H E L I   R E K U L A


Born 1963 in Helsinki, Finland. Lives and works in Helsinki, Finland
               
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
2005AUTIOMAA teoksia vuosilta 1989-2004
DESERT works from1989 - 2004
Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
2003ARS RAUMA, Rauma Art Museum, Finland
2002SKEIN, Gallerie Cent8, Paris, France
2001GALLERY MARELLA ARTE CONTEMPORANEA project space, Milano,Italy
2000HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
2000GALLERY KARI KENETTI, Helsinki, Finland
2000MEETING WITH AN EROTIC ARTIST, ArtSpace 1%, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999NORDISK VIDEOKUNST together with Pekka Niskanen, Uppsala Artmuseum, Sweden
1998PARADISE LOST
Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands, curated by Stijn Huits
1997PYHIINVAELLUS - PILGRIMAGE
Helsinki City Art Museum; Gallery Kluuvi, Finland
Gallery Struts, Oslo, Norway
1995LUONTOTUTKIELMIA - NATURE STUDIES
Helsinki City Art Museum; Gallery Kluuvi, Finland
1995HÄPEÄ JA HALU - SHAME AND DESIRE, MUU Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
1993MUOTOKUVIA - PORTRAITS Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, Finland
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
2005"Huuma", Örebro Kunsthalle; Linköpings Kunsthall Passagen; Skövde Kunsthall
2005Photology, Milan
2005Helsinki School, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2005Personligt (30 by TAIK), Kulturhuset, Stockholm
2004-05LAT (de-)construction of living, Odapark, Venrey, the Netherlands
2004Ars Fennica Awards 1991-2003, Museum of Russian Art, St. Petersburg
2004NO LO LLAMES PERFORMANCE - DON'T CALL IT PERFORMANCE
El Museo Del Barrio, New York, USA
CAAC Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain
(2003) Centro Pàrraga-Murcia Cultural, Murcia, Spain
(2003) Dept.Audiovisuales, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid,Spain
2004RAKASTAA, EI RAKASTA… - LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME
- collection display (2004-2005), KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
2004ESINEIDEN MAAILMA - THE WORLD OF OBJECTS
Helsingin Taidehalli- Kunsthalle Helsinki, Tampere Art Museum, FI
2004IX MÄNTTÄ ART FESTIVAL, curated by Kari Kenetti, FI
2004NEW REALITIES, Reykjavik Arts Festival, Reykjavik Museum of Photgraphy, Iceland
200430 by TAIK, curated by Timothy Persons, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
2004NATURE & CRÉATION FINLANDAISE, Maison des Arts d'Antony, Antony, France
2003ZEITGENÖSSISCHE FOTOKUNST AUS FINLAND
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Städtische Galerie Waldkaiburg,
Stadtgalerie Kiel, Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen Cottbus,
(2004) Centrum Kultury ZAMEK, Galeria Fotografii pf, Poznan, Poland
(2004) SINISTÄ VALOA, Salon Taidemuseo, Finland
2003YÖJUNA - NIGHT TRAIN - collection display (2003-2004)
KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
2003OTHER SIGHT-DRUGOE ZRENIE, National Center of Potography of the Russian Federation,
St.Petersburg, Russia
2003RADIKAALIEN YSTÄVYYS-Taju 2003, Promenadigalleria, curated by Tero Nauha, Hyvinkää, FI
2003NEW REALITIES - Contemporary Finnish Photography, Curated by Hasse Persson,
Hasselblad Center, Göteborg Art Museum, Sweden
2003VIEW - Festival of New Finnish Media Art, organized by Av-Arkki
Landscape no. 20: An Tiaracht at Galleria Leena Kuumola, Helsinki
2002BEYOND PARADISE: Nordic Artists Travel East
curated by Apinan Poshyananda
(2002 Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh & 2003 Shanghai)
2002POPCORN AND POLITICS collection display (2002-2003)
KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
2002DIGITAL SHOW ROOM, Photographic Center, Copenhagen
2002SECOND INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF BUENOS AIRES
Museo National des Bellas Artes, Argentina
2002YESTERDAY WAS DRAMATIC...BUT TODAY IS OK!
Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
2002ARS FENNICA, South Carelian Art Museum & Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Finland
2002Minä Sinä Me -parcours photographique finlandais
CPIF - Centre photographique d'Ile-de-France
Institute Finlandais, Paris, France
2002EV+A Biennale, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
curated by Apinan Poshyananda
2002FINLANDIA, videoinstallation SKEIN, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2002KUVITELMIA - FANTASIES, artworks from the collection of Finnish Museum of
Photography, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
2002Gallery Christian Dam, Oslo, Norway
2002ATTACHMENT+, Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
Departement Lerarenopleiding, Brugge, Belgium
curated by Rolaand Patteeuw, Kunsthalle Lophem
2001PLATEAU OF HUMANKIND, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
curated by Harald Szeemann
2001ANTEPRIMA BOVISA. MILANO EUROPA 2000
Settore Cultura Mesei e Mostre, Milano, Italia, curated by Maria Hirvi
2001GET THAT BALANCE, Hamburg, Germany, curated by Ute Vorkoeper
2001Gallery Christian Dam, Oslo, Norway
1999 -01CAN YOU HEAR ME -2nd ARS BALTICA TRIENNIAL of Photographic Art
curated by Kathrin Becker, touring exhibition in Baltic countries
2000MOMENTUM - Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway
2000PREMATE - IMPAKT FESTIVAL 2000, Utrecht, Holland
curated by Arjon Dunnevind
2000IDENTITÉ FICTIVE
Centré Culturelle des Institututions Europeens, Luxemburg
Centré Cultural, Varegem, Belgiu & Finnish Instutute, Paris, France
2000SHOOT - moving pictures by artists, Malmö Konsthall
1999666999 - six days, six events, six countries, Annecy, France
1999NUORET / VANHUKSET (Young ones/Old ones), together with Maya Deren
Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland,
curated by Mika Hannula and Tere Vaden
1999IDENTITÉ FICTIVE, GALERIE CONTRETYPE, Bryssel, Belgium
1999COME IN AND FIND OUT, vol 2, Podewill, Berlin, cur, by Klara Wallner
1999PINK FOR BOYS / BLUE FOR GIRLS
Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin, curated by Kathrin.Becker
1999MMM...BUT NOT FOR MARABOU, Stockholm Art Fair, cur. Frame & AV-ARKKI
1998MIKÄ ON TODELLISTA - WHAT IS REAL
The Third Triennial of photographic Art, Helsinki Kunsthalle
1999, Mikkelin Taidemuseo, curated by Ulla Jokisalo
1998PHOTO / REALITIES - Biennale Syd, Kristiansand Art Museum, Norway
1998ALASTOMAT JA NAAMIOIDUT (Naked and Masked),
Helsinki City Art Museum, Finla nd
1997UNKNOWN ADVENTURE - Positions of Contemporary Finnish Art
Sophienhof, Kiel & Kunsthalle, Rostoc
1997DARKSIDE, Gallery Kenetti, Helsinki
1996LIKAT - SJU FLICKOR, Galleri Otto Blonk, Bergen
1996WOMEN BREAKING THE BOUNDARIES OF ART
The Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma
1996WHEN THE SHIT HiTS THE FAN, Scandinavian Art in Recent Time
Overgaden,Copenhagen, curated by Tone O. Nielsen
1996POSTMORALITY, Sofia, Bulgaria, cur. Arja Elovirta
1996BODY AS MEMBRANE, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabriken, Odense ,
The Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki. cur. Valie Export & Kirsten Justessen
1995LIVING TEXTURE, Scandinavian Art Productions, Zürich
1995SMART SHOW, MUU Gallery, Stockholm
1995ART ATTACK, Scandinavian Art Happening, Oslo
1994LADY SHAVE, Gallerie Kluuvi, Helsinki
 
VIDEOS, FILMS & INSTALLATIONS
 
MAAILMOJEN VÄLISSÄ - IN BETWEEN WORLDS
2002, DVD installation, 9 min/loop
produced in collaboration with Lasse Saarinen, Kinotar Oy
 
Landscape no. 20 AN TIARACHT
2000/2002, DVD installation, 19 min/loop
produced in collaboration with Lasse Saarinen, Kinotar Oy
 
VYYHTI - SKEIN
2000, DVD installation for two videoprojectors, 2 x 2,52 min / loop
produced by Lasse Saarinen, Kinotar Oy
 
TÄÄLLÄ TÄNÄÄN, HUOMENNA MENNYTTÄ
HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW
1998, 4 min, orig. S-16 mm, color, digital betacam
produced in collaboration with Ilppo Pohjola, Chrystal Eye
 
KUVITELMA ANTAUTUMISESTA - FANTASY OF DEVOTION
Proloque of Pilgrimage,
1998 / 2001, 16 mm film, DVD installation, 3 min / loop
 
PYHIINVAELLUS - PILGRIMAGE
1998, 35 mm film, DVD, 10 min
 
LUONTOTUTKIELMIA - NATURE STUDIES
1995, S-VHS, DVD, 13 min
 
HOTELLI - HOTEL, 1991, 16 mm/BW/Com-mag/ U-matic
Installation for two projectors
 
SCREENINGS AND FESTIVALS (selection)
 
2003 MONTAGES OF SOUND ATMOSPHERES - Interactions between moving image and music
Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany
Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Curated by Kati Kivinen
2003DOCPOINT Helsinki Documentary Film Festival,
Screening of IN BETWEEN WORLDS and participation of seminar "Time and Realities"
2002FINLANDIA / CONNECTED (Here Today, Gone Tomorrow) Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2002AJATELMIA - MAXIMS (Pilgrimage) , Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
organized together with AV-Arkki
2002ROHTO - STRAIGHT ON MEDICIN ART, Helsinki City Art Museum
project of Markus Renvall, screening compilation GIRLS by AV-Arkki
2002HELSINKI CLIPOLOGY -curated by Tiina Erkintalo
SONAR, 9th Barcelona International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art, Spain
Puerto Rico Biennial
Lighthouse Media Center, Brighton, UK,
2002CONNECTED, Centre of Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland, New Art Gallery Walsall,
Site Gallery, Sheffield, Tate Modern, London, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland, UK
curated by Taru Elfing
2002VISIONS 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
2002ARTGENDA, Schilleroper, Hamburg, Germany
(Here Today, Gone Tomorrow) curated by Stefan Prehn
2001OUTER LIMITS FESTIVAL, New York, USA
2001NORDIC VIDEOART REVIEW, Moscow
2001FESTIVAL DU CINÉMA NORDIC, Rouen, France
2000THE FUTURE IS NOW - video and electronic media, curated by Artspace 1%
Stockholm Art Fair, Sweden, NIFCA Helsinki,FIN & Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, DK
2000BATOFAR CHERCHE LE(s) NORD(s), Paris, France
2000IFU's open Spaces, "Recreating Human Beings" screening
2000WORLD EXHIBITION EXPO, Hannover, Germany
2000PRO ARTE INSTITUTE, St. Petersburg, Russia
2000PÄRNU FILM FESTIVAL, Pärnu
2000TRANSMEDIALE, Berlin, Germany
2000CENTRE d'ART Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
1999VIDEOMEDEJA NOVI SAD, Jugoslavia
1999IF FOR UM - Forum of Interdependent Film, Tokyo, Japan
1999ROXY - Art and Experimental Film and Video Festival, Visby, Sweden
1999TAMPERE FILM FESTIVAL, National and International competition series
1999TRANSMEDIALE, Berlin
1999INVIDEO, Milano
1998MUU MEDIA FESTIVAL, Helsinki
1998FRENCH-BALTIC-NORDIC Video and New Media Festival, Tallinn, Estonia
1997WOMEN IN FILM AND NEW MEDIA, Nordic Glory, Jyväskylä
1997SHORT SPRING, Bio Illusion, Helsinki
1996MUU MEDIA FESTIVAL, Helsinki
1995MUU Media Festival, Helsinki
1993NO BUDGET FILM FESTIVAL, Q-Theatre, Helsinki
1992INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS, Brisbane, Australia
1992METRO ARTS, Brisbane, Australia
1992PLEASURE DOME, Toronto, Canada
1992LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
1992CINEMA JOVÉ ´92, Valencia, Spain
1992OFF FESTIVAA LI, Espoo, Finland
1992ESPOO CINÉ, Finland
1992IISALMEN KAMERA
1992NO BUDGET FILM FESTIVAL, Hamburg
1992TAMPERE FILM FESTIVAL, National competition serie
 
STUDIES
 
2003-Postgraduate Studies (Doctorate in Fine Arts) , Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
1998-MA-studies, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Time and Space dept.
1987-91Lahti Institute of Art and Design, Photography dept. , BA
 
