Kati Immonen
Photo: Veikko Kähkönen
Kati Immonen is reinventing watercolour painting as a medium for contemporary art. Immonen recognizes the cultural baggage carried by her medium, the watercolour, as being something light, effortless and superficial, and turns this to her own benefit. She has a powerful way of expressing ideas and stories using highly charged subject matter, such as war and ecological problems. The relationships between human, the built environment and nature in its steady, silent strength and diversity has long interested the artist. There is often an air of warm humour in her depictions of these complicated, ever changing connections.
Kati Immonen (b. 1971, Jyväskylä) graduated from the Department of Painting at Turku School of Fine Arts in 1997. She has exhibited widely in Finland and abroad, most recently in Almost Perfect, Tokyo; Aura Gallery, Turku; Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden; Rovaniemi Art Museum and Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku. Her works are represented in prominent Finnish public collections, and in the Nordic Watercolour Museum in Sweden. She has also worked on several public artworks around Finland, and created illustrations and cover images for numerous publications.
Exhibitions
1.12.-22.12.2023
5.3.-3.4.2021
10.2.-5.3.2017
7.2.-2.3.2014
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Jun 2021
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Dec 2020
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Jan 1970
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May 2017
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Feb 2017
Kati Immonen in Finnish State Art Commission’s Anniversary Exhibition
Kati Immonen’s works from the series Riskiperimä are included in the Finnish State Art Commission’s 60 year anniversary exhibition Between the Past and the Future in Mikkeli Art Museum. The exhibition is a part of an exhibition...
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Dec 2016
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Oct 2016
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May 2016
Kati Immonen in group exhibition in Gallery Tragliata in Rome
Kati Immonen participates together with seven contemporary artists in the group exhibition Changing Times – Contemporary Art form the North arranged in Gallery Tragliata in Fiumicino, Rome. The common interest for the artists is environmental...
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Jan 2016
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Oct 2015
Kati Immonen in the Turku Artists’ Association’s 91st Annual Exhibition
Kati Immonen: Kesäsade (2015), water colour and ink on paper, hand blown glass, 30 x 40 cmKati Immonen is participating in the Turku Artists’ Association’s 91st Annual Exhibition at the Old Town Hall Gallery and Berner Gallery....
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Sep 2015
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Mar 2015
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Oct 2012
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Aug 2013
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Jan 2014
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Feb 2014
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Feb 2014
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May 2014
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Jun 2014
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Nov 2014
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Mar 2017
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