Curriculum Vitae
HELINÄ HUKKATAIVAL
lives in Tampere, Finland
www.hukkataival.weebly.com; www.av-arkki.fi/en/artists/helina-hukkataival_en/ ; www.hukkataival.fi
Studies
2008-12 Tampere Polytechnic, University of Applied Sciences, Art and Media, professional specialization studies in photography and video art
2007 Tampere Polytechnic, University of Applied Sciences, Art and Media, BA exam in Fine Arts
2003-02 Tampere Polytechnic, School of Art and Media, professional specialization studies in color photography and media art 1998 Miniforum, International Performance Workshop by Norbert Klassen, Turku
1993-94 Gestalt Art Therapist studies by Ihmissuhdetyö Association, Helsinki
1990 Performance Workshop By Derevo Theatre, Leningrad, USSR
1985-87 Gestalt Art Therapist studies by Ihmissuhdetyö Association, Helsinki
1962-66 Institute of Arts and Crafts, Helsinki (art education)
1961-62 Lindenwood College, Art Department, St. Charles,Mo,USA
Solo Exhibitions (paintings, installations, video installations, performances)
Upcoming
2020 December: Photographic Center Hippolyte Studio, Helsinki, Finland
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2018
Kangasala House Gallery, Kangasala, Finland, First You Have to Be Martha photographs and videoworks
Pitkäniermen Hospital exhibition space, Tampere, Finland Easter in Norogachi, Mexico photographs,
Photographic Centre Nykyaika, Tampere Cabaret Ladies videos and photos
2016 Internationales Waldkunst Zentrum, Darmstadt, Germany Photographs with Martha, exhibition and performance Darmstadt Peas; Galleria Koppelo, Tampere, Finland Variations - video works and A4:s
2015 Jangva Gallery & Studio Space Between Ritual and Carnival works from 1990 - 2015
2014 Gallery Jangva Studio, Helsinki First You Have to Be a Martha photographs and videos,
2012 Gallery Jangva Studio, Helsinki Performances for Camera (Photos and Video)
2010 Gallery Jangva, Helsinki Mark Me - interactive performance- and video installation
2006 Steam Engine Museum in The Finnish Labour Museum, Tampere Water is Boiling performance and video installation 2003 Gallery Jangva, Helsinki Forgive me – performance - and video installation
2002 Museum Centre Vapriikki, Tampere Private Thoughts – video- mediated performance and video installation
KunstTREFFpunkt , Darmstadt, Germany Trash Art and Look or Listen, interactive, durational performances 2001 Gallery Jangva, Makasiinit,Helsinki Bubble Chapel –interactive installation and pastel paintings
2000 Museum Centre Vapriikki, (Tampere Theatre Festival) Bubble Chapel – interactive installation and performance 1999 Gallery Blum, Helsinki, pastel paintings
1997 Gallery Jangva, Makasiinit, Helsinki Pure Art – installation and interactive, durational performance
1989 Gallery Saskia, Tampere, pastel paintings; Art House, Nokia, pastel paintings
1988 Jämsänkoski, pastel paintings
Group Exhibitions and Performance Festivals (selection)
Upcoming
2019
October: The7th UP-ON International Live Art Festival, ChengDu, China
November: Valparaiso, Chile, Performance Art Festival CuerpAs International and Open Field, Buenos Aires, 2021 Jyväskylä Art Museum,Finland, Group exhibition Five Rooms ( Helasvuo, Hukkataival, Ilvessalo, Rapinoja, Tompuri,Vertanen)
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2019
Perfomedia Venezia 2019, International Performance Festival
Stockholm, Sweden, Galleria Cupido ,Four Artists from Finland (C.Kajander, K.Tuokko, I.Virmakoski; Hukkataival)Torn, performance
Madrid, Spain P:E:P:A (Pequeno Evento de Performance Art), Madrid Tongue, performance
2018 Espoo City Theatre, Finland, Analco Project/ Four Performances: Exquisite Corpse, Ostrich Egg, performance
NIAN-Nordic Islands Action in Nature Gothenburg
Body Landscapes 2018 International Performance Art Festival, Copenhagen VerdensKulturCentret Laundry BucketPerfomedia Ortigia 2018, Syracusa, Sicilia, performances The Scribe and Natale
NIAN-Nordic Islands Action in Nature, Åland, performance event Filling the Boat, Cleanig the Cliffs, Bubbles in the JarArt Centre Antares Live Art day The Drums HSS Group
Performance Art Now -event, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki ME-YOU performanssi
Performance in “Break Through” Performance Series, Munich, Germany Do the Laundry
Frise Künstlerhaus Gallery, Hamburg, Germany , joint exhibition with Petra Vehviläinen.
