BIO
Mark Niskanen and Jani-Matti Salo have collaborated as the artist duo Niskanen & Salo since 2015. Niskanen & Salo create multidisciplinary installations that weave together everyday phenomena and various technologies. Their work draws on their respective backgrounds in music, lens-based media, audiovisual research and scenography. The duo’s work delves into the world of the senses, human interactions, memories, experiences of solitude and togetherness, and their associations with global themes. Evolving, the works often take the form of site-responsive, ephemeral situations. Niskanen and Salo are fascinated by framing existing environmental structures into works of art and sharing their authorship with the non-human.
EXHIBITIONS
2024 - Sports Hall Window | Helsinki, Finland
2024 - Enter Woodland Spirits, European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 | Tartu, Estonia
2023 - Porin Juhlaviikot, Galleria 3H+K | Pori, Finland
2023 - Grin Cupola | Iowa, USA
2022 - Teater Viirus, Amphitheatre | Helsinki, Finland
2021 - Helsinki Biennial, HAM Helsinki Art Museum | Vallisaari, Finland
2021 - Gallery Forum Box | Helsinki, Finland
2020 - Brooklyn Bridge Park, The Finnish Cultural Institute in New York | New York City, USA
2020 - Poriginal Gallery, Pori Art Museum | Pori, Finland
2018 - Miami Art Week, Mana Contemporary | Miami, USA
2018 - HAM Corner, HAM Helsinki Art Museum | Helsinki, Finland
2018 - Grand Rapids Art Museum | Grand Rapids, USA
2018 - Helsinki Festival | Helsinki, Finland
2018 - Art Quarter Budapest | Budapest, Hungary
2018 - Mana Contemporary | Jersey City, USA
2018 - Casa Gallery | New York City, USA
2017 - Miami Art Week, Mana Contemporary | Miami, USA
2017 - Alt-ARS17, Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art | Helsinki, Finland
2017 - URB Festival, Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art | Helsinki, Finland
2017 - Hangö Teaterträff | Hanko, Finland
2016 - Mana Contemporary | Jersey City, USA
2016 - Mana Contemporary Chicago | Chicago, USA
PUBLIC ARTWORKS
2021 - A Scene II | Kaivopuisto, Helsinki, Finland
2019 - For The Passerby | Baana, Helsinki, Finland
SCREENINGS, ONLINE EXHIBITIONS
2023 - Site:Brooklyn Gallery | New York City, USA
2023 - Joensuun kirjallisuustapahtuma | Joensuu, Finland
2023 - Pebbles Underground | Toronto, Canada
2022 - Forum Box Market, Gallery Forum Box | Helsinki, Finland
2021 - Uncommon Senses III, Concordia University | Montreal, Canada
2020 - Gender Studies Conference, Tampere University | Tampere, Finland
2020 - Split Video Art Festival, Sveučilišna galerija Vasko Lipovac | Split, Croatia
2020 - Online Program, Mana Contemporary | Jersey City, USA
2020 - Urban-Related Sensoria, University of Eastern Finland | Joensuu, Finland
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
HAM Helsinki Art Museum
Mana Contemporary
RESIDENCIES
2019 - 1-year studio residency, Mana Contemporary | Jersey City, USA
2018 - 2-month studio residency, Mana Contemporary | Jersey City, USA
PRESENTATIONS AND ARTIST TALKS
2023 - University of the Arts | Helsinki, Finland
2023 - Metropolia University of Applied Sciences | Helsinki, Finland
2022 - Åbo Akademi | Turku, Finland
2022 - University of the Arts | Helsinki, Finland
2021 - University of Eastern Finland | Joensuu, Finland
2021 - University of the Arts | Helsinki, Finland
2021 - Concordia University | Montreal, Canada
2021 - Aalto University | Helsinki, Finland
2020 - Mana Contemporary | Jersey City, USA
2020 - University of the Arts | Helsinki, Finland
2020 - University of Eastern Finland | Joensuu, Finland
2019 - University of the Arts | Helsinki, Finland
2018 - Art Quarter Budapest | Budapest, Hungary
MEMBERSHIPS
Forum Box
MANAGEMENT
Arts Management Helsinki
GRANTS
Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike)
AVEK – The Promotion Center for Audiovisual Culture
Finnish Cultural Foundation
Finnish Cultural Foundation, The Satakunta Regional Fund
Finnish Cultural Foundation, The Uusimaa Regional Fund
Frame Contemporary Art Finland
Frey Foundation
The Greta and William Lehtinen Foundation