, Helsinki
2013 Residency Triangle Network Organhaus, Chongqing, China
2013 ‘Art, Medicine and Magic’ Workshop, Li Juan Experimental Art School for Children, Beijing
2011 Residency HIAP (Helsinki International Artist Program)
2010 Residency HIAP (Helsinki International Artist Program)
2009- Resident CCD, Beijing (ongoing)
2007-8 Residency Imagine Gallery, Beijing
2007 ‘Cutting’, Gobi desert, Mongolia
2007 ‘Beautiful City’ Skulptur Project Munster. Participation on the project by Maria Pask
2007 ‘Essential Import Export Project’ research project on global cooking with Meiyu Tao
2007 “Things Happen in Liminal Zones”, with the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Armenia and
Azerbaijan
2006 ‘Here as the center of the world’, Trans-national artistic research project in Damascus.
Beirut, Khartum and Taipei
2006 ‘Hole In The brain’ Joint project by Dutch Art Institute and the Dr.G.J.Hoytema Foundation.
2005 BIMRAB ‘ Body Mapping and Big Mouth Radio Beam’ performance and life video
broadcast at Resonance FM, London
TEXTS/MEDIA (SELECTION):
2021 Enfleshed-Elaborated, Het Parool, Netherlands
2020 Epistemic Hospitalities/ Ecologies of Access, with Pia Lindman, Mi You, Lars Bang Larsen
and Jussi Koitela, Frame Contemporary Art Finland
2019 Epistemic Hospitalities/ Rehearsing Hospitalities, dialogue with Rick Dolphijn, Frame
Contempory
2018 'Soils, Séances, Sciences and Politics
On the Posthuman and New Materialism' Ran Dian
2015 'Kahden maanosan nykytaiteilija', Mikko Paakkanen, Helsingin Sanomat 23/11
2015 TV reportage on the exhibition 'Two Rivers' The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service
2014 New Dimensions in Artistic Work- Kristiina Koskentola and Jonimatti Joutsijärvi , Kone
Foundation
2013 'Cleansing Ashes' by Cristina Sanchez- Koryzeva Pipeline Magazine 38/2013, Hong Kong
2012 Metropolis M by Vincent Velsen
2012 Mister Motley Daan van Tricht
2012 Kristina Koskentola: On Our Amsterdam Watchlist- ArtSlant Amsterdam
2011 'Staying With and Feeling for' Mika Hannula
2011 ‘Dialogue with the Flows’
With contributions by Mika Hannula ‘The Ever Changing Same’ and Ni Haifeng and the artist
‘Mama Huhu’ (Eng. Lit. Horse Horse Tiger Tiger Eng. Tran. So, So...) Published by the artist in
collaboration with Three Shadows Photography Art Center
2009 Trans-Actions – On Kristiina Koskentola
With contributions by Carol Yinghua Lu ‘Looping in Time and Drifting in China’, Mika Hannula
‘Epilogue: Lost and Found: Conversations, Connections and Confusions’, Rubén de la Nuez
‘Pariahs Exposure and Concealment: The Outsider’s Gaze On Contemporary Chinese Society’,
Marjolein Schaap 'Mastering collective memory-well known, borrowed ans issues new in visual
art' Published by the artist in collaboration with 1000&1 Publishers in Amsterdam 2008
‘Isänmaastamuuttajat’ Taide magazine 4/2008, Interview by Riiko Sakkinen 2008 'Intrude' 4/2008,
Zendai MoMA
2007 'Lo abyecto: Enunciación y renunciación/ The abject: Enunciation and renunciation', [ART
NOTES] 17/07, Rubén de la Nuez
2007 ‘On-Site Networking’ Metropolis M No 3 2007, Ilse van de Rijn
2007 ‘Meeting with Kristiina Koskentola’ Otobong Nkanga
2007 ‘Leftovers - Or Kristeva in Koskentola’ Rubén de la Nuez
Presented by
Gallery Lumen Travo Amsterdam
Lima Media Art, Amsterdam
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art Kone Foundation
Lima Media Art
Grants Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Mondriaan Fund,
Kone Foundation, Globus Opstart Nordisk Kulturfond, Arts Council of Finland, Avek,
Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, New Century Art Foundation, Nordic Culture Point, Sign
Foundation, Embassy of Finland in Beijing, Embassy of the Netherlands in Beijing, Shantou
University, Arts Council of Groningen, Ministry of Culture of Azerbaijan, Prince
GRANTS:
Kone Foundation, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Mondriaan
Fund, Arts Council of Finland, Avek, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, New Century Art Foundation,
Nordic Culture Point, Sign Foundation, Embassy of Finland in Beijing, Embassy of the
Netherlands in Beijing, Shantou University, Arts Council of Groningen, Ministry of Culture of
Azerbaijan, Prince Bernhard Culture Foundation, University of the Arts London, Fund Kwadraat