Bio & contact

contact: jonna.kina(at)gmail.com

Represented by: Helsinki Contemporary
Distributed by: Arsenal – Institut Film und Videokunst e.V., Av-arkki, Internfilm

Jonna Kina (b.1984) 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.

 

CV

EDUCATION

2010-15 Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Photography, MFA, Finland
2010-13 Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Time and Space Arts, Helsinki, MFA , Finland
2013 School of Visual Arts, Photography, SVA, Photography, Video & Related Media, New York, USA
2008-09 Bezalel, University of Arts and Design, Department of Photography, Jerusalem, Israel / Palestina
2006-10 Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Time and Space Arts, Helsinki, Finland, BA

CURRENT & FORTHCOMING
2026 INDEX, Art and Technology Biennial, curated by Joel Valabrega, Braga, Portugal (7.5.-30.5.2026)
2026 Dialogues, Espoo Modern Art Museum, EMMA, Saastamoinen Foundation Collection
2026 South Carelian Art Museum, curated by Anna Kortelainen, Finland (27.3.2026 – 3.10.2026)

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2024 Salo Art Museum, Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces, curated by Minna Nyqvist, Finland
2024 Kirpilä Art Collection, Helsinki, Finland
2023 3023, curated by Kristina Lindemann, Huddinge Kyrka, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces, Project Space, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2021 After Life, Helsinki Contemporary, Finland
2019 Arr. for a Scene, Media Room, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, EMMA, Finland
2019 Objects and Sounds, curated by Manuela Pacella, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome, Italy
2019 Arr. for a Scene, Dark Room, Turku Art Museum, Finland
2018 Somnivm, Beaconsfield Gallery, London, UK
2017 Recordings, together with Sharon Lockhart, Ama Gallery, Helsinki
2016 CTRL + P, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, USA
2016 Secret Words and Related Stories, AMA Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2015 Notes from the Other Side, Rooster Gallery, New York, USA
2014 Foley Objects, Finnish Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
2013 And Other Notions, Fotocentrum Raseborg, Finland
2012 Reconstructions and Drawings, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PUPBLIC PRESENTATIONS 
2026 INDEX, Art and Technology Biennial, curated by Joel Valabrega, Braga, Portugal
2026 Dialogues, Espoo Modern Art Museum, EMMA, Saastamoinen Foundation Collection
2026 South Carelian Art Museum, curated by Anna Kortelainen, Finland 
2026 Kiasma Finnish National Gallery, Rock, Paper, Scissors – Maanantai collective, Helsinki
2025 Poetics of Encryption, curated by Nadim Samman, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic, exhibited artists: Morehshin Allahyari, Emmanuel Van der Auwera, BCAA system, Gillian Brett, Daniel Burda, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Julian Charrière, Joshua Citarella, Clusterduck, Kate Crawford, Sterling Crispin, Simon Denny, enorê, František Fekete, Mathias Gramoso, Tilman Hornig, Anežka Horová, Vladan Joler, Daniel Keller, Andrea Khôra, Jonna Kina, Oliver Laric, Eva & Franco Mattes, Jürgen Mayer H., Carsten Nicolai, Trevor Paglen, Matthias Planitzer, Jon Rafman, Sebastian Schmieg, Charles Stankievech, Troika, Nico Vascellari, Dušan Zahoranský
2025 Poetics of Encryption, curated by Nadim Samman, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
2024 Poetics of Encryption, curated by Nadim samman, KW Instutute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2024 Reading Performance, with Shade Théret und Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, public program, KW Instutute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2023 Secret Words and Related Stories reading performance, curated by Emily Fahlé, Septemper Sessions – Contemporary Art Festival in Stockholm, IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden
2023 Viewfinder, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
2022 Greatest Hits, exhibited artists: Cyprien Gaillard, Francis Alÿs, Gary Hume, Hannah Black, Jonna Kina, Lucia Nimcova, Pierre Huyghe, curated by Maria Helen Känd, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, EKKM, Tallinn, Estonia
2022 Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces, Lappeenranta Art Museum, Finland
2022 Reading performance with Taavi Eelmaa and Inga Salurand, curated by Maria Helen Känd, EKKM, Tallinn
2022 Infinite Delay, Jonna Kina, Alison Nguyen, Jens Settergren, OK Corral Experimental Space, Copenhagen
2022 Music for 4 Sculptures in 15 Pieces in 9 Movements for 2 Performers by Jonna Kina and Lauri Supponen, Kumu Art Museum
