Kaarina Kaikkonen

Kunsten is delighted to present the first solo show in a Danish art museum of work by the Finnish artist, Kaarina Kaikkonen (b. 1952). It is also the first solo show of work by a Finnish artist since the reopening of Kunsten, the only museum in the world designed by the Finnish starchitect, Alvar Aalto. For Kunsten the artist has created two massive installations exclusively for the Museum: one outdoor and one indoor work. Kunsten's Main Gallery will feature a work, which uses the space as a cathedral of light, while the Sculpture Park will feature a work that enters into a dialogue with the surrounding nature and the architectural setting. Both works entail impressive, time-consuming work and require a large number of people. They involve a myriad of shirts donated by people for the project and the technical installation of the huge outdoor work, which starts in the surrounding woods and ends in the Museum's Sculpture Park. Can art be at once intimate and social, fragile and powerful? Kaarina Kaikkonen reconciles opposites in her huge, spectacular and sensuous works, which move people and tackle the subject of existence. Kaarina Kaikkonen stubbornly insists that materials can tell