Kimmo_Kaivanto_Foundation/CV

CURRICULUM VITAE

KAIVANTO, KIMMO OLAVI

25.5.1932 Tampere - 20.4.2012 Helsinki

Painter, sculptor, graphic artist

SOLO EXHIBITIONS IN FINLAND

1959 Pinx Art Gallery, Helsinki

1961 Tampere Library, Tampere

Pinx Art Gallery, Helsinki

1963 Pinx Art Gallery, Helsinki

1965 Pinx Art Gallery, Helsinki

1966 Contemporary Perspectives, Valkeakoski Workers’ Hall,

Valkeakoski

1967 Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna

1969 Galerie Artek, Helsinki

Tampere Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampere

1970 Pictures and Objects, Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä

1971 Fingers at Play, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki

Fingers at Play, Tampere Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampere

1972 Pictures of the Past Summer, Galerie Artek, Helsinki

1974 Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki

Lapinlahti Festival, Lapinlahti

1975 Exhibition hall of the Kotka Theatre, Kotka

1976 Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä

Turku Art Museum, Turku

1977 The Square, Sketches, Realisation, Variation, mural, Tampere

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampere

1979 Galerie Grafiart, Turku

1982 Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere

Art is Life, Life is Art, Artist of the Year, Kunsthalle Helsinki,

Helsinki

1985 Galerie Artek, Helsinki

1987 Oulu Art Museum, Oulu

Kuopio Art Museum, Kuopio

1988 The Sketches of the Blue Line, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere

Galerie Bronda, Helsinki

1989 Galerie Artek, Helsinki

1992 Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere

Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki

Galerie Saskia, Tampere

1993 Seinäjoki Art Hall, Seinäjoki

1996 Gallerie Sirius, Jyväskylä

1998 Miniretro – Hommage à l’Académie Européenne (Homage to the

Academy of Europe), Joensuu Art Hall, Joensuu

2000 Galerie Forsblom, Turku

2001 Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki

2002 Galerie Krista Mikkola, Helsinki

2004 Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki

SOLO EXHIBITIONS ABROAD

1970 Archive of Decorative Art Museum, Lund, Sweden

1978 Galleria Paloma, Stockholm, Sweden

1981 Kimmo Kaivanto – måleri, grafik, skulptur, Södertälje Konsthall,

Sweden

1992 Center for International Contemporary Arts (CICA) New York, USA

2002 Art Hall, Estonia

GROUP EXHIBITIONS IN FINLAND

1956 25th Annual Exhibition of the Artists’ Association of Tampere,

Tampere Library, Tampere

1957 15th Young Artists’ Exhibition, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki

Annual Exhibition of the Union of Finnish Art Associations, Lahti

26th Annual Exhibition of the Artists’ Association of Tampere,

Tampere

1958 Group 7, Erik Enroth, Pentti Hartelin, Unto Hietanen, Gunnar

Pohjola, Seppo Syrjä and Taisto Toivonen, Tampere Library,

Tampere

64th Annual Exhibition of Finnish Artists, Kunsthalle Helsinki,

Helsinki

20th Jubilee Exhibition of the Union of Finnish Art Associations,

Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna

1959 The Artists’ Association of Tampere, Valkeakoski Town Hall,

Valkeakoski

4th Triennial Jubilee Exhibition of the Fine Arts Academy of

Finland, Helsinki

28th Annual Exhibition of the Artists’ Association of Tampere,

Tampere Library, Tampere

1960 40th Jubilee Exhibition of the Artists’ Association of Tampere,

Tampere Art Museum, Tampere

17th Young Artists’ Exhibition, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki

1961 30th Annual Exhibition of the Artists’ Association of Tampere,

Tampere Library, Tampere

1962 Touring exhibition of the Fine Arts Academy of Finland

Exhibition of the Artists’ Association of Tampere, Turku Art

Museum, Turku

31st Annual Exhibition of the Artists’ Association of Tampere,

Tampere Library, Tampere

5th Triennial Exhibition of the Fine Arts Academy of Finland,

Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

1963 Group 7, Tampere Library, Tampere

25th Annual Exhibition of the Union of Finnish Art Associations,

Tampere Art Museum, Tampere

1964 Exhibition with Kain Tapper, Tampere Library, Tampere

The Artist at Work, 35th Jubilee Exhibition of the Finnish Painters’

