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Education:

2006 De Ateliers, Amsterdam
2003-2007 Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki (MA)
1999-2002 Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (BA)
1998-1999 Camberwell College of Arts, London (Diploma in Foundation studies)

Awards and Nominations:

2025 Ars Fennica nominee
2018 William Thuring main prize, Finnish Art Association
2018 Åström Ateljee recipient
2017 Finnish Art Academy, award nomination
2012 Fremtids Blikket (Best Innovative Film, KinoKino Shortfilm Festival, Sandnes, Norway

2010 AVEK-award
2009 KunstFilm Biennale, Cologne, main prize
2009 Magma Mostra di Cinema Breve, Acireale, Italy, Best Experimental Film
2006 Cartier Award, shortlist, Frieze Art Fair, London

Individual exhibitions:

2025 ‘Portrait of a Poet’ Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki

2023 ‘Not-knot’ Galerie Anhava, Helsinki

2022 ‘No dot on the I’ Kunsthalle, Helsinki, curat. Piia Oksanen

2021 ‘Tarwe en Walnoot’ 1646 experimental space for art, the Hague, Netherlands

2019 Human Flesh, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
‘Screen Test for a Living Sculpture’ (with Sini Pelkki), Visual Ouverture, Music Hall’s media wall, Helsinki
Human Flesh, Poppositions, Brussels, curat. Drop City

2018 ‘Fold in and Fall Flat’ CAG Galleries, University of Connecticut, US, curat. Barry Rosenberg

‘Flatlands’ Poselli, Rauma ja Music Hall, Paavo-hall, Helsinki, Lönnström Art Museum

2017 'M for Mauve' Otto Zoo, Milan

2016 'Conversation in Pieces' Kiasma, Helsinki 'T for Terracotta' Galerie Anhava, Helsinki

2014 'Screen Test' Otto Zoo, Milano 'Travelogue' Suburban PS, Rotterdam

2013 'Space Release#16 - Scene Shifts, in six movements' CIRCA Projects, Newcastle 'Conversation in Pieces (Pt.1)' Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
'Lighthouse' Aboa Vetus Ars Nova, Turku

2012 'Scene Shifts' Hilary Crisp, London

2011 'Scene Shifts' Gallery Forum Box, Helsinki

2010 ‘Parallel Acts' Otto Zoo Gallery, Milan 'Travelogue’ Camden Arts Centre, Lontoo

‘Parallel Acts’ Turun Taidemuseo, Turku

‘Parallel Acts’ Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki

2009 ‘Evolutions’ Reinier van Ewijk Projects, Amsterdam

2008 ‘Evolutions’ Helsingin Taidemuseo, Kluuvi gallery
'Tapis, coussins et video – Jani Ruscica' 36th international La Rochelle Film Festival, La Rochelle, France kurat. Brent Klinkum

'Short Profile – Jani Ruscica' 37th International Rotterdam Film Fesival, Rotterdam kurat. Sacha Bronwasser

2007 'Beatbox alternate take’ Kunsthalle Studio, Helsinki ‘Five Variations on a Theme’ Galleria Huuto, Helsinki

2006 'Contrapuntal' VAE10, Visual Arts Gallery of the Cultural Center of Ricardo Palma University, Lima, Peru

2005 ‘Swan Song' Rauma Art Museum, Rauma, Finland

Selected group exhibitions:

2026
‘Alien in me’ EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, curat. Krist Gruijthuijsen
A Dream in four colours, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, curat. Satu Oksanen

‘Polynoknot’ MIXTUR FESTIVAL DE NOVA CREACIO SONORA, Fabra i Coats, Barcelona, curat. Oliver Rappoport
‘Universe of Images’ KUVATILA, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, curat. Marjaana Kella

2025
‘Breaking the Joints’ Sapieha Palace, CAC, Vilnius, curat. Post Brothers ‘Transformations’, Malva Museum, Lahti, curat. Ilari Laamanen
Ars Fennica 2025’, HAM, Helsinki, curat. Heli Harni
‘Korttelit’ Torikorttelit, Helsinki, Miro-Benjamin Lindström

