SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION LAST TEN YEARS)
2024
In the Architect’s House – Elina Brotherus on Alvar Aalto, KØS Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Køge, Denmark.
Somebody Else, Théâtre La passerelle, Gap.
2023
Vies silencieuses, in Festival Planches Contact, Deauville (cat.).
Elina Brotherus – Space, Time, Movement; Aalto2 Museum Center, Jyväskylä Art Museum and Gallery Ratamo, Jyväskylä.
Over Seas, The Nordic Art Symphony Project, Kilden Concert Hall and Kunstsilo, Kristiansand.
Elina Brotherus, Joseph Beuys and René Block: Potato Planting – Transformations, Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau, Germany (cat.).
Artist as Clown, camara oscura galeria de arte, Madrid.
Face with Lipstick, Instituto Iberoamericano de Finlandia, Madrid.
Spaces and Places, Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki.
Large de vue, Arter, Istanbul.
Visitor, Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki (cat.).
2022
Les règles du je, Elina Brotherus et Sara Imloul, Manuel Rivera Ortiz Foundation, Rencontres de la photographie, Arles (cat).
Les règles du jeu, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon.
Elina Brotherus - In Reference to a Sunny Place, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main.
Living Spaces, Paimio Sanatorium, Paimio, Finland.
Dialogue, Elina Brotherus and Hannele Rantala, Finnish National Gallery Ateneum, Helsinki.
2021
Elina Brotherus, Ambassade de France en Cambodge, Photo Phnom Penh 2021, Phnom Penh.
Sebaldiana. Memento mori, Espace Diamant, Ajaccio, Corsica.
Sebaldiana. Memento mori, Musée de la Roche-sur-Yon hors les murs.
Baldessari in the Park, Château de Bois-Héroult, France, in Voisins de campagne #2.
Les règles du je, Galerie Confluence, Espace de photographie contemporaine, Nantes.
2020
Bad Camouflage, gb agency, Paris.
Why not?, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen.
The Avant-Garde Doesn’t Give Up, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen.
This Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life, La Filature, Mulhouse.
Sebaldiana. Memento mori, Museum of Bastia, Corsica.
2019
Les Femmes de la Maison Carré – Maison Louis Carré 60 Years, Finlandia Hall, Helsinki ; Lappia Hall, Rovaniemi (until 2020).
Running Past Camera – Running Toward Camera, camara oscura gallery, Madrid.
Playful Wanderer, Sorø Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark.
Playground, Fernán Gómez, Madrid (in PhotoEspana).
A New Sense of Order, camara oscura gallery, Madrid.
Elina Brotherus, Villa Vauban Musée d’Art de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
I Am Still Alive, Gallery Taik Persons, Berlin.
Elina Brotherus, Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo.
2018
Playground, Serlachius Museums, Mänttä, Finland.
It’s not me, it’s a photograph, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna.
Leikreglur / Rules of the Game, National Gallery of Island, Reykjavík ; Akureyri Art Museum (until 2019).
Mac Adams – Elina Brotherus, gb agency, Paris.
Règle du jeu, Galleria Heino, Helsinki.
2017
Girl under the Chestnut Tree. A Retrospective, Museum of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia.
Carpe Fucking Diem, Contretype, Centre pour la photographie contemporaine, Brussels.
Règle du jeu: Carte Blanche PMU, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
The Baldessari Assignments, Norrtälje Konsthall, Norrtälje, Sweden.
Time Pieces, Mindepartementet Art and Photography, Stockholm.
Elina Brotherus, Vida Museum & Konsthall, Öland, Sweden.
Elina Brotherus, Works 1998-2015, Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland.
2016
Role of the Model, Fotohof, Salzburg.
Large de vue. Hommage à Erik Satie, gb agency, Paris.
Elina Brotherus and SMITH, Landskrona Konsthall, Landskrona, Sweden.
La lumière venue du Nord / The Light from the North, Le Pavillon populaire, Montpellier, France.
Howl, Galleria Heino, Helsinki, with Victoria Schultz.
2015
Carpe Fucking Diem, gb agency, Paris.
Les Femmes de la Maison Carré, Maison Louis Carré, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France; Gallery Heino, Helsinki.
Annonciation, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen.
2014
12 ans après, The Wapping Project Bankside / Mayfair, London; Ama Gallery, Helsinki; Galeria camara oscura, Madrid.
2013
12 ans après, Optica center for contemporary art, in Mois de la Photo, Montréal; Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, in PhotoPhnomPenh.
Annonciation, gb agency, Paris.
Group shows (selection last ten years)
2024
Masks, Multiple Identities from Antiquity to Contemporary Art, Serlachius Museums, Mänttä (cat.).
Des exploits, des chefs-d’oeuvre, Frac Sud, Marseille.
