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PERSONAL DATA Petri Kaverma
Juhannusruusunkuja 3 A 56 00990 Helsinki, Finland Contact
Mobile +358-(0)50-354 0577 Homepage: www.kaverma.fi E-mail:
[email protected] Born 4 March 1963, Helsinki EDUCATION Doctoral studies, Department of Postgraduate Studies, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts Pedagogical studies for artists, University of Art and Design Helsinki Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, 5th year, supplementary studies Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Time and Space studies Lahti Art Institute Liminka Art School Matriculation examination, Vesala Upper Secondary School
2006– 1994–97 1992–93 1988–92
1987–88 1986–87 1982
ENVIRONMENTAL ART EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS The Sippu Spring – An Environmental Art Project, Ars Sippola -environmental event, Kouvola Separator (2. version), Kantri & Urbaani, Galleria Pihatto, Lappeenranta Separator (1. version), 8 Homes urban area & Tsinghua University and their surroundings, Beijing, China Mänttä Art Weeks Harbour lights, Association of Finnish Sculptors, Port of Helsinki Mänttä Art Weeks Institute -environmental artwork, South Karelia Art Museum, Lappeenranta Landscape Measurements – Sculpture Trail, Sculpture Symposium in England Draw-A-Man – a sculpture of a poor man in the form of a CD ROM, Helsinki City Art Museum Stone -environmental artwork in the park of the Helsinki City Art Museum, Meilahti Barley -environmental artwork, Helsinki Time-Space exhibition, Nordic Art Centre, Suomenlinna Young Cocks, photo exhibition of young male photographers, Suomenlinna Shop Window -video installation in the shop window of the Stockmann department store, Helsinki Festivals Allotments – A Piece of Earth, A Bit of Heaven, exhibition, Helsinki Festivals Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampere
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SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS Thinking Tools, FAFA gallery, Helsinki 2011 Builders – Houses and Spaces of the Artists, Kuopio Art Museum 2010 Hurmio – Focus, exhibition, Tikanoja Art Museum, Vaasa 2010 Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki 2009 Chinese contemporary art from Songzhuang, Kouvola Art Museum 2009 Sconfinamenti, Dalla buona pittura alla video art, Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome 2008
Studio Mic, Rome, Italy 2007
Unbelievable but true, Helsinki City Art Museum, Meilahti, Helsinki 2007
Taken apart – objects and stories, Galleria Sculptor, Helsinki 2005
Angels and humans, Kemi Art Museum 2005
Off Scene, triennial exhibition of Finnish photographic art, The Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki 2002 Or Are You?, Gallery Hippolyte 1998 MUU-media art festival (videos) 1991 & 1992
MUU-media art festival, exhibition of video installations , Old Student
House, Helsinki 1992
Young Artists Exhibition, Kunsthalle Helsinki, 1990 & 1992
Camera Event of Iisalmi 1992
Final exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki 1992
CV OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL ART ACTIVITIES & CURATORIALS & COMMUNITY ART PROJECTS Editing, design and realization fo the Art in the Built Environment webpages (www.ymparistotaide.fi) 2010 Marja-Vantaa, Kähärata -comperition, jury member 2010 Member of the jury of the art competition for the Mäntyniemi residence of the President of Finland 2010 Helsinki Music Centre Art competition, jury member 2009 OTTO, Ryhmä O -esittäytyminen, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain 2009 Vantaa Art Museum 2008 Hybridea – urban art project, Helsinki 2006– Manchester Metropolitan University, The Manchester chool of Art, exhibition exhange Manchester-Helsinki 2007 Sociodesign – Room for approaching, Helsinki, Cable Factory 2004
Riistavuori centre for the elderly 2003 HUS Psychiatric Hospital for Children and Young People 1999–2003 Giverny in Urban Space project (Giverny kaupunkitilassa), project manager, The Foundation of the Helsinki City of Culture (Helsingin Kulttuurikaupunkisäätiö) 1999–2000 PUBLIC ART WORKS
