Born 1963 in Helsinki, Finland.
Lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.
STUDIES
2003- Postgraduate Studies (Doctorate in Fine Arts) , Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
1999- MA-studies, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Time and Space dept.
1991 Lahti Institute of Art and Design, Photography dept. , BA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary, Helsinki, Finland
2006 Paris Photo 2006, solo exhibition / Galerie Anhava, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
2005 Maailmojen välissä – In Between Worlds, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland AUTIOMAA – DESERT works from1989 – 2004, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki
2003 Ars Rauma, Rauma Art Museum, Finland
2002 Vyyhti – Skein, Gallerie Cent8, Paris, France
2001 Gallery Marella Contemporanea project space, Milano, Italy
2000 Täällä tänään, huomenna mennyttä – Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
Gallery Kari Kenetti, Helsinki, Finland
Meeting With an Erotic Artist, ArtSpace 1%, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999 Nordic Videokunst, together with Pekka Niskanen, Uppsala Artmuseum, Sweden
1998 Paradise Lost, Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands, curated by Stijn Huits
1997 Pyhiinvaellus – Pilgrimage, Helsinki City Art Museum; Gallery Kluuvi, Finland
Pyhiinvaellus – Pilgrimage, Gallery Struts, Oslo, Norway
1995 Luontotutkielmia – Nature Studies, Helsinki City Art Museum; Gallery Kluuvi, Finland
Häpeä ja Halu – Shame and Desire, MUU Gallery, Helsinki, Finland1993
Muotokuvia – Portraits, Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, Finland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Viva Lolita, Maddox Arts, London, UK
2007 Aiheita – Motifs – Finnish photographic art, Fiskars, Finland
Toisaalta tässä – Here Then, TR1 / Tampere Museum of Art, Tampere, Finland
FinnArt, Eskilstuna Art Museum, Eskilstuna, Sweden
The Helsinki School, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
Art Brussels 25th Contemporary Art Fair / Galerie Anhava, Bruxelles, Belgium
2006 Madonna, Blekinge Museum, Karlskrona, Sweden
Maisema / Landscape – collection display (2006-2007),
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
The Helsinki School, Borås Art Museum, Sweden & Hôtel de Ville de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Huuma, Örebro Konsthall, Lindköpings Konsthall Passagen & Skövde Konsthall, Sweden
Presence – Perspectives on Finnish Photography, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku, Finland
Photology at Arte Fiera Bologna & Grafiche Dell’Artiere Bologna2005
Art Basel Miamy Beach / Galerie Anhava, Miami, USA
Art Forum Berlin, Galerie Anhava, Berlin
Huuma, Örebro Konsthall, SwedenPhotology, Milano, ItalyThe Helsinki School, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, BerlinPersonligt – The Helsinki School, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
2004-05 LAT (de-)construction of living, Odapark, Venrey, the Netherlands
2004 Ars Fennica 1991-2003, Ars Fennica Laureates at the Museum of Russian Art, St. Petersburg
Ars Fennica 1991-2003, Aboa Vetus Ars Nova, Turku, Finland
2004 No Lo Llames Performance – Don’t Call it Performance, El Museo Del Barrio, New York, USA
& CAAC Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla,
(2003) Centro Pàrraga-Murcia Cultural, Murcia, Spain & Dept.Audiovisuales, Museo Nacional
Centro de Arte
Reina Sofia, Madrid,Spain
Love Me or Leave Me – collection display (2004-2005), Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma,
Helsinki
Esineiden maailma – The World of Objects, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Tampere Art Museum, FI
IX Mänttä Art Festival, curated by Kari Kenetti, FI
New Realities, Reykjavik Arts Festival, Reykjavik Museum of Photgraphy, Iceland
