Elina Brotherus

Lebt und arbeitet in Finland und Frankreich

Elina Brotherus

Lebt und arbeitet in Finland und Frankreich

Elina Brotherus photographed by Niels Fabaek 2024

Curriculum Vitae

Grants and awards

2024 Honorary Appreciation, Best Book Design from All Over the World, Stiftung Buchkunst (for Sebaldiana. Memento mori)

2023 The Helsinki Medal, City of Helsinki

Peaks of the Year, Gold award; Grafia, Finland (for Sebaldiana. Memento mori)

The Most Beautiful Books, Finnish Book Art Committee (for Sebaldiana. Memento mori)

2022 Artist Professorship Grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland

ADCE Gold Award of Editorial Design (for Seabound. A Logbook)

2021 The Finnish Photobook Award, 1st prize, Finnish Museum of Photography & Association of
Photographic Artists (for Seabound. A Logbook)

Peaks of the Year, Silver award; Grafia, Finland (for Seabound. A Logbook)
The Most Beautiful Books, Finnish Book Art Committee (for Seabound. A Logbook)

German Photo Book Award, Bronze (for Why not?)

2019 Hundred Heroines, Royal Photographic Society, London

Peaks of the Year, Grafia, Finland (for Playground)

2017 Carte blanche PMU Prize, Paris

2015 The Most Beautiful Books, Finnish Book Art Committee (for 12 ans après)

2012 Pro Finlandia, Order of the Lion of Finland

2008 Finnish State Prize for Photography, Arts Promotion Centre Finland

2005 Prix Niépce, Gens d'images, France

2003 Carnegie Award for Young Artist

The Most Beautiful Books, Finnish Book Art Committee (for Decisive Days. valokuvia-photographs-photographies)

2002 Citigroup Private Bank Photography Prize nominee

2001 Prix Mosaïque, Centre National de l'Audiovisuel, Luxembourg

Solo exhibitions (selection 2017-2025)

2025 Walking Beuys, Van der Grinten Galerie, Köln (DE)
I Occupy the Space, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark.
Over Seas, Kunstsilo, Kristiansand, Norway.
In the Architect’s Houses ‒ Homes in Alvar Aalto’s Work, Galerii Pallas, Tarto.
2024 In the Architect’s House – Elina Brotherus on Alvar Aalto, KOES Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Koege, Denmark.
Reglas de juego, Centro Cultural PUPC, Lima.
Somebody Else, Théâtre La passerelle, Gap.
2023 Elina Brotherus – Space, Time, Movement; Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä Art Museum and Gallery Ratamo, Jyväskylä.
Over Seas, Nordic Symphony Art Project, Kilden Concert Hall and Kunstsilo, Kristiansand, with conductor Eivind Aadland.
Elina Brotherus, Joseph Beuys and René Block: Potato Planting – Transformations, Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau, Germany (cat.)
Large de vue, Arter, Istanbul.
Visitor, Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki (cat.).
Artist as Clown, camara oscura galeria de arte, Madrid.
2022 Les règles du jeu, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon.
Elina Brotherus. In Reference to a Sunny Place, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main.
Dialogue, Finnish National Gallery Ateneum, Helsinki.
2020 Bad Camouflage, gb agency, Paris.
Why Not, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen (cat.).
The Avant-Garde Doesn’t Give Up, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen.
Sebaldiana. Memento mori, Museum of Bastia, Corsica.
This is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life, La Filature, Mulhouse
2019 Les Femmes de la Maison Carré – Maison Louis Carré 60 Years, Finlandia Hall, Helsinki; Lappia Hall, Rovaniemi.
Running Past Camera – Running Toward Camera, Camara Oscura, Madrid.
Playful Wanderer, Sorø Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark (cat.).
Playground, Fernán Gómez, Madrid (cat.).
Elina Brotherus, Villa Vauban Musée d’Art de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg (cat.).
Elina Brotherus, Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo.
2018 Playground, Serlachius Museums, Mänttä, Finland (cat.).
It’s Not Me, It’s a Photograph, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna.
Rules of the Game, National Gallery of Island, Reykjavík; Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland.
2017 Règle du jeu : Carte Blanche PMU, Centre Pompidou, Paris (cat.).
Carpe Fucking Diem, Contretype, Centre pour la photographie contemporaine, Brussels.
The Baldessari Assignments, Norrtälje Konsthall, Norrtälje, Sweden.
Time Pieces, Mindepartementet Art and Photography, Stockholm.

Group Exhibitions (selected)

Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
Akademie-Galerie, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
Amos Rex, Helsinki
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
Arter / Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul
Brooklyn Museum, Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection
Carnegie Art Collection, Sweden
CCA Andratx, Spain
Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP), France
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Centre national de l’audiovisuel, Luxembourg
CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de mayo / Fondación ARCO, Madrid
CIAC Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel, Mexico City
Colección Kells, Murcia
Collection Lambert, Avignon
Collection Neuflize, France
Corcoran Gallery, Washington
Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki
DZ Bank, Frankfurt am Main
EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo
European Parliament Contemporary Art Collection, Brussels
Finland’s Permanent Delegation to the OECD, Paris
Finnish State Art Collection
Fondation Kadist, Paris
FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, France
FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon
FRAC Normandie, Rouen
FRAC Sud, Marseille
Galeria Civica d’Arte, Modena
Galerie municipale de Château d’eau, Toulouse
Gothemburg Art Museum, Gothemburg
Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle, Sweden
Han Nefkens H+F Collection, Barcelona
HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki
Hasselblad Center, Gothemburg
Heino Art Foundation, Helsinki
Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna, Finland
Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
KORO Kunst i Offentlige Rom / Public Art Norway
Kunstsilo / Nicolai Tangen Collection, Kristiansand, Norway
LACMA, Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection, Los Angeles
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
MAC/VAL Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine
Malmö Art Museum, Malmö
MASI, Jocelyne and Fabrice Petignat Collection, Lugano
MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
Miettinen Collection, Helsinki-Berlin
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg
Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon, La Roche-sur-Yon
Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône
Museu da Imagem, Braga
Museum de Fundatie, Pieter and Marieke Sanders Collection, Zwolle
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau
NSM Vie, Paris
Oulu Art Museum, Oulu, Finland
Photo Elysée, Lausanne
Rafaela Seppälä Collection, Helsinki
Saastamoinen Foundation, Finland
Saatchi Collection, London
Serlachius Museums, Mänttä, Finland
Société Générale, Paris
SOK Art Collection, Helsinki
Solid Art, Taipei
Sorø Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark
South Carelia Art Museum, Lappeenranta, Finland
StatoilHydro, Stavanger, Norway
Swedish State Art Collection
Tampere City Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
The Finnish Parliament’s Art Collection, Helsinki
Turku Art Museum, Turku
Västerås Art Museum, Västerås, Sweden
Wihuri Foundation, Rovaniemi, Finland