Maria Duncker
born 1963
Curriculum Vitae
Education
1985-88 University of Industrial Art, ceramics
1988-92 Academy of Fine Arts, sculpture, mixed media
Solo exhibitions
2023 Galleri A2, studio, Helsinki
2019 Sinne, Helsinki
2012 XL-Artspace Helsinki
2010 Design and architecture gallery, Tallinn, Estonia 2010 Finlands huset, Stockholm
2009 Hiap Project room, Helsinki
2001 Finland Institute, Tallinn, Estonia
1999 Albertinkatu 19, Helsinki
1998 Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki
1996 Gallery of Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki 1995 Gallery Kluuvi, Helsinki with Mia Wallenius 1995 LXX, Århus, Denmark
1994 Muu-gallery, Helsinki with Tuomo Puranen
Group exhibitions
2022 Sinebrychoff Art Museum,
Under the Cherry Blossom- Japanese Woodblock Prints Video, Bloom
2022 Rise an shine, Mänttä art festival, Artemisia Vulgaris art-group
2021 ergs, Sar, igs, Glasshouse, curated by Anna Tuori
2021 Conpanions, Forum Box, Helsinki, with Mimosa pale, Ilona Valkoinen and Niina Lehtonen-Braun, curated by Cristin Luke and Minna Haukka / Feminist library
2021 Rönsy, Art Häme, Hämeenlinna, curated by Pilvi Ojala and Pauliina TurakkaPurhanen
2020 Emma, Touch, Collection exhibition
2019 Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä
2018 Serlachius-museum, Kiven Aika, Mänttä
2018 Säätiöpäivä, Saastamoisen säätiö,Narikkatori performance with Anne Hiekkarannan
2018 HilbertRaum,Berlin Wild Angelicas and the Feminist Library
2017 Taju, Hyvinkään taidemuseo
2017 Portrait-In, ART FAIR SUOMI ’17Helsinki, with Anne Hiekaranta
2016 Portrait-In, Helsinki, with Anne Hiekaranta and Niina Rinta-Opas
2016 Boutique Art Couture, Gislaved Arthall, Sweden, with Maximilian Latva
2016 Neodada festival, Mad House Helsinki, Smörgås patrull with Anne Hiekaranta
2015 Art Fair Suomi, Kaapelitehdas;Helsinki, with Maximilian Latva
2015 Blaue Frau, Diana-stage,opening performance with Maximilian Latva
2015 Melo-Nights, Loviisa music-performance with Mimosa Pale and Jukka Rusanen
2015 Kuusi-Kuusi, Vartiosaari, peformance with Jukka Rusanen
2015 Haihatus,Joutsa exhibition and opening-performance with Maximilian Latva
2014 Mad House, Helsinki, Terveryhmän Pakkohoitola
2014 Kuopio Art Museum, Mahtavat menopelit
2014 Paikkar Performance, Lohja
2014 “Puss & Dra åt helvete” Eckerö, Åland
2014 Esitystaiteen markkinat, Zodiak, Helsinki
2014 “Heponauta”, Hyvinkää Art Museum
2014 Art Couture Taidevaatekauppa Huutogalleria, Helsinki, Super Market, Stockholm
2013 Post Konst, Sorbus Taidegalleria, Helsinki
2013 Vilke,Kerava Art museum Sinkka, Kerava
2013 Taiteiden yö,Kallvik, Helsinki,performance with Anne Hiekkaranta
2013 Kilju! festival, Helsinki, co-production with Anne Hiekkaranta
2012 Konst Paketering, Forum Box,Helsinki
2012 Jumalan selän takana, Muu Gallery,Helsinki
2012 International teletext festival, ARD text page & Pflüger 68,Berlin
2012 Konst Parkings, Helsinki
2012 Floating Gardens, Fiskars Village
2012 Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä
2012 Jump Cut,Gallerie Suvi Lehtinen,Berlin
2011 Konstpaketering, Kiasma,Helsinki
2011 Reflective Shadow, Ordrupgaard,Copenhagen
2011 REVOLT, Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary,Helsinki
2011 IMAGES CONTRE NATURE 11festival Marseille
2011 Rappiotaiteen festivaali, Helsinki
2010 Aktiver Düsterismus, Suomesta Gallery,Berlin
2010 Muu-gallery, Helsinki
2010 Highlights-100th Anniversary of the Association of Finnish Sculptors, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku 2010 Diamond, Pori
2010 Tales from the forest, Viseruns Art hall, Viserum,Sweden
2009 Forces of light, Helsinki
2009 Pää Pyörällä, Gallen-kallela Art Museum
2009 Hard Rocks, Helsinki
