ANGELS AND MESSENGERS

PILVI TAKALA

HIAP Project Room

22 April – 8 May 2009

Tue 10am - 6pm, Wed - Fri 10am - 5pm

Opening reception on Tuesday 21 April 4 - 6pm. Welcome!

Pilvi Takala (b.1981, Helsinki) shows two works realized in 2008: The Messengers (installation) and The Angels (video). The Messengers is an installation created during Takala’s residency in Zagreb (2007/08), funded by FRAME. It is an intervention into Croatian media, more accurately a magazine called Story, specialising in celebrity news and gossip, and its fixation with local celebrity Vlatka Pokos. The basis of the piece is the idea of inverted gossip. Gossip can be any small detail about the life of someone famous as long as it portrays the person in a negative light. Instead of spreading juicy gossip, Takala sets out to report pieces of insignificant but positive acts whose value in scandalous terms is nil, yet when performed by a celebrity become newsworthy. These absurd little news items create a ‘rupture’ in the traditional tabloid formula through their lack of sensation and by being nothing more than a slightly naïve testament to people caring about each other.

The Angels (2008) investigates the illusion of safety and perfection in a highly controlled public space. Dressed as a shop assistant the artist performs bonafide acts of kindness, which could also be perceived as suspicious.

Takala’s residency was part of an exchange project organized between HIAP, FRAME and Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic.

www.hiap.fi

The Trainee at Dolores/ Ellen de Bruijne Projects

Welcome to the opening on February 28 at 5 pm!
the show runs until the 4th of April.

The Trainee - Pilvi Takala

Imagine yourself in your (extremely) (boring) daily office job. Like you do every morning, you enter the big office (located in an area of the city which is easily reachable both by car and public transport) through the main entrance - greeting the hostess at the same time as you enter your access code to grant yourself access to the office area.

On your way to your own desk you spot a new girl. Although she wears her hair somewhat alternatively she does look quite ambitious with those neat trousers and that jacket.

On your first way (of many to come that day) to the coffee machine you see the new girl sitting at a desk. The desk has nothing on it - no computer, and not even papers or a pen. The girl is sitting behind the desk and appears to be in deep thought.

Back at your own desk you inquire about the girl with your colleagues. It turns out that her name is Johanna and that she is the new trainee. Why she doesn't have a computer is also quite a mystery to your colleagues.

On your second way to the coffee machine (or maybe it's the water cooler this time) you spot the trainee still without a computer - and still heavily contemplating. You decide to speak up to her: "What are you working on?", you ask. "I'm doing some brainwork", she answers. Flabbergasted you continue your ways.

Back at your desk you realize that it's also your responsibility to guarantee the future of the company, and therefore to make sure that the trainees from your company mirror the well being of this company in their future occupations. You decide to send an email with a complaint to your manager.

The last time you go and fetch some coffee for that day you meet up with some colleagues from Finance. They too have seen a new trainee sporting some awkward (to say the least) behavior...

The Trainee, 2008 - a video installation by Pilvi Takala.

Pilvi Takala (Finland, 1981) has shown her work at the 2005 Istanbul Biennale, and more recently at Frac des Pays de La Loire in Nantes, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, and the Turku Art Museum. Some of her recent groupshows inculde: the 5th Berlin Biennial, Kunsthalle Helsinki, and the Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center. Currently she is a resident artist at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.

This exhibition was made possible by Frascati.

Curated by Joris Lindhout

The gallery is open from Tuesday till Saturday from 13:00 to 18:00, and on the first Sunday of the month from 14:00 to 17:00.

Ellen de Bruijne Projects
Rozengracht 207A
1016 LZ, Amsterdam
http://www.edbprojects.nl
edbprojects@cs.com

Performance at MIHAN

photo:Regina Kelaita

performance at "Mostly It Happens At Night", Flatstation on February 26th

I called Pentecost Revival Church International 24-hour Prayer Warriors and asked for a prayer on my issue.

Mostly It Happens At Night 19.2.-28.2.

http://mihan.flatstation.nl/

FLATSTATION PRESENTS:

MOSTLY IT HAPPENS AT NIGHT

19.02.09 - 28.02.09

Artists: Marcel van den Berg, Daniela Bershan & Jonas Ohlsson, Maurice Bogaert, Constant Dullaart, Quinsy Gario, Regina Kelaita, Anne Schiffer and Pilvi Takala

From 19 February on, Mostly It Happens At Night presents art, films, music, performances and a nice meal every night at Flatstation. All of this will culminate in a Bijlmer style party on Saturday 28 February. Join us at Florijn 42 in the Bijlmer or on the Internet: mihan.flatstation.nl

The project is an experiment and research on how artists present art works in physical and virtual space with the Bijlmer and its countless visible and invisible networks, nationalities and constant changes, as the starting point of their works.

Mostly It Happens At Night is the first FLAT Project by guest curator Maaike Gouwenberg in collaboration with Sandra van Dongen.

This project is financially supported by: Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, SNS Reaalfonds and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Noord-Holland.

FLATSTATION: Florijn 42, 1102 BA Amsterdam, flatstation.nl For more information please contact: Maaike Gouwenberg on 0031(0)614184486 or mgouwenberg@gmail.com

Outshiners in galerija miroslav kraljevic

17.12.2008-31.01.2009

Pilvi Takala:
OUTSHINERS

opening Wednesday December 17, 2008 at 7 pm

Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic is proud to present Pilvi Takala's solo show Outshiners. Besides a selection of the artist's earlier work, the exhibition presents a new piece The Messengers, produced during the artist's research and residency at G-MK in Winter 2007.

Curated by Ivana Bago and Antonia Majaca

With the support of FRAME - Finnish Fund for Art Exchange

g-mk | galerija miroslav kraljevic
Subiceva 29
10000 Zagreb
+385 1 4592 696
www.g-mk.hr

SMART-joulukatselmus

SMART-wiew at Korjaamo
3.12.- 4.1.
open every day 11-17

*Jiri Geller * Toni Hautamäki *Hannaleena Heiska * Jenni Hiltunen * Eemil Karila * Katri Kuparinen * Susanna Majuri * Heikki Marila * Tiina Mielonen * Riiko Sakkinen * Maiju Salmenkivi * Pilvi Takala * Pekka Finland

Kultturitehdas Korjaamo
Töölönkatu 51 a-b Helsinki

invitation
Korjaamo

The Announcer in 25. Kasseler DokFest

The Announcer in "Seeking a partner"-screening
Friday 14.11. at 22:15 BALi Cinemas
Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- & videofest
Seeking a partner