BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES: 21.08.2023
DENISE ZIEGLER
Born in Luzern Switzerland, works and lives in Helsinki Finland since 1990.
STUDIES:
2020-22 Pedagogical Studies, Aalto University
2010 Doctorate in Fine Arts (DFA), Academy of fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland.
1997 Master of Arts (MA), Academy of fine Arts, Helsinki.
1990-91 Academy of fine Arts, Helsinki.
1986-90 Schule für Gestaltung Luzern, Abteilung freie Kunst, Luzern, Switzerland.
Currently professor for artistic research at the Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki and university lecturer at Aalto University, Transdisciplinary Art Studies (TAITE)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2023 - Valo gallery, Arktikum, Rovaniemi, Finland
2022 - Sinne Gallery, Helsinki
2018 - Forum Box, Helsinki
2016 - Fish gallery, Helsinki
2015 - Puuvilla Shopping Mall, Pori, Finland 2014 - Sculptor Gallery, Helsinki Finland 2013 - Kristiansand Kunsthall, Norway
2010 - Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
2009 - Gallery Kone, Hämeenlinna, Finland 2008 - Gallery Alkovi, Helsinki, Finland
2003 - Art Museum Olten, Olten, Switzerlan
- galleri leena kuumola, Helsinki, Finland 2001 - Sculptor Gallery, Helsinki
2000 - galleri leena kuumola, Helsinki, Finland
1998 - Museum of Contemporary Art (Kiasma), Helsinki, Finland 1997
- galleri leena kuumola, Helsinki, Finland
- gallery of the Academy of fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland 1995 - tm· Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
1993 - Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki, Finland - Titanik Gallery, Turku, Finnland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PARTICIPATIONS:
2024
- Eight Thousend Layers of Moments, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (LUCK project)
2023
- Walking Abstractions, Kopio Gallery, University of Lapland
- Art Space Hey Storm, Da Lat, Vietnam
- DOCLISBOA international film festival, Lissabon Portugal
- WALKING ABSTRACTIONS, Kopio gallery, University of Lapland
- City is a thin line by the sea (city is no contour) curated by Maiju Loukola, Installation at Vuosaari beach
2022
- HOLMGÅRD’S GALLERIA, Kööpenhamina, Tanska
- ALLIANCEN, Sculptor galleria, vitrin space, Helsinki
- MACHINA gallery Pula, Kroatia
- ARI HIRVOSEN MUISTOSEMINAARI -näyttely, Hietaniemen ranta, Helsinki
2021
- MATTER, Peripheries in Parallax, Otaniemi, Finland
- JOSEPH BEUYS IN MEMORIAM, curator Jussi Mäkelä, ART Center Ahjo, Joensuu, Finland
- BORGO II, Synebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki
- WALKING AS A PROTOTYPE, Research Pavilion #4 Helsinki
- BEST GOVERNMENT GOVERNS LEAST, curator Juho Laitinen, Feel Helsinki
2020
- RUNO KAARINA FESTIVAL, poetic film evening, Kaarina, Finland
- AS SEEN ON TELEVISION – KUIN KUVARUUDUSSA, Kirpilä Art Collection, Helsinki
- MACHINA gallery, Pula, Croatia
2019
- SCULPTURE EXPANDET, Helsinki - OBJEKTI 5, Espoo, Finland
- ALKOVI gallery, Helsinki
- ESPOO DAYS, Espoo, Finland
- SALON D’AUTOMNE, Copenhagen, Danmark
- I EXPERIENCE AS I EXPERIMENT – I EXPERIMENT AS I EXPERIENCE, ExLab gallery, Helsinki
- Pori Film Festival, Pori, Finland
