1959
Born in Pudasjärvi, Finland
Lives and works in Oulu, Finland


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2013
Esko Männikkö & Pekka Turunen, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin

2011
Project Gallery,Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
Harmony Sisters, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm

2010
Harmony Sisters, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
Blues Brothers, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
Cocktails 1990-2007, Galeria OMR, Mexico City
Investigations of a Dog, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais

2009
Harmony Sisters, Galleria Suzy Shammah, Milan
Organized Freedom, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
Cocktails 1990-2007, Festival Les Boréales, Caen
Cocktails 1990-2007, Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal
Organized Freedom, Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig

2008
Cocktails 1990-2007, Kulturen Hus, Luleå
Cocktails 1990-2007, Kristianstads Konsthall, Kristianstad
Harmony Sisters, Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen

2007
Cocktails 1990-2007, Millesgården, Stockholm
Harmony Sisters, Rantagalleria, Oulu
Harmony Sisters, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels

2006
Southern Comfort, Galleria Suzy Shammah, Milan
Harmony Sisters, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
Harmony Sisters, Sala Kubo Kutxa del Kursaal, San Sebastian
Cocktails, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York

2005
Art & Public - Cabinet PH, Geneve
Galeria Estrany - De La Mota, Barcelona

2004
Finsk-Norsk kulturinstitutt, Oslo
Flora & Fauna, Galleria Suzy Shammah, Milan
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm

2003
Galerie CENT8, Paris

2002
Flora & Fauna, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin

2001
Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan
Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
Galleri F 48, Stockholm


2000
Organized Freedom, Oulu City Art Museum, Oulu
Galeria Estrany-De La Mota, Barcelona
Galerie CENT8, Paris
Galleri F 48, Stockholm

1999
Photographs 1980-1998, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg

1998
Mexas, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm / Photographic Centre Nykyaika, Tampere / Dogenhaus Projekte Berlin, Berlin
Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig
White Cube, London

1997
Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
Morris Healy Gallery, New York
Hippolyte Photogallery, Helsinki

1996
Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
DE PONT foundation for contemporary art, Tilburg
Lenbachhaus, Munich
Société des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Brussels
Mexas, ArtPace, A Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio

1995
Young Artist of the Year, Tampere Art Muiseum, Tampere
Morris Healy Gallery, New York
Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm

1993
PEMOHT, (with Pekka Turunen), Murmansk Art Museum, Russia
The Female Pike, Hippolyte Photogallery, Helsinki

1992
Home Visit, Rantagalleria, Oulu

1982
When Time Stops Still, Rantagalleria, Oulu


Selected Group Exhibitions

2013
Fotografia Europea 2013, Reggio Emilia

2011
Beatiful Vagabonds: Birds in Contemporary Photography, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York 
Investigations of a Dog, La maison rouge-Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris / Magazin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm / Deste Foundation, Athens

2010
Fotografia Europea 2010 – Incanto, curated by Elio Grazioli, various locations, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Indagini di un cane, DESTE Foundation, Athens / Ellipse Foundation, Cascais / Maison Rouge, Paris / Magasin 3, Stockholm

2009
Indagini di un cane, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Turin
I Love Malmö, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia

2008
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2008, The Photographers’ Gallery, London / C/O Berlin, Berlin / Deutsche Börse Group headquarters, Frankfurt
Interludi, Galeria Estrany-De La Mota, Barcelona
Real, Städel Museum, Frankfur am Main, Germany
Creatures from the Collection and Other Themes, Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Paris Photo, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris France

2007
Oi Maamme, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki
Bird Watching, de Vishal – ruimte voor beeldende kunst, Haarlem
Allusive Moments, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco

2006
Vom Pferd erzählen, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen
Breaking the Ice, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
Randgebiete, Bahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf

2005
Others, Sörlandets Konstmuseum, Kristiansand
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels

2004
Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Anders Zorn and Contemporary Nordic Art, Arken, Ishöj

2003
Migration, Kirkkenes
Beyond Paradise, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Finland, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

2002
Cardinales, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Vigo
Eight Nordic Stories, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Compostela
Fotografia: I Festival Internazionale di Roma, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome
The Great Divide, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburg
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels

2001
ARS 01, Kiasma, Helsinki
Year One, BO 01, Malmö

2000
Anti-Memory; Contemporary photography II, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
Organising Freedom, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Some Parts of This World, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju

1999
Finnish Line: Starting Point, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg
Neste Stopp, Lofoten

1998
Sao Paulo Biennal, Sao Paulo
This Side of the Ocean, Kiasma, Helsinki
Nuit blanche, Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

1997
Ligth, Barbican Centre, London
Unknown Adventure, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Evidence, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
Truce, Santa Fe Biennal, Santa Fe
Someone Else With My Fingerprints, Galerie Hauser und Wirth, Zurich
Johannesburg Biennal, Johannesburg
Northern Exposures, Cortocircuito, Circuto de Bellas Artes, Madrid

1996
Strangers in the Arctic, Rundetårn, Copenhagen
Ars Baltica Photography Triennial, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schleswig
Manifesta 1, Chabot Museum, Rotterdam
Sydney Biennal, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Maskulin-Feminin, Stadtische Galerie Rastatt, Rastatt
Portrait, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
The Scream, Arken, Ishöj
Modena per la Fotografia 96, Modena

1995
ARS 95, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Body&Soul, Oulu Art Museum, Oulu
Arkipel, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo

1993
The Density of Being a Finn, Castell de la Bispal d’Emporda, La Bispal

1992
Postmoral, Kunsthalle, Helsinki

1991
Northern Realities, Macadonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki

1989-1992
Country&Eastern, tour in Finland


Awards

2008
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2008 - Winner


Selected Bibliography

2010
Fotografia Europea 2010 – Incanto, curated by Elio Grazioli, exhibition catalogue, published by Electa, Milan

2008
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2008, curated by Stefanie Braun, London

