Pilvi Takala uses performative interventions as a means to process social structures and question the normative rules and truths of our behaviour in different cultural contexts. Her works emerge out of research in a certain community and then reach out to a wider audience through different mediums, e.g. videos. Her works clearly show that it is often possible to learn about the implicit rules of a social situation only by its disruption. She quotes and stretches the limits of different genres, including documentary making and performance.
Pilvi Takala lives and works in Berlin (DE) and Helsinki (IS).
| 2014 | FUTURA, Prague, CZ |
| 2014 | KunstHaus Zurich, SW |
| 2014 | Lawyer Of The Week, Tartu Art Museum, EE |
| 2014 | Attires and Attitudes, FUTURA, Prague, CZ |
| 2013 | Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, SE |
| 2012 | Dissappearing Act, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL, |
| 2012 | Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK. |
| 2012 | Carlos-Ishikawa, London, UK |
| 2012 | Suggested Value, Kunstlerhaus, Bremen, DE |
| 2012 | Broad Sense, Forum Box/Mediaboxi, Helsinki, FI. |
| 2012 | Just when I thought I was out…they pull me back in, Kunsthalle Erfurt, DE. |
| 2011 | Sidelines, Sorlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, NO. |
| 2011 | Flip Side, Kunsthalle Lissabon, PT. |
| 2010 | You Canʼt Do What You Canʼt Imagine, Finnish-Norwegian Culture Institute, Oslo, NO. |
| 2010 | Fear Cure, Inkijk, SKOR, Amsterdam, NL. |
| 2010 | Real Snow White, Backspace, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL. |
| 2009 | The Trainee, Studio K, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki,FIN. |
| 2009 | Real Snow White, Masa-project, Istanbul,TK. |
| 2009 | The Trainee, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL. |
| 2009 | Angels and Messengers, Hiap Project Room, Helsinki, FIN. |
| 2008 | Outshiners, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, CR. |
| 2008 | The Angels, Turku Art Museum, FIN. |
| 2008 | The Trainee, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FIN. |
| 2007 | On Volatility with Elmas Deniz, Galeria Noua, Bucharest, RO. |
| 2007 | Between Sharing and Caring, FaFa-gallery, Helsinki, FIN. |
| 2007 | Between Sharing and Caring, Frac des Pays de La Loire, Nantes, FR. |
| 2006 | Wallflower, Rael Artel Gallery, Tallinn, EE. |
| 2006 | Wallflower, Rael Artel Gallery, Pärnu, EE. |
| 2015 | Pipe Dream, WUK Kunsthalle Exgergasse, Vienna, AU |
| 2015 | The Disorderliness of Things, La Galeria Quoam, Université du Québec à Montréal, CA |
| 2014 | Play Time, Les Ateliers de Rennes - biennale d'art contemporain, Rennes, FR |
| 2014 | Last Artists Exhibition, Kunsthalle Helsinki, FI |
| 2014 | Emotional Resources, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK |
| 2014 | Permanent Playfulness, Mendes Wood, São Paulo, BR |
| 2014 | Shifting Identities, Museum of Contemporary Art Rome (MACRO), IT |
| 2014 | Σnigma, /V⧵inibar, Stockholm, SE |
| 2014 | Don't Embarrass the Bureau, Lunds Konsthall, SE |
| 2014 | Private Matters, Apexart, New York, US |
| 2014 | Momentum?, PSM, Berlin |
| 2014 | Tonight, you can call me Trish (curated by RGSK), The LAB Gallery, Dublin, IR |
| 2013 | Moscow Biennial |
| 2013 | Culture Center, Belgrade, |
| 2013 | Rehearsal of the Real, Kunstverein Nurnberg |
| 2013 | Test City: Analog to Digital TV, University of North Carolina, Wilmington Art Gallery |
| 2013 | Border Line(curator Charlotte Cosson,Emmanuelle Luciani),Glaerie Arnaud Deschin(La GAD),Marseille,FR |
| 2013 | Door Between Either And Or (co-curated by Judith Hopf and Marlie Mul), Kunstverein Munich, DE |
| 2013 | Open City, Kunst Fort, Vijfhuizen, NL |
| 2013 | You Only Fall Twice, CCA Londonderry, UK |
| 2013 | The real thing?, Nouvelles Vagues, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR |
| 2013 | Call of the Mall, Hoog Catarijne, Utrecht, NL |
| 2013 | The Invisible Lady, Amos Andersson Museum, Helsinki, FI |
| 2012 | 4th International Short Video Biennial, P74 Gallery, Ljublijana, SI |
| 2012 | Curated by _Vienna 2012, Projecktraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna, AUT |
| 2012 | Salon Belgrade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, RS. |
| 2012 | Vers la lune en passant par la Plage, Amphitheatre of Arles, FR (curators Liam Gillick, Hans Obrist) |
| 2012 | Eva International- After the Future, Limerick City, IE. |
| 2012 | Mind the System, Find the Gap, Z33, Hasselt, BE. |
| 2012 | Survival Kit, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, LV. |
| 2012 | An Exhibition of a Study on Knowledge, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, AU. |
| 2012 | Theater of Life, Center of Contemporary Arts, Torun, PL. |
| 2012 | Our Work is Never Over, Matadero Art Canter, Madrid, ES. |
| 2012 | Cave Allegoerie, Retretti Art Center, Punkaharju, FI. |
| 2012 | Track, Ghent, BE. |
| 2012 | The Ungovernables - The New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York, USA. |
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| 2011 | 4th Moscow Biennial, Special Projects, RU. |
| 2011 | VAN UIT HIER/OUT OF HERE, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL. |
| 2011 | Museum of Art and Design, New York, USA. |
| 2011 | Run, comrade, the old world is behind you, Kunsthall Oslo, NO. |
| 2011 | 7th Shiryaevo Biennial, RU. |
| 2011 | How to Work (More for) Less, Kunsthalle Basel, CH. |
| 2011 | She Devil 5, Macro Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, IT. |
| 2011 | Too late, too little, (and how) to fail gracefully, KunstFort, Asperen, NL. |
| 2011 | KAAP, Utrecht, NL. |
| 2011 | Act / OUT, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL. |
| 2011 | Labour and Leisure, Alternativa, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, PL. |
| 2011 | The Other Tradition, Wiels, Brussels, BE. |
| 2011 | Prix de Rome 2011 Exhibition, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, NL. |
| 2011 | Transgressions, Credo Bonum Galley, Sofia, BG. |
| 2011 | Scream – Exhibition about Fear, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, NO. |
| 2011 | Return of The Losers, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Sweden |
| 2011 | Koh-i-noor, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK. |
| 2011 | If It’s Part Broke, Half Fix It, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, LT. |
| 2011 | How to Work, Kunsthalle Basel, CH. |
PowerPoint presentation from "Trainee" installation
Pilvi Takala