PRIZES AND AWARDS
 
2002Ars Fennica
 
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
 
Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Stedelijk Museum Het Domain, Sittard, Holland
Helsinki City Art Museum
State Art Collection, Finland
Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, Sweden
Niemistö Collection of Contemporary Art, Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Finland
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND CATALOQUES (selection)
 
AUTIOMAA teoksia vuosilta 1989-2004
DESERT works from1989 - 2004
Cataloque, A Museum of Contemporary Art Publication 97/2004, Kiasma
 
ESINEIDEN MAAILMA - THE WORLD OF OBJECTS
Exhibition cataloque, 2004, Helsingin Taidehalli, Kunsthalle Helsinki
 
NATURE & CRÉATION FINLANDAISE
Exhibition cataloque, 2004, Maison des Arts d'Antony, Antony, France
 
RAKASTAA, EI RAKASTA… - LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME - collection display (2004-2005)
Doing Kiasma with Freud ; article written by Harri Kalha, Ph.D., Scholar of Visual Culture
Exhibition cataloque, 2004, 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
 
YÖJUNA - NIGHT TRAIN - collection display (2003-2004)
Exhibition cataloque, 2003, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
 
ZEITGENÖSSISCHE FOTOKUNST AUS FINLAND
Exhibition cataloque, 2003
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg,
Stadtgalerie Kiel, Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen Cottbus (2004)
 
MINÄ SINÄ ME -parcours photographique finlandais
Exhibition cataloque, 2002,
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, 2002
 
ARS FENNICA 2002, In Between Worlds
exhibition cataloque, text written by Maria Hirvi
 
IMAGE 05/2002
kuvasalkku - portfolio, text 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, 2002 exhibition cataloque
 
KIASMA magazine 14, 2002, vol 5
Popcorn and Politics collection display, article by Minna Raitmaa
 
PLATEAU OF HUMANKIND La Biennale di Venezia 2001
texts written by Harald Szeemann and Maria Hirvi
 
ANTEPRIMA BOVISA. MILANO EUROPA 2000
Settore Cultura Mesei e Mostre, Milano, Italia, text written by Maria Hirvi
 
THE ARTISTS BODY, Phaidon Press, 2000
 
PARK - MOMENTUM - Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art 2000
exhibition cataloque, text written by Stijn Huits (Stedelijk Museum, Het Domein)
 
VARJOSTA - tutkielmia suomalaisen valokuvan historiasta
VALOA - otteita suomalaisen valokuvan historiaan 1839-1999
Suomen Valokuvataiteen Museon julkaisut 1999
FROM SHADOWS & TO LIGHT two publications of the history finnish photography
The Finnish Museum of Photography 1999
 
THE YOUNG ONES, THE OLD ONES , exhibition cataloque 1999
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, 1999
 
ROSA FÜR JUNGS, HELLBLAU FÜR MÄDCHEN
PINK FOR BOYS, BLUE FOR GIRLS, Exhibition cataloque 1999
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
 
PARADISE LOST
Stedelijk Museum Het Domain, Exhibition cataloque, 1998
texts written by Arja Elovirta and Stijn Huijts
 
MIKÄ ON TODELLISTA - WHAT IS REAL
The Third Triennial of Photographic Art, exhibition cataloque 1998, Helsinki Kunsthalle
 
ALASTOMAT JA NAAMIOIDUT 1998
Helsinki City Art Museum
 
BIENNALE SYD, PHOTO/REALITIES 1998
Sorlandets Kunstmuseum, exhibition cataloque
 
TAIDE - art magazine 3/97
cover + artists pages 32-33
 
WHEN THE SHIT HITS THE FAN
exhibition catalogue, text written by curator Tone O. Nielsen 1996
 
LUONTOTUTKIELMIA - Nature Studies
Valokuvalehti 6/95, Kati Lintonen
 
BODY AS MEMBRANE - exhibition catalogue
Masking and Unmasking of the self in Heli Rekula's works, Arja Elovirta 1996
 
Magazyn Sztuki, Art Magazine Quarterly nr.8 4/95
Finland: THE IDEOLOGICAL BODY
The Grotesque Moment: Corpo/Real Anxities, written by Arja Elovirta
 
THE GROTESQUE MOMENT
Arja Elovirta - SIKSI 1/1994 Nordic Art Review