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Her works are in over 80 public collections including the Pompidou Centre, Paris, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, LACMA, Los Angeles, and Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Why not? Another recent theme is architecture: Brotherus photographs in private houses designed by important architects, taking roles of various imagined characters.
Memento mori (self-published, 2022) and Seabound. It wasn’t planned, but nor did I refuse it, for my strategy as an artist is to accept the images that need to happen. Elina Brotherus lives and works in Helsinki, Finland and Avallon, France. Brotherus has participated in group shows in institutions such as Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; Biennale of Sydney; Brooklyn Museum; Istanbul Biennial; LACMA, Los Angeles; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; MAXXI, Rome; National Art Center, Tokyo and the Photographers’ Gallery, London, to name a few.
Her early series on subjective experiences gave way to works dealing with the human figure and the landscape, the relation of the artist and the model. Her work has been alternating between autobiographical and art-historical approaches. Her tranquil presence breaths life into these iconic spaces of architectural heritage.
Brotherus’s oeuvre has alternated between autobiographical to art historical approaches through utilizing the principal ideas of the Fluxus Movement – which marks the starting point for her series One Minute Sculptures, Meaningsless Work and The Baldessari Assignments – as well as iconic images from 19th and 20th-century paintings. By that she creates an equilibrium between the more objective conceptual thinking of art-making and its histories, combining it with the emotional and personal – also allowing herself to be influenced by a wider range of artists including film makers, photographers, painters and poets.
Elina Brotherus (*1972 in Helsinki, Finland) is one of the most known contemporary Finnish photographers and video artists.
Her early works on subjective experiences gave way to photographs dealing with the human figure and the landscape, the relation of the artist and the model. Most recently she published Brotherus Block Beuys (Museum Schloss Moyland and Kehrer Verlag 2023/2024), Visitor (Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki 2023), Sebaldiana.
I continued to use myself as model, but now I was an image-maker instead of an autobiographer. She graduated with a Master of Arts degree in photography from Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in 2000.
Galleries:
Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen
camara oscura galeria de arte, Madrid
Instagram: @elinabrotherus
INTERVIEWS
France Culture, Affaires culturelles, Elina Brotherus - L’autoportrait comme invitation à la contemplation, RADIO interview by Arnaud Laporte, Nov.2023
Alvar Aalto Foundation, A brand-new series by Elina Brotherus brings new perspectives to Alvar Aalto’s architecture, interview by Mari Murtoniemi, Oct.05, 2023
Instituto iberoamericano de Finlandia, Elina Brotherus - Entrevista en Madrid, VIDEO interview, Sept.2023
Arter, Elina Brotherus on Large de vue, VIDEO interview, March 2023
Ecoutez voir, RADIO interview by Brigitte Patient, Dec.08, 2022
Serlachius Museums, Taidepuhetta, #esillä Elina Brotherus, PODCAST interview, Nov.2022
Aesthetica Magazine, Ambiguous Composition, interview by Kate Simpson, Aug.2022
Helsingin Sanomat, “Nainen ottaa kuvissani sen paikan joka on aikaisemmin kuulunut miehelle”, interview by Harri Uusitorppa, April 29, 2022
Aesthetica Magazine, Visual Interpretation, interview by Eleanor Sutherland, March 21, 2022
Elles x Paris Photo - Elina Brotherus, Oct.2021
Fundación Proa, Elina Brotherus + Sergio Baur, VIDEO interview by Sergio Baur, Oct.2021
Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Elina Brotherus introduces the Seabound series, VIDEO interview, June 30, 2021
The Modern House, Elina Brotherus on situating herself within modernist homes, interview by Marigold Warner, June 2021
Past-Forward: The Wapping Project at 20, Elina Brotherus, PODCAST interview by Gareth Evans, April 30, 2021
Kopiosto, Meet the artist: Elina Brotherus is in dialogue with different art forms, interview by Iina Saarinen, Nov.23, 2020
aint-bad, Elina Brotherus, interview by Emerald Arguelles, Oct.28, 2020
Weserburg Museum, Elina Brotherus.
Recent solo exhibitions include Fill With Own Imagination, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg; Dreamer, Miettinen Collection, Berlin (2025); In the Architect’s House, MAPS Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Denmark; Reglas de juego, Centro Cultural PUCP, Lima (2024); Brotherus Block Beuys, Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau; Visitor, Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki; Large de vue, ARTER, Istanbul (2023); Dialogue, Finnish National Gallery Ateneum (2022); Why not?, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen (2020); Playground, Férnan Gómez, Madrid (2019) and Serlachius Museums, Mänttä, Finland (2018); It’s Not Me, It’s A Photograph, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna (2018); Règle du jeu, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2017).
She has been awarded, among others, the Artist Professorship Grant of the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (2022-2026), Carte blanche PMU, France (2017), the Finnish State Prize for Photography (2008), and the Prix Niépce of Gens d’image (2005). In her current work she is revisiting Fluxus event scores and other written instructions for performance-oriented art of the 1950s-70s.
She has an MA degree in Photography from the University of Art and Design Helsinki (now Aalto University) and an MSc in Chemistry from the University of Helsinki. A Logbook (Kehrer Verlag 2021). Her works are included in numerous collections such as Saatchi Collection, London (UK), ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj (DK), Hasselblad Center, Gothemburg (SE) and DZ-Bank Art Collection (DE).