Education
2012–14 Netherlands’ Film Academy, Amsterdam, MA
1998-99 University of Stockholm, Art Science
1992-95 Art school of Nykarleby, Finland, degree in Fine arts
1991-92 Art School of Liminka
Selected solo exhibitions
2024 Haunted Landscapes, Valokuvakeskus Raseborg, Karjaa, Finland
2024 Wretched Ground, Maker’s Gallery, Vaasa, Finland
2022 Leneen luy xéw, Chez Dasso, part of the OFF-program of Biennale de Dakar, Saint Louis, Senegal
2016 The Dead Walk Side by Side with the Living, Galleria Huuto, Helsinki
2012 And Other Encounters, Vasa Kunsthalle, Finland
2011 And Other Places, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland
2011 Interim, MUU Studio, Helsinki
2009 Night Walk, Gallery Sinne, Helsinki
Selected festivals, screenings
2025 The Silver Record, Tromsø, Norway
2024 Celaya Experimental Film festival, Mexico
2024 Poetic Phonoteque, Copenhagen
2023 14th Strangloscope screenings, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2023 Do Trees Dream, Mother Earth’s Inner Organs and other stories, gathering at Korpo Archipelago Centre
2023 Culture Crash in Korpoström, Korppo, Finland
2023 Presence Dispersing Into Ground, curated by M.Å, ICW Filmverkstaden + EK Botnia, Dramasali, Vaasa
2022 Body in the Micro and Macrocosmos, curated by AV-arkki, ELKE ry. at Cinema ORION, Helsinki
2021 Where the light comes in, Draamasali, Vaasa, org. Filmverkstaden
2018 Muurahaisten sota, Harakka, Helsinki
2017 Signos da noite, Lissabon
2017 Festival Singes de nuit, Paris
2016 Condition of Possibility, Eye, Amsterdam
2014 Something to love (scenes from a moving picture), Eye, Amsterdam
2015 Berliner Liste, BBK screening, Berlin
2015 Kinos festivaali, Lahtis. Distributed by Av-arkki.
2014 Femina International Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro. Distributed by Av-arkki.
2014 BBK screening, Kino Central, Berlin
2013 Loikka Dance Film Festival, Helsingfors
2013 Focus Finlande, Télé Bocal, France. Distributed by Av-arkki.
2012 10th International Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris. Distributed by Av-arkki.
2012 Reikäreuna elokuvafestivaali, Orivesi, Finland. Distributed by Av-arkki.
2012 36th Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, Germany. Distributed by Av-arkki.
2012 Akbank Sanat 8th Short Film Festival, Istanbul. Distributed by Av-arkki.
2011 Preview of Wald, Galerie Axel Obiger, Berlin
Selected group exhibitions
2025 5,9 ‰, The Archipelago Centre Korpoström
2024 Booked 2024, Taidekeskus itä, Lappeenranta
2024 Places of Unrest and Restoration, Platform, as part of The Silver Record by Filmverkstaden
2024 Booked 2024, MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre
2022 New Beginnings, curated by Valentina Gelain, Malakta, Finland
2019 Check your privilege!, Almin Talo, Loviisa, Finland
2014 Something to love (scenes from a moving picture), Eye, Amsterdam
2012 Culture Tram, org. Korjaamo, Helsinki. Distributed by Av-arkki
2012 Stadt(t)räume, Zum Kleinen Markgräflerhof der Stiftung Bartels Fondation, Basel
2012 To Have / To Own, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vasa, Finland
2012 Suburban video Lounge, Rotterdam
2010 Word for word without words, curated by DRS, Mestna Galerija, Ljubljana
Selected residencies
2025 Plantage Dok, Amsterdam
2024 Villa Karo, Benin
2023 Korpo Archipelago Center, Pro Artibus / Svenska Kulturfonden
2022 WAAW, Saint Louis, Senegal
2017 Casa Arte, El Hierro, Spain
2016 SPAM! Porcari, Italy, with choreographer Yuri Bongers
2016 Villa Karo, Benin
2011 Fire station, Dublin
Works in collections
Helsinki City Art Museum
Museum of Ostrobothnia
Pro Artibus
Private collections in Finland, Spain, Germany, Holland and Brazil
Selected bibliography
2024 Lifelines of time drawn in the sand, Taru Elfving, part of artist book Wretched Ground
2016 The Dead Walk Side by Side with the Living, John Cunningham, part of catalogue
2016 On the temporality of dense moments, Kati Kivinen, part of catalogue
2016 Människan som slet sig loss från det vilda, Helen Korpak, exhibition review HBL
2012 Interview in Taide & Design 2012, Maaria Niemi
Engagement in artist-run activities
2021–24 Board member of Filmverkstaden, a film lab with workshops and a residency program, Vaasa
2007–12 Board memberof Platform, a gallery, residency and other eventbased activities; as coordiantor of activities, co-curator or exhibitions, co-editor of publication
2007-10 Cheap Finnish Labor – the Platform board formed the group CFL, that also carried out artistic projects: in collaboration with Hüseyin Alptekin for the Turkish Pavillion at 52nd Venice Biennale; at the Istanbul Biennale 2009 and Trajector Art Fair in Brussels 2010
2001 Project manager, Platform, Vaasa
2000 Founding member of Platform
Other collaborations
2016 Experimental dance film with choreographer Yuri Bongers
2011 After Running, film installation with Miha Erman
Memberships
KUVASTO (authors’ rights association)
AV-arkki (Distribution Centre for Finnish Media Art)
Artist associations Bioart Society, Muu ry, Filmverkstaden rf, Platform ry