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BioJani Leinonen was born in Hyvinkää, Finland in 1978. He graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki in 2002. Jani Leinonen plays with the systems of commodity exchange and celebrity, and the marketing strategies through which they operate.Leinonen's installations are shops, bars, slot machines but also plain painting exhibitions. Leinonen immerses himself in these processes instead of simply criticising them, and allows for everything to feed back into the work. Even when the press starts reporting on his projects, this very reporting is integrated back into the work as part of its material. What is displayed, though, are not goods but an artistic allegorisation that appropriates these marketing strategies only in order to unhinge their underlying assumptions about value and appropriateness. Leinonen has said to have three goals in his art: "I want to make an artwork that will be stolen from a museum, to make an artwork that will end up pirate production in Shanghai, and I want to become so famous that Damien Hirst's mother knows me." He aims at revealing the hidden codes behind seemingly neutral images and displays. Jani Leinonen lives and works currently in Helsinki.  Photo: Nina Merikallio ResumeSTUDIES 1997-2002, Academy of Fine Art in Helsinki, MFA 2000, Helsinki University, Department of Pedagogy 1999-2000, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh SOLO SHOWS 2009 Retrospective, Hyvinkää Art Museum, Hyvinkää Free World, Collaboration with Riiko Sakkinen, Bourouina Gallery. Berlin Jani's and Riiko's Free World (with Riiko Sakkinen), Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland Rejected Ideas for Cap'n Crunch Advertisements, Gallery Moeller Snow, NY, USA 2008 Coulrophobia, Oulu Art Museum, Oulu, Finland Rejected Ideas for Advertisements, Gallery Krista Mikkola, Helsinki, Finland Forbitten Advertisements, Gallery Stoa, Vantaa, Finland 2007 Rejected Ideas for Elovena Oatmeal Advertisements, Gallery Huoltamo, Tampere Jani's Art Chop Shop, Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma, Helsinki Anything Helps, Bar 9, Helsinki Anyhing Helps, Gallery Koivulinna, Pukkila Undress me (with Paola Suhonen), Ivana-koti, Helsinki 2006 Art Super Market Pikasso, Helsinki 2005 Pay-per-Art, Platform, Vaasa 2004 Uutuus! Nyhet! Galleria Krista Mikkola, Helsinki Boz Ulu Delgin, Testsite, Austin Earn Money without a Job (with Riiko Sakkinen), San Antonio 2003 Cocktail, Kuvataideakatemian galleria, Helsinki 2002 Jani Leinonen vs. Riiko Sakkinen, Kluuvin galleria, Helsinki Pay-per-View, Plus Ultra Gallery, New York GROUP SHOWS 2009 The Man Who Fell to Earth. Curated by Rául Zamudio. Beijing 798 Biennale Aspect of Pop, Galerie Gmurzynska, Zürich The Collectors, Nordic and Danish Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia, Venice Får ei överstäckas, Eskilstuna Kunstmuseum, Eskilstuna, Sweden Trickle Down Theory, Korjaamo Gallery, Helsinki Megalomania, Huoltamo Gallery, Tampere On the Right Track, Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma, Helsinki 2008 Sampo, 4mula Gallery, St. Petersburg Finnish Breakfast, Larm Gallery, Copenhagen Purnu, Orivesi Fennofolk, Design Museum, Helsinki 2007 Flag Show, Lasipalatsinaukio, Helsinki 2006 Unclassified, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki 2005 Turku Shop, Turku City Art Museum, Turku No Painting! Kunsthalle Tallin Populism, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt Populism, The Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius Populism, Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Vasta maalattu, Keravan taidemuseo, Kerava 2004 Untittled, Galerie Mathias Kampl, Münich Peinture Fraiche, Le Triage, Paris Mäntän kuvataideviikot, Mänttä Musta tuntuu, Rauman taidemuseo, Rauma 2003 Process, Kiasma, Helsinki 2002 Peep Art, Kuvataideakatemian galleria, Helsinki 2001 Tamarindos, Tijuana National Championships of Art, Kiasma-teatteri, Helsinki Star Critic (with Jaakko Veijola), Kiasma, Helsinki 2000 Cows (with Marko Myllyluoma), Windhoek 1999 11 ja 33 vaikuttajaa (with Joonas Kota), Kuvataideakatemia, Helsinki WORKS IN COLLECTIONS Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma Amos Anderson Museum Helsinki City Art Museum Turku Art Museum Various private collections in Europe, US and Russia PUBLICATIONS 2009 Jani and Riiko´s Free World, Amos Anderson Museum 2006 Boz Ulu, with Riiko Sakkinen, Fluent Collaborative 2004 Jani Leinonen -Mail Order Catalog, Spring Collection 2003 Jani Leinonen -postimyyntiluettelo, Fall Collection 2003 Consumer Revolution in Art, Kuvataideakatemia 2001 National Championships of Contemporary Art 1999 11 ja 33 Celebrities, with Joonas Kota << Back to Index |
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