(f. 1952)
Kristian Krokfors
Kristian Krokfors har sin kunstneriske utdannelse fra University of Industrial Arts i Helsinki og fra Leicester Polytechnic i England.
Grafikeren Kristian Krokfors
Som grafiker arbeider Kristian Krokfors med serigrafi. I 1985 ble han kåret til "Finlands Young Artist of the year", et prestisjefylt nasjonal arrangement organisert av Tampere Art Museum. Kristian Krokfors har hatt utstillinger verden rundt, og er representert i en rekke samlinger, deriblant Kiasma, Helsinki Finland, Museum of Modern Art, Chicago Art Institute, USA, Samlung Albertina, Wien, Østerrike og The Art Museum of Cracow, Polen.
Kristian Krokfors is an eminently serious artist. His works are in no sense didactic, but if you were to ask what they are "about", the answer would spring unbidden, without any verbal prompting from him. Yes, they are, they must be, about the environment. They take as their evident, immediate subject the splendours and miseries of town planning and urbanism’s shaky relations with whatever belt of green it chooses to girdle itself with. They look at the dryness of the desert, the acrid smoke that belches from factories, the wind that shakes the barley – or would, if there were any barley left to shake. - John Russell Taylor
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UTDANNING
1974-77 University of Industrial Arts, Helsinki, Finland 1973-74. BA, Leicester Polytechnic, England.
1977-78 Advanced Printmaking Course, Croydon College of Art, England.
INNKJØPT AV
KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland.
Museum of Modern Art, Chicago Art Institute, USA.
Sammlung Albertina, Wien, Østerrike.
The University of Dublin, Irland.
The Art Museum of Lodz, Polen.
The Art Museum of Crakow, Polen.
The Art Museum of Stettin, Polen.
Amos Andersson Konstmuseum, Helsinki, Finland.
The Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland.
Tampere Konstmuseum, Tampere, Finland.
Mikkeli Konstmuseum, Finland.
Kouvolan Konstmuseum, Finland.
Wäinö Aaltosen Museum, Turku, Finland.
Lahti Konstmuseum, Finland.
Hämeenlinnan Konstmuseum, Finland.
Oulu Konstmuseum, Finland
Statens Konstråd, Sverige.
Västerbotten Län, Sverige.
Göteborg og Bohus Län, Sverige.
The City of Nürnberg, Tyskland.
Verdensbanken, Washington D.C., USA.
Svenska Handelsbanken, Sverige.
Banque Societe Generale de France, Stockholm, Sverige.
Citibank, London, England.
Morgan Bank, Sør-Korea.
Yamaichi Securities, Japan.
Espoo, Porvoo, Vantaa, Lappeenranna byer, Finland.
Nokia, Finland.
Telia-Sonera, Finland
Nordea, Finland.
UTSTILLINGER
Separatutstillinger (i utvalg)
1979, -81, -82 Galleria Bronda, Helsinki, Finland.
1982, -84, -86, -89, -92, -94 Galerie Grafiart, Turku, Finland .
1983 Galleri Pictor, Göteborg, Sverige.
1985, -87, -90, -92, -95, -98 Galleri Kaj Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland .
1985 Galleria 5, Kouvola, Finland
1986, -92, -09 Galleria Nuovo, Lahti, Finland.
1987 Galleri Futura, Stockholm, Sverige.
1987 Galleri Sinklar, Sundsvall, Sverige.
1987 Galleri Bacchus, Borås, Sverige.
1988 Galleria Valkoinen Huone, Tampere, Finland.
1988 Saga Gallery, London, England.
1990 Finland Trade Center, London, England.
1991 Dannenberg Gallery, New York, USA.
1992 Galleria Okra, Vantaa, Finland.
1994 Galeria Manuel Ojeda, Las Palmas, Spania.
1994, -97, -04, -07 Galleria Harmaja, Oulu, Finland.
1996 Galleria Sirius, Jyväskylä, Finland.
1996 Galleria Vitriini, Tampere, Finland.
1998 Galleria Aura, Turku, Finland.
1999 Salmela Arts Center, Finland
2002, -09 Galleria Uusitalo, Helsinki, Finland.
2004 Norske Grafikere, Oslo.
2005 Galleria Uusitalo, Helsinki, Finland.
2003 Malkkimuseo, Tampere, Finland.
2003, -06, -09 Auran galleria, Turku, Finland.
