PETTERI NISUNEN & TOMMI GRÖNLUND
HELSINKI, FINLAND 1962/1967
Finnish artist duo TOMMI GRÖNLUND (b.1967) and PETTERI NISUNEN (b.1962) create sculptural installations and interventions in urban and natural environments. While using technology, sound and light as the primary material in their works, their art addresses issues of space and physical phenomena through the sophisticated installations that often play with physical laws of nature.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2020 Imminence, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki (In collaboration with Ivana Franke)
- 2020 Flow with Matter, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
- 2019 Imminence / Time Slip, MMSU, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka (In collaboration with Ivana Franke)
- 2018 GREY AREA, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa
- 2017 GREY AREA, Museum of Contemporary Art, MSU, Zagreb
- 2017 GREY AREA, Helsinki Kunsthalle, Helsinki
- 2016 Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
- 2013 Esther Schipper, Berlin
- 2012 Gallery Niklas Bellenius, Stockholm
- 2012 Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
- 2010 Galleria Sculptor, Helsinki
- 2009 Esther Schipper, Berlin
- 2007 Galerie Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm
- 2007 Galeríe Salvador Díaz, Madrid
- 2005 Esther Schipper, Berlin
- 2005 Orbita, Gallerie NicolaFurnello, Prato
- 2004 Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
- 2004 Wäinö Aaltosen museo, Turku
- 2004 The 1st at Moderna Museet, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
- 2004 Centre d’Art Contemporain la Synagogue de Delme, Delme
- 2003 Schipper & Krome, Berlin
- 2003 Galleri Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm
- 2002 SMC/CAC Contemporary Art Center, Vilnus
- 2000 Galleria Sculptor, Helsinki
- 1999 Gallerie Public>, Paris
- 1999 Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå
- 1998 Elements, Galleri Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm
- 1998 Frequented Etherics, Spherics and Bars, Kiasma-Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (In collaboration with Carl-Michael von Hausswolff)
- 1997 Interference, Annexed Gallery, London (In collaboration with Juha van Ingen)
- 1997 Young Artist of the Year 1997, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
- 1996 Evolution of Image, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (In collaboration with Sergei Bugajev)
- 1993 Radiance, Kluuvin gallery, Helsinki Currents, Titanik galleria, Turku
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2021 Wavelength: At the Moment, Times Art Museum, Chengdu
- 2021 Wavelength: At the Moment, Times Art Museum, Beijing
- 2020 Freq_Wave, web-based sound art project, TBA21 Academy, Ocean-Archive
- 2020 Máquina del Tiempo/Time Machine, Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, Ouerétaro
- 2019 Linha Atemporal/Timeless Line, Dan Galeria, Sao Paulo
- 2019 Mielen silmin/With the Eyes of My Mind, Pori Art Museum, Pori
- 2019 Kosketus, new set up, EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo
- 2018 Nine Tomorrows: The Future is Here -group exhibition, PowerLong Gallery Center, Hangzhou
- 2018 Toisto -group exhibition, Purnu Art Center, Orivesi2018 Kosketus, new set up, EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo
- 2018 Squares in Motion -group exhibition, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch
- 2017 Totuus Suomesta / The Truth About Finland –group exhibition, Porin kulttuurisäätö, Pori
- 2017 Group Exhibition, Galerie Samuelis Baumgarte, Bielefeld
- 2017 Collection Exhibition, Helsinki Art Museum, HAM, Helsinki
- 2017 Ghost in the Machine, FEDERKIEL Raum für Kunst | Bildung | Ökologie | Genuss, Munchen
- 2017 Freq_out 11 Radio, The Lake Radio http://thelakeradio.com/ Copenhagen