2006
Julia Bryan-Wilson: Esko Männikkö, Yancey Richardson Gallery, ARTFORUM XLV/ n° 3, (Nov)

2003
100% Cashmere - Esko Männikkö, texts by S. Segre and S. Shammah, Ballantyne Cashmere, Scotland
Organising Freedom, Nordic Art of the ’90s, texts by D. Elliott, Moderna Museet, Stockholm

2000
Naarashauki – The Female Pike, Esko Männikkö, essay by Esko Männikkö, published by the artist, Oulu

1999
Mexas – Esko Männikkö, essays by Maaretta Jaukkuri and Gary Michael Dault, Esko Männikkö and Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg
Finnishing Line: Starting Point – Jeunes artistes finlandais, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg
Next stop Lofoten, text by Per Gunnar Tverbakk, Kunstfestival in Lofoten

1998
Eurovision, essay by Patricia Ellis, The Saatchi Gallery, London
This side of the ocean, interview by Petri Sirviö, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Mika Hannula, Esko Männikkö – Wirklichkeitsüberprüfung, NEUE BILDENDE KUNST 1/98 (Feb-Mar)

1997
The Art of Photography - Finnish Photography 1996 – 1997, Musta Taide, Helsinki

1996
Esko Männikkö, essays by Heikki Kastemaa, Rudolf Schmitz, Portikus Frankfurt am Main and Oktagon Verlag, Cologne
1st Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art – The Return from the Past, The End of Utopias, Schleswig-HolsteinischesLandesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig and Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
Peter Scheldahl, Finnish Gilt, ARTFORUM XXV, (Nov)
Jane Burton, Esko Männikkö, ART NEWS, (Nov)

1995
Esko Männikkö – Young Artist of the Year 1995, foreword by Anneli Ilmonen, essay by Ritva Kovalainen, Tampere Art Museum
12 Taidetta, samtidskonst från Finland, Riksutställningar, Stockholm
Body & Soul, text by Timo Valjakka, Oulu Art Museum and The Nordic Arts Centre, Oulu

1994
Northern Realities – New Finnish Photography in Thessaloniki, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki


Reviews

2010
Esko Männikkö, The New Yorker, 5 April
F. M. Nemni, Esko Männikkö, Flash Art Italia – Flash Reviews, February

2009
R. Mutti, Quella lacrima sul muso, La Repubblica - cultura, 17 December
Lo sguardo degli animali di Esko, Il Giornale dell’Arte – Vernissage, December
S. Frangi, Esko Männikkö, Exibart.com, 22 December

2006
R. Mutti, Anche le poltrone hanno un’anima, La Repubblica, 29 April
F. Pagliuca, Esko Männikkö, Tema Celeste, July
Von Clemens Bomsdorf, Wunderwelt am Waldrand, Art Maicle, 03/2006
S. Nastro, Esko Männikö, Exibart, 12 May
J. Bryan-Wilson, Esko Männikkö, Yancey Richardson Gallery, ARTFORUM, XLV, n° 3, November

1999
J.P. Nilsson, Periferin i centrum, Sthlmartfair/Månadsjournalen, n° 3, March
A. Olofsson, Esko Männikkö, Konsten, www.ao-ordbod.a.se

1998
B. Arnborg, Esko, Lapinkangas 1999, In: Svenska Dagbladet, 12 September
M. Hannula, Esko Männikkö – Wirklichkeitsüberprüfung, Neue bildende Kunst, 1/98 February/March
C. Wahjudi, Sightings. New Photographic Art, Kunstforum, Jul/Sep
D. Birnbaum, Kargt och maskulint vardagsliv, Dagens Nyheter, 22 August
S. Kent, Esko Männikkö, Time Out, 26 August
K. Ebeling, Vergessene Tugenden, Der Tagesspiegel, 14 November
L. Attias, Esko Männikkö, Art News, November
J. Romberg, Das Finnische ist keine Sprache…, Geo – das neue Bild der Erde, No 12, December
R. Exley, Esko Männikkö, White Cube, London, Siksi The Nordic Art Review XIII, n° 3-4, Fall/Winter

1997
P. von Bonsdorf, Av tristaste slag, Hufvudstadsbladet, 16 February

1996
J. Burton, Esko Männikkö, Art News, November
H. Persson, Igår okänd idag kult, Photo, n° 5
M. Hierholzer, Das kalte Glück am nördlichen Rand Europas, FAZ, 28 July
L. Psibilskis, Zeitgenössische Kunst in Finland, Basler Magasin, n° 35, 31 August
A. Eckhoff, Portrait-Nine Artists, Terskel/Threshold, n° 17, October
P. Scheldahl, Finnish Gilt, Artforum, p. 66 – 69, November

1995
Finnland: Folk Images – Fotografien von Esko Männikkö, Tagesanzeiger in Zürich, July
Å. Wall, En Vermeer med kamera i skogen, Svenska Dagbladet, 9 Mar
J.P. Nilsson, Visst dödar du inte med kameran. Men någon form av jakt är det., Aftonbladet Kultur, April
R. Kovalainen, Esko Männikkö, Terskel/Threshold, n° 14, June
R. Smith, Morris Healy Gallery, The New York Times, 17 November
J. Håfström, Finsk Manifestation, Dagens Nyheter, 8 December
M. Valkonen, Am I seeing right?, Form, Function, n° 4



Public Collections

ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen
Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
FRAC - Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris
FNAC Fonds National d´Art Contemporain, Puteaux
De Pont Foundation For Contemporary Art, Tilburg
Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona
Fundación Telefónica, Madrid
Malmö konstmuseum, Malmö
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Foundation Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin