Aurora Reinhard (1975) is a visual artist from Helsinki, Finland. She works with video, self-portraits and multidimensional, hyper-realistic objects fetishizing the everyday. There is a strong female aspect in all of her work and she’s using often her own body as the material for her works.
She holds MFA degree from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki (2003). Her works have been shown internationally, including exhibitions at Swedish National Museum, the German Historical Museum, Berlin, The Shedhalle, Zürich, Fridericianum, Kassel, Ludwig Museum, Cologne and Platform Garanti, Istanbul. Her experimental documentary Boygirl won the International Media Art Award in 2002 given out by ZKM Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany.
Studies
2002 International Centre For Photography, New York
1995-2003 MFA & BFA, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki Finland
1998 Exchange in Gothenburg University, Department of film and photography, Sweden
Awards
2019 Wihuri Foundation Residency 3 months, Rovaniemi Finland
2009 Grönqvistska Foundation, Finland
2002 International Media Art Award 2002 ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
Public Collections
Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland
German Historical Museum, Berlin (Deutsche Historisches Museum, DHM)
ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Miettinen Collection, Berlin
Amos Anderson Art Museum, Finland
Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma, Finland
State Art Collection Finland
Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland
Oulu City Art Museum, Finland
Saastmoinen Foundation, Finland
Heino Foundation, Finland
Finnish Art Society, Finland
Niemistö Collection, Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Finland
Serlachius Museum, Mänttä, Finland
Swanljung Art Collection/Modern Arts Museum Kuntsi Vaasa, Finland
Salo Art Museum, Salo, Finland
Jenny & Antti Wihuri Foundation, Finland
Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku, Finland
Solo shows
2023 Back to Perniö – Female Destinies Of Our Family, Aurora Reinhard, Catharina Kajander, Perniö Museum, Finland
2021-2022 Neverfull, Turku Art Museum Studio, Finland
2020 Martyr, retrospective, Aine Art Museum, Tornio Finland
2019 Venus, Valo Galllery, Arcticum, Rovaniemi
2019 High Rider, Muyun Art & Culture Foundation, Beijing
2018 Broken, Zetterberg Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2018 High Rider, Salon Dahlman, Berlin, Germany
2018 High Rider, Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen Germany
2017 Venus, Zetterberg Gallery, Helsinki
2012 Perfect, Zetterberg Gallery, Helsinki
2009 Teaser, Linna Gallery, Tallin Estonia
2008 Kiosk- solo project in city space of Vilnius Lithuania,
Vilnius Culture Capital 2009
2008 Teaser, Gallery Anhava, Helsinki
2006 Teaser, Gallery Extraspazio Rome
2005 Bait, Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki
2000 Graduation show, Academy of Fine Arts, Finland
1999 Galleria push firma beige, Helsinki
1997 Terve Nuori Nainen, Gallery of the Academy of Art, Helsinki
Selected Group shows 2010-2023
2022-2023 And I Trust You, Miettinen Collection, Berlin
2022-2023 Variations, works from the collection of Jenny & Antti Wihuri Foundation, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
2021-2022 Elämän äärellä, Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Finland
2021 Real or Not, Salo Art Museum, Finland
2021 Porvoo Triennial, Walter Runeberg Museum, Porvoo
2020-2021 Iconic Works, Ateneum museum, Helsinki/ National Museum Sweden
2020 Merry Things, works from the collection of Jenny & Antti Wihuri Foundation, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
2020 Fantastic Death, group exhibition Forum Box, Helsinki
2019 Ars Fennica-prize nominees, Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum, Stockholm
2019 Bonum & Malum, Berlin
2019 Writing the History of the Future, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
2019 High Rider, Muyun Art & Culture Foundation, Beijing