- THE NIGHT OF THE ARTS IN AMOS REX, Helsinki, Finland
2018
- ART HOUSE DISCLOSURE, Otaniemi; Espoo
- #TITANIK 30, Titanik gallery, Turku, Finland
- THE TOWER OF BABEL, Experimental Event VI, Pori, Finland
- ”WHEN MOST I WINK, THEN DO MINE EYES BEST SEE...”, galleria Lapeenlahti, Helsinki
2017
- FINNISH INSTITUT IN MADRID, videoscreenings, Spain
- TANSY’S DREAM, Project room Office, Pori Finland
- THE TROUTH ABOUT FINLAND, Kallio Kunsthalle and Pori Pavillion, Finland
- NARRATIVE TREMOR, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö Sweden
2016
- PORIGINAL gallery, Pori, Finland
- PARKING 24h, Art@ the Heart of the City, Pori Art Museum, Finland
- gAIJIN 2016, Art Meeting Festivat, Iwaki, Tabito, Fukushima, Japan
- IDEAS CITY, 3h + k Nyte gallery, Pori, Finland
- ORNAMENT AND BEAUTY, Titanik galley, Turku, Finland
- DOC POINT, Helsinki Dokumentary Film Festival
- SALON DE PRINTEMPS D’HOLMGÅRD, Holmgårds galleria, Copenhagen DK
2015
- HELSINKI FILM FESTIVAL, Finland
- TERRA NULLIUS, Ediciones Al-Harafish Multiple-Kunst-Edition, Arriecife, Zürich and
Las Palmas
- PORI WORLD EXPO, Pori Finland
- TWISTS AND TURNS / NYRJÄHDYKSIÄ, Joensuu Art Museum, Finland
- KINOS film Festival, Lahti, Finland
- EIGHTY-SEVEN QUESTIONS ON ARTISTIC RESEARCH, SARN (Swiss Artistic Research Network)
2014
- PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS Contemprary Art Festival, Papay, Scotland - Peter Holmgårds galleria, Copenhagen, Danmark
- Helsinki Short Film Festival, Andorra, Helsinki
- Impakt Channel, Impakt online curated videos, Utrecht, Nederlands - ZYHH+, Busan, South-Korea
2013
- FROM FLOOR TO CEILING, FROM WALL TO WALL, Elverket Tammisaari, Finland - VILKE, Sinkka Artmuseum , Kerava, Finland
- AAC –festival, Aizu Mishima, Fuhkushima Prefecture, Japan
2012
- PERSONAL CITY, flowershop at Lönnrothinkatu 31, Helsinki - KAKELHALLEN, Mariehamn, Åland
- MÄNTTÄ ART FESTIVAL, Mänttä, Finland
- LÄHITEOS, Oulunkylä library, Helsinki, Finland
2011
- 3 INCH CANVAS EXHIBITION FOR ART ON MOBILES, Artmuseum Jyväskylä, Finland
- ART CENTER MÄLTINRANTA, Tampere, Finland - BASIS, Kunsthalle Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
2010
- AS THE ACADEMY TURNES, Earn @ Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain - MIGMA, Performance Tage, Kunsthalle Luzern, Switzerland
- FOX DAYS FILM FESTIVAL, Helsinki
- KÜNSTLERHAUS MOUSONTU, Frankfurt, Germany
- ERDBEERE, Suomesta Gallery, Berlin, Germany
- ARABIAN ALL STARS, Gallery Rantakasarmi, Suomenlinna, Helsinki - OFFICE, Lahtinen, Mantere, Saatchi & Saatchi, Helsinki
2009
- VIDEOEX, Zurich, Switzerland
- RODINA, St. Petersburg, Russia
- SPLIT FILM FESTIVAL, Split, Croatia
- STAND STILL, artist groop Nyren & Pyramiden, MUU gallery, Helsinki, Finland - FOX DAYS FILM FESTIVAL, Helsinki
2008
- TAMPERE, FILM FESTIVAL Tampere, Finland
- KUVAN JÄLKEEN / AFTER THE IMAGE, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki Finland
- PRINTEMPS IMMEDIAT, institut finlandais, Paris, France
- ARTIST OF THE MONTH, Gallery Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland
- ROUTEMASTERS, ACUD Kunstverein, Berliini, Germany
- ROUTEMASTERS, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, China
