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ELENA NÄSÄNEN

b. 1968, lives and works in Helsinki

CURRICULUM VITAE

Art Education
MA, Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, Finland, 1996 - 98,
The Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK, 1997
BA, Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, Finland, 1992 - 96

Exhibitions, screenings and festivals:

2014
A view from the Other Side. Media Art from Finland and Korea. Moonshin Art Museum, Seoul, Korea 22.10- 20.11.14. (Group)
Av-Arkki 25 years, Flow Festival14.-16.8.14 (Festival)
Matter of time. Artists from Finland. Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany 24.7 - 12.10.14. (Group)
Reason and Intuition, Alvar Aalto and Ola Kolehmainen in Soane, PM Gallery & House, London, UK, 4.7. - 24.8.14. (Group)
Bodies, Borders, Crossings, Galeria Juan Pardo Heeren / ICPNA, Lima, Peru, 10.4. - 25.5.14. (Group)
Transitional table, Nathalie Rias's private home, Helsinki, Finland, 11.4.-22.4.14. (Group)
Aave Festival, Helsinki, Finland, 7.4-13.4.14. (Festival)
Akbank 10th Short Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey, 10 - 20.3.14. (Festival)
Passerby, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, 31.1. - 23.2.14. (Solo)

2013
L comme Lumiére - Moving Image 12, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France, 6.11.13. (Screening)
Ny Finsk Videokunst, Cumulus Olympia, Kunsthall Grenland, Porsgrunn, Norway, 16.11. - 22.12.2013. (Group)
Hard Edge, Tactile Eye, Posing New Questions to the Collection of the Maire Gullichsen Art Foundation, Pori Art Museum, Finland, 27.9.13-9.1.14. (Group)
Bodies, Borders, Crossings, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland 27.9.13-9.1.14, Preus museum, Horten, Norway, 26.1.-26.5.13. (Group)
Fin La! La! La! Finlandia- Brasil: Experimento Live Art Sesc Pinto & Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo Brasilia, 15.8.13. (Screening)
Passerby, Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland, 21.3-5.5.13. (Solo)

2012
Madatac, Madrid, Spain (Festival)
Artists 2012, Helsinki Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland (Group)
Tulsa Art Festival, Galway, Irland (Group)
Present remains, Photographic Centre Nykyaika's jubilee exhibition, TR 1, Tampere, Finland (Group)
What a party! Wäino Aaltosen museo, Turku, Finland (Group)

2011
Round, Gallery Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland (Solo)
Journey, Culture Tram / AV-Arkki, Helsinki, Finland (Group)
Bodies, Borders, Crossings, Governor’s Island, New York, USA (Group)
Water, Culture tram, April / AV-Arkki, Helsinki (Group)

2010
Wasteland, Cable Gallery, Helsinki, Finland (Solo)
Artists 2010, Mältinranta Art Center, Tampere, Finland (Group)
PREface –Stories through the lens, Gallery Suomesta, Berlin, Germany (Group)
Night, Classic of the Month by Av-Arkki, Gallery Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland (Solo)
As Seen On Television: The Politics of Appropriation, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt, Germany (Screening)
Within Landscape and Time - Video Works by Elena Näsänen, Directors Lounge, Z-Bar, Berliini, Germany (Screening)
Kettupäivät, Andorra, Helsinki, Finland (Festival)
Flux Festival, Cartes, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland (Festival)
Selection of Urban researh –program, Directors Lounge, King Kong, Mannheim, Germany PAM Festival, Senigallia, Italy and Magistrale Berlin, Germany (Festival)
Urban Research, Directors Lounge, Berliini, Germany (Festival)

2009
La Villette, Muu Studio, Helsinki, Finland (Solo)
Fly me to the Møøn, 44 Møen, Denmark (Group)
Event. New moving image works, Artspace, Sydney, Australia (Group)
Kunst Imbiss, Subvision festival, Hamburg, Germany (Festival)
Rencontres Internationales, Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany and Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (Festival)
Constructed realities, Gallery Frise, Hamburg, Germany (Group)
Living Room 09, Video postcards, Auckland, New Zealand (Screening)

2008
Galleri Leena Kuumola, Helsinki, Finland (Solo)
Mountain / Journey, Mediatheque, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland (Solo)
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (Festival)
The Seasons video, Tournefuille, France (Screening)
Overgaden, Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (Screening)
Pure Screen, Castelfield Art Gallery, Manchester, UK and Bureau Gallery, Salford, Manchester UK (Screening)
Electric Forest Screening, ACUD Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany, MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China and Svetozor Cinema, Praque, Czech Republic (Screening)
View festival, Helsinki, Finland (Festival)

2007
Euro, Koponen, Näsänen, Helsinki Kunstahalle, Finland (Group)
The Dislocated Journey, Marco Museum, Vigo, Spain (Group)
Pia Euro, Elena Näsänen, Päivi Takala, Forum Box Gallery, Helsinki (Group)
Before rain, Classic of the month, AV-Arkki, Gallery Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland (Solo)
A Night of Finnish Frenzy, albb, Saigon, Vietnam (Screening)

