*1978, Savonlinna, Finland — lives and works in Helsinki

2003-2007

Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki (MFA Fine Art)

1999-2002

Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (BA Fine Art)

1998-1999

Camberwell College of Arts, London (Diploma in Foundation studies)

2010

Cite Internationale des Beaux Arts, Paris

2009

Camden Arts Centre, London

2007

Location 1, New York

2006

de Ateliers, Amsterdam

2003

NIFCA, Leirvik, Faroe Islands

2012

Scene Shifts, Hilary Crisp, London

2011

Scene Shifts, Gallery Forum Box, Helsinki

2010

Parallel Acts, Otto Zoo Gallery, Milan

Travelogue, Camden Arts Centre, London

Parallel Acts, Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland

Parallel Acts, Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki

2009

Evolutions, Reinier van Ewijk Projects, Amsterdam

2008

Evolutions, Helsinki City Art Museum, Kluuvi Art Gallery

Tapis, coussins et video – Jani Ruscica, 36th international La Rochelle Film Festival, La Rochelle, France curat. Brent Klinkum

Short Profile – Jani Ruscica, 37th International Rotterdam Film Fesival, Rotterdam curat. Sacha Bronwasser

2007

Beatbox alternate take, Kunsthalle studio, Helsinki

Five Variations on a Theme, Gallery Huuto, Helsinki

2006

Contrapuntal, VAE10, Visual Arts Gallery of the Cultural Center of Ricardo

Palma University, Lima, Perú (cat.)

2005

Swan song, Rauma Art Museum, Rauma, Finland

2004

Medley, Finnish Academy of fine arts gallery, Helsinki

2012

Aboard the Heart of Gold, Museo Universitario di Palazzo Poggi, Bologna Art First, Italy, curat. Julia Draganovic

2011

Believe It or Not - New Works from the Collection, Helsinki Art Museum Meilahti, curat. Jari Björklov & Satu Oksanen

Found in Translation - Chapter L, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg, curat. Emmanuel Lambion

The Limits, Kitchener and Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, CAN, curat. Crystal Mowry

Nordic Art Today: Conceptual Debts, Broken Dreams and New Horizons, Loft Project Etagi, St Petersburg, Russia, curat. Anna Bitkina, Kari J. Brandzaeg, Birta Gudjonsdottir, Aura Seikkula, Olesya Turkina, Simon Sheikh, Power Ekroth

START/PLAY, Museo Pecci, Milan, curat. STARTMILANO

Architecture in Words Only, Hilary Crisp, London

2010

International 10: S.Q.U.A.T. Liverpool, 6th Liverpool Biennial, curat. NLE Asher Remy-Toledo

Highlights from the KunstFilmBiennale, KUNST-WERKE BERLIN, Institute for Contemporary Art

The New Black 'n, White, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin, curat. Laura Köönikkä

The Allegory of the Cave, Art Container, Tallin curat. Natasha Rees

Arrivals and Departures, Fondo Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, IT. curat. Andrea Bruciati and Walter Gasperoni

Cosmogonia, Museo Cappelini, Bologna, IT. curat. Agenzia 04

2009

Life Forms, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, curat. Sara Arrhenius

Favoured Nations, 5th Momentum Biennial, Moss, Norway
 curat. Stina Høgkvist and Lina Dzuverovic

Coping with Contingency: Seven Methods, Art Moscow, Moscow

Variations on the finiteness of human vision, Riga Art Space, Riga, curat. Marita Muukkonen

Ecology of Emotion, The 14th Mänttä Art festival, Mänttä, FI curat. Tuula Karjalainen

Tracking traces... 10th exhibition of works from the collection, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki


Urban Research, PICTURA, Dordrecht, Netherlands, curat. Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Continuous present, galleri Studio 44, Stockholm, curat. Emma Hammarén and Joel Hurlburt

2008

Tangential documentaries, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki curat. Jenny Yurshansky and Jacqueline Nguyen

Wenn Wissenschaft zur Kunst wird, Synart Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany

Five Variations on the finitness of human vision, Cultural Center Belgrad, Artget Gallery, curat. Marita Muukkonen, (cat.)

Continuum, Art Centre Retretti, Punkaharju, Finland curat. Anu Liivak and Maisa Tikkanen, (cat.)

Like a man, Agenzia04, Bologna, Italy, curat. Elisa del Prete

Maan Asema/La Position de la Terre, CRAC Alsace, Centre Rhenan d’Art Contemporain Altkirch, France curat. Sophie Kaplan (cat.)

Festart08, TR1, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland

2007

Nine International Artists, Location 1, New York, USA, curat. Nathalie Angles

In Search of the Miraculous, 5th Triennial of Finnish Art, Kunsthalle, Helsinki curat. Luigi Fassi (cat.)

Offspring, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, Nehterlands curat. Maxine Kopsa (cat.)

City Borderlands, Nordens Hus, Reykjavik, Iceland

City Borderlands, Kaliningrad Art Museum, Kaliningrad, Russia

2006

Omasta takaa, Kuopio Art Museum, Kuopio, Finland

Suspended E-motions, Vartai Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania, curat. Laima Kreyvite (cat.)

City Borderlands, Fredriks Bastion, Copenhagen

The Metaphysics of Youth, Ex Cofa, Fuori Uso, Pescara, Italy curat. Luigi Fassi & Irina Zucca (cat.)

Young Artists 2006, Kunsthalle Helsinki (cat.)

2005

Small Heaven, Young Artists Biennale, Kunsthalle Helsinki, curated by Henna Paunu (cat.)

