Cia Rinne
Author

Poems

sent a letter french

les derniers insectuels french

carte blanche english

za rumour english

surprise d’otage english

j'accuse french

friends and enemies english

17 questions french

eux french

notes for two english

notes on war & god english

notes for orientation english

zehn verbote german

Cia Rinne
Author

About

* 29.03.1973, Gothenburg, Sweden
lives in: Berlin, Germany

Cia Rinne (b. 1973 in Gothenburg, Sweden) has Finnland-Swedish roots and grew up in Germany. She studied Philosophy in Frankfurt am Main, Helsinki and Athens and lives in Berlin. Her minimalist and experimental texts are written in several languages including English, German and French and reduce complex philosophical and linguistic questions down to tonal essences. They play with phonetic similarities and sense shifts between languages. Frequently, the starting point is an idea, a word or a quote that is given shape and then in performance develops a tone, a rhythm or even a melody. Cia Rinne’s works are influenced by Fluxus, Dada and the Moscow Conceptualists around Lev Rubinstein. They are playful and at the same time strict and are conceived for various media and formats.

Her visual works and sound installations are shown in galleries and museums including the Berlin Grimmuseum, Haus am Waldsee (Berlin), Bielefelder Kunstverein, Signal Malmö, Den Frie Center for Contemporary Art Copenhagen, the Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn and in the Artist Book Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her books have been published in Finland, France, Denmark, Switzerland, Sweden, Canada and Germany. Her documentary projects in collaboration with the Danish photographer Joakim Eskildsen include a book about the Roma of various countries. With the musician Sebastian Eskildsen she has developed the sound installations sounds for soloists (2012) and leçon du mot [le son du mot] (2018).