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Elina Brotherus

Biography

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Elina Brotherus Born in 1972, Helsinki, Finland. Lives and works between Paris and Helsinki.

Biography

Elina Brotherus Born in 1972, Helsinki, Finland. Lives and works between Paris and Helsinki.

Solo exhibitions

2010

Artists at Work, gb agency, Paris.

Elina Brotherus, Retrospective, gb agency, Paris.

2009

Model Studies, Wapping Project Bankside, London.

Artist and her Model, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen.

Elina Brotherus, (Cur. René Block), ile de Moen, Danemark

Correspondances, Photography Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki (with Rantala).

The New Painting, PF Photography Gallery, Poznan, Poland (cat.).

2008

Elina Brotherus, YKY Gallery, Istanbul.

My Happiness is Round, The Wapping Project, Londres.

Etudes d'après Modèles, Danseurs, AMA Gallery, Helsinki.

Malga Valarica, (curator Giovanna Cavenzi), Commune di Spera,Trento.

Roma Festival Photo, V.M.21 Artecontemporanea, Roma. (cur. Lorella Scacco)

Elina Brotherus in Artist Files 2008, The National Art Center, Tokyo. (cat.)

2009

Elina Brotherus, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen.

Correspondences (with Hannele Rantala), Photography Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki.

The New Painting, ZAMEK Culture Centre, Poznan. (cat.).

2008

Elina Brotherus, YKY Gallery, Istanbul.

My Happiness is Round, The Wapping Project, London.

Etudes d'après Modèles, Danseurs, AMA Gallery, Helsinki.

Malga Valarica, curator Giovanna Cavenzi, Commune di Spera.

Roma Festival Photo, V.M.21 Artecontemporanea, Roma. (cur. Lorella Scacco)

Elina Brotherus in Artist Files 2008, The National Art Center, Tokyo. (cat.)

2007

Elina Brotherus, gb agency, Paris.

The New Painting, Bleu du Ciel, Lyon.

The New Painting, Oldenburg Kunstverein.

The New Painting, Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine Saint-Gervais, Genève.

2006

The New Painting, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône. (cat)

Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Berlin.

Model Studies, Festival Les Boréales, Musée des Beaux Arts, Caen.

The New Painting, Journées photographiques de Bienne.

The New Painting, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin. (cat)

The New Painting, Millesgarden, Stockholm. (cat)

2005

The New Painting, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki. (cat)

Orpheus, Centrale Montemartini, Roma.

Open Space, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Art Cologne.

Brotherus, Tyttö, Finnish-Norvegian Cultural Institute, Oslo.

Jérusalem Theatre, Jérusalem.

Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfort.

Centre d'Art Contemporain, Tinglado 2, Tarragone.

Frac Haute-Normandie, Rouen.

Baigneurs, Lèche-vitrine, Maison de la culture, Amiens

Model Studies, gb agency, Paris.

2004

Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå.

Brotherus, Tyttö, Photography Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki.

Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen.

The New Painting, Espace photographique Château d'eau, Toulouse. (cat.)

Les Baigneurs, Wapping Project, Londres.

2003

Elina Brotherus' video works, Kunsthalle Lophem, Bruges.

The New Painting, Museum of New Art, Pärnu, Estonie.

Blue Horizon, Cassina, Tokyo.

Baigneurs, Istanbul Biennial side event, Istanbul (cat.).

Suites françaises 2, Image/Imatge, Orthez.

Festival Foto-Encuentros, Murcia.

The New Painting, Liste 03, gb agency, Basel.

The New Painting, Espace Photographique Contretype, Bruxelles.

2002

The New Painting, Fiac Perspectives, gb agency, Paris.

International Contemporary Art Center, Bucharest.

Photo-Espana, Jardins Botaniques, Madrid.

Orchard Gallery, Derry, North Ireland.

Hämmeenlinna Art Museum, Hämmeenlinna; Västeras Art Museum, Västeras; Lund Art Hall, Lund.

Encontros da Imagem, Braga.

The New Painting, INOVA, Institute of Visual Art, Milwaukee.

2001

Spring, The Wapping Project. London.

Suites françaises 2, gb agency, Paris.

The New Painting, Galleri Andersson, Umea.

2000

Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra.

Suites françaises 1, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki; Galleri i8, Reyjavik.

1999

Northern Photography Centre, Rantagalleria, Oulu.

Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki.

Dance Portraits, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki.

1998

Galleri Andersson, Umea; Galerie Anhava, Helsinki.

Group exhibitions

2010

Cool Water, Korjaamo Gallery, Helsinki.

Vom Dunkeln Gescluckt, Ars Auttoinen, Auttoinen.

Billnäs Bruk, Raseborg.

