“Matti Kujasalo’s painting can be interpreted in highly different ways: as systematically mathematical models but no less as symbols…for the line is regarded as the best expression of space and time in visual terms. It is created as the result of movement in a void; a line combines space and time, a moment and eternity — it is short and long.”
— Prof. Leonhard Lapin, February 2010
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Galerie Denise René, Espace Marais, Paris, FR
Galerie Friese, Berlin DE
2017
GASK (Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region), Kutná Hora, CZ
2016
Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, FI
2015
Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, DE
Galerie Denise René, Rive Gauche, Paris, FR
2014
Galerie Hoffmann, Friedberg, DE
2013
Galerie Leonhard, Graz, AT
2011
Pori Art Museum, Pori, FI
2010
Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, FI
2008
Galleria Pictor, Nummela, FI
2007
Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Zürich, CH
Galerie Hoffmann, Ossenheim, DE
2006
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, FI
2005
Arithmeum, Bonn, DE
Galleria Orton, Helsinki, FI
2001
Gallery Niklas von Bartha, London, GB
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, FI
1999
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, FI
1998
Ars Nova Museum, Turku, FI
1997
Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, DE
Institut Finlandais, Paris,FR
Museum fur Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, DE
1996
Galerie Emilia Suciu, Ettlingen, DE
1995
Galerie Emilia Suciu, Ettlingen, DEFinnish Cultural Centre, Antwerp, BE
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, DE
Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, DE
1994
Ludwig Museum, Budapest, HU
”Artist of the Year”, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, FI
1992
Galerie Artek, Helsinki, FI
Galleria Johan S.,Porvoo, FI
Chadir Gallery, Kuwait City, KW
1991
Galleri Wang, Oslo, NO
Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, SE
1989
Galerie Artek, Helsinki, FI
1988
Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, SE
Galerie Diade, Bergamo, IT
1987
Galerie du Nord, Borås, SE
1986
Galerie Artek, Helsinki, FI
1985
Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm, SE
1984
Galerie im Bootshaus, Kiel, DE
1983
Galerie Artek, Helsinki, FI
Galerie Nordenhake, Malmö, SE
Galerie Seestrasse, Rapperswil, CH
1982
Galerie Blanche, Stockholm, SE
Galerie Garmer, Gothenburg, SE
1981
Galerie Artek, Helsinki, FI
1980
”The Collection of the Venice Biennale”, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
Galerie Nordenhake, Malmö, SE
”La Biennale di Venezia”, Venice, IT
Galerie im Zentrum, Berlin, DE
1978
Galerie Nordenhake, Malmoe, SE
Galerij Margaretha de Boeve, Assende, BE
1977
Galerie Christel, Helsinki, FI
Galerie Christel, Stockholm, SE
Galerie VECU, Antwerp, BE
1971
Galerie Pintora, Helsinki, FI
1974
Galerie Christel, Helsinki, FI
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Ahrenberg Collection, Vevey, Switzerland, CH
Albertina, Wien, AT
Allianz Treptowers, Berlin, DE
Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
Arithmeum, Bonn, DE
Arkiv för Dekorativ Konst, Lund, SE
Ars Nova Museum, Turku, FI
Concrete Art in Europe after 1945 “The Peter C. Ruppert Collection”, DE
Contemporary Art Museum, Tampere, FI
Contemporary Art Society, England presented to: Workshop Museum and Art Gallery, Nottinghamshire, GB
Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art, FI
Forum Konkrete Kunst, Erfurt, DE
GASK (Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region), Kutná Hora, CZ
Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Henna and Pertti Niemistö Collection, FI
Joensuu Art Museum, Joensuu, FI
Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, DE
Kajaani Art Museum, Kajaani, FI
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FI
Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, DE
Malmö Kunsthalle, Malmö, SE
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE
Museum fur Konkrete Kunst, Ingoldstadt, DE
Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Hunfeld, DE
Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, DE
Museum Sztuki w Lodzi, Lodz, PL
Nylistasafn, Reykjavik, IS
Parc Olympique de Sculpture, Seoul, KR
Pori Art Museum, Pori, FI
Saastamoinen Foundation, EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art, FI
Sara Hildén Museum, Tampere, FI
Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Rotterdam, NL
Turku City Art Museum, Turku, FI
Rovaniemi Art Museum, Wihuri Foundation, FI
Private collections in Belgium, France, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Matti Kujasalo: Artist of the Year, 1994. Edited by Pirkko Tuukkanen. Helsinki: Helsingin Taidehalli, 1994. Exhibition catalogue.
Matti Kujasalo im Arithmeum. Edited by Ina Prinz. Bonn: Arithmeum, University of Bonn, 2005. Exhibition catalogue.
Matti Kujasalo. Edited by Matti Kujasalo, Pirkko Tuukkanen, Sari Laamanen, Hanna Huitu, Ilona Anhava. Helsinki: Galerie Anhava, 2010.
Matti Kujasalo: A Retrospective 1971 — 2017. Edited by Radka Zahradníková. Czech Republic: Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, 2017. Exhibition catalogue.
Matti Kujasalo. Paris: Galerie Denise René, 2018. Exhibition catalogue.