Maarit Suomi-Väänänen (MA) works as a visual artist and filmmaker. Her works has shown in exhibitions, screenings, festivals and television. Maarit Suomi-Väänänen (b. 1966) lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.
Curriculum Vitae on the left
FILMS AND MOVING IMAGE INSTALLATIONS
UP AND ABOUT AGAIN
short film, media art work
TV:
Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE (2010)
Visual Art: UPCOMING: Virserums Konsthall, Sweden, june-december 2010 Solo exhibition: Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, Canada 30.10.-11.12.2009 Screening at Reykjavik Art Museum, Visual Art Magazine Rafskinna and Nordisk Panorama 9.2009 Pori Art Museum, Night of the Museum 5.2009 Publication of DVD, FRAME project room 5.2009 Int Video Festival Videomedeja, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina Serbia 12.2009 Directors Lounge Media Art Festival in Berlin Germany 11-21.2.2010 Nomadic Video Library Brussels Belgium, http://www.6870.be Media Art Festival Bandits-Mages, Bourges, France 4.-10.5.2009 Loop Video Art Festival Barcelona 12-22.5.2010 MoA exhibition Helsinki Finland 12-24.5.2009 Art Fair Suomi Helsinki 26.9.-4.10.2009 Trailer 2008: Helsinki Art Fair 2008 / Galleri Sinne Videonight Festivals: Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal Canada 7-18.10 Best short film in the International Selection-award REGARD Saguenay International Short Film Festival, Chicoutimi Kanada 10.-14.3.2010 Göteborg International Film Festival, Sweden 29.1-8.2.2010, Best of Nordic Short Films screening IDFA Documentary Film Festival - Paradocs programme Amsterdam The Netherlands 11.2009 Brazil: Belo Horizonte - Venue Arte.mov Festival + Salvador + Porto Alegre + Belem 11.2009 Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, Germany 10.-15.11.2009 Curtocircuito 09 - competition, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 10.-17.10.2009 Festival de Internacional Filmets Badalona - competition, Barcelona Spain 6.-14.11.2009 ATA Film&Video Festival, San Francisco 22.-23.10.2009 Arctic & Fabulous Film Festival – competition, Jyväskylä Finland 19.-22.10.2009 Uppsala International Short Film Festival - competition Sweden, 19.-25.10.2009 Milan Film Festival - competition Italy 11.-20.9.2009 + Re Distribution Project in Italy Festival Silhouette, Paris France 9.2009 Festival international du film d’Amiens, France 11.2009 Off-Courts Festival - competition, Trouville France, 9.2009 Noci Cortinfestival, Italy 25 FPS int. experimental film and video festival, competition, Zagreb Croatia 22.-27.9.2009 Sarajevo Film Festival-New Currents Shorts Competition Program, Bosnia and Herzegovina 12-20.8. CAMBOfest, Cambodia 12.2009 Thai Short Film and Video, Competition, Bangkok 21.-23.8.2009 Worldwide Short Film Festival – Official Selection, Toronto Canada 16.-21.6.2009 Cannes Film Festival, France, Scandinavian Short Films Screening, Short Film Corner 5.2009 Curtas Vila do Conde Int Film Festival, Portugal 4.-12.7.2009, European Panorama Just For Laughs Festival – Official Competition, Montreal Canada 23.-25.7.2009 Nordisk Film Festival 2009, Fredikshavn, Denmark Rauma Blue Sea Film Festival, Finland 8.2009 Screenings, happenings: Media Centre Lume 5.2009 Verdens Kultur Centret Copenhagen Denmark 5.2009 TamperePunkevenings Vastavirta club and Hertta Cultural Cafe Finland Kosmoramaclub Turku FinlandsInstitutet, Stockholm 14.2.10. + Norrköping, Eskilstuna, Västerås, Uumaja och Borås, Förfilm för Aleksi Mäkelä´s Rööperi
Salty Snow
Ignition New Media and Film Festival, venue Majestic Theatre, Australia 2009
Virka Gallery, Exhibition Public Stash, Helsinki City Hall, Finland 20.5.-30.8.2009