Spazio, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome.

Starter, ARTER, Istanbul.

Helsinki10, Rogaland Art Museum, Stavanger.

2009

Identités, Ecole Supérieure dArt, Le Havre.

Rencontres littéraires nordiques, Lieu Unique, Nantes. Wonderful, terrible Life, Etelä-Karjalan Taidemuseo, Lappenranta, Finland.

Myth of Childhood, CCA Andratx, Mallorca.

Nord, Nord-Ouest, gb agency, Paris.

Screening, Supernova, Riga, Latvia.

Mythos Kindheit, Centre Culturel, Majorque.

Ecology of Emotions, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland. Works, Deeds, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki.

La Ruche cité des artistes, Palais Lumière, Evian (cat).

Bibliography

Bibliography

Books and catalogues (selection)

2008

Artists Files, The National Art Center, Tokyo.

2007

Parts and the Whole, Colecciòn H+F, Fundacion Foto Colectania, Barcelona; Centro Cultural Bancaja de Alicante.

Elina Brotherus, Etudes d’après modèle, danseurs, Editions Textuel, Paris.

Into the Landscape, Preus Museum, Horten, Norway.

Territoires partagés: Peinture et photographie aujourd’hui, Château de Villeneuve art moderne et contemporain, Vence.

Merveilleux!, Château de Malbrouck, Manderen.

Peinture et photographie aujourd’hui, Château de Villeneuve, Vence.

Northen Lights, Galeria Civica, Modena.

Dreamlands Burn, Mücsarnok, Kunsthalle, Budapest.

2006

Ars Fennica 2007, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Elina Brotherus Breadth of Vision by Timo Valjakka.

Art, Life & Confusion, 47th October Salon, Belgrade, Centre Cultural.

Selbstauslöser, Kunst Halle Fridericianum, Kassel.

Cent, The Jules Wright Issue Memories, Spring 06, Issue'06, Elina Brotherus Suites françaises 2 by Jules Wright.

2005

Elina Brotherus: The New Painting, éditions Next Level, dist. Thames & Hudson.

Elina Brotherus, Tinglado 2, Moll de Costa, Contemporary Art Center, Tarragona.

2004

Elina Brotherus, The New Painting, Carnets de Résidences #2, Editions Contretype Bruxelles.

Elina Brotherus, The New Painting, Château d’eau, Toulouse.

Photography and Art Today, Thames and Hudson éditions.

2003

Blue Horizon, Contemporary Finnish Photography, Tokyo.

Annexe H, Image/imatge, Orhtez.

Girls’Night Out, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach; St Louis Museum of Art, Saint Louis.

Carnegie Award 2003, Konstakademien,Stockholm, Sweden.

Zeitgenössische fototkunst aus Finland, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin.

2002

Carnegie Art Award 2002, Stockholm, Sweden.

Fotoencuentros, festival Murcia, Espagne.

Acquisitions 1996-2002, Frac Alsace, Sélestat.

PHE02 Femininos, exhibition catalogue, Photo Espana, Madrid.

Attachment +, exhibition catalogue, Brugge 2002.

The Citigroup Private Bank Photography Prize 2002, exhibition catalogue, text by Val Williams, in association with the Photographers' Gallery, London.

DECISIVE DAYS, Elina Brotherus, Valokuvia-Photographies-Photographs 1997-2001, text by Jan Kaila, Kustannus Pohjoinen, Oulu.

2001

Silence in the City, exhibition catalogue, Gwangju City Art Museum, Gwangju.

Make me feel, exhibition catalogue, text by John Peter Nilson, Elina Brotherus, Art Athina, Athens.

SPRING, Elina Brotherus, exhibition catalogue. Text by Sophie Howarth, Jane Rendell, The Wapping Project, London.

ARS 01, exhibition catalogues, texts by Val Williams and Leena Laakso and Elina Brotherus. Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki.

Magnetic North, Current Installation Photography in Finland, texts by Caryn Faure Walker and Mika Hannula, The Finnish Museum of Photography, University of Art and Design Helsinki, Helsinki.

Confidences : Parce que c’était moi, Parce que c’était lui, exhibition catalogue, text by Elina Brotherus. Casino, Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg.

SUITES FRANÇAISES 2, Elina Brotherus, exhibition catalogue, texts by Andrea Holzherr and Val Williams, & : gb agency, Paris.

Printemps de Septembre : Théâtres du fantastique, exhibition catalogue, texts by Marie-Frédérique Halin and Val Williams, Actes Sud

Surface and whirlpools – samtida finsk konst, exhibition catalogue, text by Jan Kaila, Borås Konstmuseum, Borås.

2000

Jahresgaben 01, exhibition catalogue. Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main.