- LOOP OF THE MONTH, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
- NEW LANDING, artist groop Nyren & Pyramiden , Sølyst, Danmark
- ART FAIR SUOMI, Kabelfactory, Helsinki Finland
2007
- ART FAIR SUOMI 07, MUU gallery, Helsinki - FOROM BOX GALLERY, Helsinki
- UNTERWEGS, Gallery Hans–Trudel–Haus, Baden, Switzerland
- HOLLØSE INTERNATIONAL CENTANNALE FOR CONTEMORARY ART, Holløsegård, Danmark - SÄHKÖMETSÄ, Orion, Helsinki, Finland
- NYREN OG PYRAMIDEN IN HANKAVAARA, Savonranta, Finland
2006
- NYREN OG PYRAMIDEN IN GISWIL, Turbinenhalle Giswil, Switzerland
- WEATHER REPORT, Artist of the month, Forum Box, Helsinki
- WEATHER REPORT, Director's Lounge, contemporary art and media, BerlinGermany
- WEATHER REPORT, Skanno, Helsinki
2005
- KAIKKISSA HILJAISUUDESSA / IN ALL QUIETNESS, Art Museum Tennis Palace, Helsinki
- MUU 18, Arthall, Helsinki
- FORUM BOX -gallery, Helsinki
- NYREN OG PYRAMIDEN IN ISTANBUL, Istanbul, Turky
- INTERFERENZE -festival San Martino Valle Caudina, Italia
- MOVING TARGET, Art Museum Helsinki, Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki
- NYERN OG PYRAMIDEN IN TURKU, Titanik gallery, Turku, Finland - LOOP VIDEO ART FESTIVAL, Barcelona, Spain
2004
- NYREN OG PYRAMIDEN, Kanonhalle, Copenhagen, Danmark
- RAKASTAA, EI RAKASTA / LOVES LOVES NOT, Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma, Helsinki
- ESINEIDEN MAAILMA / STILL LIVE, Arthall, Helsinki
- MÄNTÄN KUVATAIDEVIIKOT, Mänttä, Finland
- ESINEIDEN MAAILMA / STILL LIVE, Art Museum Tampere, Finland
- ANTI –festival, Kuopio, Finland
2003
- VIEW, Cable factory, Helsinki
- BORGO, Circcolo Scandinavo, Rooma, Italia
- SARA HILDÉN ART MUSEUM, Tampere, Finland
- AFBELDER AF VÆKST, Pantheonsfløjen, Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Danmark - NORDICLIVEART -festival, Göteborg, Sweden
2002
- PRIVAT COLLECTION, Pärnu Filmfestival, Estonia - VIEW, Muu gallery, Helsinki
- ARTCANAL, Zielkanal, Switzerland
- MÄNTÄN KUVATAIDEVIIKOT, Mänttä, Finland
- MEDIA VARIATIONS, lothringer 13/halle, München, Germany
2001
- IL TEMPO DI MAZZANO, Arthall Helsinki
- OUTER LIMITS, Millennium film work shop, New York
- BIG SHOWER, Töölönlahti, Helsinki
- AVANTO festival Helsinki
2000
- STATE UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM SHORT FILM AND VIDEO –festival, Arizona, USA
- BANKOK FILM FESTIVAL, Thailand
- IMPULSE 2000, Entlebuch, Switzerland
- SCULPTURE PARK TÖÖLÖNLAHTI, Helsinki Cultural Capital 2000, Finland
- DRIVE BY, Sinun vuorosi/ Din Tur, Copenhagen, Danmark
- COMMING HOME, Feeling the City, Helsinki, Finland
1999
- TAMPERE 19 SHORT FILM FESTIVAL,Tampere, Finland - TELLSPIELHAUS, Altdorf, Switzerland
- BOX ING, Myyrmäkitalo, Myyrmäki, Finland
- LISTE 99, International Artfair Basel, Switzerland
- OTANTA 99, Fine Art -weeks, Mäntä, Finland
- HONKONG INDEPENDENT SHORTFILM & VIDEO AVARDS, China - ART FAIR, Stockholm, Sweden
- BIO99, House of Science, Helsinki
1998 - NETTWORKING THE BIBLE, Konstakuten, Stockholm, Sweden
- INDUSTRIAL SITUATIONS 13, Rampe 002 gallery, Berlin, Germany
- THE GREEN BOOK, Bank gallery, Enschede, Holland
- IMPAKT FESTIVAL, Utrecht, Holland
- CARGO CULT TV, Basel, Switzerland
- MUU MEDIA FESTIVAL, Helsinki, Finland.
