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CV<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kaija Hinkula
Finland
kaijah (@) gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOW \/ UPCOMING<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2026 Ama Gallery, FI (solo)
2026 Blah Blah Gallery, US (group)
2026 Kemi Art Museum, FI (group)
2026 ARToulu Art Area, FI site specific installation
2025 Resident, ISCP, New York, US, supported by Helsinki Art Academy & Saastamoinen Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOLO EXHIBITIONS ( SELECTED )<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2024 Gardener, Turku Art Hall FI
2023 Stargazer, Ham Gallery, Helsinki Art Museum FI
2023 Boulder Star, Pragovka Gallery, Praque CZ
2023 CORNER, Woikka Contemporary FI
2022 Play, Oulu Art Museum FI
2021 Fire Hose 50 Bar, Forum Box, Helsinki FI
2019 Builder, Gallery Harmaja, Oulu FI
2018 Matter, Huuto Gallery, Helsinki FI
2016 Indian Express, TM Gallery, Helsinki FI
2015 Journey, Gallery Katariina, Helsinki FI
2015 Journey, KOUTA Gallery, Art Museum Poikilo, Kouvola FI
2014 The Butterfly Effect, Gallery M\u00e4ltinranta, Studio, Tampere FI<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2025 Korttelit, Helsinki FI
2025 A House in Translation, Chengdu, China
2025-2026 Kumma Museum, FI (group)
2025 Industra, Brno, CZ ( Hinkula & Aho)

2025 Sirkka Biennale, Sirkka, FI
2025 Helsinki Design Week, Helsinki FI
2025 ISCP Open Studios, NY, US

2024 Material World, Monumentaal Gallery, Tarto Art House, EE
2024 House Party!, SIC, Helsinki FI
2024 Dreams of Abyss, Galleri Knipsu, Bergen NO
2024 Terder Ties, Kunstraum T\/abor, Wien AT

2023 Under Conditions, KCCC, Klaipeda LT
2023 Syyssalonki, TM Gallery, Helsinki FI
2023 On Furlough – My Paracosmic Playdate Reality Show, Festung Hohensalzburg, Salzburg AT

2022 Zoning, SIC, Helsinki FI
2022 Serlachius Residency, M\u00e4ntt\u00e4 FI
2022 PADA Gallery, Lisbon PT
2022 Pori Biennale, Visitors, Helsinki FI

2021-2022 Nordisk Salong, Helsingborg SE
2021 Supermarket Art Fair, TM Galleria, Stockholm SE
2021 International festival of Manuports, Kohta Art Hall, Helsinki FI

2020 Kuvan Kev\u00e4t, MA Degree Show of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki FI

2019 Karuselli, Tm Gallery, Helsinki FI
2019 Finnish Painters` Union 90 years, Art Museum of Lappeenranta FI
2019 Finnish Painters`union 90 years, Galleria 5 FI

2018 Kerronta, Art Center Haihara, Tampere FI
2018 Home called Krimi, art in to-be-demolished house, Art Center Krimi, Imatra FI

2017 Kyll\u00e4, Art Museum of Riihim\u00e4ki FI
2017 Katajainen Kansa, art in to-be-demolished house, M\u00e4ntyharju FI
2017 Decadence, Gallery Krimi FI

2016 ARS K\u00e4rs\u00e4m\u00e4ki FI
2016 Pohjaveed, Monumentaalgalerie, Tartu Kunstimaja EE
2016 Works on Paper, DLUL, Ljubljana SI
2016 5000m2, art in to-be-demolished house, Lappeenranta FI

2015 Exhale, Galerie Pleiku, Berlin, Germany (Hinkula & Per\u00e4kyl\u00e4) DE
2015 Matka, Art Museum of Imatra FI

2014 The snowball Effect II, biennal of Northern Finland, Art Museum of Rovaniemi FI
2014 Growth, The Art Of Basware – competition for young artists, Music center, Helsinki FI
2014 It\u00e4\u00e4, Gallery Rantakasarmi, Helsinki FI

2013 Connections, The Art of Basware- competition for young artists, Helsinki Music Center, Helsinki FI
2013 ArSboretum13 – “Temporary happiness ja muita tarinoita”, Kemi\u00f6 FI
2013 Inner Landscapes, Tartu Kunstimaja, Tartu EE

2012 Second Ground, Loov Gallery, Tallinn (Hinkula & Per\u00e4kyl\u00e4) EE
2012 The Snowball Effect, Biennal of Northern Finland, Art Museum of Oulu FI
2012 Billn\u00e4s Young Artists, Billn\u00e4s FI

2011 Art Museum of O.Jauhiainen, Kiiminki FI
2009 Riskiryhm\u00e4, The Cable Factory, Helsinki FI

2008 Staalkaart, Amersfoort NL
2008 Riskiryhm\u00e4, Art Museum of Imatra FI<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EDUCATION<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2021 Master of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
2008 South Carelia University of Applied Sciences, visual artist
2006 University of Granada, Fine Arts, Spain
2003\u20132004 Liminka Art School<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WORK IN COLLECTIONS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