One of those days, exhibition catalogue. Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim.

Quinze en Europe, La jeune photographie européenne, exhibition catalogue, text by Gabriel Bauret, Septembre de la Photo, Théâtre de la photographie et de l'image, Nice.

Waterfront, exhibition catalogue, text by Pontus Kyander, Kulturbro, Kulturhuset Toldkammeret, Helsingør / Helsingborgs Museum.

ELINA BROTHERUS, exhibition catalogue, texts by Caryn Faure Walker and Elina Brotherus, i8 Galleri, Reykjavík, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Reykjavík.

Narcisse blessé, Autoportraits contemporains 1970-2000, exhibition catalogue, Passage de Retz, Paris.

Norden, Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Nordeuropa, exhibition catalogue, texts by Mika Hannula and Sabine Folie and Brigitte Kölle, Kunsthalle Vienna.

Think 2000, 130th anniversary exhibition of the University of Art and Design Helsinki, exhibition catalogue, text by Caryn Laure Walker, University of Art and Design Helsinki, Helsinki.

The Passion and the Wave, 6th International Istanbul Biennial of Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue, texts by Anders Kreuger and Paolo Colombo, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul.

1999

Identité fictive, Photographie finlandaise, exhibition catalogue, texts by Jean-Louis Godefroid, Asko Mäkelä, Espace photographique Contretype, Brussels.

Finnish line : Starting point, jeunes artistes finlandais, exhibition catalogue, texts by Yrjänä Levanto, Paul-Hervé Parsy, Elina Brotherus, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg.

Valoa / Light, History of Finnish Photography 1839-1999, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki.

1998

ELINA BROTHERUS, exhibition catalogue, texts by Yrjänä Levanto and Elina Brotherus. Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå.

Press articles (selection)

2008

Flair Magazine, #5, Maggio, io ti guardo, tu mi osservi, by Laura Incardona.

The New York Times, February 15, Ars Fennica, Finnish Art Now, by Ken Johnson.

The Village Voice, February 20-26, Four Finalists for Finland’s prestigious Ars Fennica find a New York home at Scandinavian House by Robert Shuster.

Helsingin Sanomat, January 10, Harjoitelmia mallin mukaa by Marja-Terttu Kivirinta.

The New York Times, Sun, February 7, Finnish Art's IPO by Maureen Mullarkey.

2007

Magazine 04, Automn-Winter, #1, Elina Brotherus by Thimotée Chailloux.

Poly, artistes & cultures d’aujourdhui, #4, Mars, So close / so Far away, Altkirch.

HebdoScope, N°923, 7-13 mars, So Close/ so far away, Collection H+F.

Regioartline Kunstmagazin, #2, March 15, by Charlotte Ullmann.

Edit-revue.com, #5, Elina Brotherus: Quand le corps devient paysage by Tiffany Kleinbeck.

Whitewall, Issue 4, contents 1, Elina Brotherus.

Tema-Celeste, #119 january-february, Sgauardi dal nord, reflecting with Images.

20 Minutes Lyon, January 10, Elina Brotherus:The New Painting.

Beaux Arts Magazine, #271, Jan, Exporama: Elina Brotherus.

Aamulehti, Jan.7, Valokuva olisi kiva yllätys.

Aamulehti, Jan.10. Voittaja Kåhre tarjoilee ihmetystä ja yllätyksiä, by Veikko Halmetoja

Taide, 1/2007, Konteksti ja katsoja, by Otso Kantokorpi.

Flair, Feb, Il mondo magico di Elina, by Filippo Maggia

Exibart.onpaper, March, Sguardi da nord, by Francesca Baboni

Arte e critica, March-May 2007 Elina Brotherus, by Lorella Scacco.

Finnpro, March, Kuvassa keskellä; Elina Brotherus, by Kalle Kirtilä

Regioartline Kunstmagazin, #2, March 15, by Charlotte Ullmann.

HebdoScope, #923, March 7-13, So Close/ So Far Away, Collection H+F,

Artistes & cultures d'aujourdhui, Altkirch, #4, March, So Close / So Far Away Poly.

Profil, #77, April, Tache d'huile by Katia Berger.

Muse, #38, Oct, Dossier Nature portfolio

2006

Helsinki Uutiset, 16/01, Elina Brothreus maalaa kameralla by Marketta Karjalainen

Blue Wings, december, Coming of Age by Satu Jussila.

Nikon News, oct/nov/dec, Elina Brotherus: The New Painting.

Chalon Magazine, oct, Elina Brotherus, un regard en quête de la beauté simple by Nathalie Monneret

Actuphoto.com, Elina Brotherus: The New Painting.