1997
- AV -BIENNALE, Lahti, Finnland, 1992, 94 ́, 97 ́
- TELLSPIELHAUS, Altdorf, Switzerland, 1995, 96 ́, 97 ́
- 43 INT. KURZFILMFESTIVAL OBERHAUSEN,Filmfestival, Oberhausen, Germany
- IMPAKT FESTIVAL, Filmfestival, Utrecht, Holland
- FESTIVAL CINEMA JOVE, Valencia, Spain
- REITHALLE BERN, Bern, Switzerland
- WORLD WIDE VIDEO FESTIVAL, Amsterdam, Holland
1996
- THE SOUND OF SILENCE, group exhebition, Gdansk, Poland
- MORE THAN ONE / MORE THAN ONCE, Kunststück gallery, Hamburg, Germany
- OTTO PLONKgallery, Bergen, Norway
- MUU MEDIA FESTIVAL Helsinki, Finland, 1992, 96 ́
- IINDUSTRIAL SITUATIONS10, artist in residence and exhebition, UMAS -gallery, Durham, Kanada
- 6.MONDIAL DE LA VIDEO - festival, Bruxelle, Belgium, 1994, 96 ́
- KETTUPÄIVÄT -festival, Helsinki, Finland, 1992, 93 ́, 94 ́ and 96 ́
1995
- MYÖNTÄTUULEEN 2, Hanko, Finland
- ART MUSEU KERAVA, Kerava, Finland
- AMORPH, Tampereen teatterikesä, AV -event, Tampere, Finland - THE YOUNGS, Art Hall, Helsinki, Finland, 1992, 93 ́, 94 ́, 95 ́
- OSLO ONE NIGHT STAND, Oslo, Norway
- INDUSTRIAL SITUATIONS 9, Konstakuten, Stockholm, Sweden
- LUX SONOR, AV -exhebition, Arthall, Helsinki, Finland
1994
- CONSTRUCTIVE INFLUENCES, Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Finland
- STEIRISCHER HERBST, Avantgarde Festival, Graz, Austria
1993
- MILLENNIUM, New York USA
- THE STATE STIPENDY EXHEBITION, St. Gallen Art Museum, Switzerland
-THE NIGHT OF THE ARTS, Helsinki, Finland 1991, 93 ́
- AVE Videofestifal, Arnhem, Holland, 1991, 93 ́
1992
- SANCTA SIMPLICITA, o.T. -gallery, Luzern, Switzerland
- TAMPERE INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, Tampere, Finland - OFF- Filmfestival, Otaniemi Espoo, Finland
- MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Brisbane, Australia
- IISALMEN KAMERA, Iisalmi, Finland
- SOLOTHURN ART MUSEUM, Solothurn, Switzerland
- PLEASURE DOME, Toronto, Canada
- VIDEO BIENNALE BONN, Germany
1991
- WORKS FROM 1991, Helsinki Filmco-op, Helsinki, Finland
- TTHE STATE STIPENDY EXHEBITION in Basel, Switzerland
- DARKROOM, o.T. -gallery, , Luzern, Switzerland
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Finnish National Gallery; KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Helsinki City Art Museum; Olten Art Museum, Olten, Switzerland
WORKS IN PUBLIC SPACE:
- Child Bike Seat – at Home in Movement, conceptual public artwork, Helsinki, Rovaniemi and the World, 2022/2023
- PEARLS BEFORE SWINE, Sculpture Expended, temprary kinetic sculpture in the center of Helsinki, in Töölö bay and in Kaarela 2019
- WALKING SIDE BY SIDE, temporary work for public space, Espoo, 2019
- BRIDGE I, temporary work in public space, Helsinki, 2019
- OARS FOR A FENCE, temporary work in public space, Pori, Finland, 2016
- THE WREATH CARRYING PINE public work, Kukkakallio Park, Vantaa, Finland, 2015
- FACE OFF CIRCLES / CERCLES D’ ́ENGAGEMENT, work for Finlands Permanent Representation to the
European Union in Brussels, 2013
- THE DOTS OF LEINELÄ, boulders and stones in the parks of the residential district Leinelä are
marked with clusters of coloured glass dots. Vantaa, Finland, 2013
- THREE FENCES, public sculpture consisting of three fences, Hilapello park, Konala, Helsinki, 2010
- WINDOW SHUTTER BANDEROLE, sculpuural work for the fassade of the Olten Art Museum, Olten,
Svitzerland, 2003
- CONCERTO FOR A VALLEY, public sculpture, Töölö Footballstadium, Helsinki, 2001
- EPIGRAMMS FOR THE PEDESTRIAN OF HELSINKI CITY CENTER, epigrammatic poems on eight
selected manhole covers, 1999.
- SYDÄNPUU (HEARTWOOD), Maria Hospital Helsinki, 1999.
ARTISTIC PRACTICE: installation, intervention, sculpture, drawing, painting, video/film
PUBLICATIONS by Denise Ziegler
- Making Artistic Research Public. RUUKKU Nr.19, digital journal Eds. Saara Haklin, Tero Heikkinen, Denise Ziegler. 2022
http://ruukku-journal.fi/fi/issues/19
- Visual artist’s workbook – essays and exercises on teaching arts Denise Ziegler and Pilvi Porkola (eds.). Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki 2022
https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-353-435-3
- Yhä Osuvammin / More and More to the Point. Mika Elo and Denise Ziegler (eds.). The Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts, Helsinki 2021.