2019 Ars Fennica-prize nominee exhibition, Amos Rex, Helsinki
2019 Mostly Happy, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
2018 Group Show Considering Finland, Port25, Mannheim, Germany
2018 People in Focus – works from the collection of the Heino Art Foundation, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland
2017-2018 With Seven League Boots – Stop Finland, works from Kiasma Collection, Bourse Museum Riga, Latvia
2017-2018 Bodybuilding, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku, Finland
2017 The Edgy, Museum of Fine Art, Split, Croatia
2017 I: self-portrait in Time, Kunsthalle Helsinki
2017 Lehmä pitää viedä jäälle jotta se tanssii, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany
2017 Pleasure of Love, 56th October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
2016 From Love with Heino, works from the Heino Collection
HAM, Helsinki Art Museum, Finland
2015-2018 Touch, Saastamoinen Foundation, works from the collection,
Emma Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
2015 Face to Face, works from the Collection, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Kiasma
2014 SuperPop, opening exhibition of new Serlachius Museum, Mänttä, Finland
2013 Invisible Lady, Stina Krook Foundations anniversary Exhibition, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki (the show presented a large collection of Reinhards’ works)
2013 Desire For Freedom/ Verführung Freiheit, Kumu Museum, Tallin Estonia
2013 Desire For Freedom/ Verführung Freiheit, Palazzo Reale, Milan
2012-2013 Desire For Freedom/ Verführung Freiheit, German Historical Museum DHM, Berlin
2012 Lightness, Maison Particuliere, Brussels
2011 Close Your Eyes And Tell Me What You See, Turku Observatorium, Finland
2011 Close Your Eyes And Tell Me What You See, Gothenburg Museum of Art Sweden
2010-2011 It’s a Set-Up, works from the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
2010 Testimony-Videoscreening, Tensta konsthall, Stockholm,
2010 Arrivals and Departures – Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy
2010 Tanssi/Dans – Video art and Photographs at Vesterås Art Museum, Sweden
2009 Finlandia 200, Helsinki City Arts Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2009 Fyra finska utsnitt, Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden
2009 Dans Över Gränsen, Dansens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 Just Different, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
2008 La position de la terre, CRAC Alsace, Rhinelander Contemporary Art Center, France
2007 In Search of the Miraculous, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
2007 Love Addiction, Gallery of Contemporary Art Monfalcone, Italy
2007 Lost & Found, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
2007-2008 CasZuidas, Public Art Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006 5 Tage bis zum Ende der Kunst – Fremd bin ich eingezogen Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
2006 The Eighth Square – Gender, Life and Desire in Art since 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2006 Art, Life & Confusion, 47th October Salon, Belgrade, curated by Renè Block
2006 Cooling Out – On the Paradox of Feminism, The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2006 Cooling Out – On the Paradox of Feminism, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel
2006 Suspended e-motion, Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania
2006 Fantastiskt Finsk, Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden
2005-2006 Coolhunters, Kunsthalle Budapest, Künstlerhaus Vienna, Karlsruhe City Gallery
2005 Fractures of Life – works from the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
2003 Coup de Coeur, a Sentimental Choice, CRAC Alsace, France
2003 Girls Don’t Cry, Parco Museum, Tokyo Japan
2002 Media Art in Dialog 1992-2002, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
Filmography
2008-2009 Inhale/Exhale, 29 sek. Cleaning 2 min, Handbag 1:20 min.