Durational performance and performance documentation video Brushwood; Ancients small wooden objects
2017 Rajataide Ry 20th anniversary, Performance event, Tampere The Package
Gallery Week in Tampere, Galleria Saskia Red Cheeks performance by HSS group Art Centre Antares, Sippola, Finland, performance day Red Cheeks performance,
HSS group (Hukkataival, Iivonen, Törmälä) Art Fair Suomi17, International Contemporary Art Festival, Cable Factory, Helsinki A4 –performance installation
Venice Live International Performance Art Festival, Venice, Italy, Flashing Barbie durational, moving performance1
International Performance Festivals in Mexico: Performancear O Morir in Norogachi Collecting Brushwood durational
InSitu in Guanajuato and 3rd UTOPIA in Mexico City Duality II (Hukkataival-Virmakoski) performance
Angacoq III, performance weekend. SIC Galleria, Helsinki Egg of the Goldeneye III, performance
Erkki Pirtola Memorial Happening, Madhouse, Helsinki PUU(Tree) performance
Munch Museum, Oslo, Emma & Edvard – Love in the Time of Loneliness –exhibition (3 performances with the actors of
Madame B, 2014); Galerie RAM, Oslo Egg of the Goldeneye II solo performance
2016 Dark Reideer Group in Galleria Emil, Tampere Veaiga-project improvisation of live sound and painting,
as visiting performance artist; Galleria 3hk, Pori Art Weeks, Pori, Finland, Egg of the Goldeneye performance
International Performance Evening in LP Art Space, Chongqing, China, Duality parallel and intertwining performances
by Inari Virmakoski and Helinä Hukkataival
Parabiosis III - International Contemporary Art Exhibition 2016 at Changjiang Contemporary Art Museum, Chongqing, China, video Blackpainting and installation White Nets together with Inari Virmakoski
Photographic Centre Nykyaika, Tampere, Finland, Our Everyday Food group exhibition, Fastfood Booths photos
Art Center Antares, Sippola, Finland, A4 -performance
Art-Athina, Athens, Greece with MUU Artists Association and as
Artist of the SoMe Artist Week! Vol. 2 by MUUry
Galleri Semmingsen, Oslo, Norway, Messages performance
Kajaani Art Museum, group show (Helasvuo, Hukkataival, Ilvessalo, Rapinoja, Tompuri, Vertanen) installation, videos
2015 Sara Hildén Art Museum, Women’s Weapons: Lipstick & Tears? Messages (Red and Black) performance
Sara Hildén Art Museum / 6th Triennial of Pirkanmaa egion Cosy Picnik performance HSS Group
Sara Hildén Art Museum / 6th Triennial of Pirkanmaa region: video works Never a Lazy Moment, Forest Martha,
and Secret Hero as part of museums own exhibition Women’s Weapons: Lipstick & Tears?
Mad House Helsinki, Transgeneration week Sweet(Chocolate Heart) performance
KNIR (The Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome) Crown of Branches performance
Performance event, Galleria Antares, Sippola, Finland Pages From a Stone Library durational, interactive performance GARTEN Utopien - Vogelfrei 11, Darmstad, Germany Tomorrows Flowers are in Todays seeds, durational, interactive PERFO performance evening, Telakka, Tampere Messages performance
Infr’Action Venezia 3 International Performance Festival Duty Calls durational performance (Hukkataival-Iivonen)Perfomedia Krakow Festival , Poland Red and Black Messages performance
Nieborw Castle, Nieborow, Puola Crown of Branches performance
Lisbon, Portugal, meetiNGart Gallery, Nordic Season – 10 Finnish artists (HH photographs)
Lappeenranta Art Museum, Finland, Five Rooms - group exhibition: Washing Line performance
Videos&Installation Cut and Crochet
2014 Gallery Augusta, Suomenlinna, Helsinki TONIGHT performance art event Red and Black Messages
Gallery Jangva, Helsinki Three Wise/3 performance, H+SS team
Oheistaidekoti Outi Heiskanen, Vehmaa, Finland VITAMIN exhibition Stone Library durational, participatory perf. Galleria Antares, Sippola Finland Kolme viisasta performance, H+SS team (Hukkataival,Törmälä,Iivonen) Bookshop Bivar, Lissabon, Portugal A4 /short performance
2013 Santiago, Chile Connection – Perfolink Europa to Latin America performance art festival Chocolate Heart perform. TILA Gallery, Helsinki with sculptor Ritva Tulonen, WhoMasks, videowork and photographs
Kohtuus vaarassa IV, Environmental Seminar in Koli, Finland Earth Listens performance, invocations: Ulla Vaarnamo Merihaka 40 Years Anniversary Festivities, Helsinki WHO AM I (A4) durational performance
Performance on the Boat Tour, Turku Archipelago, Finland Frills and the Smock performance
Latvian-Finnish Performance Gathering, ITU-project,Humppila, Finland Earth Listens – Cosmos is Dumbfounded
