SEMINAR WITH ELINA BROTHERUS & SVANTE GULLICHSEN Accomplished Finnish photographer Elina Brotherus meets emerging Finnish talent Svante Gullichsen to introduce their works and approaches in photography.
© Elina Brotherus, Portrait Series (Gelbe Musik with Sunflowers), 2016
© Elina Brotherus, Arabian Landscape with a North-European Woman Trying to Blend In (Tree), 2019, commissioned by The Wapping Project, London.
Date: September 4th, 2020 Time: 2:30-5:30pm Place: Auditorium of The National Museum of Finland Language: English Watch the video here Elina Brotherus (b. 1972, Helsinki, Finland) works in photography and moving image. Her work has been alternating between autobiographical and art-historical approaches. Photographs dealing with the human figure and the landscape, the relation of the artist and the model, gave way to images on subjective experiences in her recent bodies of work Annonciation and Carpe Fucking Diem. In her current work she is revisiting Fluxus event scores and other written instructions for performance-oriented art of the 1950s-70s. Another ongoing interest is photographing in private houses by architects like Alvar Aalto, Friedensreich Hundertwasser or Michel Polak, where Brotherus takes roles of various imagined characters and brings a tranquil human presence to these iconic spaces. Elina Brotherus started exhibiting internationally in 1997. The artist’s works are in 66 different public collections and she has published ten monographs. Elina Brotherus lives and works in Helsinki, Finland and Avallon, France. She has an MA degree in Photography (2000) from theUniversity of Art and Design Helsinki (now Aalto University) and an MSc in Chemistry (1997) from the University of Helsinki. Her works are in public collections including the Pompidou Centre, Paris, Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Saatchi Collection, London and MAXXI, Rome, to name a few. Her work has been given prominence in numerous art and photography books and magazines. She has published ten monographs, most recently Why Not?, published by Hirmer Verlag and Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen 2020 and Playground, a limited edition hand-made box featuring 80 works from her exhibition at Serlachius Museum, Finland. She has been awarded, among others, Carte blanche PMU, France, in 2017, the Finnish State Prize for Photography in 2008, and the Prix Niépce in 2005.
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© Elina Brotherus, Plage de Sebald 3, one half of the diptych, 2019
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