Union, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki

Exhibition of the Artists’ Association of Tampere, Imatra Art

Museum, Imatra

The March Group, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki

1965 Sokos Exhibition Hall, Vaasa

Exhibition of the Fine Arts Academy of Finland, Ateneum Art

Museum, Helsinki

34th Annual Exhibition Artists’ Association of Tampere, Tampere

Library, Tampere

Exhibition of the State Art Competition, Kunsthalle Helsinki,

Helsinki

1966 Artists’ Association of Lappeenranta, South Karelian Art Museum,

Lappeenranta

Tampere Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampere

Exhibition 66, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki

The Finnish collection of Sara Hildén-Enroth, Kuopio Theatre,

Kuopio

1967 Art in Tampere 1917–1967, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere

Touring Exhibition of the Finnish collection of Sara Hildén-Enroth,

Vaasa, Imatra, Tampere

Finnish Artists’ 72nd Annual Exhibition, Kunsthalle Helsinki,

Helsinki

The March Group, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki

Summer Exhibition, Tampere Museum of Contemporary Art,

Tampere

75th Jubilee Exhibition of the Turku Art Association, Turku Art

Museum, Turku

1968 7th Triennial Exhibition of the Fine Arts Academy of Finland,

Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

30th Jubilee Exhibition of the Union of Finnish Visual Arts

Organisations, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki

Works for the Venice Biennale, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

1969 Touring exhibition The Message of a Picture of the Fine Arts

Academy of Finland

Purnu 69, Pitkäjärvi, Orivesi

74th Finnish Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Kunsthalle Helsinki,

Helsinki

23rd Young Artists’ Exhibition, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki

1970 Kinetic Pictures, Touring exhibition of the Fine Arts Academy of

Finland

Landscape 70, Touring exhibition of the Fine Arts Academy of

Finland

Helsinki/Art 60–70, exhibition of the Artists’ Association of

Helsinki, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki

50th Jubilee Exhibition of the Artists’ Association of Tampere,

Tampere Art Museum, Tampere

1971 Jyväskylä Summer Festival, Jyväskylä

Purnu 71, Pitkäjärvi, Orivesi

1972 Proof 72, 40th Jubilee Multi-Exhibition of the Association of

Finnish Printmakers, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Wäinö Aaltonen Art

Museum, Turku, Tampere Art Museum, Lahti Art Museum,

Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Oulu Art Museum, South Karelia Art

Museum, Lappeenranta, Joensuu Art Museum, Museum of

Ostrobothnia, Vaasa, Kuopio Art Museum, Ahvenanmaa Art

Museum

The Sara Hildén Collection, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere

Exhibition of Graphics, Galerie Taidevintti, Pori

1973 Purnu 73, Pitkäjärvi, Orivesi

40th Jubilee exhibition of the Turku Printmakers’ Association, Turku

Art Museum, Turku

40th Jubilee exhibition of the Turku Printmakers’ Association,

Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna

1974 ARS 74, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

ARS 74, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere

ARS 74, Tampere Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampere

Jyväskylä Summer Festival, Jyväskylä

Summer exhibition, Lahti Art Museum, Lahti

Summer exhibition, Pirkanpohja Art Centre, Ähtäri

Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Museum, Turku Art

Museum, Turku

Flowers, Touring exhibition of the Fine Arts Academy of Finland

Inaugural Exhibition of Halonen Museum Foundation, Lapinlahti

Art from homes in Hämeenlinna, Hämeenlinna Art Museum,

Hämeenlinna

1975 The Woman in Art, touring exhibition of the Fine Arts Academy of

Finland

Purnu 75, Pitkäjärvi, Orivesi

10th Jubilee exhibition, South Karelia Art Museum, Lappeenranta

The collection of the city of Tampere, Tampere Museum of

Contemporary Art, Tampere

1977 Exhibition of the Artists’ Association of Tampere, Kunsthalle

Helsinki, Helsinki

Finnish Contemporary Art from the collection of Ateneum Art

Museum, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere

Jyväskylä 140; Fine Art, Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä

40thJubilee exhibition of Nordic Printmakers’ Association,

Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki

The Sketches of the Square, Exhibition of Finnish Painter’s Union,

Helsinki

1978 Art of the SKOP Bank, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki

1979 Museo Internacional de la Resistencia Salvador Allende, Kunsthalle

Helsinki, Helsinki

Purnu 79, Pitkäjärvi, Orivesi

Opening exhibition of the Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere

Finnish art in the 20th century, Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä

200 years of Tampere depicted by Artists, Tampere Art Museum,

Tampere

50th Jubilee Touring Exhibition of the Finnish Painters’ Union

1980 The Artists of Tampere, Museum of Ostrobothnia, Vaasa

The Experimental ‘60s, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

The Experimental ‘60s, Turku Art Museum, Turku

From Idyll to Anguish, pictures of man and the environment,

Tampere Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampere

The World of the Picture – A Picture of the World, Alvar Aalto

Museum, Jyväskylä

60th Jubilee Exhibition of the Artists’ Association of Tampere

Ruovesi Depicted by Artists, organised by the Artists’ Association

of Tampere, Ruovesi Savings Bank, Ruovesi

1981 Purnu 81, Pitkäjärvi, Orivesi

Contemporary Art, Turku Art Museum, Turku

The collection of the Maire Gullichsen Foundation in the opening

exhibition of the Pori Art Museum, Pori

The Art Collection of the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation,

Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki

1982 Six Finnish Graphic Artists, Nordic Art Centre Suomenlinna,

Helsinki

Contemporary Finnish Graphics, Amos Anderson Art Museum,

Helsinki

1983 Pyhäniemi 83, Hollola

1984 Exhibition with Raimo Kanerva and Gunnar Pohjola, Mältinranta

Art Centre, Tampere

1985 Pyhäniemi 85, Hollola

Forum+Art, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki

Nordic Art, Nordic Art Centre Suomenlinna, Helsinki

1986 Purnu 86, Pitkäjärvi, Orivesi

Four Artists, Kerava Art Museum, Kerava

Graphics in the collection of the Aine Foundation, Aine Art

Museum, Tornio

1988 Finnish Landscape, Retretti Art Centre, Punkaharju

1989 The March Group and the’ 60s, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki

The New Language of Painting; Finnish Modernism 1956–61,

touring exhibition of the Fine Arts Academy of Finland

Pearl of the River Aura; New Trends of Art in the 20th Century,

Turku Art Museum, Turku

Birth and Death, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere

Celebrating Light, Pyrri Art Centre, Savonlinna

1990 The Nordic ‘60s: Breakthrough and Resistance, Kunsthalle

Helsinki, Helsinki

Abstraction: Oh What an Awful Word, South Karelia Art Museum,

Lappeenranta

A Century of National Art, 100th Jubilee Exhibition of the KOP

Bank, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki

Purnu 90, Pitkäjärvi, Orivesi

Opening exhibition of the Kerava Art Museum, Kerava

Out of the Wilderness into the World, Mältinranta Art Centre,

Tampere

1992 Finnish Art in the 1960s and ‘70s, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

Aquarian Art/Eeropekka Rislakki, Helsinki

Rauma Art Museum, Rauma

Gallerie Bellarte, Turku

The Art Association of Ruovesi, Ruovesi

The Art collection of the Urpo and Maija Lahtinen Foundation,

Tampere Art Museum, Tampere

1993 Salmela Art Centre, Mäntyharju

1994 Four Artists in Kerava, Kerava Art Museum, Kerava

Look at the Forest; Images and Experiences, Sara Hildén Art

Museum, Tampere

The collection of the Maire Gullichsen Foundation, Varkaus Art

Museum, Varkaus

1995 The March Group, Salmela Art Centre, Mäntyharju

1996 Finnish Pop Art, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki

Finnish Pop Art, Turku Art Museum, Turku

Finnish Pop Art, Oulu Art Museum, Oulu

1997 Salmela Art Centre, Mäntyharju

Ensemble -The Meeting of Music and Image in Space, Lönnström

Art Museum, Rauma

Kaivanto-Kanerva-Pohjola, Galleria Saskia, Tampere

My Picture - Your Picture, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere

The collection of the Henna and Pertti Niemistö Foundation,

Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna

1998 A Man, Tikanoja Art Museum, Vaasa

Sara and the Boys, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere

A Man, Mikkeli Art Museum, Mikkeli

The collection of the Saastamoinen Foundation, Kuopio Art

Museum, Kuopio

1999 The collection of the Saastamoinen Foundation, Kerava Art

Museum, Kerava

Sara Hildén and Modern Art in Europe, Sara Hildén Art Museum,

Tampere

Four from Tampere; Enroth, Kaivanto, Kanerva ja Pohjola, Sara

Hildén Art Museum, Tampere

2000 Marilyn, Mao and the Rolling Stones, Hämeenlinna Art Museum,

Hämeenlinna

Marilyn, Mao and the Rolling Stones, Tikanoja Art Museum, Vaasa

Images of Love, Tikanoja Art Museum, Vaasa

2001 Salmela Art Centre, Mäntyharju

The Seasons-Art from the Collections from the Years 1905–86,

Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

E-galleria, Hanko

The Finnish collection of the Kuntsi Foundation, Kerava Art

Museum, Kerava

Angel of Klondyke, collection of the Aune Laaksonen Foundation,

Kerava Art Museum, Kerava

2002 Angel of Klondyke, collection of the Aune Laaksonen Foundation,

Kouvola Art Museum, Kouvola

Graphic Leaf and a Poem, Suodenniemi Library, Vammala

Touring exhibition of the art collection of the OKO Art Foundation

Lapinlahti Art Museum, Lapinlahti

2002–2003 Popcorn and Politics – Art Activists, Kiasma Museum of

Contemporary Art, Helsinki

2003 The Sea, Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna

The Gates to Mysticism, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere

2004 The Landscape of Power, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere

2005 Summer Pinx, Sysmä

Exhibition for the benefit of the victims of the catastrophe in Asia

2006 Opening exhibition of EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art,

Espoo

Salmela Art Centre, Mäntyharju

2006–2007 Is a Tree Stump Art? Art of the 1950s and 1960s from the

Collections of the Ateneum, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

2007 Larger than Life, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

Restructured – Art of the 1970s, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma

Speakers of Parliament, Portraits from the Collection of the Finnish

Parliament, Parliament House, Helsinki

Icons of Kuntsi, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa

2008–2009 Works from the Collection of the Aune Laaksonen

Foundation, Kasarmi Art Centre, Tuusula

2010 Grazing, Hyvinkää Art Museum, Hyvinkää

2011 Design Forum Finland, Furniture of the Finnish masters, Helsinki

Bicentennial Jubilee Exhibition of the Bank of Finland, Helsinki

2011–2012 I Ain´t Marchin´ Anymore, Amos Anderson Art Museum,

Helsinki

GROUP EXHIBITIONS ABROAD

1959 Exhibition Finnish Art, Sale Dalles, Bucharest, Romania

1961 International exhibition, Louisiana, Tennessee, Memphis, Erskine,

USA

1962 Exhibition Art from Tampere, Lódz, Poland

1963 VII Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Exhibition Finnish Art, Linz, Austria

1964 Exhibition Nordic Art, Hässelby Castle, Stockholm, Sweden

Nordic Artists with Kain Tapper, Mölndal, Sweden

Exhibition Finnish Art, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

Exhibition Finnish Art, Sylt, Federal Republic of Germany

1965 Exhibition The March Group at Gallerie Svea, Stockholm, Sweden

Exhibition Finnish Art in the Belgrade Museum of Applied Arts,

Yugoslavia

Exhibition Modern Finnish Art at Kunsthaus Hamburg, Federal

Republic of Germany

Exhibition Finnish Graphic Art, Hamburg, Federal Republic of

Germany

IV Paris Biennale for young artists at the Musée d´Art Moderne de

la Ville de Paris, France

1966 Exhibition Réalités Nouvelles at the Musée d´Art Moderne de la

Ville de Paris, France

Exhibition of the Nordic Art Association at the Kunstverein

Hannover, Federal Republic of Germany

1967 Exhibition of the International Art Competition of Monaco, Palais

des Congrès, Monaco

Exhibition Finnish Art, Hungary

Exhibition Finnish Art, Poland

Exhibition of the Nordic Art Association in Liljevalchs Konsthall,

Stockholm, Sweden

1968 Ars Baltica at Sävesalen History Museum, Visby, Sweden

Venice Biennale, Italy

1969 The March Group at Svenska Handelsbanken, Stockholm, Sweden

Modern Art from Finland in Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Federal Republic of