(performance with Ilkka-Juhani Takalo-Eskola, text) Art Center Antares, Sippola, Finland, performance event Summer Bureaucrat 2 performance
Infr’Action Venezia 2013 International Performance Festival Three Wise performance interventions and Advise performance (Hukkataival,Törmälä ,Virmakoski)
MUU ry:n PERFORMANCE VOYAGE VENEZIA Three Wise performance (Hukkataival, Törmälä, Virmakoski)
2012 Guangzhou Live3 International Action Art Festival, China Silver Grey performance
NYKYAIKA Photographic centre, 30th Anniversary Exhibition in Tampere, Finland, photographs
5th Pirkanmaa Triennal, Tampere, Ihmisen Mittaa installation and performance, BARGAIN GROUP Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, FRiNGE festival Cleaning Ladies Patrol performanssi H+SS team La Bás Biennale Helsinki, Kiasma Theatre Black Square Nr 2 performance
BARGAIN-group installation in THE SEA-exhibition, Tampere/Tartto/Odense
Galleria BE19; Helsinki Grey performance
2011 Art Contact, Galleria Augusta Journey performanssi
Gallerie Lasipalatsi, Helsinki November Bureaucrat performance
Muu Gallery, Helsinki Pea Study /5 performanssi
Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Museum, Turku, Finland Pea Study /4 performance
Paikkari Performance happening, Sammatti, Finland Summer Bureaucrat performance
Vogelfrei 9 -“Jäger und Sammler ” im Park und Schloß Kranichstein, Darmstadt Pages From a Stone Library
durational, interactive performance Infr’Action Venezia 2011 Performance Festival CleaningLadies durational performance with Sinikka Törmälä and Soile Iivonen
Gallery TILA, Helsinki Vaatepuhetta exhibition with Kirsti Tuokko, Fashion Talk -videodocument
2010 Kakelhallen, Maarianhamina WHOWHO performance with Sinikka Törmälä and Soile Iivonen (= Group HSS)
Human Culture: Interactive Arts 2010 in South Karelia, Imatra, Finland PURE ART durational performance
Triennale of Expanded Artistic Media Belgrade 2010, Serbia 2XWHO performance with Sinikka Törmälä and Soile Iivonen
PerformanceFiesta5, Center of Contemporary Art Pispala Pea Study 3 performance
Galleria Antares, Ruokolahti, Finland Pea Study 2 performance
Joensuu Art Museum, Climate Change - group exhibition, Trash Art interactive, durational performance
XV Mänttä Art Festival, BARGAIN-group: Styrox Styrox installation
Perfomedia10 Festival, Spazio Thetis, Arselale, Venice Black Square performance with singer Sinikka Törmälä
Nerja, Spain, Look at This durational performance in city space
Sofia Opisto, Fuengirola, Spain Look at This and WHO durational performances
KONTTI-shop, Finnish Red Cross, Tampere, Finland Marshmallows, (live voice: Soile Iivonen)
Gallery TILA, Helsinki, exhibition with Kirsti Tuokko, BRATZ videowork
1987–2010 circa 100 different solo performances in various occasions in Finland and other countries
Residencies and other artistic activities
Upcoming 2020 Circolo Scandinavo, Rome (February, March)
2018 Residency in FRISE - Künstlerhaus Hamburg, Germany (March)
2017 Residency in Circolo Scandinavo, Rome, Italy (October)
2016 Artist Talk, Xu 501 Gallery, Chongqing, Kiina
2015 Nieborow Castle, Poland and Rome, Italy. Filming of Reasonable Doubt by Mieke Bal A video-installation project
(performing as the mother and the servant of Queen Christina of Sweden) 2014 Residency in Circolo Scandinavo, Rome, Italy (April & May)
2013 Participation in Madame B video project and -film by Mieke Bal & Michelle Williams-Gamaker as set photographer and as Emma’s mother-in -law
2012 Residency in Rome: Circolo Scandinavo (September) and -Villa Lante (October)
Participation in Madame B videofilm by Mieke Bal & Michelle Williams-Gamaker as Emma’s mother-in -law
Åland, Finland shoots
Tampere City Särö-residency in Berlin
2011 Residency in Zentrum von Kunst und Natur e.V, Darmstadt
2009 Participation in Mère Folle, videofilm by Mieke Bal & Michelle Williams
(Cinema Suitcase), as Hanna in the Finland scenes
Living Landscapes, an international conference on performance, landscape and environment, Aberystwyth University, Wales, Panel presentation: Frotiers-Memories Performance in FAW09
Artist in residence, Eckerö, Ahvenanmaa, Finland
2008 Nokia church and Palosaari church in Vaasa, Finlad, visualization for Maria Magdalen monologue by Leena Kellosalo, director: Sinikka Törmälä, screenplay: Margareta Skantze
2007 Theatre Marathon, Pieksämäki, Finland, Video and visualization for SYLVI –come back! monologue based on Sylvia Plath’s poems and diaries, Director and screenplay: Sinikka Törmälä, Monologue: Leena Kellosalo