2009 Ars Fennica,Kumu,Tallinn
2008 Sabotanic Garden ,Hever,Musikaali Jokapäivän Elämästä ja Kuolemasta
2008 Ars Fennica,Amos Anderson Art museum,Helsinki
2008 Bunker Fest, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2008 Plan B, Bologna
2008 “Harvat ja Valitut 2 ” art&dance, consept coreograph Harri Kuorenlahti
2008 Finnimate!Tennis Palace Art Museum,Helsinki
2007 Pop-upp, Tapiolan kulttuuritalo, Espoo
2007 Alkovi-galleria, Helsinki
2007 Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki
2007 Åland Art Museum, Maarianhamina
2007 Puska, Nurmijärvi
2007 Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki
2007 Forum Box, Helsinki
2007 Rusakko gallery, Helsinki
2006 Kauppala, cityproject, performance with Vera Nevanlainna, Helsinki
2006 Potato-art at Tyrnävä School
2006 Gallery Sinne, performance with Vera Nevanlinna, Helsinki,
2006 Regional exhibition, with Vera Nevanlinna, Kamppi Shopping Center, Helsinki
2006 Contemporary Finnish Sculpture in the Töölönlahti Bay Area, Helsinki
2006 Mänttä Art Festival
2006 Placing Sense, Muu Gallery, Helsinki
2006 The Faraway Nearby: Multimedia Show from Finland, White Box, New York
2006 Vera, Mariehamn filmfestival, Balkbaletten, performance with Rita Jokiranta
2006 Cold Climate, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik
2005 Harvat ja Valitut, Art&Dance, concept choreograph Harri Kuorenlahti 2005 The Flower of Calla and Other Petals, Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki
2005 Bayennale, San Fransisco, USA
2005 Accelerate, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma
2005 Accelerate, Kunsthalle Helsinki
2005 Fractures of life, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
2004 300 m3, Gothenburg, Sweden
2004 Cold Climate, ATP Gallery, London
2004 GOKANN – The 109th Exhibition of Finnish Artists, 4th Triennial, Kunsthalle Helsinki
2004 View 2004, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
2003 Pienen kuusen laulu, with Vera Nevanlinna, Ateneum-sali, Helsinki
2003 GOKANN – The 109th Exhibition of Finnish Artists, 4th Triennial, Kyoto, Japan
2003 AV-arkki, club event, Kunsthalle Helsinki
2003 Nordic Live Art, Gothenburg, Sweden
2003 KEKSI, Lahti
2003 Mänttä Art Festival
2002 Nordic House, Reykjavik
2002 Mänttä Art Festival
2002 Off skene – 4th Triennial of Finnish Photography, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki
2002 Kantri ja urbaani, Lappeenranta
2001 Pilluralli, camera obscura drives with Vera Nevanlinna
2001 Slide show for orchestra OP:l Bastards, Cargo, London
2001 Taju, Hyvinkää Artists’ Association, Hyvinkää
2001 Insider Trading, London
2001 Otso, Espoo, opening performance
2000 Nordic Postmodernism, Museum for Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
2000 Avanto festival, Helsinki
2000 Feeling the City, camera obscura drives with Vera Nevanlinna, MUU ry, Helsinki
2000 Skulpturens hus, opening performances, Stockholm
2000 Village People, with Valka Ingolfdotter , HEART-project, Vantaa
2000 Pic-Nic Science, with Valka Ingolfdotter , HEART-project, Reykjavik
2000 StandArt – nordicliveart.org, performance, Gothenburg, Sweden
1997 Mental Metro, performance, MUU ry Project
1997 Puhelu, with Kaisu Paavilainen , Helsinki City Art Museum
1996 Postmorality – Art for Gamblers, Sofia
1996 Puhelu, with Kaisu Paavilainen, Tampere City Art Museum
1996 Globe, Copenhagen
1996 Icescape Competition, with Kaisu Paavilainen and Olli-Pekka Merimaa, Oulu
1995 Peli, with Kaisu Paavilainen, Helsinki
1995 Imaamin keinutuoli, with Kaisu Paavilainen, Helsinki
1993 Naisen nauru, with Anne Siirtola, Helsinki
1993 With Anne Siirtola, Sortavala, Russia
1993 Galleria Artteli, with Anne Siirtola, Joensuu
