Hans Rosenström
Maison Louis Carré (Paris), King's Cross (London) & Helsinki
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Hans Rosenström: Past All Concerns, 2019. Video Still, Loop, 25’56’’. -
Hans Rosenström: Shells Within Shells, 2012/2019. Sound installation. Installation view from Anatomy of Political Melancholy, Athens, Greece, 2019. -
Hans Rosenström: A House Divided, 2015. Zuzeum. -
Hans Rosenström: Suusta suuhun. Photo: Jussi Tiainen -
Hans Rosenström: From the Top Floor. Photo: Courtesy of EMAP 2016 -
Hans Rosenström: Shoreline, 2017. Photo: Anders Sune Berg. Courtesy of the Aros Triennial
b. 1978 in Finland,
based in Stockholm, Sweden
Rosenström’s practice centres around installations that play with the viewer’s psychological and physical relationship within a specific moment and place. The works are often carefully produced in relation to the sites where they are experienced in. When creating these situations, he uses a wide variety of media and material; from the ephemeral yet tactile qualities of sound to architectural interventions. The presence of the viewer is integral in the work which often remains incomplete until it has been activated.
Rosenström studied in both the Malmö Art Academy (Sweden) and the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, from where he received his MFA in 2007.
His recent group exhibitions include: Anatomy of Political Melancholy, Schwarz Foundation, Athens Conservatory, Greece (2019); Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More, 1st Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga (2018); The Garden – End of Times, Beginning of Time, Aros Triennial, Århus, Denmark (2017); Theater of the Mind, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomsfield Hills, USA (2014). His solo exhibitions include No Land is an Island, Kuntsi, Museum of Modern Art in Vaasa, Finland (2019); a u g u s t, Helsinki Contemporary, Finland (2017). In 2010 Rosenström was awarded with the Finnish Artists Associations Dukaatti Price and in 2020 Rosenström received the Finnish State Award Media Art Award.