2005 Kajaani Poetry Week, SYLVI – come back!
2004 Vasa, City Library Drama Studio SYLVI-come back! 2002 Artist in residence, Raumars, Rauma,Finland
Awards
2004 The State Prize for Visual Art 2004
Grants
2019 FRAME travel grant: P.E.P.A. Madrid
2018 Arts Promotion Centre Finland: travel grant: Perfomedia Ortigia, Sicily
FRAME travel grant, München, Germany: Break Through-performance series 2017 Arts Promotion Centre Finland: Public Display Grant
FRAME: travel grant (group: Hukkataival_Virmakoski) :Three Performance Festivals in Mexico
Finnish Cultural Foundation, Pirkanmaa Regional fund (group:Hukkataival-Virmakoski),Mexico festivals and
making a documentary photo series
2016 Majaoja Foundation, Finland: grant for working and for a solo exhibition
FRAME Visual Art Finland , project grant for attending Parabiosis III, in Chonqing, China Arts Promotion Centre Finland: travel grant ( Darmstadt, Germany)
2015 FRAME Visual Art Finland travel grant (Rome,Italy)
Pirkanmaa Regional Fund, exhibition grant
Arts Promotion Centre Finland: travel grant (Nieborow and Krakow)
Arts Council of Pirkanmaa: a performance project of H+SS Group (Hukkataival, Törmälä, Iivonen)
2014 Kone Foundation (group: Mervi Appel, Mieke Bal, Helinä Hukkataival: Hukkataival monography) Arts Promotion Centre Finland: travel grant, performance, Lisbon, Portugal
2013 Arts Promotion Centre Finland: travel grant, Perfolink FestivalSantiago, Chile FRAME Visual Art Finland travel grant (Hukkataival-Törmälä-Virmakoski) Arts Promotion Centre Finland: Public Display Grant
2012 Frame: travel grant Guangzhou Live 3 Action Art Festivaali, China
2011 FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exhange and Arts Council of Pirkanmaa: travel grants (Hukkataival-Iivonen-Törmälä) 2010 Arts Council of Pirkanmaa: travel grant (Hukkataival-Iivonen-Törmälä)
Arts Council of Finland: travel grant (Hukkataival-Törmälä)
Arts Council of Finland: grant for culture export (Tuurna - Hukkataival) 2009 Public Display Grant / Arts Council of Finland
2006 Alfred Kordelin Foundation
Arts Council of Pirkanmaa 2003 Alfred Kordelin Foundation
Arts Council of Finland
City of Tampere
2002 Public Display Grant / Arts Council of Finland 2001 Frame – Finnish Fund for Art Exchange
Arts Council of Finland
2000 The Regional Arts Council of Pirkanmaaa 1997 VISEK – The Promotion Centre of Visual arts 1992 The Regional arts Council of Häme
Artist groups
HSS performance group since 2010 ( Helinä Hukkataival, Soile Iivonen. Sinikka Törmälä) BARGAIN-group 2003 (Terhi Asumaniemi, Sirpa Hirvikoski, Helinä Hukkataival, Elina Ruohonen, Kirsti Tuokko)
In publications
2018 MUU GALA 2018 video collection I’m Climbing (2018 )
2015 Helinä Hukkataival - Space between Ritual and Carnival authors: Mervi Appel, Mieke Bal, Helinä Hukkataival
publisher: Kehrer Verlag, Germany, ISBN 978-3-86828-628-1 TAIDE magazin 4/2015 Otso Kantokorpi: “Performanssi on elävä kuva” (Performance is a Living Picture)
AV-arkki Media- and art education series: How Do I Investigate? Video Felis Catus (2007) 2014 AV-arkki Media- and art education series: What Is True? Video Bratz & Roller Skates (2010)
LiikKUVAT Video Art for Institutions. Felis Catus, (2007)
2013 Artists’ Association MUU presents: Performance Portfolio 2013 DVD / Helinä Hukkataival
2012 Performance Voyage 2 collection DVD, MUU Ry (Performance Documentations: H+SS group: CleaningLadies2011)
1⁄2 lehti Nr 1/2012 (1/2 Magazin) Veikko Halmetoja: Eläkkeellä on aikaa työlle
(Once Retired, You Have Time for Work)
2011 Turku University, History of Art, MA thesis by Mervi Appel: Bordering Between Ritual and Carnival in Helinä Hukkataival’s works “Blackpainting” and “On the Orbit of White”
2009 Aesthetics and Anthropology. Performing Life - Performed Lives. Edited by Prof. Dr. Ina-Maria Greverus and Ute Ritschel. LIT-Verlag, Berlin, In Ritschel: Forest Art- a Concept for the Future
2005 Framework 3/05, FRAME – Finnish Fund for Art Exchange
2002 Artist of the Month (www), July, FRAME – Finnish Fund for Art Exchange
Art Here, There and Everywhere, the publication of Joint Environmental art Project by Pori Art Museum and Pori
Department of Education 1999 – 2002
1998 TAIDE magazin 5/1998- Article by Pekka Luhta.: Tekoja katoavina kuvina (= Actions as Vanishing Images)
Works in collections:
Wihuri Art Collection in Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland (videoworks Blackpainting and Never a Lazy Moment) Finnish Art Association (2 photographs for art lottery, 2014)
Raimo Anttila Foundation, Finland
Memberships Artist association MUU (honorary member 2018); AV-arkki The Finnish Distribution Centre for Media Art; Nykyaika Photographic Centre (board member 2016 -): Finnish Painters Union, Tampere Artist Association,
Teaching and Mentoring
2017 Mentor in Central Finland Regional Dance Center’s mentoring program for dancers2010 Saimaa University of Applied Sciences, Art Department, performance workshop 2009 Saimaa University of Applied Sciences, Art Department, performance workshop 2008 SveFi Academy, Haparanda, Sweden, performance workshop
