Born in 1972, Helsinki, Finland.
Lives and works between Paris and Helsinki.
EDUCATION
2000 – Master of Arts (Photography), University of Art and Design Helsinki (UIAH)
1997 – Master of Science (Analytical Chemistry), University of Helsinki
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
In the Architect’s House – Elina Brotherus on Alvar Aalto, KØS Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Køge, Denmark
Somebody Else, Théâtre La passerelle, Gap, France
2023
Vies silencieuses, in Festival Planches Contact, Deauville, France
Over Seas, The Nordic Art Symphony Project, Kilden Concert Hall and Kunstsilo, Kristiansand
Artist as Clown, camara oscura galleria de arte, Madrid, Spain
Face with Lipstick, Instituto Iberoamericano de Finlandia, Madrid, Spain
Spaces and Places, Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki, Finland
Large de Vue, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey
VISITOR, Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Elina Brotherus, Joseph Beuys and René Block: Potato Planting – Transformations, Museum Schloss Moyland, Germany
Space, Time, Movement, Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä Art Museum and Gallery Ratamo, Jyväskylä, Finland
2022
Elina Brotherus – In Reference To A Sunny Place, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Germany
Dialogue, Elina Brotherus and Hannele Rantala, Finnish National Gallery Ateneum, Helsinki
Living Spaces, Paimio Sanatorium, Paimio, Finland
Les règles du jeu, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Les règles du jeu, Elina Brotherus et Sara Imloul, Manuel Riviera Ortiz Foundation, Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, France
2021
Elina Brotherus, Ambassade de France en Cambodge, Photo Phnom Penh 2021, Phnom Penh, Vietnam
Sebaldiana, Memento mori, Espace Diamant, Ajaccio, Corsica
Sebaldiana, Memento mori, Musée de la Roche-sur-Yon hors les meurs, France
Baldessari in the Park, Château de Bois-Héroult, France, in Voisins de campagne #2
2020
The Avantgarde doesn’t give up, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Bad Camouflage, GB Agency, Paris, France
Why not?, Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
2019
Playful Wanderer, Sorø Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark
2018
Playground, Serlachius Museum, Mänttä, Finland
Leikreglur / Rules of the game, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
It’s not me, it’s a photograph, Kunst Haus Wien, Museum Hundertwasser, Vienna, Austria
Mac Adams – Elina Brotherus, gb agency, Paris, France
Règle du jeu, Galleria Heino, Helsinki, Finland
2017
Girl under the Chestnut Tree. A Retrospective, Museum of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia.
Carpe Fucking Diem, Contretype, Centre pour la photographie contemporaine, Brussels, Belgium
Règle du jeu: Carte Blanche PMU, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
The Baldessari Assignments, Norrtälje Konsthall, Norrtälje, Sweden
Time Pieces, Mindepartementet Art and Photography, Stockholm, Sweden
Elina Brotherus, Vida Museum & Konsthall, Öland, Sweden
Elina Brotherus, Works 1998-2015, Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland
2016
Role of the Model, Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
Large de vue. Hommage à Erik Satie, gb agency, Paris, France
Elina Brotherus and SMITH, Landskrona Konsthall, Landskrona, Sweden.
The Light from the North, Le Pavillon populaire, Montpellier, France.