Le Journal de Saone et Loire, 12 décembre, Photo: E. Brotherus, Portrait: Elina, et le silence se fait by Mathieu Brelière.

Le Journal du Palais, 23-29 oct, Elina Brotherus expose à Chalon.

Figaroscope, 25 oct, Elina Brotherus pour les Pays nordiques.

L’Indépendant du Louhannias et du Jura, 21 oct, Expoisition au Musée Nièpce de Chalon sur Saone.

Next Level, #10, Elina Brotherus Breath of Vision by Timo Valjakka.

Espo Arte, N#39, Feb/mar, Elina Brotherus by Laura Fanti

Le Monde, 15/16 janv, L'école photographique d'Helsinki, Nouvelle venue by Roxana Azimi.

Paris-Art.com, Elina Brotherus, Model Studies by Pierre Juhasz.

Hufvudstadsbladet, 21 jan, Konst, Landskapets budbärare by Camilla Wasastjerna.

Kirkko & Kaupunkl, #2, 18 janv, Kauneus Löytyy Läheltä by Satu Itkonen.

Helsingin Sanomat, 14 janv, Vaeltajan tie historiasta valokuvaan by Anu Uimonen

100, 13 jan, Elina Brotherus, Astui maalareiden Maaperälle by STT.

Presso, 7 janv, Elina Brotherus astui luontoon by Mila Savaspuro.

Anna, Jan., Elina Brotherus, astuu maalareiden alueelle by Samuli Isola.

2004

Libération, Hors Série Photographie, Nov-Dec, L’album de vacances.

Muse Magazine, Octobre, Elina Brotherus.

Madame, #9, sept,Allein in der Land-Schaft by Rüdiger Von Naso.

Libération, 1er août, D’un territoire à l’autre, voir au dos.

El Temps d’Art, juliol-agost, #20, special cover by Elina Brotherus.

Origina, #144, marzo, Elina Brotherus by Victor Zamundio-Taylor.

Modern Painters, June, Elina Brotherus at gb agency by Paola Noe.

Le Monde 2, March 26, Peintures photographiques by Michel Guérin.

Vogue, mars #855, Méditation Contemplative by Frédéric Bonnet.

Les Inrockuptibles, 2-8 mars, Vernissage Elina Brotherus.

Beaux Arts Magazine, March, #249

Le Monde, 12 mars, Les Jeux de regards d’Elina Brotherus by Philippe Dagen.

Paris-art.com, Model Studies d’Elina Brotherus by Pierre Juhasz.

Revue.com, Elina Brotherus, trois évèvements.

2004

Next Level, vol 2, #4, Painting with light, Elina Brotherus by Craig Burnett.

Jerusalem Post, april 28, Six Others from Paris by Meir Ronnen.

Valo, Aamulehti, 20-26.08.04 Et tiedä mitään suomalaisesta valokuvasta, ellet tunne Elina Brotherusta.

Palleten Magazine, #255, Elina Brotherus, Om Att Uppträda För Kameran by Jan Kaila.

Dazed &Confused, Vol 2, issue 19, nov, Elina Brotherus by Ola Rindal.

ARTnOrd, #7, Photographie et vidéo, La communauté invisible by Harri Laakso.

Le Monde, 23 oct, Elina Brotherus, l’oeil et la mémoire by Philippe Dagen.

Mood Magzine, #75, 09 Elina Brotherus by Giuliana Montrasio.

Flair Magazine, June, Di ghiaccio e di fuoco by Laura Incardona.

Big Issue, March 22-28 Crawl in after dusk by Helen Sumpter.

Metro, 10 mars, Bathing in the light by Fisun Güner.

Film-Niche, Issue I, Elina Brotherus at Wapping Project.

What’s On, March 31, Elina Brotherus: Baigneurs by Florence Hallett.

UIT, Krant van West-Vlaanderen, jan 16, Kijk, dit is alles wat er is! by J. Debruyne.

De Tijd, janv 7, Kabbelende Schilderijen by Marc Ruyters.

2003

Frame News, Sept, Girl’s Night Out at Ocma by Mika Hannula.

Orange Coast, Sept., Orange County Museum of Art, by Monika Steinberg.

The Orange County Register, sept 7, Girl Power by R. Chang.

Riviera, sept, p 232-234, Art Beat by Daniella Walsh.

Los Angeles Times, Sept 24, Reframing feminine identity by Christopher Knight.

Coast, oct, p 114-115, All about the girl by Lauri Mendenhall.

The Orange County Register, Oct 12, Women have their say, by Daniella Walsh.

OC Weekly, Oct 3, I love little Girls, they make me feel so by R. Schoenkopf.

Time-Out London, Fev 26- Mars 5, Carnegie Art Award by Martin Coomer.