2007 Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Fine Arts, performance workshop
2005 Sara Hilden Academy, Tampere, adult education workshop in performance
1999 University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Further Studies Program, visiting lecturer on performance
1996 Ett Mångkulturellt Norden (= A Multicultural North), a Scandinavian Art Project for Youth, Copenhagen,
performance workshop
1966–2001 Art teacher of comprehensive and upper secondary school
HELINÄ HUKKATAIVAL
lives in Tampere, Finland
www.hukkataival.weebly.com; www.av-arkki.fi/en/artists/helina-hukkataival_en/ ; www.hukkataival.fi
Studies
2008-12 Tampere Polytechnic, University of Applied Sciences, Art and Media, professional specialization studies in photography and video art
2007 Tampere Polytechnic, University of Applied Sciences, Art and Media, BA exam in Fine Arts
2003-02 Tampere Polytechnic, School of Art and Media, professional specialization studies in color photography and media art 1998 Miniforum, International Performance Workshop by Norbert Klassen, Turku
1993-94 Gestalt Art Therapist studies by Ihmissuhdetyö Association, Helsinki
1990 Performance Workshop By Derevo Theatre, Leningrad, USSR
1985-87 Gestalt Art Therapist studies by Ihmissuhdetyö Association, Helsinki
1962-66 Institute of Arts and Crafts, Helsinki (art education)
1961-62 Lindenwood College, Art Department, St. Charles,Mo,USA
Solo Exhibitions (paintings, installations, video installations, performances)
Upcoming
2020 December: Photographic Center Hippolyte Studio, Helsinki, Finland
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2018
Kangasala House Gallery, Kangasala, Finland, First You Have to Be Martha photographs and videoworks
Pitkäniermen Hospital exhibition space, Tampere, Finland Easter in Norogachi, Mexico photographs,
Photographic Centre Nykyaika, Tampere Cabaret Ladies videos and photos
2016 Internationales Waldkunst Zentrum, Darmstadt, Germany Photographs with Martha, exhibition and performance Darmstadt Peas; Galleria Koppelo, Tampere, Finland Variations - video works and A4:s
2015 Jangva Gallery & Studio Space Between Ritual and Carnival works from 1990 - 2015
2014 Gallery Jangva Studio, Helsinki First You Have to Be a Martha photographs and videos,
2012 Gallery Jangva Studio, Helsinki Performances for Camera (Photos and Video)
2010 Gallery Jangva, Helsinki Mark Me - interactive performance- and video installation
2006 Steam Engine Museum in The Finnish Labour Museum, Tampere Water is Boiling performance and video installation 2003 Gallery Jangva, Helsinki Forgive me – performance - and video installation
2002 Museum Centre Vapriikki, Tampere Private Thoughts – video- mediated performance and video installation
KunstTREFFpunkt , Darmstadt, Germany Trash Art and Look or Listen, interactive, durational performances 2001 Gallery Jangva, Makasiinit,Helsinki Bubble Chapel –interactive installation and pastel paintings
2000 Museum Centre Vapriikki, (Tampere Theatre Festival) Bubble Chapel – interactive installation and performance 1999 Gallery Blum, Helsinki, pastel paintings
1997 Gallery Jangva, Makasiinit, Helsinki Pure Art – installation and interactive, durational performance
1989 Gallery Saskia, Tampere, pastel paintings; Art House, Nokia, pastel paintings
1988 Jämsänkoski, pastel paintings
Group Exhibitions and Performance Festivals (selection)
Upcoming
2019
October: The7th UP-ON International Live Art Festival, ChengDu, China
November: Valparaiso, Chile, Performance Art Festival CuerpAs International and Open Field, Buenos Aires, 2021 Jyväskylä Art Museum,Finland, Group exhibition Five Rooms ( Helasvuo, Hukkataival, Ilvessalo, Rapinoja, Tompuri,Vertanen)
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2019
Perfomedia Venezia 2019, International Performance Festival
Stockholm, Sweden, Galleria Cupido ,Four Artists from Finland (C.Kajander, K.Tuokko, I.Virmakoski; Hukkataival)Torn, performance
Madrid, Spain P:E:P:A (Pequeno Evento de Performance Art), Madrid Tongue, performance
2018 Espoo City Theatre, Finland, Analco Project/ Four Performances: Exquisite Corpse, Ostrich Egg, performance
NIAN-Nordic Islands Action in Nature Gothenburg
Body Landscapes 2018 International Performance Art Festival, Copenhagen VerdensKulturCentret Laundry BucketPerfomedia Ortigia 2018, Syracusa, Sicilia, performances The Scribe and Natale
NIAN-Nordic Islands Action in Nature, Åland, performance event Filling the Boat, Cleanig the Cliffs, Bubbles in the JarArt Centre Antares Live Art day The Drums HSS Group
Performance Art Now -event, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki ME-YOU performanssi
Performance in “Break Through” Performance Series, Munich, Germany Do the Laundry
Frise Künstlerhaus Gallery, Hamburg, Germany , joint exhibition with Petra Vehviläinen.
