PERSONAL DATA Petri Kaverma Juhannusruusunkuja 3 A 56 00990 Helsinki, Finland Contact Mobile +358-(0)50-354 0577 Homepage: www.kaverma.fi E-mail: petri.kaverma@nic.fi Born 4. March 1963, Helsinki EDUCATION
Doctoral studies, Department of Postgraduate Studies, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts 2006– 2012 Pedagogical studies for artists, University of Art and Design Helsinki 1994–97 Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, 5th year, supplementary studies 1992–93 Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Time and Space studies 1988–92
Lahti Art Institute 1987–88
Liminka Art School 1986–87
Matriculation examination, Vesala Upper Secondary School 1982 ENVIRONMENTAL ART EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
Separator, Opus 4., Helsinki, Kunsthalle Helsinki 2013
Separator, Opus 3., Karjala, Joensuu Art Museum 2012
Thinking Tools, FAFA gallery, Helsinki 2011
Builders – Houses and Spaces of the Artists, Kuopio Art Museum 2010
The Sippu Spring – An Environmental Art Project, Ars Sippola -environmental
event, Kouvola 2010
Hurmio – Focus -exhibition, Tikanoja Art Museum, Vaasa 2010
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki 2009
Separator, Opus 2., Kantri & Urbaani, Galleria Pihatto, Lappeenranta 2009
Chinese contemporary art from Songzhuang, Kouvola Art Museum 2009
Sconfinamenti, Dalla buona pittura alla video art, Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome 2008
Separator, Opus 1., The Eight Homes urban area & Tsinghua University and their
surroundings, Beijing, China 2008
Studio Mic, Rome, Italy 2007
Unbelievable but true, Helsinki City Art Museum, Meilahti, Helsinki 2007
Taken apart – objects and stories, Galleria Sculptor, Helsinki 2005
Angels and humans, Kemi Art Museum 2005
Mänttä Art Weeks 2002
Off Scene, triennial exhibition of Finnish photographic art,
The Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki 2002
Harbour lights, Association of Finnish Sculptors, Port of Helsinki 2002
Mänttä Art Weeks 1999
Institute -environmental artwork, South Karelia Art Museum, Lappeenranta 1998
Or Are You?, Gallery Hippolyte 1998
Landscape Measurements – Sculpture Trail, Sculpture Symposium in England 1996
Draw-A-Man – a sculpture of a poor man in the form of a CD ROM,
Helsinki City Art Museum 1995
Stone -environmental artwork in the park of the Helsinki City Art Museum, Meilahti 1994
Barley -environmental artwork, Helsinki 1993
Time-Space -exhibition, Nordic Art Centre, Suomenlinna 1992
Young Cocks, photo exhibition of young male photographers, Suomenlinna 1992
MUU-media art festival (videos) 1991 & 1992
MUU-media art festival, exhibition of video installations , Old Student House, Helsinki 1992
Young Artists Exhibition, Kunsthalle Helsinki, 1990 & 1992
Final exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki 1992
Shop Window -video installation in the shop window of the Stockmann department store,
Helsinki Festivals 1991 Allotments – A Piece of Earth, A Bit of Heaven -exhibition, Helsinki Festivals 1990 Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampere 1990
OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL ART ACTIVITIES & CURATORIALS & COMMUNITY ART PROJECTS
Editing, design and realization fo the Art in the Built Environment webpages
(www.ymparistotaide.fi) 2010
Marja-Vantaa, Kähärata -comperition, jury member 2010
Member of the jury of the art competition for the Mäntyniemi residence
of the President of Finland 2010
Helsinki Music Centre Art competition, jury member 2009
OTTO, Ryhmä O -esittäytyminen, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain 2009
Vantaa Art Museum 2008
Hybridea – urban art project, Helsinki 2006–
Manchester Metropolitan University, The Manchester
chool of Art, exhibition exhange Manchester-Helsinki 2007
Sociodesign – Room for approaching, Helsinki, Cable Factory 2004
Riistavuori centre for the elderly 2003
HUS Psychiatric Hospital for Children and Young People 1999–2003 Giverny in Urban Space project (Giverny kaupunkitilassa), project manager,
The Foundation of the Helsinki City of Culture (Helsingin Kulttuurikaupunkisäätiö) 1999–2000 PUBLIC ART WORKS