Die Tageszeitung, 21 février, Kunst Elina Brotherus Miroir video.

Der Tagesspiegel, 8 mars, Grundton in Moll, Nostalgic Real, by Peter Herbstreuth.

Le Soir, 26 fév, La peinture réinventée à travers l’objectif by Jean-Marie Wynants.

La Libre Culture, 22 janvier, Photographies en vue by Jean-Marc Bodson.

2002

Tema Celeste Contemporary Art, #94, Special Elina Brotherus, Throught the looking glass by Giovanna Calvenzi.

Art & Auction, November, Fair Fraîche by Laurie-Hurwitz-Attias.

Le Journal des Arts, #158, 8-21 Novembre, Les bilans de la Fiac by Nicolas Thély and Roxana Azimi.

Le Monde, 26 octobre, Paradis des petits prix de l’art contemporain by Ph. Dagen.

Art Review, october French Connection by Pernilla Holmes.

Journal des Arts, Quotidien de la Fiac, 25 octobre, One man Show Elina Brotherus by A.D.

Function Form, #85, Decisive Days by Elina Brotherus.

ArtForum, october, Elina Brotherus by Barry Schwabsky.

Sanomat, Kuultturi, August 10, by Anu Uimonen.

SSI, Newsletter, July-September, Elina Brotherus Photographic Works by Marianne O’Kane.

Corriere della Sera, July 10, Madrid: Sandres, Newton, Elina Brotherus: un edizione per PhotoEspana by Gianluigi Colin.

Le Monde, 20 juin, Les autoportraits de Brotherus, baromètres de ses sentiments by Michel Guerrin.

2002

ArtReview, Vol. LIII, March. City clickers; Francis Hodgson gives at least four out of five to this year's Citigroup Prize entries by Francis Hodgson.

Art World, march. Elina Brotherus by Yin Zi.

Vision, March. A Photographer's World by Yin Zi, Shanghai/Beijing.

Make, Feb.- March. Text by Claire Fitzsimmons, London.

Contemporary Visual Arts ( CVA): Reviews: Citigroup Private Bank Photography Prize 2002 by Keith Patrick.

The Daily Telegraph, Feb.2, Five Shots at Winning.

The Guardian, week-end supplement, Feb 2, Snap happy; Realists and anti-realists, portraitists and landscape photographers, the nominees for this year's Citigroup prize – photography's answer to the Turner – have been chosen by Melissa Denes.

Great, Vol. 40, Feb.-March, The Citigroup Private Bank Photography Prize 2002, The Photographers' Gallery, London.

Professional Photographer, January, Banking on it; Citigroup Photography Prize.

Design Week, Jan.24 : Shot Tactics, Challenging photography by Citigroup prize contenders by Oliver Bennett.

Suomen Kuvalehti, August : Ratkaiseva päivä.

Tijd Cultuur, Supplement of De Financieel-Economische Tijd, Jaargang 5 Nr. 185, Jan. 16., Attachment+ in Brugge 2002 Artist's Page by Elina Brotherus.

Helsingin Sanomat, January. Naisen, opiskelijan ja maahanmuuttajan tunnelmia; Näkökulmia ARS 01 –näyttelyn taideteoksiin by Anne Rouhiainen.

Sydsvenska Dagbladet, Jan.12 : Utlämnande självporträtt by Hans Wikner.

Foto, Nr. Feb.. Horisonter & bitmärken by Karin Hartley.

Financial Times, Jan.5-6. Cities reflect nature; a Finnish contemporary artist trying to capture light the Impressionist way by Lynn Mac Ritchie.

2001

Maalaustaide Suomessa: Nainen näkee kevään ikkunan takana Marja-Terttu Kivirinta. In Pinx. Weilin+Göös, Porvoo.

Art Monthly, Nov., ARS 01: Unfolding Perspectives by Rebecca K. Engman.

ArtReview, Vol LII. Water, water everywhere; Finnish artist Elina Brotherus makes a splash at Wapping CE.

Helsingin Sanomat, Nov. 27. Vetinen lohdutusmatka kohti kevättä; Elina Brotheruksen ensimmäinen liikkuva kuva yksityisnäyttelyssä Lontoon Wappingissa by Marja-Terttu Kivirinta.

NU: the Nordic Art Review, Vol. III No. June, Magnetic North: The strategic contrasts of scale and subtle juxtapositions of subject create an eminently intelligent and visually engaging spectacle by Roy Exley.

NU: the Nordic Art Review, Vol. III No. june. ARS 01 x 2 by Tomas Ivan Träskman and Vasif Kortun.

Modern Painters, Winter Vol. 14 Nr. 4, Magnetic North by Craig Burnett.