- 2016 Kosketus, EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo
- 2016 Mansikkapaikka, Wäinö Aaltosen museo, Turku
- 2016 Taiteen tähtitaivaat, Taidemuseo Gösta, Mänttä
- 2016 Ghost in the Machine, EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin
- 2016 Freq_Out 12, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), Vienna
- 2016 Tampere Biennale, Vooninki/Finlayson, Tampere
- 2015 Myth/History II , Shanghai Galaxy, Yuz Museum, Shanghai
- 2015 TAJU, Hyvinkään taidemuseo, Hyvinkää
- 2015 Eppur Si Muove, And Yet it Moves, MUDAM Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- 2015 Esther Schipper & Johnen Galerie, 11 Colombia, Monaco
- 2015 Sound Art Exhibition, Nordic Music Days 2015, King Christian Brewery, Copenhagen
- 2014 Freq_out 10, 5th Marrakech Biennale, Marrakech
- 2014 Structures of the Invisible, Galerija Klovicevi dvori, Zagreb
- 2014 Parallax – resonancias geograficas, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City
- 2014 SKAN II, Skanu Mezs festival, Riga
- 2014 Matters of Time – Artists from Finland, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt
- 2014 Structures of the Invisible, Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence
- 2014 Freq_Out 1.2, permanent sound installation, Skandion, Uppsala
- 2013 Kiasma Hits, Kiasma-Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
- 2013 Events in Nature, EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art
- 2013 The 7th Wave, Etelä-Karjalan taidemuseo, Lappeenranta
- 2013 The 7th Wave, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma
- 2013 Freq_out 9, Sonic Acts festival, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
- 2012 The 7th Wave, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki
- 2012 Cage 100 – Opening Spaces for Action, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig
- 2012 Camouflage, Kiasma-Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
- 2012 Cave Allegories, Retretti Art Center, Punkaharju
- 2012 Freq_Out 8, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
- 2011 ”Kind of Nice”, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
- 2011 Pattern Recognition, Galerie Kant, Esbjerg, Denmark
- 2011 The Morning Line, T-B A21, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
- 2011 The North is Protected II (Death in Venice), Lido, Venice
- 2011 Turku European Cultural Capital, Turku
- 2010 01-10, Esther Schipper, Berlin
- 2010 Mänttä Art Festival, Pekilo, Mänttä, Finland
- 2010 Umedalens Skulptur, Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Umeå
- 2009 3rd Moscow Biennial, Special Project Program, Moscow
- 2008 Freq_Out 7, Palace, Kortrijik, Belgium 20 Contemporary, Peter and Paul Fortress, St.Petersburg
- 2008 Plusmarca, Arte y Deporte, IVAM Institut Valencia d´Art Moderne, Valencia
- 2008 Maan Asema / La position de la Terre, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch
- 2007 SKAN sound art festival, Riga Full Pull 07, Malmö
- 2007 Laatikko, Gallery Alkovi, Helsinki
- 2007 Freq_Out 6, Dreamland is Burning, Kunsthalle, Budapest
- 2006 Dreamland is Burning, Kunsthalle, Budapest
- 2006 Focus Finlandia, KBB, Barcelona
- 2006 How to Live together, 27a. Bienal de São Paulo, Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, São Paulo
- 2006 Intersection – between Past and Future –group show, Pori Art Museum, Pori, June
- 2006 Freq_out 5, Sonambiente Festival, Berlin
- 2006 Breaking the Ice – Comtemporary Art from Finland, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
- 2005 No Man is an Island – Nordic Constellations, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
- 2005 Kyoto Art Walk –group show, Kiyomizudera Temple, Kyoto
- 2005 Freq_out 4 , Nuit Blanche Festival, Paris
- 2005 Klangwald –festival, Riga
- 2005 Helsinki International, Korjaamo, Helsinki