Germany

1969 Finland in Louisiana; Architecture, Art and Applied Art at the

Lousiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark

1970 VII International Exhibition of Graphic Art, Vienna, Austria

Contemporary Finnish Painting, Brussels, Antwerp, Belgium

1970-76 Touring exhibition of Finnish Graphic Art, United Kingdom

1971-74 Exhibition Current Finnish Art, Moss, Norway

1971 Exhibition of Finnish Graphic Art at London Royal Festival Hall,

United Kingdom

Touring exhibition Finnish Modern Art, Federal Republic of

Germany

Touring exhibition Finnish Modern Art, Holland

Five Artists from Finland Essen, Federal Republic of Germany

1972 Exhibition Finnish Art at Galleri F-15, Moss, Norway

1973 Exhibition of solidarity Angela Davis, New York, USA

Eyes and Art, Trollhättan and Vänersborg, Sweden

Exhibition of Finnish Graphic Art Intergrafik 73 in Altes Museum,

Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany

Art from Finland at the Finch College Museum of Art, New York,

USA

1974 Workaday Finland at ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London,

United Kingdom

Workaday Finland at Södertälje Kunsthall, Sweden

1974 The Art Scene in Finland at the Düsseldorf Art Museum, Federal

Republic of Germany

1975 Facets Finland at the Musée Galliéra, Paris, France

1975 FINSKT I DAG -> Contemporary Finnish at Galerie Asbaek,

Copenhagen, Denmark

1976 Venice Biennale, Italy

Facets – Finland: Ten Artists of the Last Ten Years in Hugh Lane

Municipal Gallery of Modern Art,

Dublin, and at the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Gallery,

Belfast, Northern Ireland

USA 200 San Francisco, USA

Exhibition of Graphic Art, Karlstad, Federal Republic of Germany

Exhibition of Graphic Art, Oslo, Norway

1977 Image of Finland at Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

Exhibition Art and Environment Berlin City Library, German

Democratic Republic

Touring exhibition of Finnish Art, Sweden

Exhibition Finnish Art, Moss, Norway

Museum of Contemporary Art of Belgrade, Yugoslavia

1977-78 Touring exhibition Finnish Art, France

1979 Image of Finland at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway

8th Biennale of the Baltic Countries: Painting, Sculpture, Graphics

at the Rostock Art Gallery, German DemocraticRepublic

1981 European Biennale, Baden-Baden, Federal Republic of Germany

New on Paper Gothenburg, Sweden

1984 Contemporary Finnish Art/ Suvremena fiska umjetnost/Sodobna

fiska umetnost Zagreb (Galerije Grada), Sarajevo (Umjetnicki

Paviljon), Lubljana (Cankarjev Dorn), Yugoslavia

1988 Contemporary Finnish Art in the Kerava Art Collection, Trollhättan,

Sweden

1989 Exhibition of the Polars Group, Oslo, Norway

1990 The Nordic ‘60s: Breakthrough and Resistance, Reykjavik, Iceland

The Nordic ‘60s: Breakthrough and Resistance, Stockholm,

Sweden

The Nordic ‘60s: Breakthrough and Resistance, Odense, Denmark

The Nordic ‘60s: Breakthrough and Resistance, Hoevikodden,

Norway

1992 Expo 92 World’s Fair Seville, Spain

1995 Finnish Contemporary Artists at the Embassy of Finland, Museo de

la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile

PUBLIC AND COMMISSIONED WORK

1955 The emblem of the Tampere ice-hockey club Tappara

1959 A painting depicting Christ among children and young people,

Kalliola Orphanage, Tampere

1960 Our Friends, mural, Saukonpuisto Primary School, Tampere

1962 As to the Good So Also to the Evil, mural, Koukkuniemi retirement

home, Tampere

1966 Summer Pictures, mural, Pellervo Primary School, Tampere

1968 Landscape of Basic Knowledge, mural, Tesoma Primary School,

Tampere

1970 Poster with a finger figure for the Tampere International Film

Festival

1971 The Thinker City Library of Södertälje, Sweden

1971 Praise for the Order of Nature, mural, Kangasala Primary School,

Kangasala

1972 Ode to the 60,000 Lakes, work of sculpture in front of Hotel

Hesperia, Helsinki

1972 Chain (Positive Visionary Diagonal), sculpture of fibreglass and

steel, Helsinki City Hall lobby, Helsinki

1973 Baltic Herring Thumb (The Glove of J. J. Rousseau), sculpture,

Kustavi

1976 The Square, multi-panel (13) painting for the City of Tampere

1977 Finnish images, painting and Ultramare, relief for the Finnjet car