2006 Galleri Futura, Stockholm, Sverige.
2007 Instituto Iberoamericano de Finlandia, Madrid, Spania.
2007 Willa Mac, Tampere, Finland.
2008 Osborne Samuel Gallery, London, England.
2008 Lemon Street Gallery, Dublin, Irland.
2009 Galleria Uusitalo Helsinki, Finland.
2009 Auran Galleria, Turku, Finland.
2009 Galleria Nuovo, Lahti, Finland.
2010 Taidekeskus Salmela, Mäntyharju, Finland.
2011 Galleria Himmelblau, Tampere, Finland.
2011 Galleria G12, Kuopio, Finland.
2011 Galleria Harmaja, Oulu, Finland.
2011 Auran Galleria, Turku, Finland.
2012 Kemin taidemuseo, kemi, Finland.
2012 Galleria G, Helsinki, Finland.
2012 Taidekeskus Salmela, Mäntyharju, Finland.
2012 Savarte Art, Kotka, Finland.
2013 Galleria Nuovo, Lahti, Finland.
2013 Palazzo Priuli-Bon, Venezia, Italia
Kollektivutstillinger (i utvalg)
1976 The Exhibition of the Young Helsinki Art Hall, Finland .
1979-83, 83-86 Annual Exhibiton of the Artists´ Association of Finland.
1979-1983, 85-86 "The Picture World an World View", Jyväskylä Summer, Finland .
1981 2nd Biennal of European Graphic Art, Baden-Baden, Tyskland.
1981 The Society of Finnish Graphic Artists 50 Years, Anniversary Exhibition, Helsinki, Finland.
1981 ”Name of the Game”, The Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland.
1981, -84 State Art Exhibition, Finland.
1982 Nürnberg Drawing Triennale, Nürnberg, Tyskland.
1982 Biennial Exhibition of Prints for Young Artists, Vaasa, Finland.
1982 Scandinavia Today, vandreutstilling, USA.
1982 “Finnish Art Now”, Heine-Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo.
1984, -86, -88 Print Biennale, Cracow, Poland.
1984 Grafica Finlandese Contemporanea, Roma, Italia.
1985 The Young Artist of the Year-Exhibition, Tampere art Museum, Tampere, Finland.
1985 ”Sampo”, Exhibition of the Society of Finnish Graphic Artists, Helsinki, Finland.
1986 ”Prints from All Over” University Memorial Center, Boulder, USA.
1986 International Contemporary Art Fair, London, England.
1986 9th British International Print Biennale, Bradford, England.
1987 Intergrafik´87, Berlin, Tyskland.
1987 2nd Biennale Exhibition of Prints, Wakayama, Japan.
1987 The London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy pf Arts, London, England.
1987 17th International Biennale of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Jugoslavia.
1987 "Graphica Creativa", Jyväskylä, Finland.
1988 Contemporary Finnish Printmakers, Albany and Old Forge, USA.
1988 Festival International de Gravyre, Menton, Frankrike.
1989 Privatbanken Gallery, New York, USA.
1989 Chicago Art Fair, USA.
1990 Bath Contemporary Art Fair, Bath International Festival, England.
1990 Interprint, Lviv, Ukraina.
1991 Intergrafia´91, Katowice, Polen.
1992 "Once Again" Helsinki Art Hall, Finland.
1992 Beyond Boundaries, Contemporary The Forum Gallery, New York, USA.
1992-09 The London Orginal Print Fair at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, England.
1993 "Acid" Secret Life of Printmaking, City of Helsinki Art Museum, Finland.
1993 ARCO, Madrid, Spania.
1993 ”Bara konst.”, Galleri Futura, Stockholm, Sverige.
1994, -01, -02 Stockholm Art Fair, Sollentuna, Stockholm, Sverige.
1994, -95 Myötätuuleen, Hanko, Finland.
1995-08 IFPDA Print Fair, New York, USA.
1995-07 Suvipinx, Sysmä, Finland.
1998 Art ’98, The London Contemporary Art Fair, England.
1999 Galleri Futura, Stockholm, Sverige.
1999, -05 Taidekeskus, Salmela, Mäntyharju, Finland.
1999, -01 Works on Paper, New York, USA.
2000 Lemon Street Gallery, Dublin, Irland.
2001 Miniprint, Lahti Kunstmuseum, Finland.
2001 Auran Galleria, Turku, Finland.
2001 Finsk Kunstgrafikk 70 års jubileumsutstilling, Helsinki Kunsthall, Finland.
2003 ”Five Finnish Artists”, Lemon Street Gallery, Dublin, Irland.
2004 Alex Gallery, Washington D.C., USA.
2007 Idän taju, Hyvinkään Kunstmuseum, Helsinki, Finland.
2008 Print Basel, Sveits.
2009 Askel maisemaan, Halosenniemi, Tuusula, Finland.
2009 Galleria Uusitalo, Finland.
2011 Galleria Himmelblau, Tampere, Finland.
2011 Auran Galleria, Turku, Finland.
2012 Galleria Savarte Art, Kotka, Finland.
2013 Kesänäyttely, Askola, Finland.
ANNET
Priser
1979 First Prize-Drawing Competion of the State Art Work Committee, Finland.
1982 Scholarship Prize-Biennale Exhibition of Prints for Young Artists, Finland.
1985 The Young Artist of the Year 1985, Tampere, Finland.