Silta-environmental artwork in Pasuunapuisto Park, Kannelmäki, Helsinki 2006–2007
Encyclopaedia, Elementary School and Youth House of Torpparinmäki, Helsinki 1999
MEMBERSHIPS
Association of Finnish Sculptors Association of Finnish Photographers
AV-Arkki (Distribution Centre for Finnish Media Art) Cooperative Forum-Box
Kuvasto (copyright association for Finnish visual artists) ELECTED OFFICES
Finnish Foundation for Environmental Art, Chairman 2011– Finnish Foundation for Environmental Art, Board Member 2005–2011
Finnish State Art Collection Committee, Member 2008–2010
Maa Art School, Vice President of the Board 1999–2004
Board Member of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts 2010–
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Finnish National Gallery
Helsinki City Art Museum Kemi Art Museum Kouvola Art Museum Kuopio Art Museum Private collections
RECORDED DISCUSSIONS
Sosiaalisesta taiteesta [On social art], Petri Kaverma, Minna Heikinaho, Sanna Sarva, Elina Saloranta and Leevi Haapala. Kiasman Paja 090799, Leevi Haapala, Kuvataiteen keskusarkisto –
Central Art Archives 1999
SOURCES FOR RESEARCH
* Central Art Archives / Sound Archive * Central Art Archives / Press Cutting Archive
* Kiasma research library, press cuttings 1980-1999 (microfilmed)
* Maa- ja ympäristötaiteen tutkimusprojekti 1998-1999 / Central Art Archives / Hanna Johansson [Earth and environmental art: research project 1998–1999]
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
* Finnish Academy of Fine Arts
- University researcher from July 2015-2018
- Assistant, Division for Advanced Studies 2007
- Assistant, Department of General Studies 1993–1994
- Time and Space Studies programme 1996–1997
- Instructor, visual thinking (foreign students) 1998–1999
* Maa Art School
Head 1999-2004
* University of Art and Design Helsinki
- Lectures at various departments 1996–
- Course in Environmental Photography, Department of Photography 1996–1997 - Courses including open university teaching, art teacher training, environmental
education and pedagogical studies for artists 1994–
- Instructor at the Department of Art Education 1997–2001
- Seminar in environmental art 2004
* University of Helsinki
- "Ajan taju" [Sense of Time] module in environmental art 1997
* University of Lapland
- Media art workshop, "Taide mediana" [Art as Media] workshop 1994–1995
* The Pekka Halonen Academy
- Instructor 1997–1998
- Lecturer/teacher 1998–1999
* The Helsinki City Art Museum
- Project employee for preparing educational material on questions of environmental
and earth art for the use of the museum 1995
* Orivesi Institute
- Workshop in Environmental Art, experimental visual art 1995–1996
* City of Vantaa Cultural Affairs Administration / City of Helsinki Cultural Affairs Centre
- Courses in video art, drawing, graphics and photography 1991– OTHER ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES
* Changing Identities and Contexts in the Arts (CICA): Artistic Research as the New
European Paradigm for the Arts. (http://changingidentities.eu/) -symposium, Leeds, UK 2011
* Everything but an Island symposium,
From Disturbance to Dialectical Image , presentation, Helsinki 2009
* Creating Spaces - EU environmental art project, Beijing, China 2008
* Taiteilijan muuttuva työnkuva [Changes in the artist's job description], panelist,
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma 2008
* Finnish Painters Union, panelist, Night of the Arts -urban festival 2005 * Kaupunkiskenografia [Urban scenography] - arranging a
Studia Generalia lecture series, FAFA 1997
* Sketch/Luonnos -environmental photo exhibition, the photography students' exhibition at School of Art and Design, Helsinki City Planning Department, curated in cooperation
with Jan Kaila & Hille Kaukonen 1997
* Development competition of the Pasila Office Block 1993 * Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, "Art in an Urban Environment" open discussion 1993
LIST OF PUBILCATIONS
MONOGRAPHSTyhjä piha – häiriö ja hiljaisuus [nyky]taiteessa. Kuvataideakatemia: Helsinki. (Dissertaton) 2012 EDITED PUBLICATIONS
Exhibition catalogue: OTTO-Taiteilijat O esittäytyminen 2008
