jonna.kina(at)gmail.com
Represented by: Helsinki Contemporary
Distributed by: Av-arkki, Arsenal – Institut Film und Videokunst e.V., Internfilm
Jonna Kina is an artist working across film, sound, sculpture, music, photography, performance and installation. Her multidisciplinary practice often begins with deconstruction — revealing the structures, codes, and conventions that shape how we see, hear, and interpret. She blends digital and analogue, artificial and natural, tangible and imagined by challenging how perception is constructed, mediated, and transformed across different representation systems.
Kina graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, department of Time and Space. She has also studied at the School of Visual Arts, New York, and in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. Her works have been presented at the Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; e-Flux Video & Film, New York, Berlinale Forum Expanded Program, Berlin; Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Espoo Museum of Modern Art EMMA, International Film Festival Rotterdam IFFR, Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Helsinki Art Museum HAM, Galleria delle Carrozze di Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence among others.
Kina was nominated for the VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize in Florence in 2017 and received the Best Nordic Short Film Award at Nordisk Panorama in Malmö the same year. In 2021, she was awarded the VIDS Media Art Prize by the Lappeenranta Art Museum, followed by the William Thuring Prize from the Finnish Art Association in 2022.
Her works are included in the collections of institutions such as the Photo Elysée (CH), Fundación RAC – Foundation of Contemporary Art (ES), Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma (FI), Helsinki Art Museum HAM (FI), Saastamoinen Foundation (FI), City of Levallois (FR), Sara Hildén Art Museum (FI), Finnish Museum of Photography, and the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation (FI). Kina is represented by Helsinki Contemporary gallery.
UPCOMING & LATEST:
Poetics of Encryption, curated by Nadim Samman, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic (13.2.-11.5.2025)
Poetics of Encryption, curated by Nadim Samman, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark (28.9.2024-12.1.2025)
Espoo Modern Art Museum, Collection Exhibition of Saastamoinen Foundation, together with Louise Bourgeois, Jesse Darling, Ida Ekblad, Nan Goldin, Giorgio Griffa, Heidi Hahn, Samia Halaby, Camille Henrot, Barbara Kasten, Jonna Kina, Harriet Korman among others (14.11.2024 – onwards)
Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces, curated by Minna Nyqvist, Salo Art Museum, Finland (19.10.2024-5.1.2025)
Visio Moving Images in Europe Since the 2010s -book, edited by Leonardo Bigazzi, published by Lenz
Kiasma Finnish National Gallery, Rock, Paper, Scissors – Kiasma’s Collection Exhibition, maanantai collective, Helsinki 14.2.2025–18.1.2026
Kirpilä Art Collection (14.10-17.12.2024)
Drive Recovery, v.2 screening, programmed by Maja Čule, Kaje gallery, New York, USA (October 2024)
Poetics of Encryption, curated by Nadim Samman, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (17.2-26.5.2024)
Reading performance for two voices, Secret Words and Relates Stories, with Shade Théret und Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 6th March at 7pm 2024
40. Kasseler DokFest, November, Kassel
September Sessions, Secret Words and Related Stories reading performance, curated by Emily Fahlén, IASPIS, Stockholm
IASPIS, September-November 2023, Stockholm
e-flux Video & Film IV. Words Takeover, curated by Julian Ross, Featuring: Ephraim Asili, Fluid Frontiers (2017); Dora García, The Joycean Society (2013); Jonna Kina, Secret Words and Related Stories (2013-16); Natsuka Kusano, Domain (2019), November 3 – Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Infinite Delay, exhibited artists: Jonna Kina (FI), Alison Nguyen (US), Jens Settergren (DK), OK Corral Experimental Space, Copenhagen (3.9-24.9.2022)
After Life followed by Red Impasto Jar, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (16.-21.8.2022)
Music for 4 Sculptures in 15 Pieces in 9 Movements for 2 Performers by Jonna Kina and Lauri Supponen, Kumu Art Museum (11.8.2022 at 6pm)
Greatest Hits, exhibited artists: Cyprien Gaillard, Francis Alÿs, Gary Hume, Hannah Black, Jonna Kina, Lucia Nimcova, Pierre Huyghe, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, EKKM, Tallinn (18.6.2022-7.8.2022)
Secret Words and Related Stories reading performance with Taavi Eelmaa and Inga Salurand, curated by Maria Helen Känd, Finissage at the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, EKKM, Tallinn (7.8.2022)
Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces, Kumu Art Museum, project room, curated by Tiiu Saadoja, Tallinn, Estonia (1.4-2.10.2022)
Kokoelma näyttely isolla K:lla, Lappeenranta Art Museum, Finland (11.6-4.9.2022)
Recontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Ecosystem Assembly program, Beaux-Arts de Paris (2.-8.5.2022)
Ecstatic.static, Alternate Alternate Alternate, curated by Jason Evans, presented artists: Rocio Mesa, Luke Fowler, Andrés Baron, Andrew Lambert, Jonna Kina, Charlotte Prodger, Elke Marhöfer & Mikhail Lylov, 2022
Arctic Moving Image and Film Festival, Harstad, Norway, 2021
4th Filmfest Sundsvall, International Short Film Competition, Sweden, 2021
71st Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale Forum Expanded Cinema Program, German, 2021
After Life, Helsinki Contemporary,Finland, 2021
Conditional Cinema, curated by Mika Taanila, Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany, 2021
Love and Anarchy, Next Level Shorts -Program, Helsinki, 2021
MSSNDCLRCQ, Brussels, Belgium, 2020, artists: Adam Henry, Hongyan, Sofia Hultén, Jonna Kina,
Claudio Parmiggiani, Benoît Platéus, Evariste Richer, Thu Van Tran
Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2020
Objects and Sounds, curated by Manuela Pacella, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome, Italy, 2019