2006
Galleri Leena Kuumola, Helsinki, Finland (Solo)
A Cold, Cold Heart, Video and performance weekend at Somerset House, London, UK (Group)
Who do you think you are? The Anna Akhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (Group)
White Nights Insomnia Party, Video program, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Screening)
View festival, Helsinki, Finland (Festival)

2005
Helsinki International, Korjaamo Culture Factory, Helsinki, Finland (Group)
Speed Force, ZKMax, Maximiliansforum, Munich, Germany (Group)
Reflected moments, Åland Art museum, Finland (Group)
S1 / salon national tour of Tonight we are golden. Castlefield Gallery at the Salford Arms, Manchester, Phoenix Arts Leicester, FACT Liverpool, Side Cinema Newcastle Upon Tyne, ICA London, Outpost Norwich, Spike Island, Bristol, Gallery Vivid, Birmingham, UK (Screening)
The Rennes Film Festival “Traveling 16”, Rennes, France (Festival)
Rauma Blue sea Film Festival, Rauma, Finland (Festival)

2004
Reflected Image, Södertälje Konsthall, Sweden (Group)
Gokann, The IV Triennial of Finnish Art, Helsinki Kunsthalle, Finland (Group)
Tonight we are golden, S1 Artspace, Sheffield, UK (Screening)
Finnish Experimental Film and video Art, Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA (Screening)
College of Fine Arts & Design, Ewha Woman's University, Seoul, Korea (Screening)
Landscape and memory, La casa Ensendida, Madrid, Spain (Screening)
'Menu del dia' Videos in the patio, in the center of Madrid, Spain (Screening)
View, Helsinki, Finland (Festival)
\\international\media\art\award competition, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (Festival)
Arctic and Fabulous Film Festival, a film tour, Finland (Festival)
Nordisk Panorama, Out of Gategory, Reykjavík Art Museum, Island (Festival)

2003
Gokann, The 109th Finnish Artists’ Exhibition/IV Triennial, Kyoto Art Center, Japan (Group)
Nordicliveart.org, Göteborgs Konsthall / Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden (Screening)
S1 Artspace, miniplex, Sheffield, UK (Screening)
Electric Visions, Recent video art of Russia and Nordic countries, University of Sankt Petersburg, Pro Arte –institute, I.E.Repin Institute of Russian Academy of Arts, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain Dom Kino, Sankt Petersburg, Russia (Screening)
Shift, Annecy, France (Festival)
View 03 Tour, INDEX, Galleri 300m2, Göteborg, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden and Contemporary art museum, Tampere, Finland (Screening)
Video screening nordicliveart.org ID:I Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (Screening)
View festival, Helsinki, Finland (Festival)
Rotterdam Film Festival, Neatherland (Festival)
The Media City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Windsor, Canada (Festival)

2002
The Studio, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland (Solo)
Popcorn and politics. Kiasma, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland (Group)
Following whom? Salo Art Museum, Finland (Group)
Media variations, Lothringen 13/halle, Munich, Germany (Screening)
Connected? New video art from Helsinki. The Site Gallery, Sheffield and Tate Modern, London, UK (Screening)
Kettupäivät, Andorra, Helsinki (Festival)

2001
Connected? New Art Gallery Walsall, and CCA (Center for Contemporary Art), Glasgow, UK (Screening)
Outer Limits, Video Lounge, New York, USA (Screening)
International Video & Multimedia Art Festival", Clermont Ferrand Cedex, France (Festival)

2000
Muu Gallery, Helsinki, Finland (Solo)
Stockholm Art Fair. AV-Arkki/Frame, Stockholm, Sweden (Group)

1999
Thirty five Seconds later, Contemporary Art Museum, Lyon, France (Festival)
The Media City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Windsor, Canada (Festival)
International Video & Multimedia Art Festival", Clermont Ferrand Cedex, France (Festival)
Festival, Split, Croatia (Festival)

1998
Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki, Finland (Solo)
Young Scene, The Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria (Group)
Kettupäivät, Andorra, Helsinki (Festival)
Muu Media Festival, Kiasma, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland (Festival)

1996
Muu Media Festival, Lasipalatsi, Helsinki, Finland (Festival)

1995
Bandits Mages video festival, Bourges, France (Festival)

Works shown in television/ Television programs
Format, SVT, Swedish Television 2005, "Drive" \\international\media\art\award competition, Südwest-TV, ARTE, Swiss TV DRS 2004,
Video “Photograph of the sea”, CMYK TV, Gothenburg, Sweden 2003, Metropolis, Spanish Television 2003,

Artist in residence
Art Council of Helsinki Metropolitan Region, Berlin 2009
Artspace, Sydney, Australia 2008/09
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France 2008
Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, USA 2006
Nifca, Stockholm, Sweden 2002

Works in collections
The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
The State Art Collection in Finland