Sanna Kannisto
Born in Hämeenlinna, Finland in 1974. Lives and works in Helsinki.
E-mail: skannist(a)welho.com | www.sannakannisto.com
Studies
1998–2002 MA, University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Dept. of Photography
1994–1997 Turku school of Art and Communication, Dept. of Photography
Solo exhibitions (selected)
2012 Le Château d'Eau, Toulouse, France
Metronom Gallery, Modena, Italy
Gallery Taik, Berlin, Germany
2011 Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
Aperture Gallery, New York, USA
Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary, Helsinki, Finland
2010 Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris, France
2008 Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Contemporary Art Centre, Bignan, France
Le centre photographique d'Ile-de-France CPIF, together with Ilkka Halso, France
Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris, France
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Korjaamo Culture Factory, Gallery 1 & 2, Helsinki, Finland
2007 Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna, Austria
2006 Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, USA
Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris, France
Yours Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Berlin, Germany
Gallery F-Station, Photomonth in Krakow, Poland (catalogue)
2004 Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris, France (catalogue)
2002 Finnish Institute in Paris, France (catalogue)
Finnish Institute in Madrid, Spain
Hippolyte Photographic Gallery, Helsinki, Finland (catalogue)
2001 CuLTUR, Västerås, Sweden
Victor Barsokevitsch Photographic Centre, Kuopio, Finland
Northern Photographic Centre / Ranta galleria, Oulu, Finland
2000 Gallery of the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland (catalogue)
Hyvinkää Art Museum, Hyvinkää, Finland
Group exhibitions (selected)
2013 Spécimens (until 31 March), Domaine de Chamarande, Chamarande, France
Reality Bites (until 14 April) Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
The Near and the Distant - Photography and Space, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
2012 The Helsinki School. "Regards finlandais sur la nature", Abbaye de Jumièges, Jumièges, France
Révélations, Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris, France
State of Art Photography, NRW-Forum Duesseldorf, Germany
International Festival of Photography, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
Äärimmäisyyksien yhteinen tekijä, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art (WAM), Turku, Finland
Hunters and hunted/ Insects in Contemporary art, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Germany
Sammen/ Together, Trondheim Art Museum, Norway
Finders keepers, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland
Exploration, Extraction and Market, international artists' films, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, UK
2011 A Female View. Part 2-aus der Helsinki School, Foto Raum, Wien, Austria
Für Hund und Katz ist auch noch Platz, Art Foyer DZ Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Prague Biennale, The romantic construct, Czech Republic (catalogue)
8th Mercosul Biennial, Essays on Geopoetics, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Beautiful Vagabonds, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NY, USA
2010 Strange Travelers, curated by Mark Dion, Tanya Bonakdar gallery, New York, USA
Wald, Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg, Waldkraiburg, Germany
Speed, Ulrich Museum of Art, Kansas, USA
Repeat All, Centro Cultural Chacao, Caracas, Venezuela
2009 elles@centrepompidou, women artists in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Variations on Transcending the Finiteness of Human Vision, Riga Art Space, Latvia
The Tree, Fuglsang Kunstmuseum, Toreby, Denmark
Urban story, Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary, Helsinki, Finland
Får ej övertäckas, Eskilstuna Art Museum, Sweden
Nature en Kit, MUDAC Musée de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains, Lausanne, Switzerland
PhotoEspana, Descubrimientos PHE Madrid, Spain
Repeat All, MIS - Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo, Brazil
Struggle for life, Eres Stiftung, München, Germany
FotoRio –Short List/The Dream Machine, Niterói Museum of contemporary art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Arctic hysteria Onscreen, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
2008 Observing beast, time, evolution, Kunstverein Hildesheim, Germany (catalogue)
REAL, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (catalogue)
Other florae, Galeria Nara Roesler (curated by José Roca), São Paulo, Brazil
Cinéma et videos d'artistes, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Arctic hysteria Onscreen, Museum of Modern Art Moma, New York, USA
Five variations on the finiteness of human vision, Artget Gallery, Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Serbia
Tapis, coussins et videos, 36th La Rochelle International Film Festival, La Rochelle, France
Video short list : Machines à rêver/ Dream machine , Passage de Retz, Paris, France
Création-destruction, Musée Zadkine, Paris, France (catalogue)
2007 Research and Invention, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (catalogue)