Silta-environmental artwork in Pasuunapuisto Park, Kannelmäki, Helsinki Encyclopaedia, Elementary School and Youth House of Torpparinmäki, Helsinki
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MEMBERSHIPS
Association of Finnish Sculptors Association of Finnish Photographers AV-Arkki (Distribution Centre for Finnish Media Art) Cooperative Forum-Box Kuvasto (copyright association for Finnish visual artists) ELECTED OFFICES Finnish Foundation for Environmental Art, Chairman Finnish Foundation for Environmental Art, Board Member Finnish State Art Collection Committee, Member Maa Art School, Vice President of the Board Board Member of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts
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WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Finnish National Gallery Helsinki City Art Museum
Kemi Art Museum
Kouvola Art Museum Kuopio Art Museum Private collections EDITED PUBLICATIONS Exhibition catalogue: OTTO-Taiteilijat O esittäytyminen Project publication: Giverny kaupunkitilassa Exhibition catalogue: STONE -environmental work
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ORIGINAL ARTICLES * From Disturbance to Dialectical Image, Everything but an Island, symposium publication (2009), Kuvataideakatemian julkaisusarja /Series of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts 2012 * Sippulähde taideteoksena [The Sippu Spring as a work of art], Koti-Sippola 3., Koti-Sippola ry, Kouvola, 120–122. 2011 * Esse est percipii, oleminen on havaituksi tulemista ["To be is to be perceived"] Taide, 2009, nr 4 2009 * Disturbance, Interference, Noise, Silence, The Artist’s Knowledge, Research at The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, FAFA, Yliopistopaino 2008, pp. 52-53 2008
CV * OTTO-Taiteilijat O esittäytyminen, Vantaa Art Museum, exhibition catalogue, “Muotoilu, taide, design, teollinen muotoilu…” ["Design, art, industrial design"], Taiteilijat O ry, pp. 10-13 2008 * Otteita kuvataiteen tohtoriksi pyristelevän taiteilijan päiväkirjasta ["From the diary of an aspiring Doctor of Fine Arts"], Taiteilija-lehti, 2/2007 2007 *Kannelmäen uusi taideteos herättelee yhteisiä muistoja ["The new artwork in Kannelmäki evokes common memories"], Taidemuseo.fi, Helsingin Kaupungin taidemuseon tiedotuslehti, 02/2007, pp. 26-27 2007 * Taiteilija- ja taidekuvan muuttumisesta ["Artist and art - changing images"] Taju 2004, Sivusta katsoen -näyttelyjulkaisu 2004 * Art Education Journal, eds: Riitta Heikkinen, Erja Mehto, Leila Heimonen. Published for the InSEA seminar panel "How Nature Speaks?", New York, August 2002 2002 * Maalari maalasi taloa, sinistä ja punaista ["The painter painted the house blue and red"] Viherympäristö, 2000, No 6, s. 20-21 2002 * Giverny kaupunkitilassa - maa, kasvu ja taiteellinen elämys ["Giverny in urban space – ground, growth and aesthetic experience"] Viherympäristö, No 1, s. 32-33 2000 * Paino / voima: Petri Kaverma ja Antero Toikka Lappeenrannan linnoituksessa, 7.6. - 13.9.1998 ["Momentum/force: Petri Kaverma and Antero Toikka in the Fortess ofLappeenranta"] 1998 * Keksijän viimeinen toive ["The inventor's last will"], ]Taiteiden talo, Annantalon juhlakirja 1987-1997, Annantalo/Helsingin kaupungin kulttuuriasiainkeskus 1997 * Kansallispuku rappukäytävässä, ["National costume in the hallway"], Taide, 1996, nr 5, pp. 44-45 1996 * Kuvataideakatemia (Helsinki): loppunäyttely 1992 [Academy of Fine Arts: graduating exhibition] 1992 FEATURED IN PUBLICATIONS * Ilmaista taidetta -kaupunkien ja julkisten paikkojen taidetta (Free art Article on art in cities and public spaces) Oma piha -magazine, 5/2011 * Kuvanveisto ajassa ja tilassa, Suomen Kuvanveistäjäliitto 100 vuotta, toim. Hanna Mamia, SKS. [Article on sculpture in space and time in the centenary publication of the Association of Finnish Sculptors] * Creating Spaces – Art Bridge between the EU and China project publication, European Comission komissio & Helsinki Cultural Foundation. * Diary of Fleeting Time, Chinese Contemporary art, Kouvola Art Museum. * Sconfinamenti, dalla buona pittura alla video art, exhibition catalogue, Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome. * Kuka-mikä-taiteilija? [What-who- artist?] Kiasma-lehti/Kiasma magazine, Nykytaiteen museo / Museum of Contemporary Art 23. 