Howl with Victoria Schultz, Galleria Heino, Helsinki, Finland
2015
Carpe Fucking Diem, gb agency, Paris, France
Les Femmes de la Maison Carré, Maison Louis Carré, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France; Gallery Heino, Helsinki, Finland
Annonciation, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014
12 ans après, The Wapping Project Bankside, Mayfair, London, United Kingdom; Ama Gallery, Helsinki, Finland; Galeria camara oscura, Madrid, Spain
2013
12 ans après, Optica center for contemporary art, in Mois de la Photo, Montréal, Canada; Royal University of Fine Arts, PhotoPhnomPenh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Annonciation, gb agency, Paris, France
2012
12 ans après, in Lianzhou Photography Festival, Lianzhou, China
Artists at Work, Gallery Taik, Berlin, Germany
Elina Brotherus, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Home and away, with Lauri Astala, Galleria Heino, Helsinki, Finland
Sequences and Consequences, Ama Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2011
The new painting / The artist and her model, Festival Pluie d’images, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, Le Relecq Kerhuon, France
Le Radar, espace d’art actuel, Bayeux, France
Sequences and Consequences, Ama Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2010
Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Florence, Italy
Elina Brotherus, Artothèque, Angers, France
Video Works, The Wapping Project – Bankside, London, United Kingdom
Sequences and Consequences, Bloomberg SPACE, in the ‘Comma’ series, London, United Kingdom
Time Series, Titanik Gallery, Turku, Finland
Artists at Work, gb agency, Paris, France
Elina Brotherus, Retrospective, gb agency, Paris, France
2009
Model Studies, Wapping Project Bankside, London, United Kingdom
Artist and her Model, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Elina Brotherus, curated by René Block, Møn, Denmark
Correspondances, with Rantala, Photography Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, Finland
The New Painting, PF Photography Gallery, Poznan, Poland
2008
Elina Brotherus, YKY Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
My Happiness is Round, The Wapping Project, London, United Kingdom
Etudes d’après Modèles, Danseurs, AMA Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Malga Valarica, curator Giovanna Cavenzi, Commune di Spera, Spain
Roma Festival Photo, V.M.21 Artecontemporanea, Rome, Italy
Elina Brotherus in Artist Files 2008, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2007
Elina Brotherus, gb agency, Paris, France
The New Painting, Bleu du Ciel, Lyon, France
The New Painting, Oldenburg Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
The New Painting, Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine Saint-Gervais, Genève, Switzerland
2006
The New Painting, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Berlin, Germany
Model Studies, Festival Les Boréales, Musée des Beaux Arts, Caen, France
The New Painting, Journées photographiques de Bienne, Switzerland
The New Painting, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, Ireland
The New Painting, Millesgarden, Stockholm, Sweden
2005
The New Painting, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
Orpheus, Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy
Open Space, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Brotherus, Tyttö, Finnish-Norvegian Cultural Institute, Oslo, Norway
Jérusalem Theatre, Jérusalem, Israel
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt, Germany
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Tinglado 2, Tarragone, Spain
Frac Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France
Baigneurs, Lèche-vitrine, Maison de la culture, Amiens, France
Model Studies, gb agency, Paris, France
2004
Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå, Sweden
Brotherus, Tyttö, Photography Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, Finland
Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
The New Painting, Espace photographique Château d’eau, Toulouse, France
Les Baigneurs, Wapping Project, London, United Kingdom
2003
Elina Brotherus’ video works, Kunsthalle Lophem, Bruges, Belgium
The New Painting, Museum of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia
Blue Horizon, Cassina, Tokyo, Japan
Baigneurs, Istanbul Biennial side event, Istanbul, Turkey
Suites françaises 2, Image/Imatge, Orthez, France
Festival Foto-Encuentros, Murcia, Spain
The New Painting, Liste 03, gb agency, Basel, Switzerland
The New Painting, Espace Photographique Contretype, Brussels, Belgium
2002
The New Painting, Fiac Perspectives, gb agency, Paris, France
International Contemporary Art Center, Bucharest, Romania
Photo-Espana, Jardins Botaniques, Madrid, Spain
Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland
Hämmeenlinna Art Museum, Hämmeenlinna, Finland; Västeras Art Museum, Västeras, Sweden; Lund Art Hall, Lund, Sweden
Encontros da Imagem, Braga, Portugal
The New Painting, INOVA, Institute of Visual Art, Milwaukee, United States
2001
Spring, The Wapping Project. London, United Kingdom
Suites françaises 2, gb agency, Paris, France
The New Painting, Galleri Andersson, Umeå, Sweden
2000
Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra, Portugal
Suites françaises 1, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki; Galleri i8, Reyjavik, Iceland
1999
Northern Photography Centre, Rantagalleria, Oulu, Finland
Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
Dance Portraits, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland
1998
Galleri Andersson, Umeå, Sweden; Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Masks, Multiple Identities from Antiquity to Contemporary Art, Serlachius Museums, Mänttä
Des exploits, des chefs-d’oevre, Franc Sud, Marseille, France
In the Now, Gender and Nation in Europe, Selections from the Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection, Brooklyn Museum, United States
Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, Hayward Gallery Touring: Arnolfi, Bristol; Midlands Arts Centre (MAC), Birmingham; Millennium Gallery, Sheffield; Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA), Dundee (until 2025)
