Jarno Parkkima (b.1984) works with means of moving image and photography.
The practice stems from subjective, private experience of everyday existence and is currently leaning on it’s socio-economic dimensions and questions; where one can be and how does it feel?
The resulting works consists of field-based footage of fleeting sights and views of built and natural environments, where dreams of living and the actuality of it, felt distance and intimacy, personal activity and inabilities, social exclusion and belonging unfolds, lingers and coincides.
Parkkima has done MFA studies in Fine Art Academy of University of Arts, Helsinki, FI. He has held solo exhibitions of key works and has also participated in group shows.
PARTICIPATION AND ACTIVITY.
Upcoming: 11/2025 Hippolyte Studio, Helsinki, FI
2025 Goldmund, Gallery Titanik, Turku, FI
2022 Näyttämö, Love and Anarchy Helsinki international film festival,
National competition
2022 Hämärä, Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki, FI
2019 Elollisuus ja melankolia / Vitality and melancholy,
Project Room, Helsinki, FI
2019 Fiat Lux, Kuvan kevät - group show, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, FI
2017 Glass, So Close, So Far - group show, Gallery Taiga, St. Petersburg,
RU
2017 Glass, Galleria Huuto Jätkäsaari, Helsinki, FI
2016 Marguerite Leaves a Mark, Virhe/Error - group show,
Jukka Malen Museo, Helsinki, FI
2015 Understanding Ideas Through Words and Visual References,
NO END Film Festival, USF, Bergen, NO
2015 Sound installation Her Room... with Isis Maakestad, Landmark at
Kunsthalle, Bergen, NO
2013 A New Form from Loss, Summer School - group show,
Photographic Center Peri, Turku, FI
2013 A New Form from Loss, Summer School - group show,
The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI
ACADEMIC STUDIES.
2021
Master of Fine Arts at University of Arts / Fine Art Academy, Time- and Space studies, Finland
2015
Bachelor of Fine Arts at Aalto University, Department of Media, Fine Art Photography, Finland
2014
Exchange Studies, KHIB Bergen Academy of Art, Bergen, Norway
RECIDENCIES.
2016 Örö Recidency Programme (FI) with Johanna Heikkilä
GRANTS.
2024 - 26 Kone foundation
2021 Arts Promotion Centre Finland
MEMBERSHIPS.
MUU - The association of Media Arts (Finland)
The Association of Photographic artists (Finland)
AV - Arkki
Artists’ association of Finland