2004 vol. 7 * BilledKunst: Kunsten kan like gjerne befinne seg i møtene mellom mennesker, og er ikke det egentlig nok?, Yngvild Færøy, nr 4, 20.6.2003 * Off skene: [4th triennial of photographic art: Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, 14.6. - 11.8.2002 * Mänttä Art Weeks Ympäristöjä : VII Mäntän kuvataideviikot 16.6. - 18.8.2002 * Mänttä Art Weeks Mäntän neljännet kuvataideviikot 13.6. - 15.8.1999 * Nuorten näyttely [Young artists 1992] , 25.9. - 18.10.1992, Helsinki Art Hall *Nuorten näyttely [Young artists 1990] Nuorten 43. näyttely : Helsingin Taidehalli 21.9. - 14.10.1990 RECORDED DISCUSSIONS Sosiaalisesta taiteesta [On social art], Petri Kaverma, Minna Heikinaho, Sanna Sarva, Elina Saloranta and Leevi Haapala. Kiasman Paja 090799, Leevi Haapala, Kuvataiteen keskusarkisto – Central Art Archives SOURCES FOR RESEARCH * Central Art Archives / Sound Archive * Central Art Archives / Press Cutting Archive
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CV * Kiasma research library, press cuttings 1980-1999 (microfilmed) * Maa- ja ympäristötaiteen tutkimusprojekti 1998-1999 / Central Art Archives / Hanna Johansson [Earth and environmental art: research project 1998–1999] * Information in "Kuvataiteilijat 2004" registry and the "Visual Artists' Internet Registry" PROFESSIONAL HISTORY * Finnish Academy of Fine Arts - Assistant, Division for Advanced Studies 2007 - Assistant, Department of General Studies 1993–1994 - Time and Space Studies programme 1996–1997 - Instructor, visual thinking (foreign students) 1998–1999 * Maa Art School Head 1999-2004 * University of Art and Design Helsinki - Lectures at various departments 1996– - Course in Environmental Photography, Department of Photography 1996–1997 - Courses including open university teaching, art teacher training, environmental education and pedagogical studies for artists 1994– - Instructor at the Department of Art Education 1997–2001 - Seminar in environmental art 2004 * University of Helsinki - "Ajan taju" [Sense of Time] module in environmental art 1997 * University of Lapland - Media art workshop, "Taide mediana" [Art as Media] workshop 1994–1995 * The Pekka Halonen Academy - Instructor 1997–1998 - Lecturer/teacher 1998–1999 * The Helsinki City Art Museum - Project employee for preparing educational material on questions of environmental and earth art for the use of the museum 1995 * Orivesi Institute - Workshop in Environmental Art, experimental visual art 1995–1996 * City of Vantaa Cultural Affairs Administration / City of Helsinki Cultural Affairs Centre - Courses in video art, drawing, graphics and photography 1991– OTHER ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES * Changing Identities and Contexts in the Arts (CICA): Artistic Research as the New European Paradigm for the Arts. (http://changingidentities.eu/) -symposium, Leeds, UK * Everything but an Island symposium, From Disturbance to Dialectical Image , presentation, Helsinki * Creating Spaces - EU environmental art project, Beijing, China * Taiteilijan muuttuva työnkuva [Changes in the artist's job description], panelist, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma * Finnish Painters Union, panelist, Night of the Arts -urban festival * Kaupunkiskenografia [Urban scenography] - arranging a Studia Generalia lecture series, FAFA * Sketch/Luonnos -environmental photo exhibition, the photography students' exhibition at School of Art and Design, Helsinki City Planning Department, curated in cooperation with Jan Kaila & Hille Kaukonen * Development competition of the Pasila Office Block * Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, "Art in an Urban Environment" open discussion
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