Project publication: Giverny kaupunkitilassa 2001
Exhibition catalogue: STONE -environmental work 1994
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
* Kaverma, Petri Non-objects, displacements and free models, exhibition catalogue of Jaakko Niemelä and Helena Hietanen exhibition in the Helsinki Art Hall 2015
* From Disturbance to Dialectical Image, Everything but an Island, symposium publication (2009), Kuvataideakatemian julkaisusarja /Series of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts 2012
* Sippulähde taideteoksena [The Sippu Spring as a work of art], Koti-Sippola 3.,
Koti-Sippola ry, Kouvola, 120–122. 2011
* Esse est percipii, oleminen on havaituksi tulemista ["To be is to be perceived"]
Taide, 2009, nr 4 2009
* Disturbance, Interference, Noise, Silence, The Artist’s Knowledge, Research at
The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, FAFA, Yliopistopaino 2008, pp. 52-53 2008 * OTTO-Taiteilijat O esittäytyminen, Vantaa Art Museum, exhibition catalogue, “Muotoilu, taide, design, teollinen muotoilu…” ["Design, art, industrial design"], Taiteilijat O ry,
pp. 10-13 2008
* Otteita kuvataiteen tohtoriksi pyristelevän taiteilijan päiväkirjasta ["From the diary of an aspiring Doctor of Fine Arts"], Taiteilija-lehti, 2/2007 2007
*Kannelmäen uusi taideteos herättelee yhteisiä muistoja ["The new artwork in Kannelmäki evokes common memories"], Taidemuseo.fi, Helsingin Kaupungin taidemuseon
tiedotuslehti, 02/2007, pp. 26-27 2007
* Taiteilija- ja taidekuvan muuttumisesta ["Artist and art - changing images"]
Taju 2004, Sivusta katsoen -näyttelyjulkaisu 2004
* Art Education Journal, eds: Riitta Heikkinen, Erja Mehto, Leila Heimonen.
Published for the InSEA seminar panel "How Nature Speaks?", New York, August 2002 2002 * Maalari maalasi taloa, sinistä ja punaista ["The painter painted the house blue and red"]
Viherympäristö, 2000, No 6, s. 20-21 2002
* Giverny kaupunkitilassa - maa, kasvu ja taiteellinen elämys ["Giverny in urban space – ground, growth and aesthetic experience"]
Viherympäristö, No 1, s. 32-33 2000
* Paino / voima: Petri Kaverma ja Antero Toikka Lappeenrannan linnoituksessa, 7.6.–13.9.1998 ["Momentum/force: Petri Kaverma and Antero Toikka in the Fortess
ofLappeenranta"] 1998
* Keksijän viimeinen toive ["The inventor's last will"], ]Taiteiden talo, Annantalon
juhlakirja 1987-1997, Annantalo/Helsingin kaupungin kulttuuriasiainkeskus 1997 * Kansallispuku rappukäytävässä, ["National costume in the hallway"],
Taide, 1996, nr 5, pp. 44-45 1996
* Kuvataideakatemia (Helsinki): loppunäyttely 1992
[Academy of Fine Arts: graduating exhibition] 1992
FEATURED IN PUBLICATIONS
* Ilmaista taidetta -kaupunkien ja julkisten paikkojen taidetta (Free art Article on art in
cities and public spaces) Oma piha -magazine, 5/2011 2011 * Kuvanveisto ajassa ja tilassa, Suomen Kuvanveistäjäliitto 100 vuotta,
toim. Hanna Mamia, SKS. [Article on sculpture in space and time in the centenary
publication of the Association of Finnish Sculptors] 2010 * Creating Spaces – Art Bridge between the EU and China project publication,
European Comission komissio & Helsinki Cultural Foundation. 2010
* Diary of Fleeting Time, Chinese Contemporary art, Kouvola Art Museum. 2009
* Sconfinamenti, dalla buona pittura alla video art, exhibition catalogue,
Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome. 2008
* Kuka-mikä-taiteilija? [What-who- artist?] Kiasma-lehti/Kiasma magazine,
* BilledKunst: Kunsten kan like gjerne befinne seg i møtene mellom mennesker,
og er ikke det egentlig nok?, Yngvild Færøy, nr 4, 20.6.2003 2003
* Off skene: [4th triennial of photographic art: Amos Anderson Art Museum,
Helsinki, 14.6. - 11.8.2002 2002
* Mänttä Art Weeks Ympäristöjä : VII Mäntän kuvataideviikot 16.6. - 18.8.2002 2002 * Mänttä Art Weeks Mäntän neljännet kuvataideviikot 13.6. - 15.8.1999 1999 * Nuorten näyttely [Young artists 1992] , 25.9. - 18.10.1992, Helsinki Art Hall 1992 *Nuorten näyttely [Young artists 1990] Nuorten 43. näyttely :
Helsingin Taidehalli 21.9. - 14.10.1990 1990
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Editing, design and realization for the Art in the Built Environment webpages
(www.ymparistotaide.fi) 2010
