JUSSI NIVA

BIOGRAPHY (selected)

Born 1966 in Pello, Finland
Lives and works in Helsinki, Finland

STUDIES

1984-89  Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland
2020 Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland
2016  Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
2014  Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
2012  Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2012  Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
2009  Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2008  Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary, Helsinki, Finland
2005  Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki, Finland
2004  Gallery Heino, Helsinki, Finland
2002  Gallery Kari Kenetti, Helsinki, Finland
2001  The Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland
2000  Viive gallery, Rovaniemi, Finland
2000  Ama gallery, Turku, Finland
1999  Gallery Kari Kenetti, Helsinki, Finland
1997  Galerie Artek, Helsinki, Finland
1995  Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
1994  Galerie Artek, Helsinki, Finland
1994  Galerie Quartair, The Hague, The Netherlands
1992  Galerie Gebauer u. Günther, Berlin, Germany
1991  Galerie Artek, Helsinki, Finland
1990  Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
Konkretismi. Geometrische Wirklichkeiten, Constructivist art from Finland from the 1950s to present day, Samsung Peters-Messer, Viersen, Germany
Experiments in Concretism, EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
Extraordinary Form. Abstract and nonfigurative art from Miettinen Collection, Salon Dahlman, Berlin, Germany
Near – Collection exhibition curated by young people, The Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland

2023
Fortune Coincidences – Lars Göran Johnsson Collection, Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland
Art in Space – Space in Art, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
The Swanljung Collection – Follow Your Heart, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland
Yrjö Kukkapuro – Magic Room, EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland

2022
XXVI Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland
Variations, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland
Market Art Fair, with Galerie Anhava, Liljevalchs Konsthalle, Stockholm, Sweden

2021
Sculptural. Painting., Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany
Selected works from Galerie Anhava artists, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland

2020
Abstract Art from the Miettinen Collection, Berlin Art Week, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany
Art Matters, Online Only Group Exhibition, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany
The Way We Are 2.0, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany

2019
The Space of Painting, Philipp von Rosen Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Art Düsseldorf / Galerie Anhava, Düsseldorf, Germany
Out of Office, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Shared Dreams, Works from the Heino Art Foundation Collection, Oulu Museum of Art, Oulu, Finland

2018
Offspace, Zsófi Barabás – Jussi Niva, Gallery Faur Zsófi, Budapest, Hungary
Ich bin ein Riss, ich will durch Wände gehen, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany
Two-Way Ahead, Jussi Niva – Juri Markkula, Hanaholmen Gallery, Espoo, Finland
Imaginary Meeting, Rovaniemi Art Museum Korundi, Rovaniemi, Finland
Killing Me Softly, Works from the Miettinen Collection, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany

2017
Signature, Habitare, Messukeskus, Helsinki, Finland
Nokia’s Donation, Emma, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
Dreamaholic – Art from Finland. Miettinen Collection, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany

2016
In Wonderland, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany
Living Collection: Facing the Public, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
From Heino With Love, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

2015
Clear Form, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
Touch, EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
Summer Exhibition, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland

2014
Splendid Views, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany
Vinternatt, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Black Market – Sand in Vaseline, L17 project space, Berlin, Germany
Black Market Sinne, Sinne, Helsinki, Finland
Feel the Spirit, EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
Unknown Masterpieces, Wonderloch Kellerland, Berlin, Germany
Black Market Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
Space – Abstract Intervention & Social Media, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany

2013
Kiasma Hits, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Events in Nature, EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
The 7th Wave – Wihuri and Visual Art, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland
Sommerprogramm, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany
Panorama, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Summer 2013, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland

2012
The Magic of Lapland, Korundi, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland
The 7th Wave – Wihuri and Visual Art, Kunsthallen, Helsinki, Finland
Art Market / Galerie Forsblom, Stockhol, Sweden
The Armory Show / Galerie Forsblom, New York, USA

2011
Kesä – Sommar – Summer 2011, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
Know the Landscape, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland
The Magic of Lapland, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Spatial Places: The Poetry Of Places, Fiskars village, Finland

2009
ArtHelsinki 09 / Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary, Helsinki, Finland
Flash! – Light and Movement, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
I Love Malmö, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
Swanljung Meets Malmö, Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden
The Site of Painting, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
Carnegie Art Award, Centre International d´Art Contemporain, Carros, France

2008
Kuvan jälkeen, Image and after, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Carnegie Art Award, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden / Oslo, Norway; Den Frie Udstilling Copenhagen, Denmark; Listasafn Kópavogs, Kópavogur / Reykjavík, Iceland; Konstakademien, Stockholm, Sweden; Royal College of Art, London, UK, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Gothenbourg, Sweden
Tuhlaajapojan paluu, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland

2007
Carnegie Art Award, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Taiteilijatiloja, Jugend-sali, Helsinki, Finland
Maalaus ja valokuva ja maalaus, Korjaamo Culture Factory, Helsinki, Finland
I love Malmö, Turun taidemuseo, Turku; Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland
Kuntsin ikonit 1, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland

2006
Suspended E-motion, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania

2005
Vastamaalattu – Painture Fraiche!, Kerava Art Museum, Kerava, Finland
Työnimi: Heijastuksia, Korjaamo Culture Factory, Helsinki, Finland
Stockholm Art Fair / Galleria Heino, Stockholm, Sweden
X Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland
Purnu 2005, Orivesi, Finland

2004
Vastamaalattu – Peinture Fraiche!, Le Triage, Nanterre, France
Talviunia – Hibernations, The Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland

2003
Maisema nyt, Mikkeli Art Museum, Mikkeli, Finland

2002
Over the Horizon, Malmö konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden

2001
Soome Nûûdiskunst – Kekarainen – Niva – Vuokola, Eesti Kunstimuuseumi, Tallinn, Estonia
Interface – Kosketuspintoja, Suomen taiteen III triennaali, Göteborg
Konstmuseum, Göteborg, Sweden & Helsingin taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland

2000
Europe – Different Perspectives in Painting, Museo Michetti, Francavilla al Mare, Italy
Pohjoismainen postmodernismi, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
100 VR-makasiini, Helsinki, Finland
Berlin Art Fair / Galleria Kari Kenetti, Berlin, Germany

1999
Carnegie Art Award, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland; Listasafn Islands, Reykjavik, Icela
Finnish Line: Starting Point, Musées de Strassbourg, Strassbourg, France
Pohjoinen maisema, Salo Art Museum, Salo, Finland
Kekarainen – Niva – Vuokola, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
Frankfurt Art Fair / Galleria Kari Kenetti, Frankfurt, Germany

1998
Carnegie Art Award, Konstakademien, Stockholm, Sweden; Sophienholm
Copenhagen, Denmark; Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway
Stockholm Art Fair / Galleria Kari Kenetti, Tukholma

1997
Galleri Wynick / Tuck, Toronto, Canada
Art goes kapakka, Restaurant Taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland
TAiDETTA, Konstens hus, Luleå, Sweden
Kari Cavén – Henrietta Lehtonen – Jussi Niva, Galleria Kari Kenetti, Helsinki, Finland

1996
TAiDETTA, Karlskrona Konsthall, Karlskrona, Sweden; Västerås
Konstmuseum, Västerås, Sweden; Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden;
Skövde Konsthall, Skövde, Sweden; Värmlands Museum, Karlstad, Sweden
Konst I hemmiljö The Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Comp I Box, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland
Enter, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland

1995
ARS-95, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Air Water Earth, Takaoka Art Museum, Takaoka; Fukuyama Museum of Art,
Fukuyama, Japan; Turun taidemuseo, Turku, Finland
Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany

1994
Ennakkoluuloja – Fördomar, Östergötland Country Museum, Lindköping, Sweden; Oulu City Art useum, Oulu, Finland; Örebro länsmuseum, Örebro, Sweden; Landskrona konsthall, Landskrona, Sweden; Museum for Contemporary art, Warsaw, Poland; Museum for Contemporary art, Vilnius, Lithuania
Nordisk Önskemuseum, Göteborg Museum of Art, Göteborg, Sweden
8 rum till måleri, Galleri F 15 Alby, Moss, Norway
Grreen, Tourch Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Nina Roos – Jussi Niva, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Air Water Earth, The Azabu Museum for Arts and Crafts, Tokio, Japan

1993
Fünf Bilder, Galerie Gebauer u. Günther, Berlin, Germany
XLV La Biennale di Venezia, Nordic Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Entrée, The Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland
Valintoja, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Transit, The National Museum of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
Ennakkoluuloja – Fördomar, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm;
The Nordic Institute for Contemporary, Art, Helsinki, Finland

1992
Välimatkoja – Avstånd, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany
Rakkautta raunioilla, Tampere Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampere, Finland
Finlandi Dá -92, Stockholm, Sweden
Tidsanda, Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden
Frankfurt Art Fair / Galerie Gebauer u. Günther, Germany

1991
Seeing, Näkeminen, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
Tillstand Switches, Stedhalle, Zürich, Switzerland
Face to Face – Ars Baltica Prolog, Kunsthalle zu Kiel / Stadgalerie im
Sophienhof, Kiel, Germany; Kunsthalle Latvija, Museum of Foreign Art, Riga, Latvia;
Künstlerhaus Bethanien / Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany
Aurora 4, The Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden

1990
Finnish Visions, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway

1989
Finnish Painters´union 60th aniversary exhibition, The Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland

PUBLIC ART WORKS

2022 Cover, Hotel AX, Helsinki, Finland
2010 M in Us, Vasakronan, Stockholm, Sweden [ Link to project page HERE ]
1999 Expose #43-46, Finnish Embassy, Berlin, Germany
1998 Expose, Vuosaari metro station, Helsinki, Finland

COLLECTIONS

Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland
The City of Tampere, Finland
EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland
The Finnish State Art Collection
Heino Art Collection, Finland
HAM – Helsinki Art Museum, Finland
HUS, Helsinki, Finland
Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Finland
Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, Rovaniemi, Finland
Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Lars Göran Johnsson Collection, Finland
Malmö Art Museum, Sweden
Mauri Niemi Collection, Finland
Miettinen Collection, Germany
The National Public Art Council, Sweden
Oulu City Art Museum, Finland
Pori Art Museum, Finland
The Rafaela and Kaj Forsblom Collection, Finland
Saastamoinen Foundation, Finland
Sara Hildén Art Museum, Finland
Swanljung Collection, Finland
Turku Art Museum, Finland

AWARDS

2009 Fine Arts Association of Finland, William Thuring Prize
1998 Carnegie Art Awards, Scholarship to a young artist
1996 Young Art Finland Prize

Heikinheimo, Saara. 2023. ”Maalaus ei ehkä ole esittävä, mutta se on aina esittäjä – Jussi Nivan haastattelu” SAHIM, Tampere.
(Julkaisun voi tilata sähköpostitse TÄSTÄ )
Valjakka, Timo. 2023. ”Taidetta silmälle ja mielelle”, Helsingin Sanomat, 21.1.2023.
Valjakka, Timo. 2020. ”Kysymyksiä näkemisen luonteesta”, Helsingin Sanomat, 23.1.2020.
Bal, Mieke. 2016. ”Movement and the still Image”, Espacio Tiempo y Forma, 4, Madrid, Spain. [ Download text in pdf format HERE ]
Seppä, Anita. 2016. ”Jussi Niva and Anita Seppä, Conversation at Niva’s studio in Berlin, 23.11.2015”, Mime, Helsinki, Finland
Verhoeff, Nanna. 2012. ”Mobile Screens – The Visual Regime of Navigation”, Amsterdam University press, Amsterdam, p. 167-168
Bal, Mieke. 2010. ”Timely Remains”, Jussi Niva – Timely Remains, Helsinki.
Iitiä, Inkamaija. 2010. ”The Space of Representation and Postmodern Stage: Jussi Niva´s Exposes”,
Jussi Niva – Timely remains, Helsinki.
Iitiä, Inkamaija. 2008. ”Kuvan jälkeen”. Kuvan jälkeen. Image and after, Nyktaiteen museon julkaisua 109/ 2008,
Helsinki, p. 42-43.
Iitiä, Inkamaija. 2008. Käsitteellisestä ruumiilliseen, sitaatiosta paikkaan – maalaustaide ja nykytaiteen historia,
Helsinki, p. 264-272.
Roos, Rita. 2006. ”I Spy with My Eyes” Critique, Veenman Publishers/Gijs Stork, Rotterdam.
Kalhama, Pilvi. 2005. “Vuorovaikutusta väritilassa – Jussi Nivan Fine Tuning – sarjan dialogisia tulkintoja”,
Kanssakäymisiä, Osallistuvan taiteen tutkimuksen askelia 32, Helsinki.
Kalhama, Pilvi. 2002. ”Suomalainen nykymaalaus ja katsomisen haaste”, Pinx Maalaustaide Suomessa:
Siveltimen vetoja, Weiling+Göös, Espoo, p.280-287.
Kantokorpi, Otso. 2003. “Kuvan katoava taajuus”, Kosketuspintoja, Helsinki.
Haapala, Leevi. 2003. “Valomaalarit ja sähköinen valo”, Pinx maalaustaide Suomessa : Siveltimen vetoja,
Weiling+Göös, Espoo, p. 280-287.
Valjakka, Timo. 2000. ”Maalaus ja miten sitä katsotaan” Jussi Niva, Expose, Helsinki.
van der Heeg, Eerik. 1999. ”Kekarainen – Niva – Vuokola”, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki.
Castern, Hannu. “Painting Beyond the Eye and Frame”, Form Function Finland, 1/95
Valjakka, Timo. 1993 ”XLV La Biennale di Venezia, Melin Niva Stokke”
Thordeman, Thord. “Venezia!”, Paletten 3/93
Sandqvist, Gertrud. “Jussi Niva”, Siksi, 2/92