1991 Oronsko Workshop and exhibition, Poland
Public art
2022 Harjula Campus, Järvenpää (Järvenpää Art Museum)
2013 300 years St Petersburg`s anniversary park
2010 Salmisaari, Helsinki (Helsinki City Art Museum)
2009 Söderlångvik, Kimito (Amos Andersson)
2005 Annantalo, Helsinki (Helsinki City Art Museum)
Selected video festivals and screenings
2019
-Festival of Different and Experimental Cinemas, Paris
2018
-The camp of the 2000, Tampere Film Festival
2017
-UnderDox, ”unknown Gestures: Finnish Experimental Shorts”, Munich
2016
-Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2015
-Savonlinna international nature film festival Joensuu Art Museum ; Twist and Turns -Love&Anarchy film festival, Helsinki
2014
-Hard Thawing – expérimental film and Video from Finland, National Gallery of Art, Washington
-Videokunst fra Finland, Bumuldfabriken, Arendal
-Cologne International Women`s Film festival, Dortmund Open Air Filfest Weiterstadt
-Vera Film festival, Mariehamn
2013
-Carte Blanch,Andorra,Helsinki Vera Film festival, Marieham
2011
-Anthology Film Archive,New York
-Kratkofil, International Film Festival
IMAGES CONTRE NATURE 11festival Marseille
-Circulations Centralen, Malmö
-International Filmfestival Rotterdam
-Norrtälje Konsthall
-D-udval gallery, Budapest
-Surpas Festival, Portbou, Spain
2010
-Kettupäivät,Helsinki
-International festival of new film-Split,Croatia Tampere International Film Festival
2009
-VIDEOEX-festival, Zürich Forum Box, Helsinki
-Out of context, Berlin SAUMA,Stavanger, Norway
2007
-Amos Anderson Art Museum,Helsinki
-View 07
2006
-Vera, Mariehamn Åland
Helsinki Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gotland, Visby, Sweden
-View 06, Korjaamo
-AV-arkki tour 2006
-Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden
-Screening 19, Tampere International Film Festival
-Breaking the Ice, Kunstmuseum Bonn
-Arktisen Upeeta, Jyväskylä
-Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany
-Why Perform? installation Trondheim, Norway
-Film Fylkingen, Stockholm
-Video/Economy Distributions in Global Format,
The ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany
2005
-Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
-AV-ARKKI: R&A Screen, Helsinki
-Helsinki International, Korjaamo, Helsinki
-Expo 2005, Club Aurora, Nagoya, Japan
-From the midnight sun… – Finnish Contemporary Art Videos,
-K2 Art Center, Izmir, Turkey
-Contemporary Art, Warszaw
-A Good Day Today, Finnish Video Art, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art,
Gdansk, Poland
-Film Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden
-Travelling 16,The Rennes Film Festival, France
2004
-Finnish Happy Hour, Sergey Kuryokhin International Festival , St Petersburg, Russia
-View 04, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
-Cinema K. Suns, Riga
-Culture and Information CentreK@2, Liepaja, Latvia
-Electric Visions, Arsenal, Nizhni Novgorod, Russia
-Electric Visions, The Contemporary Art Center (CAC), Vilnius Electric Visions, Club na Bretskoy, Moscow
-Electric Visions, Teatre Knam, Komsomolska-Amure, Russia Electric Visions, media-center “Vyhod”, Petrozavdsk, Russia
-Electric Visions, Cinema Hall Kuba Kino, Krasnodar, Russia
-Electric Visions, Art Club of Vladimir Reznitsky in the City Culture Center, Arkhangelsk, Russia
-Eletric Visions, Dom Kino, Ekaterinenburg, Russia
-Budu – Art festival, City Art Museum, Tomsk, Russia
-The Central Exhibition Hall, Perm, Russia
-Katakomben, Der Erste Stock, Berlin
-Bunter Hund, International Short Film Festival Munich, Germany
-NOASS – World Video Art Festival, Riga
-Finnish Experimental Film and Video Art, Anthology Film Archives, New York
-Gallery KvadraT, St Petersburg, Russia