ferry

1979 Kustaa Was a Fine Man, lay-out and illustration for the celebratory

volume of the Bicentenary of the City of Tampere

1980 Masculine + Feminine (Original Landscape M Original Landscape

F), Tampere Workers´ Theatre Lobby

1981 The Sea, relief, Suomen Sokeri Head Office, Espoo

1983 Zephyr, installation, Suomen Sokeri Head Office, Espoo

1986 Nereid, installation, Forum, shopping mall, Helsinki

1986 Silver Bridges, installation, Forum shopping mall, Helsinki

1988 Biogenesis, installation, Cultor Ltd., Helsinki

1990 Blue Line, environmental artwork, Tampere Hall, Tampere

1991 Natura (Non facit saltus), environmental artwork, SOK

Cooperatives Headquarters, Helsinki

1998 From Age to Age, installation, Lindström company head office,

Helsinki

1999 Leonardo, aviation monument, Tampere

1999 Biogenesis removed from Pasila to Keilaniemi, Espoo. The work

was repainted and renamed Biogenesis- Regeneration, Espoo

2001 Memorial stone for the grave of Finnish author Juhani Peltonen,

Loppi

2003 Black Horse cabinet for the renovated Sea Horse restaurant,

Helsinki

2008 Finnish Pictures, painting removed to the Vellamo Maritime

Centre, Kotka

OFFICIAL PORTRAITS

1986 Väinö Linna, Finnish author

1991 Kalevi Sorsa, Speaker of the Finnish parliament

1991 Raimo Ilaskivi, Mayor of the City of Helsinki 1979–91

1993 Kari Rahkamo, Mayor of the City of Helsinki 1988–98

1994 Harri Holkeri, Chairman of the City Council of Helsinki 1981–87

1994 Ilkka Suominen, Chairman of the Finnish parliament

1996 Reino Paasilinna, General Director of the Finnish Broadcasting

Company 1989–94

1997 Antti Potila, General Director of Finnair 1987 –98

1997 Martti Ahtisaari, President of Finland 1994 –2000

WORKS IN THE FOLLOWING FINNISH COLLECTIONS

(In alphabetical order by Finnish name)

Åland Art Museum, Mariehamn

City of Akaa

Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki

Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki

Espoo Museum of Modern Art EMMA

South Karelia Museum, Lappeenranta

Helsinki Art Museum HAM

Hyvinkää Art Museum

Hämeenlinna Art Museum

Collection of the Jenny ja Antti Wihuri Foundation, Rovaniemi

Joensuu Art Museum

Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

Finnish National Gallery / Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki

Kerava Art Museum

Kimmo Kaivanto Foundation, Helsinki

City of Kotka

Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa

Lahti Art Museum

Collection of the Maire Gullichsen Foundation, Pori

OP Financial Group (OKO) Art Collection, Helsinki

Collection of the Paulo Foundation, Espoo

Pori Art Museum

Rovaniemi Art Museum

Collection of the Saastamoinen Foundation, Espoo

Sara Hildén Foundation Collection / Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere

Collection of the Simo Kuntsi Foundation, Vaasa

Tampere Art Museum

Taucher Art Collection, Helsinki

Turku Art Museum

Finnish National Gallery / State Art Commission

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS ABROAD

(In alphabetical order by Finnish name)

Arkiv för dekorativ konst Lund, Sweden

Gotlands Fornsal Visby, Sweden

Institute of Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom

Konstmuseet Göteborg, Sweden

Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile

Rostock Art Museum, Germany

State Collection of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden

City of Södertälje Art Collection, Sweden

STAGE DESIGNS AND COSTUMES

1951 stage sets for the play Cinderella, Tampere Workers´ Theatre,

Tampere

1955 stage sets for the play Diplomatic Love, Tampere Theatre, Tampere

1955 stage sets and costumes for the play Paris in Tampere, Messu-

teatteri theatre, Tampere

1978 stage sets and costumes for the opera The Red Line, Finnish

National Opera, Helsinki. Visiting performances:

1979 Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London

1980 Stora Teatern, Gothenburg

1980 Kungliga Teatern, Stockholm

1981 Zürich

1982 Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

1982 Malyi Theatre, Leningrad

1982 Estonia Theatre, Tallinn

1982 second version of stage sets and costumes for the opera The Red

Line, Savonlinna Opera Festival, Savonlinna. Visiting

performances:

1983 Metropolitan Opera, New York

1984 Suomussalmi summer theatre

1984 TV-version of stage sets and costumes for the opera The Red Line

AWARDS AND HONORARY TITLES

1948 1st prize in graphics and 2nd prize in drawing in the Cultural

Festival for Young People

1956 3rd prize in the mural competition of Rahola primary school

1959 1st prize in the decoration competition of Saukonpuisto primary

school, Tampere

1962 3rd prize in the national art competition

1963 Honorary Award of Sao Paulo Biennale, Brasilia

1965 2nd prize in the Finnish state art competition

1966 3rd prize in the Finnish state art competition

1967 1st prize in the Finnish state art competition

1967 3rd Grand Prix International d´Art Contemporain de la

Principauté, Monaco

1969 Häme Province Art Prize

1970 Art Prize of City of Tampere

1972 Pro Finlandia Medal

1982 Honorary Title of Artist of the Year

1995 Honorary Title of Professor

1997 Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

2000 Golden Helsinki Award

ART EDUCATION

1953-54 Studied in the graphic art course of the Institute of Industrial

Arts

MEMBERSHIPS

Finnish Painters´ Union

The Association of Finnish Printmakers

The Association of Finnish Sculptors

Client of the Kuvasto Artists’ Copyright Organisation

OFFICIAL POSITIONS

1965-67 member of the Executive Committee of the Artists´ Association

of Tampere

1968-70 member of the Arts Council of Finland

DOCUMENTS

1966 Taiteilijan kesä (An Artist´s Summer), edited by Aila Rantala,

Helsinki: Social Programmes, Finnish Broadcasting Company TV 2

1969 Jos ja kun (If and When), produced by Heikki Ritavuori and Seppo

Jokinen, Helsinki: Cultural Productions, Finnish Broadcasting

Company TV 1

1970 Filmikalenteri (Film Calendar), directed by Leena Lohtander, edited

by Erkka Lehtola and Matti Rosvall, Helsinki: Documentary

Productions, Finnish Broadcasting Company TV 2

1971 Viikon taiteilija (Artist of the Week), Helsinki: Finnish Broadcasting

Company TV 2

1973 Kauneus ja tuho (Beauty and Destruction), Realised by Lisa

Kuhlberg, Jorma Karhunen, Jorma Kuusisto and Anssi Mellblom,

Helsinki: Documentary Productions, Finnish Broadcasting

Company TV 2

1976 Kalevalaa kuvin (The Kalevala in Pictures), Edited and directed by

Liisa Hovinheimo, Helsinki: Documentary Productions, Finnish

Broadcasting Company TV 2

Kulttuurikakkonen (Cultural Channel Two), Produced and edited

by Liisa Hovinheimo, Helsinki: Documentary Productions, Finnish

Broadcasting Company TV 2

1977 Kimmo Kaivanto ja Tori (Kimmo Kaivanto and The Square), Edited

by Pirkko Leisti, Helsinki: Special Production, Finnish

Broadcasting Company TV 1

1980 Kerro, kerro kuvastin (Mirror, Mirror on the Wall), Edited by Eeli

Aalto, Helsinki: Documentary Productions, Finnish Broadcasting

Company TV 2

Kansakunnan kehyksessä (The Nation in Frames), Scripted and

directed by Tuulikki Islander and Markku Valkonen, Helsinki:

Cultural Productions, Finnish Broadcasting Company TV 1

1981 Musiikkiterveiset (Musical Greetings), Produced, directed and

edited by Matti Heinivaho, Helsinki: Music Programmes, Finnish

Broadcasting Company TV 2

1982 Muistiinpanoja 1941–82 (Notes 1942–82), Produced, scripted,

directed and edited by Tuulikki Islander, Helsinki: Cultural

Productions, Finnish Broadcasting Company TV1

2004 Kimmo Kaivanto, mies ja maisemat (Kimmo Kaivanto, the Man and

the Landscapes), scripted and directed by Liisa Hovinheimo,

Finnish Broadcasting Company TV2

PUBLICATIONS

1982 Kimmo Kaivanto, Weilin + Göös. Texts: Jaakko Lintinen & Soili

Sinisalo

1992 Kimmo Kaivanto, Exhibition catalogue and Bibliography

1956-1991, Center for International Contemporary Arts (CICA)

New York, USA. Texts: Bhupendra Karia & Erik Kruskopf.

Bibliography: Jari Björklöv

2001 Kaivanto, WSOY. Texts: Kimmo Kaivanto & Kimmo Sarje