Flash Art, Nov.-Dec., Magnetic North at Art Gallery Walsall by Catherine Grant.

Frieze, Oct., Elina Brotherus, &: gb agency by Laurie Attias.

Vogue, #921, Oct. L'ancien et le nouveau, by Michel Guerrin.

Libération, A pleine vue Supplement de Sept.-Oct, Elina Brotherus, Corps étranger by Hervé Gauville.

La Dépèche du Midi, Edition spéciale Printemps de Septembre, Sept.- Oct.

Tema Celeste, #86, Summer, Elina Brotherus by Francesco Poli.

Portfolio, #33, Elina Brotherus: Misty Mirrors, Foreign Languages and other Vicissitudes of Life text by Brigitte Kölle, Edinburgh.

Katalog, Vol. 13 #2 / Summer, Elina Brotherus: Behind my eyes ,text by Søren Haldt, Museet for Fotokunst, Odense.

Le Monde, May 6-7, Photos d’identité; Les signes intimes d’Elina Brotherus by Michel Guerrin.

Aden / Le Monde, April 26, Elina Brotherus : le français en dix-huit leçons by Françoise-Aline Blain.

Contemporary Visual Arts (CVA), issue 34, Previews: Elina Brotherus, Suites françaises 2.

Paris Photo, #13, April-May, Artist Insert: Elina Brotherus.

Kaltio, #2, Melankolian viettelys by Elina Heikka.

Anna, Feb. 13, Kuvia kaipuusta; Heli Hiltunen on ehdolla Ars Fennica –palkinnon saajaksi, Elina Brotherus voitti juuri Fotofinlandian by Heli Suominen.

Helsingin Sanomat, Feb. 3, Totisista omakuvista voitonhymyyn; Elina Brotherus voitti Fotofinlandia- kilpailun by Arja Maunuksela.

2000

Helsingin Sanomat, Aug. 12, Valokuva on uutta maalaustaidetta; Elina Brotherus on noussut nopeasti kansainväliseksi taiteilijaksi by Marja-Terttu Kivirinta.

Helsingin Sanomat, Jan. 6, Vuoden 1999 läpimurrot ja ilmiöt; Uusi valokuva luokittelee tunteita by Marja-Terttu Kivirinta.

1999

Le Monde, Aug. 22-23, Intimité/identité sous l'oeil d'Elina Brotherus, 27 ans by Michel Guerrin.

Helsingin Sanomat, Jan. 14, Tanssija tirkistelee itseään by Marja-Terttu Kivirinta.

1998

Kuva, #3, Elina Brotherus: Wedding portraits; Valokuvia sarjasta Das Mädchen sprach von Liebe Helsinki.

Helsingin Sanomat, June 4, Aidot ja lavastetut tunteet; Kaksi erilaista vahvaa valokuvaajaa esittäytyy by Arja Maunuksela.

Radio and TV Interviews

Chanel 4, UK, Feb. 5, 2002, Citigroup Private Bank Photography Prize 2002 by Christabel Gingell (in English).

ARS 4 YOU, TV Nelonen, Finland, Sept. 30, 2001, series of interviews of ARS 01 artists by Tiina Cavén (in Finnish).

Printemps de septembre, artist's interview produced by & : gb agency, Paris, May 2001 (in English).

Radio Aino, Yleisradio, Finland, Feb. 2, 2001, Fotofinlandia award, interview by Sari Siekkinen (in Finnish).

Finland's television, Lumottu tie, Aug. 2000, artists' interviews (in Finnish).

Sveriges Television, Sweden, Bildjournalen PAL, 1999, Istanbul Biennial, artists' interviews by Pontus Kyander (in Swedinsh and in Finnish).

Radio Ylen Ykkönen, Finland, July 12, 1999, Näyt, artists' interviews, 5 parts, by Jonni Roos (in Finnish).

Press articles and catalogue clips

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Press (Selection)

2010

Trois couleurs, french, "Points de vie", text by Anne-Lou Vicente, February.

2009

The moment, english, text by Jill Singer, October.

Artforum, english, text by Lauren O'Neill-Buttler, December.

2008

The New York Times, english, "Ars Fennica, Finnish Art Now", text by Ken Johnson, February 15.

2007

Le Journal des Arts, #269, french, "Paroles d'artiste : Elina Brotherus", interview with Frédéric Bonnet, November 16-29.

Blue Wings, english, "Sensual studies", text by Sanna Leskinen, November.

Magazine 04, #1, french, "Elina Brotherus. Perte de vue", text by Timothée Chaillou, Fall / Winter.

2006

Blue Wings, english, "Coming of Age", text by Satu Jussila, December.