http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-353-414-8
- Julkisen tilan taiteen tilasta – Puheenvuoroja julkisen taiteen konteksteista, ed. Pekkilä, Sirke; Kaverma, Petri; Lampela, Kalle; Nisunen, Petteri; Ziegler, Denise. University of the Arts 2021 http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe202101141802
- Applause – Experiencing Urban Space, Denise Ziegler, article in the electronical journal Research in Art Education 1/2020, Special Issue: Research in Art and Experience, link to the article: Applause — Experiencing Urban Space
- I Experience as I Experiment – I Experiment as I Experience, ed. Denise Ziegler, (Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts, 2019) ISBN 978-952-353-402-5 direct link: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-353-403-2
- On Temporary Routines, in: Sculpture Expended – Moving Laboratory of Public Art in Helsinki. (Assosiation of Finnish Sculptors, Parus Versus, 2019) ISBN 978-952-7245-10-1
- Intervention to Urban Space – Experimental Intervention as a Tool ForArtistic Research and Education, Anna Jensen, Taina Rajanti, Denise Ziegler, (Aalto ARTS Books, Finland, 2018) ISBN 978-952-60-7792-5 link: http://vicca.fi/news-uncategorized/intervention-in-urban-space/
- Artistic Research – Continuous Prototype Article (in finnish) in the journal Tiede & Edistys 4/2017 Tero Heikkinen, Petri Kaverma, Denise Ziegler. 2018, ISSN 0356-3677, link: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe202002246347
- A Cinematographic Fence and Ornamental Oars – Experiencing the Sublime in Structures of Urban Public Space, article in the electronical journal Approaching Religion, Volume 6/ 2 (December 2016) DOI: https://doi.org/10.30664/ar.67598
- A City Never Lies – Situational irony and the political impact of public urban space Ruukku – studies in artistic research -journal http://ruukku-journal.fi/fi/issues/6 exposition: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/276211/276212 (05.10.2016)
- Research in Arts – Irony, Critique and Assimilation of the Methods (edited. José Quaresma, Alys Longley, Fernando Rosa Dias, Auckland, New Zealand, 2015), exposition: A City Never Lies – Situational irony as a key to address public urban space, Denise Ziegler (ISBN 978-972-9370-21-2)
- Features of the Poetic. The Mimetic Method of the Visual Artist, by Denise Ziegler, with response from Tuomas Nevanlinna and Sarat Maharaj 10 MAHKUZINE – JOURNAL OF ARTISTIC RESEARCH Summer 2011 http://issuu.com/piebbaa/docs/mahkuzinesummer2011
- FEATURES OF THE POETIC – THE MIMETIC METHOD OF THE VISUAL ARTIST, D. Ziegler (Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, 2010)
https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-353-419-3
- POEETTISEN PIIRTEISTÄ – kuvataiteilijan mimeettinen työskentelytapa, D.Ziegler, (Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, 2010), link: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-7131-26-8
- NYREN & PYRAMIDEN, Denise Ziegler / Mikko Maasalo / Peter Holmgård, Helsinki, 2007
- MUISTAMISEN ARVOISTA, Denise Ziegler / Stefan Sprenger, Helsinki 1999
PUBLICATIONS about Denise Zieglers art (not followed up after 2013):
- A LEAP INTO THE FAMILIAR AND UNKNOWN / EN SPRÅNGBRÄDA MOT DET KÄNDA OCH DET OKÄNDA, Jenny Wikström, 2013
http://www.kristiansandkunsthall.no/a-room-with-a-view-publikasjon/ (14.02.2014)
- MUSTEKALA www.mustekala.info/node/1554 (23.04.2010) Arjen poetiikkaa Denise Zieglerin
tutkimuksessa, by Leena Kuumola
- TAIDE 3/10 periodical, Runollisesti Aristoteleen jäljille, by Juha-Heikki Tihinen
- TAIDE 1/11, periodical, Uusi ja vanha taiteellinen tutkimus, neljä tapausta taiteellista tutkimusta, by Kimmo Sarje
- T AIDE 3/03, art magazine, Jonni Roos
- SYNTEESI 1/2003, perjodical, Altti Kuusamo
- TAIDE 3/03, periodical, Rajanylityksiä arkielämän tiedostamattomalla vyöhykeellä, by Jonni Roos
- DENISE ZIEGLER, catalog, Kunstmuseum Olten, Sveitsi, 2003
- VIIVAKOKOELMA TEKSTISIVUILLA / COLLECTION OF LINES ON TEXT PAGES
D. Ziegler, report – Künstler verlegen Künstler, Switzerland 2002