Jonna KINA

Profile

Graduated from Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland, 2013 MFA.
Jonna Kina (b. 1984) is a multidisciplinary artist whose works are conceptual and structural in terms of method. Her works holds further complexity in its use of artifice to search new perspectives and meanings. Her works have been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions, most recently at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (2018); Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (2018); Beaconsfield Gallery, London (2018); Galleria delle Carrozze di Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence (2017).

Recent activities (personal exhibitions, group exhibitions, concerts):
-6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, group, Moscow, 2018
-15th Experimental Film and Video Festival, group, Seoul, 2018
-Yebisu Intrenational Festival for Art & Altrenative Visions, group, Tokyo, 2018
-Beaconsfield Gallery, solo, London, 2018
-DIRECTING THE REAL: Artists' Film and Video in the 2010s, group, Florence, 2017

Other activities (including awards received):
-Winner of the Below Zero Finnish Art Prize (2017), Finland
-Nominated for VISIO Art Prize, Firenze, Italy
-Winner of the Best Nordic Short Film 2017, Nordisk Panorama Film Festival, Malmö, Sweden

About works / performance

Somnivm, 2018,
35 film transferred to 4K,
12 min 39 sec, 8.1

Directed by JONNA KINA
Camera VILLE PIIPPO
Sound design NICOLAS BECKER, MAXENCE DUSSERE
Field recording of sounds NASSIM EL MOUNABBIH
Mixing & surround sound JUAN DE DIOS MAGDALENO
Editing, post-production JONNA KINA
Post-production support TIMO TERÄVÄINEN

Production supported by
BELOW ZERO FINNISH ART PRIZE, AVEK, FRAME, ARTS PROMOTION CENTRE FINLAND, VISEK, PAULON FOUNDATION
Commissioned by
BEACONSFIELD / Below Zero Finnish Art Prize