http://www.virka.fi/
Night at the Indies, Toronto, Canada 25.3.2009
Rostock, Nacht der Kultur, Germany 18.10.2008
Helsinki Contemporary Art Fair, Wanha Satama, Finland 18.-19.10.2008
Art Fair Suomi 08, Cablefactory, Finland 12.9.-21.9.2008
Solo Exhibition: Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland 14.6.-4.9.2008
Scandinavian House, New York, Autumn 2008 (AV-arkki screening)
WWF - New Delhi, India, Film and Documentary Library
Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France 3.2008
AmbiENT Festival, Knot point, Brescia, Italy 4.2008
tv broadcast and streaming: Movieola - Short Film Channel, Canada
RAW Brooklyn, New York on November 14th, 2007
FOXdays, short film festival, Helsinki 11.2007
Art Fair Muu, MUUgallery, Helsinki 5.-14.10.2007
Media Art Festival, Khanty-Mansiysk, West-Siberia 9.2007
Bay Street Film Festival, Thunder Bay, Canada 9.2007
Reikäreuna Film Festival, Orivesi, Finland 9.2007
CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto, Canada 6.2007
Group Exhibition - Contemporary Art Festival, Khanty-Mansiysk, West-Siberia 1.-30.6.2007
VIEW - Media Art Festival, Solo Exhibition at CableGallery, Helsinki, Finland 2.-27.2.2007
National Broadcasting Company YLE, Uusi Kino and Teema 2007
Flux-screening vol2 - compilation curated by CARTES Centre for Art and Technology
Flux vol 2, Louhisali - Theatre, Espoo, Finland 4.2007
SIMULTAN video and new media art festival, Timisoara, Romania 5.2007
Vertical Festival, Caldes de Montbui, Catalonia, Spain 6.2007
A Bit Scary Really...
Virka Gallery, Exhibition Public Stash, Helsinki City Hall, Finland 20.5.-30.8.2009
VerdensKulturCentret, Copenhagen, Denmark 26.3.2009
Bay Street Film Festival, Thunder Bay, Canada 9.2008
WWF - New Delhi, India, Film and Documentary Library
Kulczyk Foundation, Poznan, Poland 11.2007
Undergroundfilm.com, San Francisco, USA
Colchester International Film Festival / Signals, Great-Britain 10.2007
MadCat Women's Int. Film Festival, Artists' Television Access, San Francisco 1.-30.9.2007
Reikäreuna Film Festival, Orivesi, Finland 9.2007
Quartet - 40 years jubilee screening of Helsinki Arts Association 9.2007
San Giò Festival, Verona, Italy 7.2007
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgia 25.2.2007 (IDFA screening)
IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, 11.2006
Courtisane Festival, Kunstencentrum vooruit, Ghent Belgium 4.2006
International Fideo and Vilm Festival organized by Non Grata, Pärnu Estonia 11.2006
FOXdays, Helsinki 11.2006
ArtFair 2006, MUUgallery Helsinki 22.9. - 1.10.2006
Gallery Leena Kuumola´s Film-Event, Helsinki 12.2005
MasterClass Screening, The Korjaamo Culture Factory Helsinki 3.2006
VIEW 2006 - Media Art Festival, Helsinki, Finland 2.2006
AV-arkki tour06 - compilation:
Uppsala International Short Film Festival 10.2006
FORUM BOX - gallery, videoroom, Helsinki, Finland 5.2006
LOOP: The Place for Video Art Lovers, Barcelona, Spain 5.2006
Perf06 gallery 3H+K, Pori, Finland 5.2006
Breaking The Ice, Art Museum Bonn, Germany 4.2006
Tampere International Film Festival, Finland 3.2006
VideoNight -compilation, curated by ArtEast Foundation
13th Alter-Native Short Film Festival / Fortress Gallery, Targu Mures, Romania 11.20
Museum of Modern Art, Bucharest, Romania 5.2006
JOUTSENLAULU / SWAN SONG
Le 4e`me Festival de films underground de Montreal MUFF, Canada 14.-16.5.2009
Watercolor Bienniale Baltic Bridges, M. Zilinskas Art Gallery of the National M.K. Ciurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania 11.7 - 24.8.2008
- Director was awarded the diploma by the international jury.
