Mika Taanila
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Mika Taanila is an artist based in Helsinki. His projects address the notion of human engineering, via film-making, visual arts, or music. Taanila is known for works such as Return of the Atom (2015), a collaboration with Pan Sonic which received the NORDIC:DOX Award for Best Nordic Feature Documentary at CPH:DOX festival in 2015; as well as Tectonic Plate (2016), his last collaboration with Mika Vainio.
Taanila’s films have been screened at several international film festivals and special events, such as Toronto International Film Festival, IFF Rotterdam, CPH:DOX, International Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand, Karlovy-Vary Film Festival, Midnight Sun Film Festival, IDFA Amsterdam, Berlinale, and Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen.
His moving image installations have been shown at major international group shows, such as Venice Biennale (2017), Aichi Triennale (2013), Documenta (2012), Shanghai Biennale (2006), and Berlin Biennale (2004). Solo shows include STUK, Leuven (2018); La Neomudéjar, Madrid (2018); balzerprojects, Basel (2016), Kiasma, Helsinki (2013–14); CAM, St. Louis (2013); Badischer Kunstverein (2008); and Migrosmuseum, Zurich (2005).
In 2015 Taanila was awarded The Ars Fennica prize.
Persisting Realities: CTM 2019 Exhibition Opening
Kunstraum, Fri 25.01.2019, 19:00Persisting Realities
Kunstraum, Sat 26.01.2019, 11:00Persisting Realities
Kunstraum, Sun 27.01.2019, 11:00Persisting Realities
Kunstraum, Mon 28.01.2019, 11:00Persisting Realities
Kunstraum, Tue 29.01.2019, 11:00Persisting Realities
Kunstraum, Wed 30.01.2019, 11:00Persisting Realities
Kunstraum, Thu 31.01.2019, 11:00Persisting Realities
Kunstraum, Fri 01.02.2019, 11:00Persisting Realities
Kunstraum, Sat 02.02.2019, 11:00Persisting Realities
Kunstraum, Sun 03.02.2019, 11:00The Punched Tape of Life
HAU2, Fri 31.01.2014, 17:00The Future is Not What it Used to Be
Kunstquartier Studio 1, Thu 30.01.2014, 15:30Links
CTM Festival
