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Johanna Naukkarinen
b.1988
Lives and works in Turku, Finland
Bio
Johanna Naukkarinen (b. 1988, Kuopio) works with the themes that intersect with the history of medicine and the history of art. She uses theories of feminist image research to trace the path from historical images to more contemporary images that portray womanhood.
Naukkarinen works mainly with photography and digital drawing, but sometimes her works expand to mixed media practices. Naukkarinen graduated as a Bachelor of Culture and Arts from the fine art photography department in Arts Academy at Turku University of Applied Sciences and got her Master of Arts degree in media studies department in the University of Turku.
Her works are represented in the collections of Turku Art Museum, Kuopio Art Museum and Turku City Art Collection. She has had eight solo exhibitions including exhibitions in Photographic Centre Peri, 2024; GalleriA, 2022; Galleria Huuto, 2020 and Turku Art Museum Studio, 2016.
Studies
2018 Master of Arts, University of Turku, Media studies
2016 Bachelor of Culture and Arts, Arts Academy at Turku University of Applied Sciences,
Fine Art Photography
2015 01/15-05/15 National College of Art and Design (Erasmus exchange), Dublin, Media Art
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Anatomical Venus, Valokuvakeskus Peri, Turku
2022 Anatomical Venus, GalleriA, Kuopio
2022 Anatomical Venus, Galleria Rajatila, Tampere
2021 Anatomical Venus, Yö Galleria, Helsinki
2020 Museum of Hysteria, Kouta-galleria, Kouvola
2020 Museum of Hysteria, Galleria Huuto, Helsinki
2019 Meet Augustine, B-galleria, Turku
2016 Suuri Hysteria, Turku Art Museum Studio, Turku
2011 FourSomes, Bar Kuka, Turku
Collection exhibitions
2024 Seam – Fashion in Art, Art in Fashion, Kuopio Art Museum, Kuopio
2018–2020 Four elements, Turku Art Museum, Turku
Selected Group Exhibitions and Festivals
2025 Morbus, Villa Gyllenberg, Helsinki (up-coming)
2021 The 97th Annual Exhibition of the Turku Artist´s Association, Kunsthalle Turku
2021 Blind Spots pilot, Hansakortteli, Turku
2021 New Performance Turku (with Tiia Kasurinen), Turku
2020 Winter Salon 2020, The Exhibition of the Turku Artist's Association, Kunsthalle Turku, Turku
2020 Wiurilan kesä: Tie jonka valitsin, Wiurilan Manor, Halikko
2019 The 95th Annual Exhibition of the Turku Artist’s Assosiation, Kunsthalle Turku, Turku
2019 Everything is Important - Art Exhibition by Recover Laboratory, Helsinki
2018 Recover Laboratory: Underneath // Art & Circus Labyrinth, Helsinki
2018 Peri @ Forum Kortteli, Forum Kortteli, Turku
2017 Art Future / Future Revolution Mini-biennale, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga
2017 Out of Line, Köttinspektionen, Uppsala
2015 D Light Open Gallery, D-light Studios, Dublin
2015 Spectrum, NCAD Gallery, Dublin
2015 Ctrl + Alt + Delish, Backloft, Dublin
2015 20 000 HUF, Galleri Zepra, Karjaa
Public Artworks
2024 Peitto: Philodendron gloriosum and Peitto: Beaucarnea recurvata, Tyks Compass Hospital, Turku
Works in Collections
Kuopio Art Museum
Turku Art Museum
Turku City Art Collection
Private Collections
Works in Publications
2023 Maria Gainza: Schwarzlicht (2023), a cover for a novel published by Wagenbach
2022 Maria Gainza: Portrait of an Unknown Lady (2022), a cover for a novel published by VINTAGE at Penguin Random House
2019 Swarm Mag, Prague based art oriented online publication
2019 Joy of Looking the 3rd
2019 Funny Looking Dog Quarterly Issue 3: Fall, Chicago based literary magazine
2019 B-ZINE 2-7/19, publication by B-galleria
2018 Turku Art Museum - book
2016 Sukupuolentutkimus – Genusforskning magazine 4/2016, Featured Artist
2015 Turun Ylioppilaslehti 7/2015
2014 Feature Shoot, Polaroid Group Show, online feature 30/07/2014
2013 a book of lies : väritettyjä totuuksia, VOry & MUSTA TAIDE / Aalto PHOTO Books
Awards
2019 Winner of FotoRoom's #FotoRoomOPEN Vasli Souza edition, single image category
Grants
2024 Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Southwest Finland), working grant
2024 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, project grant
2023 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, working grant
2022 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, corona grant
2022 Turku cultural board, working grant
2021 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, corona grant
2020 Alfred Kordelin Foundation, working grant
2020 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, corona grant
2020 Turku Art Society, corona grant
2019 Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Southwest Finland), working grant
2019 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, mobility grant to Studio Faire residency
2019 Turku cultural board, working grant
Residencies
2024 Casa Finlandese ateljeehouse by The Finnish Artists’ Studio Foundation, Grassina, Italy
2019 Studio Faire, Nérac, France
Associations
Association of Photographic Artists
Kuvasto
Photographic centre Peri
Turku Artist’s Assosiation
Positions of Responsibility
2019/11– Chairman of Photographic Centre Peri
2024 Member of the board, Kunsthalle Turku Association
2018–2019 Member of the board, Photographic Centre Peri
2018–2019 Member of artistic working group of Kunsthalle Turku
Selected mentions in Media
2022 Yle Radio Suomi Kuopio, radio interview about an exhibition, 29.9.2022
2022 Taide-lehti, 4/2022, Nähtyjä -column
2021 Turun Sanomat, 13.12.2021, interview about documentary photography - Valokuvataiteilija näkee, että sosiaalisen median kuvapaljous pakottaa ammattilaiset ottamaan kuvia, jotka erottuvat massasta
2020 Kouvolan Sanomat, 30.6.2020, interview about exhibition - Nainen saattoi saada hysteriadiagnoosin tottelemattomuuden, laihuuden tai opiskeluhalujen vuoksi – Kouvolassa avautuvassa Hysteriamuseossa selviää, mitä yhteistä on sadan vuoden takaisilla potilaskuvilla ja nykypäivän muotiposeerauksilla
2020 Helsingin Sanomat, 17.1.2020, exhibition recommendation - Nämä näyttelyt kannattaa käydä katsomassa viikonloppuna: lastenhoitaja Vivian Maierin omakuvia ja fantastisia ruumisarkkuja
2020 Ny Tid, 13.1.2020, exhibition review - Konstkollen. Ambivalenser – kön, kirurgi och relationer
2019 Turun Sanomat, 16.8.2019, interview as a photography course teacher - Kuvien katsomista, valon tarkkailua ja halu oppia – Näistä aineksista syntyy hyvä kuva
2016 Turun Sanomat, 1.4.2016, interview about graduation exhibition - Hysterian kuvien jäljillä
2011 Turun Sanomat, interview about exhibition - Filmikuvaaminen luo jännitystä
Other selected artistic experience
Freelance Photographer since 2013
2021- Teacher of Documentary Photography course and creative photography course, Aurala, Turku
2019 Teacher of Järjestelmäkamera tutuksi, DSLR course, Turku Art Museum, Turku
2017– Teacher of Järkkäri Haltuun! - DSLR course, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
2016–2017 Photographer at IPIP - In Public In Particular, An International co-operation project of participatory situation based art, cofinanced by the Creative Europe Programme
2016-2017 Teacher of Digital Photography, Tuas Open University of Applied Sciences, Salo
2014 Internship as an assistant in Arteles Residency