2024
‘Feels like home’ Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, curat. Saara Haklin, Saara Karhunen, Satu Oksanen

2023
‘BONNA’ 6th Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, kurat. Diana Campbell, Akansha Rastogi
‘Very Small Feelings’ Kiran Nadar Museum of Contemporary Art, Delhi, kurat. Diana Campbell, Akansha Rastogi
‘Shared Space’ HAM, Helsinki Art Museum, kurat. Aleksandra Kiskonen, Kristiina Ljokkoi

2021
‘Together, Noting’ Moscow Museum of Modern Art, curat. Margerita Osepyan
'Selected works from Galerie Anhava artists' Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
'Impressions - works from the Wihuri collection' Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland

2020
‘Bodied’ Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, curat. Rachel Ciesla ja Robert Cook ‘Frail Liberation’ Södertalje Konsthall, Ruotsi, curat. Joanna Sandell
‘Touch - works from the Saastamoinen collection’ EMMA Museum, Espoo

2019
‘Openart Biennial’ Örebro, Ruotsi, curat. Maaretta Jaukkuri
‘The Studio for Arousing Tools: Assembly V’ Drop City, Antwerpen
‘The Exercise Park’ curat. Sakari Tervo, as part of Jacquelyn Davis’ The Lottery Project ‘Upside Down: works from the Saastamoisen collection’ Kuopio Art Museum

2018
‘Everything was Forever Until It was No More’ 1st Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, curat. Katerina Gregos
‘If you Care to See Me, You Should Think about It’ Otto Zoo, Milano

2017
'The Studio for Arousing Tools' M HKA, Antwerp, curat. Drop City
'Body Image' Wäinö Aaltonen Art Museum,Turku, FI, curat. Piia Oksanen 'Triple Point of Matter' Fondation Fiminco, Paris, curat. Matthieu Lelièvre

2016
'Passengers' Salon Dahlman, Berlin, curat. Christine Nippe
'Discovery Award 2016' MAC - Museu d'Art de Cerdanyola, Catalonia, Spain

2015
'Family Guys’ Otto Zoo gallery, Milan
'Wohin gehen wir?' Videokunst zur Stadtgesellschaft, Motorenhalle, Projektzentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden

2014
‘A View from the Other Side’ Moonshin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, kurat. Seihee Shon & Jinhee Na
‘Shifting Identities’ MACRO Testaccio, Rooma, curat. Ludovico Patresi
‘Festival of Positive Misunderstanding’ Gallery Augusta, curat. Diego Bruno & Mikko Kuorinki

2013
'I See You' Kunsthalle Detroit, Museum of Contemporary Art, curat. Tate Osten
'Shadows of a Doubt' Tallin Art Hall, curat. Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk
'Cumulus Olympia' Kunsthall Grenland, Porsgrunn, Norway, kurat. Tom Hovinbøle & Laura Köönikkä
'Truth, Beauty, Freedom and Money - Art After Social Media Era' K11 Art Space, Shanghai, curat. Li Zhenhua & Marita Muukkonen
'Found in Translation, Chapter M, at Natalie's Place' Art Brussels, curat. Emmanuel Lambion 'After the arc – an island: Findings by Team B' Botkyrka Konsthall, Tumba, Sweden, curat. Joanna Sandell

'After the arc – an island: Findings by Team B' The Finnish Institute Gallery, Stockholm, curat. Joanna Sandell
'Time Space / Poker Face' Be-Part Platform Voor Actuele Kunst, Waregem, Belgium, curat. Sofie Van Loo

2012
'Sounding Selves' Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada, curat. Heather Anderson 'Travelogue' Louis Vuitton Store, Rome
'Me, you, we and the others' Museo Civico di Reggio, 7th European Photography Festival, Reggio, Italy, kurat. Julia Draganovic & Claudia Loeffelholz
'William Lamson, Jules Marquis, Jani Ruscica' West, Den Haag, curat. Marie-José Sondeijker 'Ventotto' Otto Zoo Gallery, Milan
'No Exit - Helsinki Photography Biennial 2012' Helsinki Kaupungin Museo, curat. Jari Harju, Ari Kakkinen, Marko Karo, Harri Pälviranta, Kari Soinio, Hanna Weselius
'Aboard the Heart of Gold' Museo Universitario di Palazzo Poggi, Bologna Art First, Italy, curat. Julia Draganovic