Bird Watching in Harlem, De Vishal exposition space, Haarlem, Netherlands
Garden Eden –The Garden in Art since 1900, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany (catalogue)
Self-timer, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest, Romania
Age of the Animal, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland (catalogue)
Aiheita, valokuvataidetta, Fiskarsin Kuparipaja, Fiskars, Finland
Grey matters - photography is thinking, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki (catalogue)
Repeat All, Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile, Chile
The Helsinki School, Art Foyer DZ Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
Photo Finnish - The Helsinki School, Stenersen Art Museum, Norway
Repeat All, La Casa de la Cultura, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006 Self-timer, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Denmark
Art, Life & Confusion, the Belgrade Biennial, Serbia (catalogue)
Streams of Story, Glasgow Festival of Contemporary Visual Art, Tramway Gallery, Great Britain
The Faraway Nearby, White Box, New York, USA
Focus Finland, KBB Barcelona, Spain
Repeat All, Aux Ateliers Mécaniques de Vevey, Switzerland
Vidifestival06, The International Festival of Video art of Valencia, Spain
Self-timer/ Selbstauslöser, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (catalogue)
Presence, Wäinö Aaltonen Art Museum, Turku, Finland
2005 Cinema Capacete V - loop // not video, nor cinema, neither television”, Florianópolis, Brazil
The Helsinki School – A New Approach, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
To be continued, Helsinki Photography Festival, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland (catalogue)
To Look or to See, the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
Personally, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden (catalogue)
Table(s), Domaine Départemental de Chamarande, Chamarande, France (catalogue)
2004 PhotoFesta 2004, Maputo, Mosambik
The world of Objects, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland (catalogue)
30 by Taik, the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
The world of Objects, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland (catalogue)
2003 Fünf Positionen Finnischer Fotographie, Kunstverein Schwerte, Germany
Nuoret 2003, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland (catalogue)
2002 Photography and Video, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland (catalogue)
Iquitos–Helsinki.com, Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris, France
Masters of Arts, the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
Works in collections
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland
MEP, Maison europeenne de la photographie, France
Le Fonds national d'art contemporain (Fnac), State Art Collection, France
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de Haute-Normandie (FRAC Haute-Normandie), France
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, FRAC Bretagne, France
DZ-Bank Art Collection, Germany
SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Norway
State Art Collection, Finland
Finnish Museum of Photography, Finland
Vihuri Foundation, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
Salo Art Museum, Finland
Domaine Départemental de Chamarande, Chamarande, France, France
Artothèque, Bibliothèque d’Auxerre, France
Private collections Finland, Sweden, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, USA, Austria and Switzerland
Publications (selected)
State of The Art Photography, Feymedia and NRW-Forum Duesseldorf, Germany, 2012
Sanna Kannisto, Fieldwork, Aperture Foundation 2011
Northwawe, Overview of video art in the Nordic Countries, Guerini, Milan 2009
Photo Art: The New World of Photography, Thames and Hudson, 2008
Photo Art: Photography in the 21st Century, Aperture, 2008
Research and Invention, catalogue, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland 2007
Photo Art: Fotografie im 21. Jahrhundert, DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag, Germany 2007
Garden Eden, DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag, Germany 2007
The Helsinki School, Hatje Cantz, Germany 2007
Selbstauslöser –catalogue, Kunsthalle Fridericianum 2005
Framework, The finnish art review, issue 4/ Dec. 2005
Helsinki Photography Festival 2005, catalogue, Gallery Hippolyte, 2005
The Helsinki School, Hatje Cantz, Germany 2005
Private Collection, catalogue, Sanna Kannisto and Galerie La Ferronnerie, Helsinki, 2004
Snake in Heliconia (Käärme Heliconiassa), photographs 1997–2001,
Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö (WSOY), Helsinki, 2002
Fantasies –catalog, Sara Hilden Art Museum and Finnish Museum of Photography, 2002
Selected grants and awards
2012 Finnish Cultural Foundation Prize
2011 Finnish Cultural Foundation, Frame
2010 Arts Council of Finland
2009 Arts Council of Finland, Frame
2007 Arts Council of Finland, Ministry of Education, Oskar Öflund Foundation, FRAME, Greta and William Lehtinen Foundation
2006 Fine Arts Society of Finland, FRAME
2005 Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Arts Council of Finland, Finnish Cultural Foundation
2004 City of Paris, FRAME
2003 Hasselblad Foundation, Ministry of Education, Finnish Cultural Foundation
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