-Magma Network Meeting, Malmö, Sweden
-Tampere International Film Festival
-ISEA04, View on Board
-Milano Film Festival Screening Night, Italy
-Festival International de Films des Femmes Créteil, France
2003
-Market, Biennial for the Young 2003, Kunsthalle Helsinki
-International Film Festival of Gender&Sexual Plurality, Bombay/Mumbay, India
-Kettupäivät, Helsinkl,
-Random-Ize Film and Video Art Festival, Malmö, Sweden
-Ateneum-sali, Helsinki
-Riihimäki Experiment 03, Galleria Allinna
-REV-Finland-day, Batofar, Paris
-KEKSI, Lahti
-Oulu Music Video Festival
-Malmö konsthall, Sweden
-Simrishamn International Art Film Festival , Sweden
-Platform Galleria, Vaasa
-INDEX – View03 Tour, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampere Videoformes 2003, Clemont-Ferrand, France
-Festival International de Films des Femmes Créteil, France
-Electric visions, St Petersburg, Russia
-Electric visions, Bilbao, Spain
-Montages of Sound Atmospheres Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin Stadtgalerie Kiel
-SYN, Pro Artibus, Naturum, Tammisaari
-Film Art Bar, Gothenburg
-Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York
-View 03, Helsinki
2002
-Lothringer13/Halle, Munich, Germany
-ATV, Erkki Pirtola Artvision show
-Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki
-Uppsala Film Festival, Sweden
-Visions 02, Institut Finlandais, Paris
-Les Boreales, XIeme Festival d’Art et de la Littérature Nordique, Caen, France
-Kettupäivät, Helsinki Nordic House, Reykjavik
2001
-Lume, Helsinki
2000
-Tampere Film Festival
1996
-Galleria Sculptor, Helsinki
-International Video Show, Århus, Denmark
1995
-One night stand, Oslo Kluuvin galleria, Helsinki
1992
-Kettupäivät
-MUU-Media Festival , Helsinki Lahti AV Biennial
Other projects
2017 Wardrobe for Oblivias Candide, Mad House and Svenska teatern, Helsinki
2016 Visual world for The Neodada festival with Linda Bondestam, Mad House, Helsinki
2012 Pitkän Pöydän Yö,Villa Kallvik,Helsinki
2012 Hel Yes! Stockholm
2011 Hel Yes! Food and design from Helsink,Helsinki
2010 Hel Yes! Food and design from Helsinki,London
2009 Pää Pyörällä,Tarvaspää Museum,Helsinki
2007 Performance with Vera Nevanlainna, Fullmoon dance festival, Finland 2007 Wardrobe for Vera Nevanlinna’s solo dance, Zodiak, New dance center in Helsinki
2006 Film and set design to Tina Huczkiowski’s solo dance Sulkasato, Stoa, Helsinki
2002 Wardrobe for V, Vera Nevanlinna`s solo dance, Tavastiaklubi, Helsinki
2000 Film and set design for Tiina Huczkowski`s trapeze performance, Kiasma,Helsinki
2000 Wardrobe for dancegroup Gruppen 4,Artgenda, Helsinki
1998 Set design for Tiina Huczkowski`s solo dance, Stoa, Helsinki 1
998 Wardrobe for Vera Nevanlinna’s dance choreography, Academy of Dance, Helsinki
1993 Wardrobe, set design, photos with work-team for dance performance Aniima, Helsinki, AV- Arkki
Works in collections
Saastamoinen Foundation
Åland Art Museum
Helsinki City Art Museum
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma Amos Anderson Art Museum
Kuopio Art Museum
Awards, Nominations and Honors
2020 State Prize for Art
2020 Stina Krook Foundation
2010 Stina Krook Foundation
2014 Grönquist Foundation
2008 Nomination for Ars Fennica Prize
2008-20013 Arts Council of Finland, 5-year working grant
Bibliography
2014
”Puss & Dra åt helvete!” – Nio konstnärer – nio verk Autor: Sebastian Juhans
2010
Maria (Mi Duncker) : if the sun shines, we drive Autor and book concept: Claire Gould
2009
Kiven aika, Serlachius Museum publication
Autors: Laura Kuurne, Lisa Lindgren, Tomi Moisio and Liisa Kivijärvi
2008
Ars Fennica 2008
2006
Kiihdytys : näyttely = Acceleration : utställning = exhibition 2006