30 by TAIK, curated by Timothy Persons, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
Nature & Création Finlandaise, Maison des Arts d’Antony, Antony, France
Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Finland, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Mannheimer Kunstverein,
Städtische Galerie Waldkaiburg, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen Cottbus,
Centrum Kultury ZAMEK, Poznan, Poland
Sinistä valoa, Salon Taidemuseo, Finland
2003 Yöjuna – Night Train, collection display (2003-2004), Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma,
Helsinki
Other Sight–Drugoe Zrenie, National Center of Potography of the Russian Federation,
St.Petersburg
Radikaalien ystävyys -Taju 2003, Promenadigalleria, curated by Tero Nauha, Hyvinkää, FI
New Realities– Contemporary Finnish Photography,Hasselblad Center, Göteborg Art Museum,
Sweden
VIEW – Festival of New Finnish Media Art, by Av-Arkki at Galleria Leena Kuumola, Helsinki
2002 Beyond Paradise: Nordic Artists Travel East, curated by Apinan Poshyananda
Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh, 2003 Shanghai
Popcorn and Politics, collection display (2002-2003), Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma,
Helsinki
Digital Show Room, Photographic Center, Copenhagen
Second International Biennial of Buenos Aires, Museo National des Bellas Artes, Argentina
Yesterday Was Dramatic…But Today is Ok! , Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
Ars Fennica 2002, South Carelian Art Museum & Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Finland
Minä Sinä Me –parcours photographique finlandais, CPIF – Centre photographique d’Ile-de-France
& Institute Finlandais, Paris, France
EV+A Biennale, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland, curated by Apinan Poshyananda Finlandia, videoinstallation SKEIN, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Kuvitelmia – Fantasies, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Gallery Christian Dam, Oslo, Norway
Attachement +, Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen, Departement Lerarenopleiding,
Kunsthalle Lophem, Brugge
2001 Plateau of Humankind, La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Harald Szeemann, Venice, Italy
Anteprima Bovisa, Milano Europa 2000, Settore Cultura Mesei e Mostre, Milano, Italy
Get That Balance, Hamburg, Germany, curated by Ute Vorkoeper
Gallery Christian Dam, Oslo, Norway
2000 Momentum – Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway
Premate – Impakt Festival 2000, Utrecht, Hollandcurated by Arjon Dunnevind
Identité Fictive, Centré Culturelle des Institututions Europeens, Luxemburg,
Centré Cultural, Varegem, Belgium & Finnish Instutute, Paris, France
Shoot- moving pictures by artists, Malmö Konsthall
1999 Can You Hear Me -2nd ARS BALTICA TRIENNIAL of Photographic Art touring exhibition in
Baltic 1999
666999 – six days, six events, six countries, Annecy, France
Young ones/Old ones, together with Maya Deren, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland
Identité Fictive, GALERIE CONTRETYPE, Bryssel, Belgium
Come in and Find Out, vol 2, Podewill, Berlin, cur, by Klara Wallner
Pink for Boys / Blue for Girls, Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin,
curated by Kathrin Becker
What is Real, Mikkeli Art Museum, Finland
Mmm…But Not for Marabou, Stockholm Art Fair, cur. Frame & AV-ARKKI
1998 Mikä on todellista – What is Real, The Third Triennial of photographic Art, Helsinki Kunsthalle
Photo / Realities- Biennale Syd, Kristiansand Art Museum, Norway
Alastomat ja Naamioidut (The Naked and The Masked), Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland
1997 Unknown Adventure – Positions of Contemporary Finnish Art, Sophienhof, Kiel & Kunsthalle, Rostoc
Darkside, Gallery Kenetti, Helsinki1996