HAM Helsinki Art Museum
The Collection of Finnish State Art Commision
HUS Art Collection
Art Museum of Oulu
Art Museum of Kuopio
Finnish Art Society, annual art lottery 2018, 2024
City of Amersfoort, Netherlands
Helia Foundation
SEK
Art Center Salmela
City of M\u00e4ntyharju
Osuuskauppa Suur-Savo
Vyborg\u00b4s artist Studio
Billn\u00e4s Ruukki
Saskiat Oulu
Pique Nique Helsinki<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GRANTS \/ STIPENDS \/ PRIZES<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2026-2028 working grant, Arts Promotion Center Finland
2025 Fine Arts Academy of Finland Foundation Prize
2025 Stipendiat ISCP New York, Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts & Saastamoinen Foundation <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finnish Cultural Foundation
Arts Council of Finland
Finnish Art Society
Kordelin Foundation
Helsinki Art Academy
VISEK
Art Council of Pohjois-Pohjanmaa & Kainuu
Frame
City of Oulu
Saskiat Oulu
Oulu Valistustalo
City of Imatra
Osuuskauppa Suur-Savo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RESIDENCIES<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2022 Serlachius Residency, Finland
2022 PADA Sudios, Portugal
2016 Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
2013 Kemij\u00e4rvi, Finland
2012 Kochi, India
2010 Vyborg, Russia
2010 Fundacion Valparaiso, Spain
2008 Kunstenaarslogies, Amersfoort, Netherlands<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PUBLIC WORKS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Oulu City Hall, 2024
Kummeli, public sculpture, Oulu, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OTHER<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2022 OuluDanceHack22, multidiciplinary artists group by Taikabox, Oulu, FI
2019 Bones of Amelia, Valvegallery , Oulu (multdiciplinary installaton\/performance)
2016 Ocean, light\/paintng installatons, Lumo Light festval, Oulu, with Mika Kiviniemi<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MEMBERSHIPS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Forum Box
Art Assosiation of Oulu
Finish painter`s union
Mehil\u00e4ispes\u00e4 Ry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

POSITION OF TRUST<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Board of Finnish Painters Union 2020-2021
Representatives of the Artists’ Association of Finland 2019-2020, 2021-2022
Chairman of Art assosiation of Oulu 2015\u20132016
Board of Art assosiation of Oulu 2010\u20132012
Vice-Chairman of Art assosiation of Oulu 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BIO<\/h2>\n\n\n\n


Finnish contemporary artist Kaija Hinkula (b. 1984) works within the field of expanded painting, exploring and stretching of painting\u2019s form and structure. Her works extend beyond the traditional painting object, often evolving in dialogue with the surrounding space and environment. Through her works, she engages with ideas of alternative world orders, creating playful spaces for play and imagining different realities. Her practice consists of sculptural paintings, installations, and video performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hinkula received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, in 2021. She has held solo exhibitions at venues such as Pragovka in Prague, HAM Gallery in Helsinki, Forum Box, and Oulu Art Museum. Her works have also been shown in numerous group exhibitions, including at SIC and the Pori Biennale. In 2025, she was an artist-in-residence at ISCP in New York with the support of the Saastamoinen Foundation and the Academy of Fine Arts, and she received the shared Fine Arts Academy of Finland Foundation Prize. In 2026, she will begin working with a three-year artist grant from the Arts Promotion Center
Finland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The sculptural and architectural expressions of Hinkula\u2019s practice act as spatial extensions of the artist\u2019s investigation into the medium of painting. Precisely executed, Hinkula creates fantastically uncanny scenes that are inhabited by abstract yet humorous characters. There is a specific colour palette applied to each presentation of her work, which creates a stage-like scene, where her works as protagonists dominate. In her most recent practice, she investigates the theme of the garden, a vision and breeding ground for new ideas and utopias. The garden symbolises hope, the imagining of a new world, full of potential and possibilities in which her expanded paintings, sculptures and ready-mades celebrate nature\u2019s order and chaos, appearance and disappearance as well as blossoming and decay, even joy and horror.”<\/em> \u2013 Mamie Beth Cary (the Director of von Bartha in Copenhagen DK) and Claire Mary Anne Gould ( A Chief Curator in Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg DK)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Hinkula blends different worlds together in uninhibited ways creating playfull fantasies, so the severity or restraint often linked to minimalism is not present here. Readymade and handmade as well as two-dimensional and three-dimensional are both contradictions that the artist combines together one work at a time. This time, spatiality is present inside the paintings, where audience can peek into, thanks to the holes cut in the surface. On one hand, Hinkula\u2019s works bring to mind parallels to cubistic ideas or Brazilian concretism of the 1910s, but they also seem to fit well in this time and place while also reaching towards the future sci-fi aesthetics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the artist asks if it would be possible to imagine alternative realities and word orders, the answer is yes. And she proves this through her works and exhibitions, showing how art is always a form or dissidence and rethinking. Hinkula takes her audience into an experience that reveals surprising directions and views. She does not offer a static style or expression, but rather shows the fantasty-like views born in her studio. Hinkula\u2019s workspace does not have a chair, because the artist never remains still and is always in motion. The same applies to her art, described as \u2018malleable geometry\u2019 or a \u2018place between realities\u2019. Stargazer \u00e0 la Kaija Hinkula takes the viewer to galaxies far, far away, simply by sight. This, if anything, is fantastic minimalism.\u201d – Ph.D. Juha-Heikki Tihinen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The paintings and installations of Kaija Hinkula are constructed by compiling everyday industrial material and objects in vivid and intense colors. The visual landscape, or perhaps cityscape, she presents is surprising, joyous, and triggers our imagination. Experiencing Hinkula\u2019s sculptural environment like spatial and temporal painting expands and challenges our perception of our regular environment while making us think about what structural globalization does to the individual. The work reflects on our reality, and our perception of our society and how we operate in it.\u201d  – Power Ekroth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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