2006-2008 Encounters 12 min
2004 Julio & Lupitá 4:35 min
2003 Female, 25 min
2002 Boygirl, 12 min
Selected Grants
2019 5- Year working grant, Arts Council Finland
2016 3-year working grant, Arts Council Finland
2015 Artist grant, Vantaa City, Finland
2010 3-year working grant, Finnish Cultural Foundation
Selected Catalogs
Ars Fennica nominees 2019
2017 With Seven League Boots – Stop Finland, works from Kiasma Collection, Bourse Museum 2015-2018 Touch, Saastamoinen Foundation, works from the collection,
Emma Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
Riga, Latvia
2015 Face to Face/ Elements Contemporary Art Museum, Kiasma
2014 SuperPop, Serlachius Museum
2013 Invisible Lady, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Stina Krook Foundation
2013 Desire for Freedom, Art in Europe since 1945, Monika Flacke &
Deutsche Historishe Museum, Sandstein Verlag, 2012, (english catalog)
2012 Verführung Freiheit, Kunst in Europa seit 1945. Monika Flacke &
Deutsche Historishe Museum, Sandstein Verlag, 2012, (german catalog)
About
Studies
2002 International Centre For Photography, New York
1995-2003 MFA & BFA, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki Finland
1998 Exchange in Gothenburg University, Department of film and photography, Sweden
Awards
2019 Wihuri Foundation Residency 3 months, Rovaniemi Finland
2009 Grönqvistska Foundation, Finland
2002 International Media Art Award 2002 ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
Public Collections
Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland
German Historical Museum, Berlin (Deutsche Historisches Museum, DHM)
ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Miettinen Collection, Berlin
Amos Anderson Art Museum, Finland
Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma, Finland
State Art Collection Finland
Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland
Oulu City Art Museum, Finland
Saastmoinen Foundation, Finland
Heino Foundation, Finland
Finnish Art Society, Finland
Niemistö Collection, Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Finland
Serlachius Museum, Mänttä, Finland
Swanljung Art Collection/Modern Arts Museum Kuntsi Vaasa, Finland
Salo Art Museum, Salo, Finland
Jenny & Antti Wihuri Foundation, Finland
Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku, Finland
Solo shows
2023 Back to Perniö – Female Destinies Of Our Family, Aurora Reinhard, Catharina Kajander, Perniö Museum, Finland
2021-2022 Neverfull, Turku Art Museum Studio, Finland
2020 Martyr, retrospective, Aine Art Museum, Tornio Finland
2019 Venus, Valo Galllery, Arcticum, Rovaniemi
2019 High Rider, Muyun Art & Culture Foundation, Beijing
2018 Broken, Zetterberg Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2018 High Rider, Salon Dahlman, Berlin, Germany
2018 High Rider, Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen Germany
2017 Venus, Zetterberg Gallery, Helsinki
2012 Perfect, Zetterberg Gallery, Helsinki
2009 Teaser, Linna Gallery, Tallin Estonia
2008 Kiosk- solo project in city space of Vilnius Lithuania,
Vilnius Culture Capital 2009
2008 Teaser, Gallery Anhava, Helsinki
2006 Teaser, Gallery Extraspazio Rome
2005 Bait, Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki
2000 Graduation show, Academy of Fine Arts, Finland
1999 Galleria push firma beige, Helsinki
1997 Terve Nuori Nainen, Gallery of the Academy of Art, Helsinki
Selected Group shows 2010-2023
2022-2023 And I Trust You, Miettinen Collection, Berlin
2022-2023 Variations, works from the collection of Jenny & Antti Wihuri Foundation, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
2021-2022 Elämän äärellä, Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Finland
2021 Real or Not, Salo Art Museum, Finland
2021 Porvoo Triennial, Walter Runeberg Museum, Porvoo
2020-2021 Iconic Works, Ateneum museum, Helsinki/ National Museum Sweden
2020 Merry Things, works from the collection of Jenny & Antti Wihuri Foundation, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
2020 Fantastic Death, group exhibition Forum Box, Helsinki
2019 Ars Fennica-prize nominees, Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum, Stockholm
2019 Bonum & Malum, Berlin
2019 Writing the History of the Future, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
2019 High Rider, Muyun Art & Culture Foundation, Beijing
2019 Ars Fennica-prize nominee exhibition, Amos Rex, Helsinki
2019 Mostly Happy, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
2018 Group Show Considering Finland, Port25, Mannheim, Germany
2018 People in Focus – works from the collection of the Heino Art Foundation, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland
2017-2018 With Seven League Boots – Stop Finland, works from Kiasma Collection, Bourse Museum Riga, Latvia
2017-2018 Bodybuilding, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku, Finland
2017 The Edgy, Museum of Fine Art, Split, Croatia
2017 I: self-portrait in Time, Kunsthalle Helsinki
2017 Lehmä pitää viedä jäälle jotta se tanssii, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany
2017 Pleasure of Love, 56th October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
2016 From Love with Heino, works from the Heino Collection
HAM, Helsinki Art Museum, Finland
2015-2018 Touch, Saastamoinen Foundation, works from the collection,
Emma Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
2015 Face to Face, works from the Collection, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Kiasma
2014 SuperPop, opening exhibition of new Serlachius Museum, Mänttä, Finland
2013 Invisible Lady, Stina Krook Foundations anniversary Exhibition, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki (the show presented a large collection of Reinhards’ works)
2013 Desire For Freedom/ Verführung Freiheit, Kumu Museum, Tallin Estonia
2013 Desire For Freedom/ Verführung Freiheit, Palazzo Reale, Milan
2012-2013 Desire For Freedom/ Verführung Freiheit, German Historical Museum DHM, Berlin
2012 Lightness, Maison Particuliere, Brussels
2011 Close Your Eyes And Tell Me What You See, Turku Observatorium, Finland
2011 Close Your Eyes And Tell Me What You See, Gothenburg Museum of Art Sweden
2010-2011 It’s a Set-Up, works from the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
2010 Testimony-Videoscreening, Tensta konsthall, Stockholm,
2010 Arrivals and Departures – Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy
2010 Tanssi/Dans – Video art and Photographs at Vesterås Art Museum, Sweden
2009 Finlandia 200, Helsinki City Arts Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2009 Fyra finska utsnitt, Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden
2009 Dans Över Gränsen, Dansens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 Just Different, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
2008 La position de la terre, CRAC Alsace, Rhinelander Contemporary Art Center, France
2007 In Search of the Miraculous, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
2007 Love Addiction, Gallery of Contemporary Art Monfalcone, Italy
2007 Lost & Found, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
2007-2008 CasZuidas, Public Art Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006 5 Tage bis zum Ende der Kunst – Fremd bin ich eingezogen Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
2006 The Eighth Square – Gender, Life and Desire in Art since 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2006 Art, Life & Confusion, 47th October Salon, Belgrade, curated by Renè Block
2006 Cooling Out – On the Paradox of Feminism, The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2006 Cooling Out – On the Paradox of Feminism, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel
2006 Suspended e-motion, Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania
2006 Fantastiskt Finsk, Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden
2005-2006 Coolhunters, Kunsthalle Budapest, Künstlerhaus Vienna, Karlsruhe City Gallery
2005 Fractures of Life – works from the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
2003 Coup de Coeur, a Sentimental Choice, CRAC Alsace, France
2003 Girls Don’t Cry, Parco Museum, Tokyo Japan
2002 Media Art in Dialog 1992-2002, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
Filmography
2008-2009 Inhale/Exhale, 29 sek. Cleaning 2 min, Handbag 1:20 min.
2006-2008 Encounters 12 min
2004 Julio & Lupitá 4:35 min
2003 Female, 25 min
2002 Boygirl, 12 min
Selected Grants
2019 5- Year working grant, Arts Council Finland
2016 3-year working grant, Arts Council Finland
2015 Artist grant, Vantaa City, Finland
2010 3-year working grant, Finnish Cultural Foundation
Selected Catalogs
Ars Fennica nominees 2019
2017 With Seven League Boots – Stop Finland, works from Kiasma Collection, Bourse Museum 2015-2018 Touch, Saastamoinen Foundation, works from the collection,
Emma Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
Riga, Latvia
2015 Face to Face/ Elements Contemporary Art Museum, Kiasma
2014 SuperPop, Serlachius Museum
2013 Invisible Lady, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Stina Krook Foundation
2013 Desire for Freedom, Art in Europe since 1945, Monika Flacke &
Deutsche Historishe Museum, Sandstein Verlag, 2012, (english catalog)
2012 Verführung Freiheit, Kunst in Europa seit 1945. Monika Flacke &
Deutsche Historishe Museum, Sandstein Verlag, 2012, (german catalog)