Likat – Sju Flickor, Galleri Otto Blonk, Bergen
Women Breaking the Boundaries of Art, The Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma
When the Shit Hit the Fan, Scandinavian Art in Recent Time, Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark
Postmorality, Sofia, Bulgaria, cur. Arja Elovirta
Body as Membrane, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabriken, Odense & The Nordic Arts Centre,
Helsinki. Curated by Valie Export & Kirsten Justessen
1995 Viides Vuodenaika – 5th Season, stage design &visuality, contemporary dance,
chor. Sanna Kekäläinen
1995 Living Texture, Scandinavian Art Productions, Zürich
Smart Show, MUU Gallery, Stockholm
Art Attack, Scandinavian Art Happening, Oslo1994
Lady Shave, Gallerie Kluuvi, Helsinki
VIDEOS, FILMS & INSTALLATIONS
Aukko I (Opening I)
2007, DVD, 00:02:46/loop
Tila I – hahmotelma ( Room I – a sketch )
2007, DVD, 00:02:20/loop
Valuma I ( Overflow I)
2007, DVD, 00:02:26/loop
Valuma IV ( Overflow IV)
2007, DVD, 00:01:57/loop
Landscape no. 17 An Fharraige
2004, DVD, 19 min/loop
Maailmojen välissä – In Between Worlds
2002, DVD, 9 min/loop
Landscape no. 20 An Tiaracht
2000/2002, DVD, 19 min/loop
Vyhti – Skein
2000, DVD installation for two videoprojectors, 2 x 2,52 min / loop
Täällä tänään, huomenna mennyttä
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
1998, 4 min, orig. S-16 mm, film orig., DVD
Kuvitelma antautumisesta – Fantasy of Devotion
Proloque of Pilgrimage, 1998 / 2001, 16 mm film orig., DVD installation, 3 min / loop
Pyhiinvaellus – Pilgrimage
1998, 16 mm film orig., DVD, 9 min, installation for two videoprojectors
Luontotutkielmia – Nature Studies
1995, S-VHS orig, DVD, 13 min
Hotelli – Hotel
1991/2005, 4′ 50” min.,16 mm film orig., DVD, Installation for two videoprojectors
SCREENINGS AND FESTIVALS (selection)
2007 Puna-Red-Rouge, Videoinstallation for a solo chreography of Sanna Kekäläinen, Kiasma Theatre,
Helsinki
Forumbox, AV-Arkki Classics, Pilgrimage – Pyyhinvaellus, Forumbox, Helsinki
2005 From the midnight sun…Finnish Contemporary Art Videos, arranged K2 Art Center and AV ARKKI,
K2 Sanat Merkezi, Izmir, Turkey
2003 Montages of Sound Athmosperes – Interactions between moving image and music, Neue Berliner
Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Stadtgalerie Kiel,
Germany,Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Docpoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, Screening of In Between Worlds and participation
of seminar “Time and Realities”
2002 Finlandia / Connected (Here Today, Gone Tomorrow), Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Ajatelmia – Maxims (Pilgrimage), Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
2002 Rohto – Straight on Medicine Art, Helsinki City Art Museum, project of Markus Renvall, screening
compilation GIRLS by AV-Arkki
Helsinki Clipology, SONAR,
9th Barcelona International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art
Puerto Rico Biennial
Lighthouse Media Center, Brighton, UK,
Connected – curated by Taru Elfing
Centre of Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland / New Art Gallery Walsall, Site Gallery,
Sheffield / Tate Modern, London / Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland, UK
Visions 02, Contemporary Finnish Video Art – curated by AV-Arkki,
Finnish Institute in Paris, France
Les Boréales, XIeme festival d’art et de littérature nordiques, Caen, France
Artgenda, (Here Today, Gone Tomorrow) curated by Stefan Prehn, Schilleroper,
Hamburg, Germany
2001 Outer Limits Festival, New York, USA
Nordic Videoart Review, Moscow
Festival du Cinéma Nordic, Rouen, France
2000 The Future is Now – video and electronic media, curated by Artspace 1%
Stockholm Art Fair, Sweden, NIFCA Helsinki,FIN, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, DK
Batofar Cherche Le(s) Nord(s), Paris, France