Feels Like Home, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
2023
Real Families: Stories of Change, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Handle with Care, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Dissonances visuelles – Collection Contretype, Contretype Centre pour la photographie contemporaine, Brussels, Belgium
At an Arm’s Length, 100 years of Nordic Art from the Tangen Collection, Artipelag konstmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Mirror of Self, Hangar, Brussels, Belgium
Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Retrospect, 15 years of photography, Camara oscura galeria del arte, Madrid, Spain
Instituto Iberoamericano de Finlandia, Madrid, Spain
Caspar David Friedrich – Kunst für eine neue Zeit, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
2022
Focus de Proust, Château de Montsoreau Museum of Contemporary Art, France
WE ARE – Feminism belongs to all of us, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany
CORSICA, images d’un territoire – collection centre méditerranéen de la photographie, Photaumnales, Beauvais/Clermont, France
Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland
HIDDEN, Forms of the senses, Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale, Fiskars, Finland
Dance! Movement in the Visual Arts 1880-2020, HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Ce devant quoi, gb agency, Paris, France
Portrait of a Lady, Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
Women and Change, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
Snowflakes and other surprises, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen ; Landskrona Foto, Landskrona, Sweden ; Nordic Photography Center, Oulu, Finland ; Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Icel- and
2021
New Beauty – Modernist Highlights from the Nicolai Tangen Collection, Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna, Finland
Mutter!, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Mother!, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Abc Collection, Sales Collection, Galleria Heino, Helsinki, Finland
Summer In The City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020
CHART de-centered, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Berührend, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany
2018
Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Reflections: From Here to There, Taik Persons Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017
Sans réserve, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Paysages français, une aventure photographique 1984-2017, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Site François-Mitterrand, Paris, France
Video works in Skulpturlandsbyen Selde, Selde, Denmark
Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016
L’oeil de l’expert, La photographie contemporaine, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
above the ARTic circle, Kaviarfabriken, Henningsvaer, Lofoten, Norway
Portrait de l’artiste en Alter, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
Sobreexposición, MAC Museo de arte contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile; EAC, Montevideo, Uruguay
Bruxelles à l’infini, Photographies de la Collection Contretype, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Le temps de l’audace et de l’engagement – de leur temps. Collections privées françaises, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbaine / Rhône-Alpes, France
2015
Camera of Wonders, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico ; MAMM Medellín Museum of Modern Art, Medellin, Colombia
Yo, me, mi, contigo, Visiona festival, Huesca, Spain
Henri Cartier-Bresson e gli altri – i grandi fotografi e l’Italia, Palazzo della Ragione, Milan, Italy
Gesture towards the self, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Spain
Waterscapes, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Ich kenne kein Weekend. Archive and Collection René Block, Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany ;Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
Remember Lidice, Edition Block, Berlin, Germany ; Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannhaim, Germany ; Lidice Museum, Lidice, Czech Republic
A Room of One’s Own, Yancey Richardson, New York City, United States
Touching from a Distance, Serlachius Museum, Mänttä, Finland
Selfie, Brandts Museum of art and visual culture, Odense, Denmark
Voyage to the Virtual, Scandinavia House, New York City, United States
2014
Potretti, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
France(s), territoire liquide, TriPostal, Lille, France
2013
Home Truths, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, United States; Belfast Exposed (until 2014), Belfast, Northern Ireland
Kiasma Hits, Kiasma Museum of Contemporry Art, Helsinki, Finland
L’altro ritratto, MART, Rovereto, Italy
Biennial Fotografica Bogotá, MAMBO Museo de Arte Moderna de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia
The World of Art and Work, Städtische Galerie Waldkreiburg, Waldkreiburg, Germany
Ladies & Gentlemen, Kameran som spegel, Moderna Museet Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
VIDEO, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012
Selfportrait, Louisiana – Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Out of Focus, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Only You Only Me, Images of Love, Love of the Image, Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts, Musée d’art moderne et d’art contemporain MAMAC, Liège, Belgium
Momentum, The Nordic Biennial, Moss, Norway
Screaming from the Montain: Landscapes and View Points, Sörlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
Pieniä tarinoita suurmiehestä, Kotkaniemi, P.E. Svinhufvudin kotimuseo, together with Leena Svinhufvud, Luumäki, Finland
Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Nordic – Authentic Architecture, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark.