Durational performance and performance documentation video Brushwood; Ancients small wooden objects
2017 Rajataide Ry 20th anniversary, Performance event, Tampere The Package
Gallery Week in Tampere, Galleria Saskia Red Cheeks performance by HSS group Art Centre Antares, Sippola, Finland, performance day Red Cheeks performance,
HSS group (Hukkataival, Iivonen, Törmälä) Art Fair Suomi17, International Contemporary Art Festival, Cable Factory, Helsinki A4 –performance installation
Venice Live International Performance Art Festival, Venice, Italy, Flashing Barbie durational, moving performance1
International Performance Festivals in Mexico: Performancear O Morir in Norogachi Collecting Brushwood durational
InSitu in Guanajuato and 3rd UTOPIA in Mexico City Duality II (Hukkataival-Virmakoski) performance
Angacoq III, performance weekend. SIC Galleria, Helsinki Egg of the Goldeneye III, performance
Erkki Pirtola Memorial Happening, Madhouse, Helsinki PUU(Tree) performance
Munch Museum, Oslo, Emma & Edvard – Love in the Time of Loneliness –exhibition (3 performances with the actors of
Madame B, 2014); Galerie RAM, Oslo Egg of the Goldeneye II solo performance
2016 Dark Reideer Group in Galleria Emil, Tampere Veaiga-project improvisation of live sound and painting,
as visiting performance artist; Galleria 3hk, Pori Art Weeks, Pori, Finland, Egg of the Goldeneye performance
International Performance Evening in LP Art Space, Chongqing, China, Duality parallel and intertwining performances
by Inari Virmakoski and Helinä Hukkataival
Parabiosis III - International Contemporary Art Exhibition 2016 at Changjiang Contemporary Art Museum, Chongqing, China, video Blackpainting and installation White Nets together with Inari Virmakoski
Photographic Centre Nykyaika, Tampere, Finland, Our Everyday Food group exhibition, Fastfood Booths photos
Art Center Antares, Sippola, Finland, A4 -performance
Art-Athina, Athens, Greece with MUU Artists Association and as
Artist of the SoMe Artist Week! Vol. 2 by MUUry
Galleri Semmingsen, Oslo, Norway, Messages performance
Kajaani Art Museum, group show (Helasvuo, Hukkataival, Ilvessalo, Rapinoja, Tompuri, Vertanen) installation, videos
2015 Sara Hildén Art Museum, Women’s Weapons: Lipstick & Tears? Messages (Red and Black) performance
Sara Hildén Art Museum / 6th Triennial of Pirkanmaa egion Cosy Picnik performance HSS Group
Sara Hildén Art Museum / 6th Triennial of Pirkanmaa region: video works Never a Lazy Moment, Forest Martha,
and Secret Hero as part of museums own exhibition Women’s Weapons: Lipstick & Tears?
Mad House Helsinki, Transgeneration week Sweet(Chocolate Heart) performance
KNIR (The Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome) Crown of Branches performance
Performance event, Galleria Antares, Sippola, Finland Pages From a Stone Library durational, interactive performance GARTEN Utopien - Vogelfrei 11, Darmstad, Germany Tomorrows Flowers are in Todays seeds, durational, interactive PERFO performance evening, Telakka, Tampere Messages performance
Infr’Action Venezia 3 International Performance Festival Duty Calls durational performance (Hukkataival-Iivonen)Perfomedia Krakow Festival , Poland Red and Black Messages performance
Nieborw Castle, Nieborow, Puola Crown of Branches performance
Lisbon, Portugal, meetiNGart Gallery, Nordic Season – 10 Finnish artists (HH photographs)
Lappeenranta Art Museum, Finland, Five Rooms - group exhibition: Washing Line performance
Videos&Installation Cut and Crochet
2014 Gallery Augusta, Suomenlinna, Helsinki TONIGHT performance art event Red and Black Messages
Gallery Jangva, Helsinki Three Wise/3 performance, H+SS team
Oheistaidekoti Outi Heiskanen, Vehmaa, Finland VITAMIN exhibition Stone Library durational, participatory perf. Galleria Antares, Sippola Finland Kolme viisasta performance, H+SS team (Hukkataival,Törmälä,Iivonen) Bookshop Bivar, Lissabon, Portugal A4 /short performance
2013 Santiago, Chile Connection – Perfolink Europa to Latin America performance art festival Chocolate Heart perform. TILA Gallery, Helsinki with sculptor Ritva Tulonen, WhoMasks, videowork and photographs
Kohtuus vaarassa IV, Environmental Seminar in Koli, Finland Earth Listens performance, invocations: Ulla Vaarnamo Merihaka 40 Years Anniversary Festivities, Helsinki WHO AM I (A4) durational performance
Performance on the Boat Tour, Turku Archipelago, Finland Frills and the Smock performance
Latvian-Finnish Performance Gathering, ITU-project,Humppila, Finland Earth Listens – Cosmos is Dumbfounded