- 2005 Techno2, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam
- 2005 Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel
- 2004 Kill your Timid Notion, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
- 2004 Edstranska Stiftelsen Stipendiater, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
- 2004 Vid Livets Källa, Forum Box, Helsinki
- 2004 Cinemascope, Budapest Autumn Festival, Budapest
- 2004 Freq_ Out 2, Hovikodden Art Center, Oslo
- 2004 Nr.6 Feel, Z33, Hasselt
- 2004 Berlin North, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
- 2003 Snow Show –preview, Palazzo Zorzi, Venice
- 2003 Freq_Out 1, Disturbances, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen
- 2003 International Biennale for Contemporary Art, Gothenburg Art Museum, Gothenburg
- 2003 Todos somos pecadores, Museo MARCO, Monterray, Mexico
- 2002 Prototype, Theiss, Austria
- 2002 Art Forum Berlin, Galleri Andrehn-Shiptjenko at Berlin Messe
- 2002 Villette Arts Numériques, La Grande Halle, Parc de la Villette, Paris
- 2002 Todos somos pecadores, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
- 2002 Area, Schipper & Krome, Berlin
- 2002 Rouge Phosphene, Centre de Art Contemporain, Séte
- 2002 Sonarmatica, Centre de Cultura Contemporain de Barcelona, Barcelona
- 2002 Frequenzies Hz – Audio Visual Spaces, Schirn Kunstahalle, Frankfurt
- 2001 Cargo II, Foundation Kunstwerk Loods 6, Amsterdam
- 2001 Ambient City 01 –radio project, Kiasma-Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (In collaboration with Iiro Auterinen and Matti Knaapi)
- 2001 Yokohama Triennale, Shin Minato Warehouse No.1, Yokohama
- 2001 Entrophy in the Living Room, Stats Galleri, Kiel
- 2001 The 49th Venice Biennale, Nordic Pavillion, Venice
- 2001 Surfaces and Whrilpools, Borås Konst Museum, Borås
- 2000 Naust, Bergen, Bergen (in collaboration with Jaakob Solla)
- 2000 Under the Same Sky, Kiasma-Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
- 2000 Bring the Noise, Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporain, Geneve
- 2000 Byn/Kylä, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm
- 2000 Audible Light, Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
- 1999 Ambient City 99 -radio project, Art Cologne, Cologne (In collaboration with Iiro Auterinen and Matti Knaapi)
- 1999 The Northern Summer Nights – Dark and Light, Århus Kunstbyggning, Århus
- 1999 Finnish Line-Starting Point, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg
- 1999 Generation Z, P.S.1-Art Center, New York
- 1999 Ambient City 99 -radio project, Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerpen (In collaboration with Iiro Auterinen and Matti Knaapi)
- 1998 Nuit Blanche, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
- 1998 Momentum -Nordic Festival for Contemporary Art, Moss
- 1998 Off-Sonic, Sonar 98, Musee de Art Contemporain de Barcelona, Barcelona
- 1998 Nuit Blanche, Pori Art Museum, Pori
- 1997 Ambient City 97 -radio project, Gallerie Nemo, Eckenförde (In collaboration with Iiro Auterinen and Matti Knaapi)
- 1997 Luonto/Nature, Helsinki Art Hall, Helsinki
- 1996 Manifesta 1 -biennale, Rotterdam Kunsthalle, Rotterdam
- 1995 Helsinki Light Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (In collaboration with Matti Knaapi)
- 1995 Regional Art Show, Kerava Art Museum, Kerava
- 1994 Ambient City-radio project, Museum of Contemporay Art, Helsinki (In collaboration with Iiro Auterinen, Jarmo Eskelinen and Matti Knaapi)
- 1994 Electronic Art, Rauma Art Museum, Rauma, Turku Art Museum, Turku and Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS & COMMISSIONS
- 2021 Public commission, Agravic Planet, Starland Sponge Park, Shanghai
Wavelength: At the Moment -group exhibition, Times Art Museum, Chongqing - 2022 Vom Verrinnen. Zeitkonzepte der Gegenwartskunst -group exhibition
