Installation view "Esko Männikkö – Time Flies", Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, 2015

Esko Männikkö

Esko Männikkö was born in 1959 in Pudasjärvi in the northern part of Finland. He lives and works in Oulu.
In 2008 he was awarded the prestigious Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. The same year he presented Cocktails 1990-2007 at Millesgården in Stockholm, Kulturens Hus in Luleå and Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall in Arendal. Other solo exhibitions include presentations at Göteborgs Konstmuseum (2016), the Finsk-Norsk Kulturinstitutt, Oslo (2004), the Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg (1999), the Malmö Konsthall (1997), as well as Portikus, Frankfurt/Main, De Pont, Tilburg and Lenbachhaus, München, all in 1996. He has taken part in numerous international exhibitions, including the travelling exhibition Investigations of a dog, organized by the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (2009-2010), as well as the Venice Biennial (2005), SEEhistory. Der private Blick, Kunsthalle zu Kiel (2005), Liverpool Biennal (2004), Beyond Paradise, Shanghai Art Museum (2003), Contemporary Photography II: Anti-Memory, Yokohama Museum of Art (2000), São Paulo Biennial (1998), and Johannesburg Biennial (1997). Männikkö has had numerous solo exhibitions at Galerie Nordenhake in Stockholm and Berlin.

Installation view "Esko Männikkö", Market Art Fair, Stockholm, 2017

Installation view "Esko Männikkö", Galerie Nordenhake Berlin 2017

Installation view "Esko Männikkö", Galerie Nordenhake Berlin 2016

Installation view "Esko Männikkö", Galerie Nordenhake Berlin 2016

Savukoski, 1994, c-print, framed by the artist, 70 x 85 cm

Installation view "Esko Männikkö – Time Flies", Mindepartementet, Stockholm, 2016

Kuivaniemi (from The female Pike), 1991, c-print, framed by the artist, 59 x 74 cm

Kurvaniemi, 1991-1994, c-print, framed by the artist, 48 x 58 cm

Installation view "Esko Männikkö & Pekka Turunen – Untitled (from the series 'PEMOHT')", 1989-1995 / 2013, Galerie Nordenhake Berlin 2013

Untitled (from the series 'PEMOHT'), 1989-1995 / 2013, inkjet-print, framed by the artist, 132 x 111 cm, Esko Männikkö & Pekka Turunen

Installation view "Esko Männikkö – Time Flies", Kunsthalle Helsinki 2014

Untitled, 2014, pigment print, framed by the artist, 78 x 107 cm

Untitled (from Harmony Sisters), 2005, c-print, framed by the artist, 102 x 138 cm

Installation view "Esko Männikkö – Time Flies", Huis Marseille, Amsterdam 2015

Untitled (from the series 'PEMOHT'), 1989-1995/2013, inkjet-print framed by the artists, 62 x 76 cm, Esko Männikkö & Pekka Turunen

Organized Freedom 73, 1999-2000, c-print, framed by the artist, 100 x 84 cm