(performance with Ilkka-Juhani Takalo-Eskola, text) Art Center Antares, Sippola, Finland, performance event Summer Bureaucrat 2 performance
Infr’Action Venezia 2013 International Performance Festival Three Wise performance interventions and Advise performance (Hukkataival,Törmälä ,Virmakoski)
MUU ry:n PERFORMANCE VOYAGE VENEZIA Three Wise performance (Hukkataival, Törmälä, Virmakoski)
2012 Guangzhou Live3 International Action Art Festival, China Silver Grey performance
NYKYAIKA Photographic centre, 30th Anniversary Exhibition in Tampere, Finland, photographs
5th Pirkanmaa Triennal, Tampere, Ihmisen Mittaa installation and performance, BARGAIN GROUP Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, FRiNGE festival Cleaning Ladies Patrol performanssi H+SS team La Bás Biennale Helsinki, Kiasma Theatre Black Square Nr 2 performance
BARGAIN-group installation in THE SEA-exhibition, Tampere/Tartto/Odense
Galleria BE19; Helsinki Grey performance
2011 Art Contact, Galleria Augusta Journey performanssi
Gallerie Lasipalatsi, Helsinki November Bureaucrat performance
Muu Gallery, Helsinki Pea Study /5 performanssi
Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Museum, Turku, Finland Pea Study /4 performance
Paikkari Performance happening, Sammatti, Finland Summer Bureaucrat performance
Vogelfrei 9 -“Jäger und Sammler ” im Park und Schloß Kranichstein, Darmstadt Pages From a Stone Library
durational, interactive performance Infr’Action Venezia 2011 Performance Festival CleaningLadies durational performance with Sinikka Törmälä and Soile Iivonen
Gallery TILA, Helsinki Vaatepuhetta exhibition with Kirsti Tuokko, Fashion Talk -videodocument
2010 Kakelhallen, Maarianhamina WHOWHO performance with Sinikka Törmälä and Soile Iivonen (= Group HSS)
Human Culture: Interactive Arts 2010 in South Karelia, Imatra, Finland PURE ART durational performance
Triennale of Expanded Artistic Media Belgrade 2010, Serbia 2XWHO performance with Sinikka Törmälä and Soile Iivonen
PerformanceFiesta5, Center of Contemporary Art Pispala Pea Study 3 performance
Galleria Antares, Ruokolahti, Finland Pea Study 2 performance
Joensuu Art Museum, Climate Change - group exhibition, Trash Art interactive, durational performance
XV Mänttä Art Festival, BARGAIN-group: Styrox Styrox installation
Perfomedia10 Festival, Spazio Thetis, Arselale, Venice Black Square performance with singer Sinikka Törmälä
Nerja, Spain, Look at This durational performance in city space
Sofia Opisto, Fuengirola, Spain Look at This and WHO durational performances
KONTTI-shop, Finnish Red Cross, Tampere, Finland Marshmallows, (live voice: Soile Iivonen)
Gallery TILA, Helsinki, exhibition with Kirsti Tuokko, BRATZ videowork
1987–2010 circa 100 different solo performances in various occasions in Finland and other countries
Residencies and other artistic activities
Upcoming 2020 Circolo Scandinavo, Rome (February, March)
2018 Residency in FRISE - Künstlerhaus Hamburg, Germany (March)
2017 Residency in Circolo Scandinavo, Rome, Italy (October)
2016 Artist Talk, Xu 501 Gallery, Chongqing, Kiina
2015 Nieborow Castle, Poland and Rome, Italy. Filming of Reasonable Doubt by Mieke Bal A video-installation project
(performing as the mother and the servant of Queen Christina of Sweden) 2014 Residency in Circolo Scandinavo, Rome, Italy (April & May)
2013 Participation in Madame B video project and -film by Mieke Bal & Michelle Williams-Gamaker as set photographer and as Emma’s mother-in -law
2012 Residency in Rome: Circolo Scandinavo (September) and -Villa Lante (October)
Participation in Madame B videofilm by Mieke Bal & Michelle Williams-Gamaker as Emma’s mother-in -law
Åland, Finland shoots
Tampere City Särö-residency in Berlin
2011 Residency in Zentrum von Kunst und Natur e.V, Darmstadt
2009 Participation in Mère Folle, videofilm by Mieke Bal & Michelle Williams
(Cinema Suitcase), as Hanna in the Finland scenes
Living Landscapes, an international conference on performance, landscape and environment, Aberystwyth University, Wales, Panel presentation: Frotiers-Memories Performance in FAW09
Artist in residence, Eckerö, Ahvenanmaa, Finland
2008 Nokia church and Palosaari church in Vaasa, Finlad, visualization for Maria Magdalen monologue by Leena Kellosalo, director: Sinikka Törmälä, screenplay: Margareta Skantze
2007 Theatre Marathon, Pieksämäki, Finland, Video and visualization for SYLVI –come back! monologue based on Sylvia Plath’s poems and diaries, Director and screenplay: Sinikka Törmälä, Monologue: Leena Kellosalo
