Jasmin Anoschkin (Finnish, b. 1980) is a Helsinki-based multi-disciplinary artist whose practice includes ceramic and wood sculpture, paintings, works on paper, and video. Her exuberant and fantastical aesthetic springs from an amalgam of sources, melding the languages of contemporary folk art, souvenirs, pop culture, and the toy industry. Anoshkin’s imaginative, spontaneous and naïve depictions of hybrid animals, creatures conjured from her own fairytale world and personal experiences, express a sincere and frank honesty. Although whimsical, they are also injected with profound themes such as diversity and individuality, presenting an optimistic viewpoint for unusual and different beings existing within the world at large.
Anoschkin creates her work entirely by her own hand whether sculpting in wood, building clay, or drawing with a brush. This is especially apparent in her ceramic pieces as she often leaves traces of the physical processes with molding, squeezing and building resulting in bumpy or idiosyncratic surfaces. Additionally, with her tiles and plates she draws paints in blue glazes. Whereas, with the wood sculptures, power tools are often required and her individual hand is noticeable in the painting. Anoschkin has now expanded her practice to performative videos where she turns into one of her magical characters rejoicing in her sense of self. No matter the media, her widely bold works make for unforgettable imagery that is, all together, a carnivalistic gesamtkunstwerk.
Anoschkin received a Masters of Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki and is a member of the Arabia Art Department Society. She has exhibited widely over the past ten years.
JASMIN ANOSCHKIN
b.1980, Pori, Finland
EDUCATION
1998-2004 Master of Arts, The Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture, Helsinki
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Puistotarkastajan pelimerkit & harvapuheinen kenkäkauppias, Gallery Halmetoja, Helsinki, Finland
2020 Golden Menstruation, Gallery Halmetoja, Helsinki, Finland
2019 Unicorns, Madness and Stardust, Hostler Burrows, New York, USA
2017 Artag Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2016 Jasmin Anoschkin, Taidekeskus Purnu, Orivesi, Finland
2015 Gallery Pirkko-Liisa Topelius, Helsinki Festival, Finland
2014 Gallery of Street Art, WSP Oy, Helsinki, Finland
The House of Alm, Loviisa, Finland
2013 Kouvola Art Museum, Finland
2012 Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland
Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki, Finland
2011 Instituto Iberoamericano de Finlandia, Madrid, Spain
2010 Arabia Museum Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland
Kuhmoinen, Finland
2008 Gallery BE`19, Helsinki, Finland
2007 Kerava Art Museum, Finland
2005 Raisio Art Museum, Finland
2003 Graduate Exhibition, The Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Contemporary Finnish Sculpture, Hostler Burrows, New York, and Los Angeles, USA
2019 Perspectives, Arabia Art Department Society, Helsinki, Finland
Bathing, Kahaani Art Museum, Kajaani, Finland
2018 Exhibition #49 - Mix and Match, Lokal, Helsinki, Finland
2017 New Ceramic Artists, Hostler Burrows, New York, NY, USA
2016 Porvoo Kunsthalle, Finland, USA
Nizza, Arabia Art Department, Helsinki, Finland
2015 Tool Box, Berlin, Germany
Washington D.C., USA
2014 Onko täällä ketään?, Loviisa, Finland
Art Goes Kapakka, Helsinki, Finland
Pyhäniemi manor, Hollola, Finland
Westers, Kemiö, Finland
Haihatus, Joutsa, Finland
Bukowskis, Helsinki, Finland
2013 Nuoret, Helsinki Kunsthalle, Finland
Bambismi, Malmitalo, Helsinki, Finland
Porvoo Kunsthalle, Finland
Salmela, Finland
2012 Metsien miehet, Salo Art Museum, Finland
Jyväskylä, Säynätsalo, Finland
Villa Roosa, Orimattila, Finland
2011 Haihatus, Joutsa, Finland
Gallery Angelo, Pori, Finland
2010 Puumorsian ja metsän häät, Kerava Art Museum, Finland
Tähtihetkiä, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland
Ars Auttoinen, Padasjoki, Finland
2009 Vantaa Art Museum, Finland
Huddinge, Sweden
Mänttä Art Festival, Sweden
Haihatus, Joutsa, Finland
2008 Todella siistiä, Rauma Art Museum, Finland
2007 Art Goes Kapakka, Helsinki, Finland
Muna, kana, mummo, Gallery Gjutars, Vantaa, Finland
2005 Silmät auki, Vantaa Art Museum, Finland
2004 Ceramega, Voipaalan taidekeskus, Valkeakoski, Finland
Valkoinen, Fiskars Village, Finland
2003 Hehku, Kankaanpää, Finland
Pisaroita, Högforsin vanhat konepajahallit, Karkkila, Finland
2002 The Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
On the Road, Myyrmäkitalo, Vantaa, Finland
2001 Päättömät, The Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2016 Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2015 Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2012 Paulon Foundation
Finnish Culture Foundation
State Grant Satakunta
State Grant
2011 State Grant
Frame
City of Kerava Grant
2010 Alfred Kordelin Foundation
Greta and William Lehtinen Foundation
State Grant
Finnish Culture Foundation
State Grant
2009 Finnish Culture Foundation
2008 City of Kerava Grant
2007 Finnish Art Society, The young artist grant
Finnish Culture Foundation
2005 City of Kerava Grant
2002 City of Kerava Grant
PROJECTS
2016 Supperfest
2015 Vieno Motors: How to prepare 1.0, HAM
2012 Young artist of Satakunta
2009-2010 Arabia Art Department
2010 Finnish Culture Foundation portrait course, Savonlinna
2007 Finnish Culture Foundation portrait course, University of Lappland
RESIDENCIES
2013 Marbella, Spain
2011 Reidar Särestöniemi-symposium, Kittilä, Finland
2009 Grassina, Italy
2008 Budapest, Hungary
1999 Switzerland
1997 Rome, Italy
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
WAM Turku
Hämeenlinna Art museum
Vantaa Art museum
SOK
State Art Collection
Finnish Art Society
Lönnström Art Museum
Kerava Art Museum
Paulon Foundation
University of Lappland
Orton
Arabia Art Department
G.W. Sundmans
Budapest Galeria, Hungary
Private collections
MEMBERSHIPS
2014 Arabia Art Department Society
2010 Finnish Painters’ Union
2005 Association of Finnish Sculptors
2004 Vantaa Artists Association