2011
'Believe It or Not - New Works from the Collection' Helsingin Taidemuseo, curat. Jari Björklov & Satu Oksanen
'Found in Translation - Chapter L' Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg, curat. Emmanuel Lambion
'The Limits' Kitchener and Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, CAN, curat. Crystal Mowry
'Nordic Art Today: Conceptual Debts, Broken Dreams and New Horizons' Loft Project Etagi, St Petersburg, Russia, kurat. Anna Bitkina, Kari J. Brandzaeg, Birta Gudjonsdottir, Aura Seikkula, Olesya Turkina, Simon Sheikh, Power Ekroth
'START/PLAY' Museo Pecci, Milan, curat. STARTMILANO
'Architecture in Words Only' Hilary Crisp, London

2010
'International 10: S.Q.U.A.T. Liverpool' 6th Liverpool Biennial, curat. NLE Asher Remy-Toledo 'Highlights from the KunstFilmBiennale' KUNST-WERKE BERLIN, Institute for Contemporary Art
'The New Black 'n' White' Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin, curat. Laura Köönikkä 'Arrivals and Departures' Fondo Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, IT. curat. Andrea Bruciati & Walter Gasperoni
'Cosmogonia' Museo Cappelini, Bologna, IT. curat. Agenzia 04

2009
‘Life Forms’ Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, curat. Sara Arrhenius ‘Favoured Nations’ 5th Momentum Biennial, Moss, Norway

curat. Stina Høgkvist & Lina Dzuverovic
'Coping with Contingency: Seven Methods' Art Moscow, Moscow
‘Variations on the finiteness of human vision’ Riga Art Space, Riga, curat. Marita Muukkonen ‘Ecology of Emotion’ The 14th Mänttä Art festival, Mänttä, FI curat. Tuula Karjalainen

'Tracking traces... 10th exhibition of works from the collection’ Kiasma Museum, Helsinki

‘Urban Research’ PICTURA, Dordrecht, Netherlands, curat. Klaus W. Eisenlohr ‘Continuous present’ galleri Studio 44, Stockholm, curat. Emma Hammarén & Joel Hurlburt

2008
‘Tangential documentaries’ Kiasma, Helsinki kurat. Jenny Yurshansky & Jacqueline Nguyen ‘Wenn Wissenschaft zur Kunst wird’ Synart Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
‘Five Variations on the finitness of human vision’ Cultural Center Belgrad, Artget Gallery, curat. Marita Muukkonen, (cat.)
‘Continuum’ Retretti, Punkaharju, Finland curat. Anu Liivak & Maisa Tikkanen, (cat.) ‘Like a man’ Agenzia04, Bologna, Italy, curat. Elisa del Prete
‘Maan Asema/La Position de la Terre’ CRAC Alsace, Centre Rhenan d’Art Contemporain Altkirch, France curat. Sophie Kaplan
‘Festart08’ TR1, Tampereen Taidemuseo, Tampere, Finland

2007
‘Nine International Artists’ Location 1, New York, USA, curat. Nathalie Angles
‘In Search of the Miraculous’, 5th Triennial of Finnish Art, Taidehalli, Helsinki curat. Luigi Fassi ‘Offspring’ De Ateliers, Amsterdam, Nehterlands curat. Maxine Kopsa

2006
‘Omasta takaa’, Kuopion Taidemuseo, Kuopio, Finland
‘Suspended E-motions’, Vartai Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania, curat. Laima Kreyvite
'The Metaphysics of Youth' Ex Cofa, Fuori Uso, Pescara, Italy curat. Luigi Fassi & Irina Zucca 'Young Artists 2006' Taidehalli Helsinki

2005
'Small Heaven' Young Artists Biennale, Taidehalli, Helsinki, curat. Henna Paunu ‘Swan Song’ Holden gallery, Manchester, UK, curat. Pavel Büchler & Ian Rawling