2005 Kajaani Poetry Week, SYLVI – come back!
2004 Vasa, City Library Drama Studio SYLVI-come back! 2002 Artist in residence, Raumars, Rauma,Finland
Awards
2004 The State Prize for Visual Art 2004
Grants
2019 FRAME travel grant: P.E.P.A. Madrid
2018 Arts Promotion Centre Finland: travel grant: Perfomedia Ortigia, Sicily
FRAME travel grant, München, Germany: Break Through-performance series 2017 Arts Promotion Centre Finland: Public Display Grant
FRAME: travel grant (group: Hukkataival_Virmakoski) :Three Performance Festivals in Mexico
Finnish Cultural Foundation, Pirkanmaa Regional fund (group:Hukkataival-Virmakoski),Mexico festivals and
making a documentary photo series
2016 Majaoja Foundation, Finland: grant for working and for a solo exhibition
FRAME Visual Art Finland , project grant for attending Parabiosis III, in Chonqing, China Arts Promotion Centre Finland: travel grant ( Darmstadt, Germany)
2015 FRAME Visual Art Finland travel grant (Rome,Italy)
Pirkanmaa Regional Fund, exhibition grant
Arts Promotion Centre Finland: travel grant (Nieborow and Krakow)
Arts Council of Pirkanmaa: a performance project of H+SS Group (Hukkataival, Törmälä, Iivonen)
2014 Kone Foundation (group: Mervi Appel, Mieke Bal, Helinä Hukkataival: Hukkataival monography) Arts Promotion Centre Finland: travel grant, performance, Lisbon, Portugal
2013 Arts Promotion Centre Finland: travel grant, Perfolink FestivalSantiago, Chile FRAME Visual Art Finland travel grant (Hukkataival-Törmälä-Virmakoski) Arts Promotion Centre Finland: Public Display Grant
2012 Frame: travel grant Guangzhou Live 3 Action Art Festivaali, China
2011 FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exhange and Arts Council of Pirkanmaa: travel grants (Hukkataival-Iivonen-Törmälä) 2010 Arts Council of Pirkanmaa: travel grant (Hukkataival-Iivonen-Törmälä)
Arts Council of Finland: travel grant (Hukkataival-Törmälä)
Arts Council of Finland: grant for culture export (Tuurna - Hukkataival) 2009 Public Display Grant / Arts Council of Finland
2006 Alfred Kordelin Foundation
Arts Council of Pirkanmaa 2003 Alfred Kordelin Foundation
Arts Council of Finland
City of Tampere
2002 Public Display Grant / Arts Council of Finland 2001 Frame – Finnish Fund for Art Exchange
Arts Council of Finland
2000 The Regional Arts Council of Pirkanmaaa 1997 VISEK – The Promotion Centre of Visual arts 1992 The Regional arts Council of Häme
Artist groups
HSS performance group since 2010 ( Helinä Hukkataival, Soile Iivonen. Sinikka Törmälä) BARGAIN-group 2003 (Terhi Asumaniemi, Sirpa Hirvikoski, Helinä Hukkataival, Elina Ruohonen, Kirsti Tuokko)
In publications
2018 MUU GALA 2018 video collection I’m Climbing (2018 )
2015 Helinä Hukkataival - Space between Ritual and Carnival authors: Mervi Appel, Mieke Bal, Helinä Hukkataival
publisher: Kehrer Verlag, Germany, ISBN 978-3-86828-628-1 TAIDE magazin 4/2015 Otso Kantokorpi: “Performanssi on elävä kuva” (Performance is a Living Picture)
AV-arkki Media- and art education series: How Do I Investigate? Video Felis Catus (2007) 2014 AV-arkki Media- and art education series: What Is True? Video Bratz & Roller Skates (2010)
LiikKUVAT Video Art for Institutions. Felis Catus, (2007)
2013 Artists’ Association MUU presents: Performance Portfolio 2013 DVD / Helinä Hukkataival
2012 Performance Voyage 2 collection DVD, MUU Ry (Performance Documentations: H+SS group: CleaningLadies2011)
1⁄2 lehti Nr 1/2012 (1/2 Magazin) Veikko Halmetoja: Eläkkeellä on aikaa työlle
(Once Retired, You Have Time for Work)
2011 Turku University, History of Art, MA thesis by Mervi Appel: Bordering Between Ritual and Carnival in Helinä Hukkataival’s works “Blackpainting” and “On the Orbit of White”
2009 Aesthetics and Anthropology. Performing Life - Performed Lives. Edited by Prof. Dr. Ina-Maria Greverus and Ute Ritschel. LIT-Verlag, Berlin, In Ritschel: Forest Art- a Concept for the Future
2005 Framework 3/05, FRAME – Finnish Fund for Art Exchange
2002 Artist of the Month (www), July, FRAME – Finnish Fund for Art Exchange
Art Here, There and Everywhere, the publication of Joint Environmental art Project by Pori Art Museum and Pori
Department of Education 1999 – 2002
1998 TAIDE magazin 5/1998- Article by Pekka Luhta.: Tekoja katoavina kuvina (= Actions as Vanishing Images)
Works in collections:
Wihuri Art Collection in Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland (videoworks Blackpainting and Never a Lazy Moment) Finnish Art Association (2 photographs for art lottery, 2014)
Raimo Anttila Foundation, Finland
Memberships Artist association MUU (honorary member 2018); AV-arkki The Finnish Distribution Centre for Media Art; Nykyaika Photographic Centre (board member 2016 -): Finnish Painters Union, Tampere Artist Association,
Teaching and Mentoring
2017 Mentor in Central Finland Regional Dance Center’s mentoring program for dancers2010 Saimaa University of Applied Sciences, Art Department, performance workshop 2009 Saimaa University of Applied Sciences, Art Department, performance workshop 2008 SveFi Academy, Haparanda, Sweden, performance workshop
2007 Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Fine Arts, performance workshop
2005 Sara Hilden Academy, Tampere, adult education workshop in performance
1999 University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Further Studies Program, visiting lecturer on performance
1996 Ett Mångkulturellt Norden (= A Multicultural North), a Scandinavian Art Project for Youth, Copenhagen,
performance workshop
1966–2001 Art teacher of comprehensive and upper secondary school