Polyfonia, Jetty Barracks gallery, Helsinki, curat. Sini Pelkki and Jani Ruscica

Art goes kapakka, Via, Helsinki

Graduate exhibition, Kuvataideakatemian galleria, Helsinki

Swan Song, Holden gallery, Manchester, UK, curat. Pavel Büchler and Ian Rawling

2003

Young Artists 2003, Kunsthalle Helsinki

2012

International Tiger Awards for Short Film, 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam

2011

21st Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival - Curta Cinema 2011

Film Travel, 40th International Film Festival Rotterdam, curat. Peter van Hoof

RESPONSE:ABILITY, Transmediale 11, curat. Marcel Schwierin

IHME 2011, Contemporary Art Festival, curat. Tuula Arkio and Paula Toppila

7th 25 FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zagreb

16th Ourense International Film Festival, Ourense, Spain

Unravelling a bit of the Universe, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, curat. Heather Andersson

2010

Screening IV / Film as the Stage, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

4th Cairo Video and Experimental Film Festival, Cairo

7th Filmfest Eberswalde, Germany

Nordic Delight, Institut Suedois, Paris curat. Sinziana Ravini

Rencontres Audiovisuelles, Lille, France curat. Dirk Deblauwe

15th Ourense Film Festival, Ourense, Spain

18th International Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal

Package Deals, Scandinavia House, New York, curat. Kelly Shindler

Package Deals, Film Forum, Seattle, curat. Kelly Shindler

41st International Tampere Short Film Festival, Tampere, FI

Kinos10 Shortfilm Festival, Lahti, FI

Future Shorts, Gloria Biograf, Copenhagen

2009

If you ever have the blues, TATE Modern, London, curat. Marcel Schwierin

Kunstfilm Biennale, Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Falstaff International Film festival, Stratford Upon-Avon, UK

Darklight Film Festival, Dublin

5th 25 FPS Festival, Zagreb, Croatia

Exis, Exprerimental Film and Video Festival, Seoul

Magma, Mostra di Cinema Breve, Acireale, Italy

Shift-Time festival, Shrewsbury, UK

Arctic Hysteria on Screen, Ludwig Museum, Budapest

VIDEOEX festival, Zürich

Together, Alone
The Power Plant, Toronto 
curat. Nina Möntmann


55th International Oberhausen short film festival, Germany

Courtisane short film and media art festival, Ghent, Belgium

2008

Video Lounge, 28th Sao Paolo Biennial, Brazil, curat. Ivo Mesquita

Amerika, Werkleitz – Zentrum fuer Medienkunst, Centre for Media Art, Halle, Germany

Kasseler Dokumumentarfilm- & videofest, Kassel, Germany

Arctic Hysteria on screen, MoMA, New York, USA

Prospectif Cinema, Centre Pompidou, Paris, curat. Cristina Agostinelli

Unclassifiable, Darling Foundry Visual Arts Center, Montreal, Canada

New Nordic Voices, Nordisk Panorama, Malmö, Sweden

The Pathologies of the tourist experience, Pist /// Interdisciplinary Project Space, Istanbul, curat. Blanca de La Torre

8th International Bunker Film festival Ventimiglia, Italy

Unclassifiable, Ovegaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen curat. Jenny Yurshansky and Jacqueline Nguyen

23rd International shortfilm festival Hamburg, Germany

Lezioni di Paesaggio, Colonia Montana di Renesso, Savignone, Italy curat. Elvira Vannini

Cinema et Video d’Artistes, Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris

Courtisane short film and media art festival, Ghent, Belgium

EMAF – European Media Art festival, Osnabtück, Germany

Stream of Electrons, Institute Finlandes, Paris

Nigh on Earth, Vorspiel gallery, Berlin

Kinos 08, Lahti, Finland

City Life, International Tampere Shortfilm festival, Tampere, FI & Oberhausen International Shortfilm festival, Germany

Urban Research 2, Directors Lounge, Berlin curat. Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Trunk – The Nordic Art Video Festival, Färgfabriken, Stockholm. Sundsvall Kulturmagasin, Sweden, Kramfors Cinema, Kramfors, SE

2007

Trunk – The Nordic Art Video Festival, Östersund, Sweden

Kettupäivät film festival, Andorra, Helsinki, Finland

FILMlandia, Laydown Gallery, Madrid curat. Marita Muukkonen

From the fringes of Finland, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK

Kingdom come, Images Festival, Workman theatre Toronto, Canada curat.

Alissa Frith-Eagland

Urban research, Directors Lounge, Berlinale, Berlin curat. Klaus W. Eisenlohr

View 07, Andorra, Helsinki

International Tampere short film festival, Plevna

2006

International Uppsala short film festival, Sweden

Swinging Siniging North, Paris Photo, Paris, France curated by Andrea Holzherr

Frieze Art Fair, London, UK curat. Marita Muukkonen and Marketta Seppälä

YLE TV1, Finnish National Television

Breaking the Ice, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany

LOOP Festival, Barcelona, Spain

International Tampere shortfilm festival, Tampere, Finland

View 06, Korjaamo, Helsinki

2005

Kettupäivät, Andorra, Helsinki

Filmstuben 2, Berlin

2004

Art Centre Pushkinskaya 10, St. Petersburg

2010

AVEK-award for important achievements in the field of audio-visual culture

2009

Arts Council of Finland, 3 year working grant

Main Award, KunstFilm Biennale, Cologne

Best Experimental Film, Magma Mostra di Cinema Breve, Acireale IT

2006

The Cartier Award, shortlist, Frieze Art Fair London

Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris

Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

State Art Collection, Finland

Helsinki Art Museum

Kuopio Art Museum

The Finnish-Institute in London

Finnish Art Association