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Style and technique of the artist: Installation art, Photography, Venice Biennale,
Jussi Kivi
Ars Fennica 2009 Award goes to Jussi Kivi. For the construction of a memory landscape where it is impossible (or irrelevant) to distinguish between reality and fiction, in a construct that resorts to different media in order to create a cosmology that is personal, local and universal.
Jussi Kivi
For years, Finnish artist Jussi Kivi led a double life. In public, he was a respectable maker of radical contemporary art — ironic “landscapes,” for instance, realized in video and photo. In private, he was that most shameful of things, a nerd with a hobby…
Jussi Kivi
Fire and rescue museum