2021 Landscape and Urban Living, curated by Claus Friede, Municipal Gallery in Kiel, Germany
2020 Don’t be frightened, Mr Gould is here, MSSNDCLRCQ Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2020 Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019 Open Collection. Artist Takes the Floor, Kumu Art Museum, Estonia
2019 Out of Office, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
2019 “Black and White”, from Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation collection, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
2019 Sound and Vision, Diffusion,Wales, UK
2019 Arr. for a Scene screening, Brandts Museum, Odense, Denmark
2018 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Russia
2018 An Idea Could Make This Sound, Tokyo University of Arts, Japan
2018 Kerronta, curated by Jarno Vesala, Laikun Gallery, Tampere, Finland
2018 FAA – Finlayson Art Arena, Tampere, Finland
2018 Nordisk Salon, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden
2017 Directing the Real: Artists’ Film and Video in the 2010s, Galleria delle Carrozze di Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence, Italy
2017 reGeneration, Lishui Photography Festival, Lishui Art Museum Gallery, China
2017 Valssaamo Gallery, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland
2017 Seeing Sound, HAFNY’s online Group Show, curated by Jon Feinstein
2017 reGeneration3, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
2016 Still moving, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, USA
2016 reGeneration3, Format, International Photography Festival, London, UK
2016 reGeneration3, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
2015 Young 2015, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
2015 Further I will not venture alone, Maanantai Collective, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2015 Aftersound: Frequency, Attack, Return, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
2015 reGeneration3, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
2015 Reinterpreting the Frame, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
2015 Interpreting the Frame, Gallery Augusta, Helsinki, Finland
2014 Summer School, TR1 Kunsthalle, Tampere, Finland
2014 10th anniversary of the Hasselblad Foundation Victor Fellowships, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden
2014 Maanantai Collective, Galerie Van Der Mieden, Brussels, Belgium
2014 Between the flashes of the Light House, Maanantai Collective, Gallery Taik Persons, Berlin
2014 Inventing Everyday Life, Parallel program, Manifesta 10, St. Petersburg, Russia
2014 Hetkinen, Maanantai Collective, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland
2014 Alone, Helsinki Art Museum, Finland
2014 Nine Nameless Mountains, Maanantai Collective, Galeria Monopol, Warsaw, Poland
2014 Expanded photography, Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland
2014 ¿Finlandia?, Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid, Spain
2014 Finalists Exhibition, New York Photo Awards, Power House Arena, New York, USA
2013 Photo Levallois Award, Galerie de L’escale, Paris, France
2013 Aperture Foundation Gallery, Maanantai Collective, New York, USA
2013 New Nordic Photography, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden
2013 Unien Kaupunki, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland
2013 Summer School, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
2013 Summer School, Photographic Centre Peri, Turku, Finland
2013 Nine Nameless Mountains, Maanantai Collective, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
2013 Alt+1000 Photography Festival, Maanantai Collective, Rossiniére, Switzerland
2012 Kuvan Kevät, The Degree Show of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
2012 Preview 5, Helsinki Photography Biennial, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Finland
2012Valokuva, Helsinki Photography Biennial, FAFA Gallery, Finland
2011 Young professionals, Horizonte Fotofestival, Zingst, Germany
2010 Academy Meets Photokina, Cologne, Germany
2010 Coop1 – Diamantenbörse, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
2010 Kadotettu ja uudelleen löydetty kuva, Kaiku Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2009 Chiasma, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel/Palestina
2008 Thinking Project, Välivuosi Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2008 Psychedelia, Curated by Lars Bang Larssen, FAFA Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2008 Drawing Class, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
2006 Pirkanmaan 3. Triennial, Tampere, Finland
2006 Kehotus, Myymälä2, Helsinki, Finland
2006 Niagara Cinema, Tampere, Finland
2005 Backlight05, Photography Triennial, Tampere, Finland