“For this event (at the KW institute of Contemporary Art) performers Shade Théret and Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju read a series of true stories. Each tale concerns the secret history of a password—as told by its owner to the artist Jonna Kina. While upholding the boundary between personal and public information, the intimate formation of our … Read more
Music for 4 Sculptures in 15 Pieces in 9 Movements for 2 Performers, performance in Kumu Art Museum, 2022 Music for 4 Sculptures in 15 Pieces in 9 Movements for 2 Performers (2022) is a piece by Jonna Kina and Lauri Supponen written for the fragments of destroyed sculptures by August Weizenberg and Amandus … Read more
Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces, 5min 39sec, 35mm film transferred to 4K/HD, color, sound, installation View, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, 2022 S 430, S433, S436, S 445, archival pigmnet ink print, 46,79cm x 58,5cm, framed with museum glass Four Sculptures in Fifteen Pieces looks at the themes of creation and destruction. The film … Read more
After Life, 2021, 35mm film transferred to 4K, 5′, 5.1 / stereo, installation view, Helsinki Contemporary After Life explores transcendental issues through archaeological and illegal excavations of tombs. The film is composed of a sequence of meditative short scenes picturing the ruins of a small Faliscan necropolis of Cavone di Monte Li Santi in … Read more
Red Impasto Jar, 2021, 35mm film transferred to 4K, 3′ 21″ The film portrays the state of a looted burial object made for afterlife within a three-minute single take. The film focuses on the detailed documentation of the jar with a slow 360° revolution on a robust industrial motor. This ancient Faliscan burial item … Read more
Confession Piece for Voice, 2020-2021, 12″ vinyl, 3’24”, installation view Helsinki Contemporary Confession Piece for Voice is a sound installation played in an exhibition space on a 12-inch vinyl record upon request. On the recording a young person’s soprano voice interprets poem in the form of a cappella. The libretto is adapted from the … Read more
2012, Series of 15 photographs, archival pigment print, 44 cm x 35 cm each Objects from the series Aalto Objects belongs to Alvar Aalto Home museum. Kina approaches the museum as a living space shaped by temporal, material, and institutional processes rather than as a stable historical representation. The idea of home as a … Read more
2017, framed archival pigment print, series of 6 prints, 30,5 x 35 cm each Objects that were used in the sound process while creating sound effects for the film Arr. for a Scene (2017). Copyright © Jonna Kina. All rights reserved.
2017-2018, 35 mm film / transferred to 4K, 12min 39 sec, stereo, 5.1 (in relation to the marble sculpture Retractor Hydrobag) Somnivm, 35mm film transferred to 4K, 12min, 39sec, color, sound, installation view, Beaconsfield Gallery, London, 2018 “Kina has chosen to focus on the history of the quarries from which this famous marble … Read more
Akiya is film work, which deals with phenomenon of desolation of urban built environment. The issue of empty apartments and houses in contemporary Tokyo is the background of this Noh theatre inspired work, where spirits are typical characters. The medium and the machine are treated as a performing other. The work does not show … Read more