Movieola - Short Film Channel, Canada
tv broadcast: tv-tv, independent channel 24.6.2006, Copenhagen, Denmark
ArtFair, MUUgallery, Helsinki 21.9. - 1.10.2006
CartesFlux -screening, CARTES Centre for Art and Technology,
Espoo, Finland 12.2005 and 3.2006
Finnish Art Video Maraton Filmklubb Video Lick, Atalante,
Gothenburg, Sweden 3.2005
VIEW - Festival for Finnish Media Art Helsinki Finland 2.2005
organised by AV-arkki, Distribution Center for Finnish Media Art
Foxdays -Film and Video Festival, Helsinki Finland 11.2004
Gallerii Deco, Tallinn, Estonia, 7.-20.9.2004
Gallery Leena Kuumola´s Videoclub -event 9.6.2004
premier at MuuGallery, Helsinki Finland 17.5.2004
Middletons
Lönnström Art Museum, Studio, Finland solo exhibition 14.6.-7.9.2008
Digital Design Production House Medusa, Turku, Finland, permanent installation
UP AND ABOUT AGAIN
Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE (2010)
Visual Art: Ongoing: Virserums Konsthall, Sweden, june-december 2010 http://www.artland.se/utstallningar/tales-from-the-forest-350490 Galleria Forssan Tori Finland 9-27.2.2010 Solo exhibition: Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, Canada 30.10.-11.12.2009 Screening at Reykjavik Art Museum, Visual Art Magazine Rafskinna and Nordisk Panorama 9.2009 Pori Art Museum, Night of the Museum 5.2009 Publication of DVD, FRAME project room 5.2009 Int Video Festival Videomedeja, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina Serbia 12.2009 Directors Lounge Media Art Festival in Berlin Germany 11-21.2.2010 +PAm video art festival Sennigallia, Italy Nomadic Video Library Brussels Belgium, http://www.6870.be Media Art Festival Bandits-Mages, Bourges, France 4.-10.5.2009 MoA exhibition Helsinki Finland 12-24.5.2009 Art Fair Suomi Helsinki 26.9.-4.10.2009 Trailer 2008: Helsinki Art Fair 2008 / Galleri Sinne Videonight Festivals:
L'Etrange Festivaalin competition, Paris 3.-12.9.2010 Rooftop Films Summer Series, Fears and Fantasies, New York 5.6.2010 Cultuur & Cinema KYLLÄ-Festival, Filmhuis Den Haag, Netherlands 23.3.2010 (all works) Liigalaksma Film Festival, Saaremaa Viro 16.-17.7.2010 (all works) REGARD Saguenay International Short Film Festival, Chicoutimi Kanada 10.-14.3.2010 Göteborg International Film Festival, Sweden 29.1-8.2.2009, Best of Nordic Short Films screening IDFA Documentary Film Festival - Paradocs programme Amsterdam The Netherlands 11.2009 Brazil: Belo Horizonte - Venue Arte.mov Festival + Salvador + Porto Alegre + Belem 11.2009 Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, Germany 10.-15.11.2009 Curtocircuito 09 - competition, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 10.-17.10.2009 Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal Canada 7-18.2009 Best short film in the International Selection-award Festival de Internacional Filmets Badalona - competition, Barcelona Spain 6.-14.11.2009 ATA Artist Television Access, Film&Video Festival, San Francisco 22.-23.10.2009 ATA screenings: La Enana Marron Madrid 4.-7.3.2010 & Millennium Film New York 20.2.2010 Arctic & Fabulous Film Festival – competition, Jyväskylä Finland 19.