Sense of Place, European landscape photography, Bozar Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Alice in Wonderland, programme for the European Capital of Culture, Turku, Finland
2011
Alice in Wonderland, Lokomo, Turku, Finland
Summer in the city, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010
Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Prix Nièpce, Rétrospective, Chambre avec vues, Paris, France
Cinéphémère, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France
Nordic Models + Common Ground, The Scandinavia House, New York, United States
Felicità, Centre PasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland
Public Screen’s, i/o/lab senter for framtidskunst, Stavanger, Norway
Dans, Västerås Art Museum, Västerås, Sweden
Export – Import, Helsinki Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
Cool Water, Korjaamo Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Vom Dunkeln Gescluckt, Ars Auttoinen, Auttoinen, Finland
Billnäs Bruk, Raseborg, Finland
Spazio, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy
Starter, ARTER, Istanbul, Turkey
Helsinki10, Rogaland Art Museum, Stavanger, Finland
2009
Identités, Ecole Supérieure dArt, Le Havre, France
Rencontres littéraires nordiques, Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
Wonderful, terrible Life, Etelä-Karjalan Taidemuseo, Lappenranta, Finland
Myth of Childhood, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Nord, Nord-Ouest, gb agency, Paris, France
Screening, Supernova, Riga, Latvia
Mythos Kindheit, Centre Culturel, Mallorca, Spain
Ecology of Emotions, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland
Works, Deeds, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
La Ruche cité des artistes, Palais Lumière, Evian, France
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
2010 – Finnish Cultural Foundation 2-year Artist’s Grant, Arts Council of Finland Book, publishing grant (for “Artist and her Model”, work in progress), Arts Council of Finland
2009 – Arts Council of Finland
2008 – Finnish State Prize for Photography 2007 Grönqvist Stiftelse, Finland
2006 – Ars Fennica 2006 nomination
2005 – Prix Niépce, Gensd’images, France
2005 – Finnish Cultural Foundation, Finland
2005 – Book publishing grant (for The New Painting), Arts Council of Finland
2004 – 5-year Artist’s Grant, Arts Council of Finland
2003 – Carnegie Award 2004, Young Artist’s Scholarship, Sweden
2003 – The Best Books of the Year, Finnish Committee of Book Art (for Decisive Days), Finland
2002 – Carnegie Art Award 2002, shortlist, Sweden
2002 – Citigroup Private Bank Photography Prize 2002, shortlist
2001 – Prix Mosaïque, Centre National de l’Audiovisuel, Luxembourg
2001 – Fotofinlandia, Finland
2000 – Award 3-year Artist’s Grant, Arts Coucil of Finland
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Amos Andersson Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Apotekets Kulturförening, Stockholm, Sweden
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
Art Foundation Mallorca Collection, Andratx, Spain
Artothèque d’Angers, Angers, France
Artothèque de Brest, Brest Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP), France
Carnegie Art Collection, Sweden
Centre national de l’audiovisuel, Luxembourg
City of Lund, Lund, Sweden
City of Nice Colección H+F, Barcelona, Spain
Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Collection Neuflize, France
Coppel Collection, Mexico
City Corcoran Gallery, Washington, United States
County Councils of Gävleborg, Halland, Jönköping, Skåne, Uppsala and Västerbotten, Sweden
DZ Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Finnish State Art Collection, Finland
Fondation Kadist, Paris FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, France
FRAC Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France
Galeria Civica d’Arte, Modena Galerie municipale de Château d’eau, Toulouse, France
Gothemburg Art Museum, Gothemburg Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle, Sweden
Hasselblad Center, Gothemburg, Sweden
Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna, Finland
L’Imagerie, Lannion, France
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Koç Foundation, Istanbul MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden
Mestizo, Murcia, Spain
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
Museo da Imagem, Braga, Portugal
Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (MAXXI), Rome, Italy
Museum Folkwang, Essen Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, United States
NSM Vie, Paris Oulu Art Museum, Oulu, Finland
Saatchi Collection, London, United Kingdom
Saastamoinen Foundation, Finland
Société Générale, Paris, France
SOK Art Collection, Helsinki, Finland
South Carelia Art Museum, Lappeenranta, Finland
StatoilHydro, Stavanger, Norway
Swedish State Art Council, Stockholm, Sweden
Tampere City Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
Umeå municipality, Umeå, Sweden
Västerås Art Museum, Västerås, Sweden
