Kari Vehosalo HOMEPAGE

Kari Vehosalo's art gives form to the mutually shared abstract social reality. Social norms, caring, work, death, pleasure and pain are present in his art but as detached from the familiar meanings. Vehosalo's iconic pictorial language plays with the sense of reality by representing things and worlds that are true, but not real. By process of alienation Vehosalo's artistic practise enables the constant re-evaluation of the ontological map that we hold up against the world.

In his art Vehosalo has dealt extensively with issues concerning power. His works explore the psychopathology of everyday life and the structures of reality.

Kari Vehosalo (born 1982 Finland) has graduated from Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Fine Arts and Aalto University, University of Art and Design. Vehosalo is represented in many major collections, e.g. : KIASMA - museum of contemporary art, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Helsinki Art Museum, Lahti Art Museum. He lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.


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EDUCATION		2008-2010 Aalto University, University of Art and Design, Helsinki, MA 2008-2010 studies in semiotics and philosophy, University of Helsinki 2004-2008 Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Institute of fine Arts, BA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS		2022 Unknown Pleasures, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki 2021 Kari Vehosalo - retrospective, Sara Hildén Art Museum 2018 Matinee, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki 2015 Terrible Nature, Turku Art Museum, STUDIO 2014 We hope you are OK, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki 2011 Baroque of Violence, Gallery Aarni, Espoo 2010 Hirtettyjen Tanssiaiset, tm•Gallery, Helsinki 2009 P U R K U, Artcenter Mältinranta, studio, Tampere 2007 Antrooppinen periaate, Taidepanimo, Lahti

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS		2022 Works from Niemistö collection, Hämeenlinna Art Museum 2021 Selected works, Galerie Anhava 2020 Line of Life, Rovaniemi Art Museum 2020 The Displaced, Oulu Art Museum 2020 The Displaced, Lappeenranta Art Museum 2019 Shared Dreams, Oulu Art Museum 2019 Mostly Happy - Finnish Art Today, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany 2019 In Black and White, Rovaniemi Art Museum 2019 Out of Office, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere 2019 Fragile, Hyvinkää Art Museum 2018 Imaginary Meeting, Rovaniemi Art Museum 2017 Ars Fennica 2017, KIASMA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki 2016 Hypnosis, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia 2016 From Heino With Love, HAM - Helsinki Art Museum 2016 Draw now!, Rovaniemi Art Museum 2015 Women's Weapons: Lipstick & Tears, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere 2015 Draw now!, Lahti Art Museum 2015 New and Newest, Rovaniemi Art Museum 2015 Shift in the shadows, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki 2015 Aineenvaihdunta, Gallery Kone, Hämeenlinna 2014 Summer Exhibition, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere 2014 Vieraantuminen, Hyvinkää Art Museum, Hyvinkää 2014 Traum{a}, Galerie TOOLBOX, Berlin, Germany 2013 Helmiä, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere 2013 Drawing in the Flesh, Vantaa Art Museum 2012 Reality bites, KIASMA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki 2012 Figuration Y ?, Galerie Favardin & de Verneuil, Paris, France 2012 Rajantaju, Purnu Art Centre, Orivesi 2012 Alumni, Gallery Oyoy, Lahti 2011 EMERGING, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki 2011 Montano's Malady, Galerie Favardin & de Verneuil, Paris, France 2010 AHNE, Helsinki, Suvilahti 2010 Virtually Real, Helsinki Art Museum, Meilahti 2010 Pain, Kerava Art Museum 2010 epäyhtälö, Gallery Rantakasarmi, Helsinki 2008 AUKEAMA, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki 2008 AUKEAMA, Lahti Art Museum 2008 New Painting, Lahti Art Museum 2007 Liukas saippua, Taidepanimo, Lahti 2007 Liukas saippua, Köysiratagallery, Turku 2007 Valintoja, Sibeliustalo, Verstas, Lahti 2007 The Art of Bassware, Sanomatalo, Helsinki 2007 Amerikka, Artcenter Ihana, Heinola 2006 Toinen kierros, Taidepanimo, Lahti 2006 Toivonpäivä, Rautatieasema, Helsinki 2004 VSK diplomawork exhibition, Turku

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS		Private collections in Europe KIASMA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki Lahti Art Museum HAM - Helsinki Art Museum Sara Hildén Art Museum Heino Collection, Finland Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection / EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art Finnish Art Society Lahti University of Applied Sciences Wihuri Foundation / Rovaniemi Art Museum Collection of the Prime Ministers Office, FIN Amos Anderson Art Museum Niemistö Collection / Hämeenlinna Art Museum Miettinen Collection

MEMBERSHIP		Finnish Painters' Union Kuvasto, visual rights organization

GRANTS / PRIZES		Art Council of Finland Ars Fennica 2017 Prize Finnish Cultural Foundation FRAME Paulo Foundation Aalto university Art Council of Helsinki Auno ja Mauri Riutu foundation

OTHER ACTIVITIES		Ars Fennica award committee Professor of painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki Art teaching, master's thesis examiner and instructor in various universities exhibition jury memberships

PUBLICATIONS		Kari Vehosalo - retrospective Sara Hildén Art Museum publication

		"Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation Collection" Rovaniemi Art Museum (ISBN-978-952-9554-51-5)

		Ars Fennica 2017 PDF publication DOWNLOAD www.arsfennica.fi

		"Reality bites - Document in Contemporary Art" A Museum of Contemporary Art Publication In English & in Finnish (ISBN 978-951-53-3449-7)

		"KIPU" ("PAIN") - Kerava Art Museum Publication Only in Finnish (ISBN 978-952-9642-41-0)


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