curriculum vitae


Kristiina Koskentola (1967, Finland)
www.kristiinakoskentola.nl
E mail: kkoskentola@gmail.com

Lives and works in Amsterdam.

Education    
  2005-2007 Dutch Art Institute, M.F.A. In Research and Practice Enschede, The Netherlands
  1995-2000 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, B.F.A. Amsterdam
       
Exhibitions (selection)
  2011-2012 ‘Zhujiajiao’(solo) Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai/Zhujiajiao
  2011 ‘Art Beijing 2011/ Art Platforms’ Agricultural Exhibition Center, Beijing
  2011 'Dialogue with the Flows' (solo) Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing
  2010-2011 'Body Language' Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam
  2010 ‘Tangible Spiritualities’ XAFA Art Museum, Digital Art Weeks, Xian, China
    ‘Art Beijing 2010: Foreign Artists in China’
Presented by the Delegation of Europe to China (EU), The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
National Agriculture Exhibition Center, Beijing, China
   

‘Urbanization Gargoyles and Other Stories’ (solo)

CCD 300 Beijing, China 
  2009 4th Baku Biennial of Conceptual Art ‘Aluminum’ Museum Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
    ‘Gobi’ (solo) Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki
  2008 Traverse Condition / with Nan Hao (solo) Gallery Sign in collaboration with Groningen Museum and ‘Go China’, Groningen, The Netherlands
  2008 Suomi Art Fair MUU RY, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki
    ‘Intrude:Art&Life’ Shanghai Zendai MoMa, Shanghai, China
    ‘Critical Mass’, The:Artist:Network, New York Huang Yan Contemporary Art Center (HYCAC), Beijing, China
    ‘Search and Research’ (solo) Imagine Gallery Studio, Beijing, China
  2007 ‘Here as the Centre of the World’ Villa de Bank, Enschede, The Netherlands
    ‘Olfactoric Memory’ (solo) Wg terrain, Gate building, Amsterdam
  2006 ‘Brains Unlimited’ Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, The Netherlands
    ‘KlankLangWelle’, D.A.I.R.O (Dutch Art Institute Radio Orchestra); Tonic Train and Xentos and John Butcher, soundperformance Gasometer, Oberhausen, Germany
    ‘Here as the Centre of the World’, public intervention at the Midhat Bashat street and presentation at NIASD ( The Netherlands Institute for academic studies) Damascus, Syria
    De Kunstvlaai 06, Inhalexhale Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
    ‘Somebody’ (solo) Gallery Link, Dusseldorf, Germany
    ‘Hole in the brain’, presentation at the symposium of the Dr.G.J.Hoytema Foundation University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
  2005 ‘Body Mapping and Big Mouth Radio Beam’ (BIMRAB) Planet Art, Enschede, The Netherlands
    ‘Body Mapping and Big Mouth Radio Beaming (BIMRAB), and a live broadcast at cultural broadcaster Resonance FM, London Gallery W 139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  ‘Innerbeat’ De Veemvloer, Amsterdam
       

Projects

  2011-2012 Residency Himalays Art Museum, Zhujiaojia
  2009 ‘Trans-Actions - On Kristiina Koskentola’
Publication: artists book / theoretical publication on the works in China and Mongolia
With essays by Carol Yinghua Lu, Mika Hannula , Ruben de la Nuez , Marjolein Schaap
Published by the artist in collaboration with 1000&1 Publishers
  2007-8 Artist in Residency, Imagine Gallery, Beijing
  2007 ‘Cutting’ Performance-video project , Gobi desert, Mongolia
  2007 ‘Beautiful City’, Skultur Project Munster, Participation, as an actor, to the project of Maria Pask
  2007 ‘Essential Import Export Project’ research project on global cooking with Meiyu Tao
  2007 ‘Things Happen in Liminal Zones’, project in co-operation with The Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Armenia and Azerbaijan
  2006 ‘Here as the Centre of the World’, Transnational artistic research project by Dutch Art Institute in Beirut, Damascus, Diyarbakir, Enschede, Khartoum and Taipei
Curated by Lucy Cotter, Gabrielle Schleijpen and Alite Thijssen
  2006 'Writing Space' by Ansuya Blom
  2006 'Hole In the Brain', Joined project by Dutch Art Institute, Rebecca Sakoun, Florian Goettke and Dr. Hoytema foundation. Project investigated the visual functioning of the brain and the effects of a stroke on the individuals perception of the world
  2005 BIMRAB ‘Body Mapping and Big Mouth Radio Beam’, and A live radio broadcast at radio art station ResonanceFM, London.
  2005 Co-organiser  exhibition ‘Innerbeat’
 
Artist Talks / Lectures / Teaching
  2011 Invited lecture on ‘Nomadic Practices’ by the University of Pittsburgh Multi-Region Academic Program (PittMAP), Pittsburgh, USA
Location: Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
Lecture
  2011 ‘Nomadic Practices’ Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing
Artist Talk
  2010 ‘Kauttakulkijoita’ KUVA, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
Lecture
    ‘Reactions and Transformations’ Himalays Art Museum (Former Zendai MOMa) Shanghai
Lecture
    ‘Crossover Interventions- Intervening Hutong’ Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing
Lecture and workshop.
  2009 ‘Substances’ 4th Baku Biennial of Contemporary Art
Artist talk
    Traveling Book Launch ‘Trans-Actions – On Kristiina Koskentola’
Zendai MoMa, Shanghai
Timezone 8, Beijing
Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki
Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
Artist talks and a panel discussions with Rubén de la Nuez, Nan Hao, Mika Hannula, Kitty Zijlmans. Moderated by John Heymans
    ‘Contextualizing Interventionist Art’ Cheung Kong School of Art&Design, Shantou University, China.
Lecture and workshop
  2008 ‘Traverse Condition’ with Nan Hao, Gallery Sign, Groningen
    ‘Originalfassung 62’ General Public, Berlin
     
Projects are generously supported by:
Arts Council of Finland, The Finnish Culture Foundation, Frame Foundation,Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, Embassy of Finland in Beijing, Embassy of the Netherlands in Beijing, Ministry of Culture of Azerbaijan,  Prince Bernhard Culture Foundation, Material Foundation, Smart Project Space, Zendai MoMa, Timezone 8, Gallery Hippolyte, Sign Foundation, Arts Council of Groningen