-22.10.2009 Uppsala International Short Film Festival - competition Sweden, 19.-25.10.2009 Milan Film Festival - competition Italy 11.-20.9.2009 + Re Distribution Project in Italy Festival Silhouette, Paris France 9.2009 Festival international du film d’Amiens, France 11.2009 Off-Courts Festival - competition, Trouville France, 9.2009 25 FPS int. experimental film and video festival, competition, Zagreb Croatia 22.-27.9.2009 Sarajevo Film Festival-New Currents Shorts Competition Program, Bosnia and Herzegovina 12-20.8. CAMBOfest, Cambodia 12.2009 Thai Short Film and Video, Competition, Bangkok 21.-23.8.2009 Worldwide Short Film Festival – Official Selection, Toronto Canada 16.-21.6.2009 Cannes Film Festival, France, Scandinavian Short Films Screening, Short Film Corner 5.2009 Curtas Vila do Conde Int Film Festival, Portugal 4.-12.7.2009, European Panorama Just For Laughs Festival – Official Competition, Montreal Canada 23.-25.7.2009 Nordisk Film Festival 2009, Fredikshavn, Denmark Rauma Blue Sea Film Festival, Finland 8.2009 Screenings, happenings: Doc Lounge - doc club, Dubrovnik, Helsinki 19.5.2010 Media Centre Lume 5.2009 Verdens Kultur Centret Copenhagen Denmark 5.2009 TamperePunkevenings Vastavirta club and Hertta Cultural Cafe Finland Kosmoramaclub Turku FinlandsInstitutet, Stockholm 14.2.10. + Norrköping, Eskilstuna, Västerås, Uumaja och Borås, Förfilm för Aleksi Mäkelä´s Rööperi
+Screening at thevTampere Film Festival Finland
+Washington Film Institute, Embassy of Finland 24.6.2010
CHANGING: MASUZYO and : TASINTHA, 2x30min 1996
community theatre in Finland/ZambiaNational Broadcasting Company YLE TV 1, 1996, (co-Operational Work)
STONES, 15min 1993
Experimental Dance Film (co-Operational Work)
MuuMediaFestival, Helsinki, Finland and Fox Days 1994
PHOTOS AND INSTALLATIONS
MIDDLETONS - PHOTOS FROM CALIFORNIA
Solo Exhibition: Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland 14.6.-4.9.2008
Solo Exhibition: MUUgallery, Helsinki 28.11.-21.12.2008
NAMELESS, smoke and light installation
Pori Art Generator Space, Finland 6.-18.7.2007
ANONYMOUS black-and-white Photo Triptych 2005
Firenze International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Italy 12.2005, divided 5th Prize
European Commission “Finnish photography” lecture by Liz Wells, Reader in Photography 11.2006
ANONYMOUS black-and-white Photo Diptych 2004
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Rear Window, Helsinki, Finland, 11.2004 (educational department)
SOMEBODY-ANYBODY-NOBODY Installation, Site-Specific Art Project (co-Oper Work)
Tartu Estonia, 10.1999ZOOM Installation (co-Operational Work)
Borey Art Gallery, St. Petersburg Russia 2.1999
Photocenter Peri, Turku, Finland, 6-7.1999
NORTHERN KNOTS Installation (photos, lights and slides)
on Board of s/v Estelle, Amsterdam, Netherlands
BANGLADESH BY WAY OF HAND
black-and-white Photography Exhibition
EDUCATION
- 2008 Master of Arts studies of Visual Culture, University of Art and Design
2005 Media Artist, BA / Tampere Polytechnic School of Art and Media
1995 Turku School of Art and Communication / Videographer
CONTACT
maarit (at) maaritsuomi.fi