In the Now: Gender and Nation in Europe, Selections from the Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection, Brooklyn Museum (cat.).
Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, Hayward Gallery Touring: Arnolfini, Bristol; Midlands Arts Centre (MAC), Birmingham; Millennium Gallery, Sheffield; Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA), Dundee (until 2025) (cat.).
Feels Like Home, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (cat.).
2023
Caspar David Friedrich, Kunst für eine neue Zeit, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (cat.).
Real Families: Stories of Change, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Handle with Care, Ludwig Museum, Budapest.
Dissonances visuelles – Collection Contretype, Contretype Centre pour la photographie contemporaine, Brussels.
At an Arm’s Length, 100 Years of Nordic Art from the Tangen Collection, Artipelag konstmuseum, Stockholm (cat.).
Mirror of Self, Hangar, Brussels.
2022
Fous de Proust, Château de Montsoreau Museum of Contemporary Art, Montsoreau, France.
WE ARE – Feminism belongs to all of us, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg.
CORSICA, images d’un territoire - collection centre méditerranéen de la photographie, Photaumnales, Beauvais/Clermont.
And I Trust You, Miettinen Collection – Salon Dahlmann, Berlin (cat.).
Dance! Movement in the Visual Arts 1880-2020, HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki (cat.).
Portrait of a Lady, Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation, Brussels.
Women and Change, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark (cat.).
Snowflakes and other surprises, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen ; Landskrona Foto, Landskrona, Sweden ; Nordic Photography Center, Oulu, Finland ; Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland (cat. ) (until 2024).
2021
In the Now: Gender and Nation in Europe, Selections from the Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles (cat.).
New Acquisitions, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek (cat.).
Mutter!, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim.
New Perspectives Through Photography, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki.
Matter-of-Fact, Voisins de campagne #2, Galerie Duchamp, Yvetot.
The New Beauty, Highlights from the Tangen Collection, Hämeenlinna Art Museum.
Mother! Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek.
In Extremis, Galerie Confluence, Espace de photographie contemporaine, Nantes.
Made on Föhr, Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum, Föhr, Germany.
2020
On Celestial Bodies, Arter, Istanbul.
like a luminous animal, Solid Art, Taipei.
Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok.
Berührend, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen.
Resonance, New Works Commissioned by the Wapping Project, Stal Gallery, Muscat, Oman.
Frischer Wind auf dem Norden!, Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lübeck.
2019
Activity of Matter, gb agency, Paris.
Words Are Very Unnecessary, Arter, Istanbul.
What Are You Looking At, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek.
Finnish Aalto, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea.
Mostly Happy. Finnish Art Today, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
Lignes de vie – une exposition de legends, MAC/VAL – musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne.
The Illusion Machine / La fabrique des illusions, Musée Sursock, Beirut ; MUCEM, Marseille.
2018
Considering Finland, PORT 25 Raum für Gegenwartskunst, Mannheim (cat.).
Lumières Nordiques, Abbaye de Jumièges, France (cat.).
Je t’aime, je t’aime, La Collection Lambert hors les murs, Montévideo, Marseille.
2017
Paysages français, une aventure photographique 1984-2017, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Site François-Mitterrand, Paris.
Sans réserve, 8th exhibition of the museum collection MAC VAL Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne.
France(s), Liquid Territory, Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
2016
L’oeil de l’expert, La photographie contemporaine, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône.
above the ARTic circle, Kaviarfabriken, Henningsvaer, Lofoten, Norway (cat.).
Portrait de l'artiste en Alter, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen.
Sobreexposición, MAC Museo de arte contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile; EAC, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Bruxelles à l'infini, Photographies de la Collection Contretype, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris.
Le temps de l'audace et de l'engagement - de leur temps. Collections privées françaises, Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbaine / Rhône-Alpes, France.
2015
Camera of Wonders, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City ; MAMM Medellín Museum of Modern Art, Colombia.
Henri Cartier-Bresson e gli altri - i grandi fotografi e l'Italia, Palazzo della Ragione, Milano.
Waterscapes, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel.
Ich kenne kein Weekend. Archive and Collection René Block, Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin ; Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria.
Remember Lidice, Edition Block, Berlin ; Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany ; Lidice Museum, Czech Republic.
A Room of One's Own, Yancey Richardson, New York City.
Touching from a Distance, Serlachius Museum, Mänttä, Finland.
Selfie, Brandts Museum of art and visual culture, Odense, Denmark.
Voyage to the Virtual, Scandinavia House, New York City.
2014
Potretti, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt.
France(s), territoire liquide, TriPostal, Lille.
2013
Home Truths, The Photographers’ Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Belfast Exposed (until 2014).
Kiasma Hits, Kiasma Museum of Contemporry Art, Helsinki.
L'altro ritratto, MART, Rovereto.
Biennial Fotografica Bogotá, MAMBO Museo de Arte Moderna de Bogotá.
