Pilvi Takala

Saastamoinen Foundation is Frame Contemporary Art Finland’s main partner in the Pavilion of Finland exhibition at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. Pilvi Takala’s video work Close Watch, which premieres at the biennale, will be shown...

Close Watch, a newly commissioned video installation by Pilvi Takala, premieres at the Pavilion of Finland at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Commissioned and produced by Frame Contemporary Art Finland, the...

UPDATE! The Venice Biennale has been postponed to 2022.Pilvi Takala will represent Finland at the next Venice Biennale. Curated by the Christina Li, the exhibition will be commissioned and produced by Frame Contemporary Art Finland.“We are...

Helsinki celebrates the Night of The Arts on Thursday, August 23Hannaleena Heiska: Camouflage at Helsinki Contemporary 3.8.-2.9.2018 Photo: Jussi TiainenHelsinki Contemporary's doors are open till 9 pm, welcome to immerse yourself in Hannaleena...

Pilvi Takala's solo exhibition Second shift opens Kiasma's autumn season on August 24 and runs through February 17, 2019.The exhibition consists of a review of Takala’s work in the past ten years, along with two new works.Read more about...

Image: Ville Andersson, Contemplation (2017)...

Pilvi Takala's video installation Drive With Care is included in an exhibition Share / Cheat / Unite at The Physics Room Contemporary Art Space in Christchurch, New Zealand. The exhibitions runs from 2 September until 8 October, 2017....

Hannaleena Heiska. Photo: Gothenburg Museum of Art / Hussein SehatlouPilvi Takala. Photo: Patrik RastenbergerHannaleena Heiska and Pilvi Takala participate in the 4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, taking place in Ekaterinburg and...

Lukas Göthman: virus 1, 2017, oil on canvas, 19 x 24 cmPhoto: Jussi Tiainen...

Pilvi Takala, Women in Kahves, 2005, six channel videoArt Souterrain is an visual arts festival held annually in Montreal’s Underground City. This year’s theme is Play & Distraction. The festival includes more than 60 Canadian and...

Pilvi Takala, still image from The Committee, 2014.Pilvi Takala’s solo exhibition at the Pump House Gallery in London builds on her project The Committee. In 2013 Takala won the Emdash Award, which was aimed for the production of a new work for...

Pilvi Takala: Players (2010)As part of the exhibition In Search of the Present at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art in Espoo, Finland,  Pilvi Takala’s art work Players will be shown in a screening together with works by Maria...

Pilvi Takala participates in a group exhibition called ENFANTS in Centre d'Art Contemporain in France....

Pilvi Takala: Workers Forum (2015)Pilvi Takala participates in a group exhibition at Pi Artworks London. The exhibition What’s the Riddle is the first of five exhibitions that make up Pi Artworks London’s Curatorial Season that...

Pilvi Takala participates in the group exhibition Detail is all opening this Saturday at Kunsthalle Mainz in Germany. The exhibition brings together a number of artistic works from recent decades, contrasting the shift in favour of detail...

Pilvi Takala: still from Real Snow White (2009)Pilvi Takala’s first solo exhibition in Denmark is on display through the summer at Kunsthal Aarhus. The exhibition offers a glance to Takala’s artistic work. Takala is known for artworks...

Emma Ainala: Ricci, 2016. Photo: Jussi Tiainen.The summer exhibition 2016 at Villa Roosa in Orimattila opens today, featuring artists Emma Ainala and Pilvi Takala. This year's exhibition deals with themes of dreams and search of happiness.The...

Pilvi Takala: The Trainee (2008)Pilvi Takala participates in the group exhibition Working Worlds at Manifesta Biennial this summer. Manifesta 11, organized in Zurich this year, focuses thematically on the relations between artistic work and...

Pilvi Takala: still from Workers Forum (2015)Tuomas A. Laitinen and Pilvi Takala are two of the nineteen artists participating in Bucharest International Biennial for Contemporary Art. The curator Niels Van Tomme has decided to show the artworks in...

Pilvi Takala is one of the participating artists in an international group exhibition opening next week in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The exhibition Hacking Habitat is displayed in a former prison, dealing with themes of the increasing impact of...

Pilvi Takala’s video piece Real Snow White will be shown at a film screening Most conscious beings lack a permanent physical form on Sat evening 23 January in London. The screening accompanies the group exhibition Secret Agent, organized...

