Elina Brotherus (b. 1972 Helsinki, Finland) works in photography and moving image. Her work has been alternating between autobiographical and art-historical approaches. Photographs dealing with the human figure and the landscape, the relation of the artist and the model, gave way to images on subjective experiences in her recent bodies of work Annonciation and Carpe Fucking Diem. In her current work she is revisiting Fluxus event scores and other written instructions for performance-oriented art work of the 1950s-70s. Elina has exhibited world-wide in galleries and institutions since 20 years and has published 9 monographs with various European publishers. In 2017 she received the Carte blanche PMU award and her work was exhibited in a solo show at the Pompidou Center in Paris.

Elina Brotherus is a Finnish artist whose work oscillates between rigorous explorations into art history and autobiographical enquiry. For twenty years she has been working in primarily photography and video and has shown her work internationally. In 2016 Brotherus turned to Fluxus ‘event scores’ and other written instructions that she uses as a starting point for her new works.

Often collaborating in her recent work with Finnish dancer and choreographer Vera Nevanlinna, sometimes with other colleagues like Erwin Wurm and VALIE EXPORT, the resulting pictures are humorous and adventurous whilst also questioning the role of the artist, the place of photography and film in performance and the fluid nature of collaboration in art making across decades.

In her artist talk, Elina Brotherus will walk the audience through her different bodies of work, with special focus on the newest series, telling back stories and explaining her creative process.