Henry Grahn Hermunen

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Henry Grahn Hermunen (Helsinki 1963) is a contemporary artist living in Helsinki, Finland and Stockholm, Sweden.

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He studied at The Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki Finland between 1996–2001 and received a Master of Fine Arts. During 1998 -2000 he was a scholar at The Royal Institute of Art - Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm Sweden.

Since the late 1990s, he has created large-scale installations consisting of separate techniques or combinations such as: photography, drawings, sculpture, painting, light and sound, dealing with environmental and sociopolitical issues. [1]

In an interview "Art about the beauty in Life", with Ny Tid (Finland) news magazine Henry Grahn Hermunen said: We live in the middle of a worldwide renaissance with global education through the internet. But for example, people work too much to have time to consume what they have. Medias role is crucial - they can obviously make people shrink. Joseph Pulitzer who founded the Pulitzer Prize and who sometimes acted dubiously himself, said a hundred years ago "that a cynical, mercenary and demagogic press will eventually create a people who are just as shabby as themselves". [2]

Henry Grahn Hermunen has exhibited at art venues including Art Forum Berlin, ARCO Madrid and at The Whitechapel Gallery London, as well showing solo exhibitions at Marina Gisich Gallery and at The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Swedish newspaper SvD Svenska Dagbladet wrote: Grahn Hermunen is the first North European Contemporary Artist invited to show his exhibition "Water table in a renaissance garden" in one of the halls of The Hermitage, a Museum considered to be one of the world's foremost Institutions. [3] [4]

Visiting the exhibition Marina Chekmareva at The State Hermitage Museum said in an interview to Alexey Sukhorukov from Russia-Culture National TV. "we have been carrying out these combined exhibition - masterclass projects for three years by the most advanced artists not only from Russia but also from abroad" [5]

The fine art of Grahn Hermunen are for example in the collections of Moderna Museet the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Sweden, Pro Artibus Finland, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum of Contemporary Art Berlin Germany, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art New York USA, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art St. Petersburg Russia, and The South Karelian Art Museum Finland.

Henry Grahn Hermunen was invited by Head Curator Larisa Skobkina Golybeva to take part and also curate the North European section to the Celebratory 10th International Dialogues Biennale in Manege -The Main Exhibition Hall of St. Petersburg, Russia 2011. [6] [7]

The artist is represented by Cath Alexandrine Danneskiold-Samsøe Gallery in Denmark, Marina Gisich Gallery in Russia, and Karin Weber-Galerie Mitte in Germany.

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References

  1. Västra Nyland Newspaper "Fine art as an opening for political debate" Camilla Lindberg, 14 June 2008, Finland.
  2. Ny Tid Journal "Art about beauty in life" Angela Oker-Blom, No.32, 14.8. 2008 Helsinki Finland.
  3. "The Ministry for Foreign Affairs Sweden". Archived from the original on 2012-03-14. Retrieved 2012-03-14.
  4. SvD Svenska Dagbladet "Hermunen på Eremitaget" Stockholm 6 June 2007 TT Spektra Sweden
  5. Russia-Culture National TV Alexey Sukhorukov visiting the exhibition of Henry Grahn Hermunen "Water table in a renaissance garden"
  6. St. Petersburg Newspaper - SpbVedomosti, Vadim Mikhailov Nr. 160, 29 August 2011, St. Petersburg Russia, in 2011.
  7. St. Petersburg Newspaper - SpbVedomosti "Henry Grahn Hermunen´s artwork is one of the best parts of the biennale" Vadim Mikhailov Nr. 160, 29 August 2011, St. Petersburg Russia.