KARRI KUOPPALA

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K A R R I    K U O P P A L A

Karri Kuoppala (b. 1976, Helsinki) is a visual artist currently based in Helsinki, Finland. In addition to his solo work in painting and video, Kuoppala has since 2009 worked as an artist duo together with Muriel Kuoppala (former Lässer) as KARIEL. Kuoppala studied Visual Communication in the U.K., Fine Arts in ZHGK in Zurich and in the department of painting in the Finnish Academy of Fine Art where he received his MFAs in 2008. Kuoppala has exhibited at the Kiasma Museum in Helsinki, with Mobile Art Production in Stockholm, in Malmö Konsthall, Living Art Museum in Reykjavik, European Social and Economic Committee in Brussels, Helsinki Kunsthalle and Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland. He had solo exhibitions at SIC, Huuto and Kluuvi Galleries in Helsinki. His works arein the collections of Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki Art Museum, Finnish Art Association, in the Seppo Fränti Collection and in private collections. Karri Kuoppala is a co-founder of the artist run exhibition space SIC in Helsinki and was a member until 2013.
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C U R R I C U L U M   V I T A E
Karri Kuoppala,
Visual Artist
b. 1976 in Helsinki, currently living and working in Glarus, Switzerland

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Education:

2001 – 08 MFA, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Painting, Helsinki, Finland
2004      Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Bildende Kunst, Zürich, Switzerland
1999 – 00 Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia, New Media Design, Helsinki, Finland
1997 – 99 The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, Visual Communication, (CertHE), UK
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Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2014 Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
2012 Experiments with Light, SIC Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2009 Daydreams and Nightmares, Gallery Huuto, Helsinki, Finland
2008 A Dieu, Helsinki City Art Museum / Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2007 Faster than 24 fps, Gallery Huoltamo, Tampere, Finland
2006 Solo Show, Gallery FAFA, Helsinki, Finland
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Selected Group Exhibitions:

2018 Graffiti, Helsinki Art Museum – HAM
2017 Throwing Snow into a Circle, Kunthaus Glarus, Switzerland / KARIEL
2016 Kunstschaffen Glarus, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland
2015 New Glarus, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland / KARIEL
2015 Blind Date, Alabama Sir, Leipzig, Saksa
2014 Klöntal Triennale 2014 - A Place Like This, Klöntalersee, Sveitsi / KARIEL
2014 Hit Me Where It Hurts, Stiftung BINZ39, Zurich
2013 24 Spaces, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
2013 GSB 5 Years, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, Sweden
2013 Kunstschaffen I – Q , Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
2012 Reality Bites, Collection exhibition of Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
2012 Camouflage, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki / KARIEL
2010 Windows Installations, Helsinki Design Week, Finland / KARIEL
2010 Infrastructures and Territories, Zhou B. Art Center, Chicago, USA / KARIEL
2010 Sihlhallenstrasse Neunzehn, Zürich, Switzerland / KARIEL
2010 Diamond palaa, Pori, Finland / KARIEL
2010 Urban Studies, The Nut Lab, Shanghai, China
2009 Forest, Public Media Institute / Co-Prosperity Spere, Chicago, USA
2009 Think about Death, Stockholm Culture Festival / Mobile Art Production, Stockholm, Sweden
2009 Innocent when Dreaming, Myymälä2, Helsinki, Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, Oro, Gothenburg
2008 Liebe Malarei, maler me!, Showroom X, Helsinki, Finland
2008 Ex Vandals, Kiasma / Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki, Finland
2008 I’ve got a Feeling We are not in Kansas Anymore, Gallery FAFA, Helsinki, Finland
2007 Yeah-yeah-yeah, URB festival, Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki, Finland
2007 No Way Out, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Island
2007 the 10th Istanbul Biennale/ Nightcomers -project, Istanbul, Turkey
2007 What Next?!, European Economic and Social Committee, Bruxelles, Belgium
2006 Collaborations on Site, ARS IV workshop, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
2006 Mänttä XI Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland
2006 Degree Show of Finnish Academy of Arts, Helsinki Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
2006 Finnish Artists’ 111. Exhibition: Nuoret 2006, Helsinki Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
2006 Fokus Finland, Kultur Büro Barcelona and Carmelitas, Barcelona, Spain
2006 Exociti, Taksim area public space, Istanbul, Turkey
2005 First We Take Museums, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
2005 Bull’s Eye, Swell Gallery, San Fransisco, USA
2004 Continental Breakfast – How-2-End-a-Message, Gallery Zvono, Belgrad, Serbia
2004 Nordur og Nidur, Nordens Hus, Reykjavik, Island
2003 Kuvasto, Public art project, Helsinki, Finland
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Arranging and curating exhibitions

2008 Ex Vandals, co-curated w. Timo Vaittinen, Kiasma Theatre, (Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art), Helsinki
2004 Helsinki Hall of Fame, co-curated, Gallery Myymälä2, Helsinki, Finland
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Works in Public Collections:

Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Finnish Art Association's Collection, Finland
The Seppo Fränti Collection
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Prizes:

2013 Fokuspreis, Kunsthaus Glarus
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Selected grants and Stipendium:

2014 Swisslos Kulturfonds
2012 Finnish Art Council
2010 Uusimaa Art Council, Finnish Art Council
2009 Finnish Art Council, FRAME – Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, Finnish Art Council
2008 Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Majaoja Foundation, Uusimaa Art Council
2007 VISEK, Nordic Culture Point, Finnish Art Council, Finnish Art Association
2006 Helsinki City Culture Board, FRAME, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts / Kesko Stipendium, Finnish Art Council
2005 Finnish Academy of Fine Arts
2004 Finnish Art Council
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Memberships:

Finnish Painter’s Union,
SIC Helsinki, co-founder, member until 2013
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Selected Bibliography

2014 Artline Kunstmagazine – http://magazin.artline.org/607-kariel
2014 Südostschweiz, 8th December 2014, review – Fokus KARIEL
2014 Die Zeit, 31st July 2014, review – Klöntal Triennale 2014
2012 Reality Bites, exhibition catalogue, Kiasma
2012 Camouflage, exhibition catalogue, Kiasma
2008 Haapala, Leevi: “What a Painting!”, Taidemaalaus, Näitkö 2008 – Näyttely 2008
2008 Seikkula, Aura: Karri Kuoppala – Artist of the Month July 2008, FRAME / Spotligh
2005 Bomsdorf, Clemens: “Vandalen, Tierbestatter – Und Pupsgeräusche”, Art Das
Kunstmagasin

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