IFU’s open Spaces, “Recreating Human Beings” screening
World Exhibition Expo, Hannover, Germany
Pro Arte Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Pärnu Film Festival, Pärnu, Estonia
Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
Centre d’Art, Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain1999
Videomedeja Novi Sad, Jugoslavia
IF FOR UM – Forum of Interdependent Film, Tokyo, Japan
Roxy – Art and Experimental Film and Video Festival, Visby, Sweden
Tampere Film Festival, National and International competition series, Tampere, Finland
Transmediale, Berlin
Invideo, Milan
1998 Muu Media Festival, Helsinki
French – Baltic – Nordic Video and New Media Festival, Tallinn, Estonia1997
Women in Film and New Media, Nordic Glory, Jyväskylä, Finland
Short Spring, Bio Illusion, Helsinki1996
Muu Media Festival, Helsinki1995
Muu Media Festival, Helsinki1993
No Budget Film Festival, Q-Theatre, Helsinki1992
Institute of Contemporary Art Brisbane, Australia
Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia
Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada
London Film Festival, London
Cinema Jové 92, Valencia, Spain
Off Festivaali, Espoo, Finland
Espoo Ciné, Finland
Iisalmen Kamera, Finland
No Budget Film Festival, Hamburg
Tampere Film Festival, National competition serie, Tampere, Finland
ARTIST RECIDENCIES
2004 Åland Archipelago Guest Artist Residence, Kökar, Ahvenanmaa
2000 IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, The Artist’s Working Programme, 1.5-31.8.2000
1999 NIFCA – Nordisk Institute of Contemporary Art, Suomenlinna, Helsinki, 1.1-30.4.1999
MEMBERSHIPS
Av-Arkki – The Distribution Centre for Finnish Media Art
Suomen Taiteilijaseura – Artists’ Association of Finland
Valokuvataiteilijoiden Liitto – Union of Artist Photographers
Saunaseura – The Finnish Sauna Club
Suomen Retkiluistelijat – Tour Skaters of Finland
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2005 The State Prize for Photographic Art, The National Arts Council
2002 Ars Fennica
ARTIST BOOKS
2007 Toisaalta tässä – Here Then, Valokuva teoksena ja tutkimuksena – The photograph as Work of Art
and as Research, Mika Elo, Pertti Kekarainen, Marjaana Kella, Harri Laakso ja Heli Rekula,
Publication series of University of Art and Design Helsinki B 83 / Finnish Academy of Fine Arts.
2005 AUTIOMAA teoksia vuosilta 1989–2004 – DESERT works from 1989–2004, Kiasma publications.
2002 Maailmojen välissä – In Between Worlds, Publisher: Henna and Pertti Niemistö Art Foundation ARS
FENNICA Text written by Maria Hirvi
1998 Paradise Lost Stedelijk Museum Het Domain, texts written by Arja Elovirta and Stijn Huijts
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006 Maisema / Landscape – collection display (2006-2007), Touches of the object: contemporary art
and landscape; article written by Hanna Johansson, Ph.D., researcher in Art History and
Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki.
2005 LAT (de-)construction of living, Exhibition cataloque, Odapark, Venrey, the Netherlands.
The Helsinki School – Photography by TaiK, Hatje Canz publication
2004 Esineiden maailma– The World of Objects Exhibition cataloque, Kunsthalle Helsinki
Rakastaa, ei rakasta… – Love or Leave Me – collection display (2004-2005), Doing Kiasma with
Freud; article written by Harri Kalha, Ph.D., Scholar of Visual Culture, KIASMA Museum of
Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland.
KOPS – Kiasman kiertokoulun opetussuunnitelma / Kiasma’s School on the Move, Uskonto ja
elämänkatsomustieto, s. 61, Kiasma, Nykytaiteen museon julkaisuja 91/2004.
Nature & Création Finlandaise, Exhibition cataloque, Maison des Arts d’Antony, Antony, France.
2003 Yöjuna – Night Train – collection display (2003-2004), Exhibition cataloque, KIASMA Museum of
Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland.
Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Finland, Exhibition cataloque; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein,
Mannheimer Kunstverein, Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Brandenburgische
Kunstsammlungen Cottbus
2002 MINÄ SINÄ ME –parcours photographique finlandais, Exhibition cataloque, CPIF – Centre
photographique d’Ile-de-France, Institute Finlandais, Paris & Galerie Cent 8.
EV+A 2002 Heroes + Holies, Exhibition cataloque, Limerick City Gallery of Art.
IMAGE 05/2002, kuvasalkku – portfolio, An article written by Mirja Porna.
Kuvitelmia – Fantasies 2002, Exhibition cataloque, Finnish Museum of Photography and Sara
Hildén Art, Museum, text written by Asko Mäkelä.
Attachment +, Exhibition cataloque, Brugge, Belgium, 2002.
Finlandia – New Work From Finland 2002, Exhibition cataloque, Site Gallery,
texts written by Janine Griffin and Taru Elfing.
Beyond Paradise: Nordic Artists Travel East, Exhibition cataloque.
KIASMA magazine 14, 2002, vol 5, Popcorn and Politics collection display,
article by Minna Raitmaa.
2001 PLATEAU OF HUMANKIND La Biennale di Venezia 2001, Exhibition cataloque,
texts written by Harald Szeemann and Maria Hirvi.
Anteprima Bovisa. Milano Europa 2000. Exhibition cataloque, Settore Cultura Mesei e Mostre,
Milano, Italia, text written by Maria Hirvi.
2000 The Artists Body, Phaidon Press
PARK – Momentum Biennale, Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Exhibition cataloque,
text written by Stijn Huits (Stedelijk Museum, Het Domein).
1999 Varjosta- tutkielmia suomalaisen valokuvan historiasta, Valoa- otteita suomalaisen valokuvan
historiaan 1839-1999, Suomen Valokuvataiteen Museon julkaisut, FROM SHADOWS & TO LIGHT
two publications of the history finnish photography, The Finnish Museum of Photography.
The Young Ones, The Old Ones, Exhibition cataloque, Wäinö Aaltonen Art Museum conversation
with Tere Vaden about Maya Derens works.
Come In and Find Out, vol. 2 Exhibition cataloque, cur. by Klara Wallner.
Rosa für Jungs, Hellblau für Mädchen / Pink for Boys, Blue for Boys.
Exhibition cataloque, Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin, text written by Kathrin Becker.
FRAMES – Viewing Finnish Contemporary Photography FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exhange, 1999,
text written by Arja Elovirta.
1998 Mikä on todellista – What is Real, The Third Triennial of Photographic Art, Exhibition cataloque,
Helsinki Kunsthalle.
Alastomat ja Naamioidut, Helsinki City Art MuseumBiennale Syd, Photo / Realities, Exhibition
cataloque, Sorlandets Kunstmuseum.
1997 TAIDE – art magazine 3/97, cover + artists pages 32-33.
1996 When the Shit Hits the Fan, Exhibition catalogue, text written by curator Tone O. Nielsen.
Body as Membrane – Masking and Unmasking of the self in Heli Rekula’s works,
Exhibition catalogue, text written by Arja Elovirta.
1995 The Ideological Body, The Grotesque Moment: Corpo/Real Anxities, An article written by Arja
Elovirta, Magazyn Sztuki, Art Magazine Quarterly nr.8 4/95.
Luontotutkielmia – Nature Studies, An article written by Kati Lintonen, Valokuvalehti 6/95.
1994 The Grotesque Moment, An article written by Arja Elovirta – SIKSI 1/1994 Nordic Art Review
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
Stedelijk Museum Het Domain, Sittard, Holland
State Art Collection, Finland
Helsinki City Art Museum
Finnish Museum of Photography
Hasselblad Collection, Göteborg, Sweden
Niemistö Collection of Contemporary Art, Finland
Kouri Collection, New York
Heino Collection, Helsinki