2005

Libération, french, "D'un territoire à l'autre, voir au dos", August 1th.

2004

Mood, #75, italian/english, "Elina Brotherus", text by Giuliana Montrasio, September.

2002

Tema Celeste, #94, english, "Elina Brotherus, Throught the looking glass", text by Giovanna Calvenzi.

Le Monde, french, "Les autoportraits de Brotherus, baromètres de ses sentiments" and "Les Femmes en images sans clichés", texts by Michel Guerrin, June 20.

2001

Modern Painters, english, "Magnetic North", text by Craig Burnett, Winter.

Frieze, #62, english, "Elina Brotherus, &: gb agency", text by Laurie Attias, October.

Vogue, #921, french, "L'ancien et le nouveau", text by Michel Guerrin, October.

Libération, french, "Elina Brotherus, Corps étranger", interview with Hervé Gauville, September / October.

Tema Celeste, #86, english, "Elina Brotherus", text by Francesco Poli, Summer.

Catalogues clips

2000

Norden, catalogue of exhibition, text by Mika Hannula, Kunsthalle, Vienna, (english).

Publications

Etudes d'après modèle, danseurs

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Artist and her Model -Fuji-mi

Artist and her Model

The title Artist and her model refers to two things. I have in the recent years started to use more and more other models in my work. I'm especially interested in the way an artist looks at a model, the ‘artist's gaze’ which is neither the male gaze nor the female gaze but something neutral, observing, scrutinising, sometimes surprised or admiring.

In the double portraits of artist and model I try to make this gaze visible. In addition, Artist and her model points to the double identity I have in my photographs: since my very beginning in the 90’s, the artist and the model have often been one and the same.

These new photographs continue the same visual thinking as my previous series The New Painting (2000-2004) and Model Studies (2002-). My work consists of walking with the camera in a back-pack and the tripod under the arm, observing the changing light, looking for the simple landscape. The essential questions are the passage of time, the color of light, the human figure. I’m looking for what we too often lack in the everyday life: calm, wide spaces, surprise, veritable solitude and in compensation a shared experience.

Elina Brotherus 2008-09

Etudes d'après modèle, danseurs

Large de Vue, Hommage à Erik Satie

The eccentric French composer Erik Satie put in precise playing instructions for those who perform his compositions. There were lots of these instructions, and they were far more detailed than the traditional largos and fortissimos..

Elina Brotherus has dedicated Large de vue (Breadth of Vision, 2006) to Erik Satie. Large de vue is a 45-part series of photographs, in which pictures she has taken at different times and in different places are combined with the instructions that Satie added to his Aperçus désagréables, completed in 1912. In her youth, Brotherus played this piece for four-handed piano with her teacher. Her teacher’s poetically free translations of the otherwise rather poetic instructions had stayed in her mind for a long time. Now, Satie’s original instructions in French – their meanings ranging from sufficiently slow to real and perceptible – are engraved into the glass covering the photographs. Large de vue is not just exceptional in Brotherus’ art, it is also important. This multipart work can be seen as a kind of synthesis, as a summation of what she had done before it, and as a bridge to all that has happened since. The work intersperses the low and yet lower horizons of The New Painting series (2000-04) with the personal, human-relationships themes from her earliest works (1997-99) and the Model Studies series begun in 2004. Brotherus prefers to seek out places where less means more, places that are already simplified, and where slight variations in light, colour and atmosphere are visible. The pictures in Large de vue are often from the Arctic North or from the shores of the oceans, places where there is a lot of room for light and air. In the majority of the pictures the sky is clear and full of light, often sparkling prismatically like Satie’s or Debussy’s impressionism. Brotherus is herself present in some of the pictures, sometimes seen from very close to, sometimes in a green raincoat with her back to us, like a sign. This recognisable figure anchors the different parts of the work both in each other and in the rest of her production. Large de vue is not a story, nor do we have to read it like a book, even though Satie’s instructions can be rolled round the tongue like the lines of a poem. Nor is this work a conceptual project intended to measure the distance between word and image, or their ability to alter each other’s tone. “The work is like a series of songs or a book of preludes. Each individual image can be looked at and listened to, we can watch how it glistens, and how it makes the others resonate,” is how Brotherus describes it..

(Modified from the article by Timo Valjakka: Elina Brotherus: Reflexive spaces, published in the catalogue for Elina Brotherus’ exhibition at Yapi Kredi Kazim Taskent Art Gallery, Istanbul, Oct. 2008.)

Points of View on Landscape

Model Studies

Model Studies continues from where my earlier series The New Painting (2000-2004) ends.

Even more pronouncedly than the previous series, Model Studies is not about personal stories nor a documentary about someone's life. The images have been constructed for visual reasons. My attention is attached to light, colours, the rythm of the masses, and to subject matters with classical notions. The figure often turns her back to the spectator. This gesture invites to a peaceful contemplation, not to a confrontation.

Elina Brotherus Paris, February 2005

The New Painting

«Photography is the new painting», said my friend Edda Jonsdottir, director of i8 gallery in Reykjavik. With this somewhat provocative sentence in mind in June 2000 I started my still ongoing series, “The New Painting.” I use contemporary means of expression (large format color photography), but I owe a lot to the aesthetics of classical figurative painting. With the camera I try to approach the same problems that painters have been dealing with for centuries: light, color, composition, figures in space, projection of the three-dimensional into the two-dimensional. I find these questions fundamental in all visual arts.

The subject matters come from my close surroundings - from where I live, where I travel, with whom I share my time. The images fall into two categories: landscapes, notably the Horizon works (called Horizons, Low Horizons, and Very Low Horizons, depending on the division of the picture plane), and works with the human figure.

Like in my earlier work, I frequently use myself as a model. However, these new works escape from the inherent problem of self-portraiture, the problem of «representing oneself». They do not aim at drawing a psychological portrait of the subject, but rather presenting him/her as an object of investigation, not for the inner properties but for the external ones. The person in the picture is a model, in the same sence as painters have been using models. The human figure offers endless possibilities. How do the figures interact with space and with each other? How does the light reveal the form? What happens if the direction of the gaze changes? The human body in its beauty and its banality never stops to fascinate me.

It is important to me to combine these two categories of work. I like formal simplicity; the landscapes constructed of only a few lines function as resting places for the spectator. The works in “The New Painting” search for beauty and are motivated by it, even if «beauty» might be considered controversial in contemporary art.

Elina Brotherus. Paris, April 2001

The colours of a photographic print are not given; the "correct" answer is not hidden in the negative. It is surprising how much can be done in the darkroom. Choosing the colour of the sky can be just as arbitrary as choosing among pigments of oil paint. This came like a revelation to me when working on the The New Painting. All there is, is a vague impression of "how it was" on the location, and a choise that has to be made by the artist when printing. This is why I have started to take notes, in the spirit of Bonnard, in order to remember what things looked like.

Photography, unlike painting, has a direct link to the reality. This is both its enchantement and its curse. People tend to treat photographs as documents: who is this person, or where is that place? I would prefer that we pay more attention, not only to the subject matter itself, but to how it is shown: what visual choises has the artist made, how has he/she solved certain problems, what is the structure of the image, the mood of it, how are the colours tuned? How does it affect us as viewers?

Elina Brotherus 2006

Videos

My Happiness is Round (Minun onneni on pyorea)

Model Studies I

Model Studies II

Model Studies III

Model Studies IV

Montagne

The form of a mountain is revealed at the passage of a cloud. A continuation of the research started in the video Miroir, 2001.

Brotherus Tyttö (Brotherus, Girl)

Hanna Brotherus is a dancer and a choreographer, who has three sons. Brotherus, Tyttö was shot after the birth of her fourth child. The title refers to the fact that for the first time "Brotherus, Boy" was not written at the foot of the cot at the clinic. (N.B. the Finnish word "tyttö" stands for "girl". It is the habit at Finnish maternity clinics to write on the bed the surname of the family and the sex of the baby at the foot of the cot.) The dancer advances of a road, and when the rehearsed choreography ends, she steps into the forest, into the unknown. There she encounters the new child. It is the mother's way towards her daughter, a daughter who came into life through all obstacles.

Direction, camera, editing: Elina Brotherus / Performers: Hanna Brotherus, Elsa Brotherus / Music: Antti Ikonen / Choreography: Jenni Kivelä / Costumes: Karoliina Koiso-Kanttila / Producer: Sanna Pohjonen / Production aid: AVEK, Taiteen keskustoimikunta / Assistants: Jana Fagerholm, Olivier Loudin / Thanks to: Mäntymotelli, Tapani and Lysa Brotherus.

Baigneurs

The Baigneurs video installation portrays nude swimmers in Finnish nature. The form is cyclic, repetitive: a swimmer plunges into water and returns, waves hit the shore; only the places and figures change. The bodies are simultaneously beautiful and banal. Baigneurs examines beauty through the (National) Romanticist landscape and the classical bather motif. The water plays as important a role as the figures: its colour, the reflection or rippling of the surface. Baigneurs is a "sister work" to my photographs of the same theme. It is interesting to compare them to each other. The still photographs easily fall within the the bather tradition in painting (nude by the waterfront), whereas the movement in the video brings in uncanny realism which is absent in photography or painting.

Elina Brotherus

Miroir

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