PILVI TAKALA
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Born 1981 in Helsinki
                                                                               
Lives and works in Amsterdam

STUDIES
MFA, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki 2006
BFA, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki 2005 
Glasgow School of Art, Environmental Art 2004
Institute of Fine Arts, Lahti Polytechnic 2000-01 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Real Snow White, Backspace, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam

2009
The Trainee, Studio K, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Real Snow White, Masa-project, Istanbul
The Trainee, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
Angels and Messengers, Hiap Project Room, Helsinki

2008
Outshiners, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb
The Angels, Turku Art Museum
The Trainee, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

2007
On Volatility with Elmas Deniz, Galeria Noua, Bucharest
Between Sharing and Caring, FaFa-gallery, Helsinki
Between Sharing and Caring, Frac des Pays de La Loire, Nantes, France

2006
Wallflower, Rael Artel Gallery, Tallinn
Wallflower, Rael Artel Gallery, Pärnu

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Culture(s) of copy, Goethe-Institut, Hong Kong
4th Bucharest Biennial
Applied reality,
Heden, Den Haag
And the moral of the story is...Morality Act III,
Witte de With, Rotterdam
Nordic Art Triennial
, Eskilstuna Art Museum, Sweden
Overtime Work, Ahmed Adnan Saygun Sanat Merkezi, Izmir, Turkey
Export-Import
, Kunsthalle Helsinki

2009
RijksakademieOPEN, Amsterdam
Mostly It Happens At Night, Flatstation, Amsterdam

2008
SMART-joulukatselmus, Kulttuuritehdas Korjaamo, Helsinki
Flowers and Media, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki
Salon Of The Revolution, HDLU - Mestrovic Pavilion, Zagreb
5th Berlin Biennial
Urban pedestals, public art exhibition, Helsinki

2007
Consequences and Proposals - Biennale of Young Artists, Tallinn
We like it a lot, Nettie Horn Gallery, London, 2007
Midbaugur og Kringla; Leisure, administration and control, Public art exhibition, Reykjavik
In Search of the Miraculous 5th Triennial of Finnish art, Kunsthalle, Helsinki
Sanat Sokaga Tasti, Billboard project by Radikal Newspaper, Istanbul

2006
Helsinki International, Korjaamo/Tram Museum, Helsinki
Final Exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
Hard Revolution, Potsdamer Platz Passarella, Berlin
Songs of Freedom and Love, Platform Garanti, Istanbul
Songs of Freedom and Love, K2 Contemporary Art Center, Izmir
Theehuis Territoria, Oost West Festival, Deventer, Netherlands
Make your own shadow, Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University

2005
9th Istanbul Biennial

2004
Manifest04-05, Korjaamo Gallery, Helsinki
Pimeä Contemporary Art Festival, Helsinki 2003
VV2-Recycling the Future, Giardini della Biennale, 50th Venice Biennal
Real Presence 3, Museum 25th of May, Belgrade
Pinnalla ("on the surface"), Gallery of the Academy of Fine Art, Helsinki

COLLECTIONS
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki / Finnish National Gallery
The State Art Collection, Finland
Helsinki City Art Museum
Helmond Municipal Museum

ARTIST BOOKS
2007 Bag Lady, Istanbul
2005 Event on Garnethill, Helsinki
2003 Kuvasto, Helsinki

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2007 “Between Sharing and Caring” exhibition catalogue published by Frac des Pays de La Loire
2008 “Younger Than Jesus Artist Directory” published by Phaidon and The New Museum, New York

SELECTED SCREENINGS
2010 And the moral of the story is...Morality Act III, Apexart, New York
2010 European Media Art Festival, Osnabrük, Germany
2010 Directors Lounge/Urban Research, 6th Berlin international Media & Film Festival
2010 I Am Getting So Far Out One Day I Wont Come Back At All, DUVE Berlin
2008 Oberhausen International Short Film Festival
2008 25th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
2008 Freewaves Festival, Los Angeles
2008 13th Milano Film Festival
2008 Tampere Film Festival
2007 24th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
2007 Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK
2007 Tampere Film Festival
2007 Tampere Art Film Festival
2006 Future Shorts, Gloria cinema, Copenhagen
2006 Stranger than fiction, The Lab, San Fransisco
2006 Liefde in die stad, Paradiso, Amsterdam
2004 Ooze, Gallery Stefania Miscetti, Rome

RESIDENCIES
2009-2010 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten / Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and ARCADIS
2007 Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb
2005 Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul

COMMISSIONS
2008 Intervention, Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum and Deloitte, Helsinki
2005 Performance in public space, Paradiso/SKOR, Amsterdam

SELECTED GRANTS
2007 Year grant from Finnish Cultural Foundation
2006 Grant for young artists, Finnish Art Association

PRIZES
2007 Tampere Art Film Festival 1st Prize


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