Pilvi Takala and Amelie Befeldt have collaboratively created a video piece Give a little bit, which will be presented at Alkovi Galleria in Helsinki. The piece invites the viewer to participate in the format of a karaoke song video and portrays the...

Nordic Contemporary in Paris presents a group exhibition called This Sticky Mess Will Get Us There with nine Nordic artists, including Rauha Mäkilä and Pilvi Takala. The exhibition is a celebration of the unpolished on contrary to the...

Pilvi Takala’s video Real Snow White is presented in the group exhibition O Que Caminha ao Lado at Sesc Sao Paulo in Brasil. The exhibition curated by Isabella Rjeille features works by thirteen international contemporary artists. The works...

Pilvi Takala participates in the exhibition Visitors at Governors Island in New York. The exhibition is part of the Trust for Governors Island’s public art program series and features works of nine contemporary artists using multiple artistic...

Villu Jaanisoo, Anssi Kasitonni, Jukka Korkeila and Pilvi Takala are among the forty internatiol artists participating in the 53rd October Salon in Belgrade, Serbia. The curatorial concept of the exhibit – GOOD LIFE Physical narratives and...

Pilvi Takala, Players (film still), 2010Pilvi Takala’s video Players (2010) is screened in group exhibition Dimensions of Sharing at Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art  in Copenhagen. The other participating artists are Suzanna Asp,...

Bonniers Konsthall presents a solo show by Pilvi Takala in Stockholm. The exhibition Slight Change includes works in which Takala explores social behaviors with humor and comic arbitrariness. By knowingly misinterpreting...

Pilvi Takala has been nominated as one of the five Ars Fennica 2013 candidates. As this year's Ars Fennica Expert, Akiko Miki (Senior Curator, Palais de Tokyo, Paris) will select the prize winner later in the spring. Helsinki Contemporary...

Pilvi Takala has chosen to give the opportunity to devise and realise the Emdash Award in 2013 to a group of children. Takala’s proposal was selected from over 550 applications by artists from across the world. The Emdash Award allows an...

Amos Anderson Art Museum's new exhibition The Invisible Lady presents four visual artist of the younger generation: Erkka Nissinen, Aurora Reinhard, Hans Rosenström and Pilvi Takala. The exhibition deals with themes such as identity and...

An exhibition with Finnish video and media artists will be shown in Kunsthall Grenland's Project Room. Hannaleena Heiska and Pilvi Takala are among the presented artists. The exhibition is open 16.11.-22.12.2013.More information about the...

This year The International Film Festival Rotterdam presents a broad selection of Finnish media art in collaboration with AV-Arkki, the distribution Centre for Finnish Media Art, The Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux and Frame Visual...

PhD Maria Hirvi-Ijäs, art critic and researcher on contemporary art, has written a publication called 22 Ways – On Artistic Thinking in Finnish Contemporary Art. The publication gathers different ways to think and work  as a Finnish...

Gallery artists Liisa Lounila and Pilvi Takala participate in the group show Shifting Identities at MACRO Testaccio art museum in Rome. The exhibition brings together artists from Finland and Estonia and explores the theme of defining identity.The...

Liisa Lounila, Stargazing, 2011, palladium on Converse sneakers, 35 x 35 x 20 cmLiisa Lounila and Pilvi Takala participate in the main exhibition of the summer 2014 at Serlachius Museum Gösta’s new pavilion. The exhibition called SuperPop!...

Installation view from Attires and Attitudes, Tartu Art Museum 2014. Still image from Drive With Care, 2014.Pilvi Takala’s first solo show in Estonia titled Attires and Attitudes has opened at Tartu Art Museum on September 5th. Attires and...

Pilvi Takala, still image from the video The Committee , 2013-2014.Jukka Korkeila and Pilvi Takala will exhibit in The Last Artists Exhibition, opening 29th of November at Kunsthalle Helsinki. Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Artists’...

Welcome to the opening of our summer exhibition with Heiska, Laitinen, Saksa and Takala!...

Has word lost it’s significance? Many predicted that with the introduction of text, and writing on phones, that language would be debased and fa...

Welcome to a discussion with Pilvi Takala and Gallery Director Mari Männistö about the themes of Takala's exhibition Invisible Friend and ar...

Welcome to the opening of Pilvi Takala's exhibition at Helsinki Contemporary....