
Am anderen Ende der Leine
Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland, 3 – 27 Nov 2022
Drawing on the history of painting and the German tradition of image studies, the works in Am anderen Ende der Leine (At the Other End of the Leash) brings the focus to bear on everyday life and the complex relationships between humans and animals.

Hän (She/He/They)
Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland, 28 November – 20 December 2019
Anne Koskinen has now made a series of torsos whose main message is the acceptance of diversity and difference — like in public swimming baths, where people of all shapes, children and the elderly, men, women and others can swim about in the same water, accepted by themselves and others. The works in the Underground space in the basement take as their starting point the fact that the gallery is in the building where Touko Laaksonen, Tom of Finland, lived.

In Need of a Guardian
Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland, 7 September – 1 October 2017
Anne Koskinen (born 1969) is an artist whose works are conceptual and analytical, involving complex and structured ideas. They are always realised in extremely fine ways, often appealing not only to the sense of sight but also to touch. And of course, to thought. In her work, Koskinen is particularly interested in the possibilities associated with the process of an image coming into being. How little is enough in a drawing or piece of sculpture for the viewer to perceive the brim of a soft hat, the line of the neck of the shape of the body? The exhibition In Need of a Guardian features drawings in gold, silver and bronze pencil of girls on the threshold of adulthood. On display alongside the drawings are sculptures in stone that are related to them. On show in the basement will be the Guardians, child figures sculpted in candlelight that can also be viewed in candlelight or ambient light. ‘In a sense, I sculpted light,’ says Koskinen.

Reflection
Galerie Werner Klein, Cologne, Germany, 17 January – 28 February 2015
Anne Koskinens Holz-, Bronze- und Steinskulpturen, ihre Aquarelle und ihre Zeichnungen mit Gold stehen immer in direktem Bezug zu ihrer Biografie und Lebenswelt. Die unterschiedlichen Werkgruppen zeugen von großer Souveränität im Umgang mit Idee, Technik und Material. Die Ausstellung gibt einen Überblick über die letzten 15 Jahre ihrer künstlerischen Arbeit

Solo
Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland, 7 – 31 August 2014
Anne Koskinen (born 1969) continues her work of sculpting ”back yard” stones. One of her themes involves works called Findlings – referring to both foundlings and boulders moved by the ice sheet of the last Ice Age.

Nameless Foundlings
“Levottomuudet”, Salo Art Museum, Salo, Finland, 18 January – 16 March 2014
This work takes as its starting point the Southwest Finnish landscape of glacially transported boulders, Bronze Age cairns and stone formations piled on ancient shorelines. Considerations of the origins of the image and natural stone as a material for images merge with the theme of the foundling. Abandonment becomes the main narrative theme of an installation made of natural stones moved by the Ice Age.

No Time for Lover
Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland, 6 –30 September 2012
Koskinen occasionally receives emails from a Chinese company offering assistance in making sculptures to give the artist more time for travel or to be with her family or lover. But to delegate sculpting does not suit Koskinen’s manner of working. Many important solutions emerge during the work and concern the properties of the material. Therefore, Anne Koskinen makes her sculpture herself.

Last Meal (Karuna 4.12.-15.12.2008)
First shown in: “mURBAN”, Artborg 35, Nikkilä, Sipoo, Finland, 26 June – 30 August 2009
The installation Last Meal (Karuna 4.12.-15.12.2008) consists of 13 bronze casts of mice in mouse traps. The sculptures are dated according to the day the animals were killed on the artist’s farm in Karuna, Finland.

Beyond the old border
“Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother”, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland, 12 June – 31 August 2011
The sculpture installation Beyond the old border (Munakukkula) is based on my father’s notes, drawings and photographies he made in the front during the Winter and Continuation Wars in 1939-1944. The work was on show in the exhibition Honor Thy Father and Thy Father – Kunnioita isääsi ja äitiäsi curated by Otso Kantokorpi.

After the Storm
“Tuttuja ja outoja lintuja”, Kuopio Art Museum, Kuopio, Finland, 27 May – 2 October 2011
Installation with sculptures in storm felled trees and bronze casts of dead birds

Nameless Foundlings
“Levottomuudet”, Salo Art Museum, Salo, Finland, 18 January – 16 March 2014
This work takes as its starting point the Southwest Finnish landscape of glacially transported boulders, Bronze Age cairns and stone formations piled on ancient shorelines. Considerations of the origins of the image and natural stone as a material for images merge with the theme of the foundling. Abandonment becomes the main narrative theme of an installation made of natural stones moved by the Ice Age.

Foundlings I
First shown in: “Anne Koskinen”, Galleria Orton, Helsinki, Finland, 8 January – 2 February 2013
In her most recent works Anne Koskinen has turned her attention to stones found from her own backyard. The artist is fascinated by the opportunities of this material for creating images. […] Anne Koskinen makes her works completely by herself from start to finish, for she wants to bear witness, with her own hands, to the ways in which an image begins to appear in natural material..