Kunstmuseum Reutlingen, Reutlingen
Solo Exhibition, La Bibi Gallery, Palma de Mallorca / London
Taidetta kaksin -group exhibition, Kerava Art Museum, Kerava
Hidden-aistien muodot -group exhibition, Onoma, Fiskars
Group exhibition, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere
Solo exhibition, Home of TMF, Montesinos Foundation, Geneva
Public commission, Kankaa residential area, Jyväskylä (under production) - 2023 Public commission, Tammela Football Stadium, Tampere (under production)
- 2023 Public commission, Kruunuvuorenranta, Helsinki
- 2024 Public commission, Tullikamari Square, Tampere
- 2026 Solo Exhibition, Tampere Art Museum
COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS
- 2021 Art Hotel, Helsinki
- 2020 HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Kalasataman koulu
- 2020 Private Collection in Hong Kong
- 2019 Private Collection in USA
- 2019 Private Collection in Brazil
- 2018 Aalto University, School of Art, Design and Architecture, Espoo
- 2018 HUS, Uusi lastensairaala, a new hospital for children, Helsinki
- 2017 EMMA – Espoo Museum of Contemporary Art
- 2017 HAM – Helsinki Art Museum
- 2017 Private collection in Finland
- 2016 Länsimetro, Keilaniemi station, Espoo
- 2016 EMMA – Espoo Museum of Contemporary Art
- 2016 Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
- 2016 Rovaniemi Museum of Art, Rovaniemi
- 2016 Private collection in Finland
- 2014 World Cultural Council Award 2014 ceremony, Aalto University, Otaniemi
- 2014 Kastelli Community Center, Oulu
- 2014 Tampere High School of Technology, Tampere
- 2014 Helsingin Runko apartment house, Arabianranta, Helsinki
- 2013 Private collection in Switzerland
- 2013 Private collection in USA
- 2012 Emporia shopping center, Malmö
- 2012 Yuz-foundation, Jakarta/Shanghai
- 2012 Helsingin Isolokki residential block, Arabianranta, Helsinki Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
- 2012 EMMA – Espoo Museum of Contemporary Art, Espoo
- 2012 Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
- 2012 Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku
- 2011 Kv Lusten, Hornbergs Strand housing project, Stockholm
- 2011 Euroopan kulttuurikaupunki 2011, railwaystation pedestarian bribge, Turku
- 2011 Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi
- 2010 Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
- 2010 EMMA – Espoo Museum of Contemporary Art, Espoo
- 2008 Bryggen shopping center, Vejle
- 2008 Nye Ahus Hospital, Akershus, Oslo
- 2007 Bergen University, Bergen
- 2006 Pori Art Museum, Pori
- 2005 Colección Siglo XXI, Afinsa, Madrid
- 2003 EVTEK University of Applied Sciences, Espoo
- 2000 Astra Biotech Laboratory, Stockholm
- 1999 Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
- 1997 Jokiniemi Upper Secondary School, Vantaa
ART FAIRS
- 2019 West bund Art + Design, Shanghai, with Esther Schipper
- 2018 West bund Art + Design, Shanghai, with Esther Schipper
SP-Arte, Sao Paulo, with DAN Galeria
Arco, Madrid, with Galerie Anhava - 2015 Art Basel, Basel, with Esther Schipper
- 2014 Arco, Madrid, with Galerie Anhava and Esther Schipper
- 2013 Armory Show, New York, with Galerie Anhava
- 2012 Armory Show, New York, with Galerie Anhava
- 2012 Art Basel, Basel, with Galerie Anhava
- 2012 Market, Stockholm, with Galerie Anhava
- 2010 Art Basel, Basel, with Esther Schipper
- 2005 Art Basel, Basel, Art Unlimited exhibition
- 2004 Art Basel, Basel, with Esther Schipper
- 2004 Artissima, Turin, with Esther Schipper
- 2003 Art Berlin Contemporary, Berlin, with Andréhn-Schiptjenko
- 2003 Market, Stockholm, with Andréhn-Schiptjenko
- 1998 Art Cologne, Cologne, with Galerie NEMO
PRIZES & AWARDS
- 2013 Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts, World Cultural Council
- 2004 Edstranska Stiftelsen
- 2001 Finnish State Art Award
- 1998 Stina Krook Foundation