BIOGRAPHY
ALVAR GULLICHSEN
Born 1961 in Helsinki.
Painter, sculptor, musician, producer, founder of Bonk Business Inc. and Groovy Eldorado.
Works and lives in Helsinki.
Membership:
Member of the Finnish Painters’
Association / Suomen Taidemaalariliitto, Artists' Association Muu and Dimensio group.
ROR (Revolutions on Request) member 1999-2002
Education
1988-89 Academy of Fine Arts, sculpture dept., Helsinki
1984-88 BA, Academy of Fine Arts, painting dept., Helsinki
1981-82 The Free Art School, Helsinki
1981 Grankulla Svenska Gymnasium graduate
Selected solo shows:
2015 Inca Modernism, Galleria Heino, Helsinki
2012 Paintings, Galleria Heino, Helsinki
2010 Cave Paintings, Bar 9, Helsinki
2009 By the Shores of the Primordial Sea, Galleriet G18, Helsinki
2008 Galleri Ari / Mikkelin musiikkijuhlat, Mikkeli
2008 Kultturikeskus Stoan galleria
2008 Galleria Krista Mikkola
2005 Galleria Eeva Pinomaa, Hanko, Finland
2003 Benin Passion, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
2002 Galleria Krista Mikkola (with Tuija Markonsalo), Helsinki
2000 Finnish Institute, Stockholm
1999 Planet Bonk, Kunsthalle Helsinki
Planet Bonk, Seinäjoki Kunsthalle, Finland
1998 Planet Bonk, Wäinö Aaltonen Art Museum, Turku, Finland
Finnish Institute, Antwerpen, Belgium
1997 Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
Galerie Artek, project room, Helsinki
Ann Westin, Stockholm
1995 Paint Factory, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki
Galerie Krister Fahl, Stockholm
1992 Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
1990 Galleria Mikkola & Rislakki, Helsinki
Selected Bonk Business Inc. shows:
1999 Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå, Sweden
1998 Le Monde de Bonk, Centre Belge de la Bande dessinée, Brussels
(as part of Finland's EU-chairmanship year)
1998 Finnish Embassy, Washington DC
1998 National Museum of Photography, Film and TV, Bradford
1998 Electrokinetics Gallery, New York
1997 Leo Kamen Gallery, Northern Encounters, Toronto
1996 Bonk Expo, The Nordic House, Faroe Islands
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles
1995 Bonk Swexpo, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
1994 Bonk Expo -94, Old Customs House, Helsinki
The History of Bonk, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark
1993 Bonk 100, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
1989 Raba Hiff Show, Galleria Krista Mikkola, Helsinki
Works in public collections:
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
The Helsinki City Museum
The City of Espoo
Amos Anderson Art Museum
Svenska Kulturfonden
Stiftelsen Pro Artibus
The City of Vantaa
The City of Pori
Lord Palumbo Art Collection, Kentuck Knob, USA
Oulu Art Museum
Salon Taidemuseo
Salon läntinen terveyskeskus
Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
City of Oulu
Public works:
-LeBonk Music Machine, restaurant interior, co-designed with Klaus Nyqvist,
Yrjönkatu 24, Helsinki, 2010
-Yeah Baby Yeah, wall painting, Underbar (Lilla Helsingfors), Helsinki 2006
-Posankka, as part of Environmental Art Works in Turku, Finland, 1999
-Carrol's restaurant, interior works in light boxes, Aleksanterinkatu, Helsinki
1998
Permanent collection:
Dynamokeskus Bonk, museum dedicated to Bonk, Uusikaupunki, 1994-
Selected group exhibitions:
2012 Taidekeskus Salmela / Salmela Art Center, Mäntyharju, Finland
2010 Good Morning Africa! / Huomenta Afrikka!, Kunsthalle Helsinki
The Power of Africa / Afrikan voima, EMMA Espoo Museum of
Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
2008 Behind the Moustache, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki
2007 Kuvia ja kuplia, Lahden taidemuseo, Lahti, Finland
2005 Viisi vuotta –viisi taiteilijaa, Galleria G, Helsinki
2003 Sama Meri, Sama Intohimo, Kerava Art Museum, Finland
2003 ROR: Piece by piece, Royal College of Art, London
2002 ROR: Piece by piece, Manifesta 4, Städel, Frankfurt, Germany
ROR: Piece by piece, Fundamentalism of the New Order,
Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
2001 Fotografia Metafisica, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle, Ireland
Origin Gallery, Dublin
ROR: UTOPIA, Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm
ROR: UTOPIA, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
ROR: UTOPIA, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
2000 TERROR 2.0, Finnish Institute, Stockholm
Northern Post-Modernism, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art,
Helsinki
Advertainment, Palazzo dell'Arte, Milan
1999 Identity Crisis, The Lighthouse, Glasgow
1995 Sculptor, Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki
1993 Airport, Helsinki-Vantaa airport
1992 Finlandida, Stockholm, Sweden
EXPO 92, Seville, Spain
Triennale di Milano, Italy (with Stefan Lindfors)
1991 Biennale de Sao Paolo, Brazil
Marble Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia
"Sinirand", The Art Hall of Tallinn, Estonia
1990 Consumer goods fair, The Helsinki Fair Centre
"Nordic", Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
1989 GIART 89, Nordic Youth Biennale, Gothenburg, Sweden
Grants:
1987 Helene and Walter Grönkvist foundation
1988 Svenska Kulturfonden / Swedish Culture Foundation
1989 Kulttuurirahasto
Suomen Taiteilijaseura / Finnish Artist's Association
1990 Leo and Regina Weinsteinin foundation
1991 Svenska Kulturfonden / Swedish Culture Foundation
1992 Visek
Taideakatemian säätiö / Academy of Arts foundation
1993 Cultural fund for Finland and Denmark / Suomen ja Tanskan
kulttuurirahasto
1994 Stina Krook foundation
1996 Art Council travel grant
Konstsamfundet
1997 Ministry of Education
Svenska Kulturfonden / Swedish Culture Foundation
Nordic Council of Ministers, travel grant
1998 Frame / Finnish Fund for Art Exhange
1999 Kulttuurirahasto
2000 Alfred Kordelin foundation
2002 Ministry of Education
2007 Svenska Kulturfonden
2009 State Art Council
Residences:
2005 Villa Karo residence visit, Benin, West Africa
2002 Villa Karo studio residence grant, Benin, West Africa
2000 Cill Rialaig project, Ballinskelligs, Co Kerry, Ireland
1987 Cité International des Arts, Paris
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