The World of Art and Work, Städtische Galerie Waldkreiburg.
Ladies & Gentlemen, Kameran som spegel, Moderna Museet Malmö, Malmö, Sweden.
2012
Self-Portrait, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark.
New Nordic - Arkitektur & identitet, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark.
Sense of Place, European landscape photography, Bozar Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.
Out of Focus, Saatchi Gallery, London.
Only You Only Me, Images of Love, Love of the Image, Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts, Musée d’art moderne et d’art contemporain MAMAC, Liège, Belgium.
State of the Art - New Contemporary Photography, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf.
Public collections (selection)
Aalto University, Espoo / Aine Art Museum, Tornio / Amos Rex, Helsinki / ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj / Arter, Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul / Artothèques of Angers, Brest and Roche-sur-Yon / 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 Colecctión Isabel y Agustín Coppel, Mexico City / Collection Lambert, Avignon / Collection Neuflize / Corcoran Gallery, Washington / Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki / DZ Bank, Frankfurt am Main / EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo / European Parliament’s Contemporary Art Collection, Brussels / Finland’s Permanent Delegation to the OECD, Paris / Finnish State Art Collection / Fondation Kadist, Paris / FRAC Alsace, Sélestat / 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 / HAM Helsinki Art Museum / Han Nefkens H+F Collection, Barcelona / Hasselblad Center, Gothemburg / Heino Art Foundation, Helsinki / Hämeenlinna Art Museum / Jyväskylä City Art Collection / Kells Collection, Murcia / Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki / KORO Kunst i Offentlige Rom - Public Art Norway / Kunstsilo, Tangen Collection, Kristiansand / LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection / Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek / MAC VAL Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine / Malmö Art Museum / MAXXI, Rome / Miettinen Collection, Berlin-Helsinki / Moderna Museet, Stockholm / Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg / Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon / Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne / Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône / Museo da Imagem, Braga / Museum Folkwang, Essen / Museum Schloss Moyland, Begburg-Hau / NSM Vie, Paris / Oulu Art Museum / Rafaela Seppälä Collection, Helsinki / Saastamoinen Foundation, Espoo / Saatchi Collection, London / Serlachius Museums, Mänttä / Société Générale, Paris / SOK Art Collection, Helsinki / Solid Art, Taipei / Sorø Kunstmuseum, Sorø / South Carelia Art Museum, Lappeenranta / StatoilHydro, Stavanger / Swedish State Art Collection / Tampere City Art Museum / The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki / Västerås Art Museum / Wihuri Foundation, Rovaniemi
MONOGRAPHS
Brotherus Block Beuys. Preface Ina Brandes, Introduction Antje-Britt Mählmann, Short story Eugenie Shinkle, Essay Thomas Heyden, Interviews Antje-Britt Mählmann with Elina Brotherus, Antje-Britt Mählmann with René Block, Elina Brotherus with Emil Schult. Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau and Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2023/2024.
Visitor. Introduction Maria Didrichsen, Essay Helen Korpak. Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki 2023.
Sebaldiabna. Memento mori. Introduction Elina Brotherus, Text quotes by G.W. Sebald. Self-published, Helsinki 2022.
Seabound. A Logbook. Essays Nicolai Tangen, Timo Valjakka and Elina Brotherus. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg and AKO Kunststiftelse, Kristiansand, 2021.
Why not? Essays Janneke de Vries, Ingo Clauss and Guido Boulboullé. Hirmer Verlag and Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen 2020.
Playground. Essay Susan Bright. Parvs Publishing, Helsinki 2018.
Règle du jeu. Essays Abigail Solomon-Godeau and Karolina Lewandowska. Filigranes Editions, Paris 2017.
La lumière venue du Nord. Essay Gilles Mora, Interview Elina Heikka & Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger with Elina Brotherus. Hazan/Hachette, Montpellier 2016.
Carpe Fucking Diem. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2015.
Les Femmes de la Maison Carré. Essay Susanna Pettersson. La Maison Louis Carré, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne and Galleria Heino, Helsinki, 2015.
12 ans après. Short story Riikka Ala-Harja. Sémiosquare, Helsinki 2014.
Artist and her model. Essay Susan Bright, Timo Kelaranta. Le caillou bleu, Brussels 2012.
Etudes d'après modèle, danseurs. Essay Marc Donnadieu, interview: Patrick Scemama with Elina Brotherus. Les éditions Textuel, Paris 2007.
The New Painting. Essays Susanna Pettersson and Andrea Holzherr, Interview Sheyi Antony Bankale with Elina Brotherus. Next Level, London 2005.
Decisive Days, valokuvia-photographies-photographs 1997-2001. Interview Jan Kaila with Elina Brotherus. Kustannus Pohjoinen, Oulu 2002.
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