Salla Tykkä
Salla Tykkä (1973) lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.

Salla Tykkä is a visual artist who works with film and video since 1996. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki 2003 and participated in the Venice Biennale 2001.
Her latest solo exhibitions include: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, 2013; Drimart Garibadi, Istanbul, 2012; EX3, Florence, 2011; Hayward Gallery Project Space, London, 2010.
She has participated in numerous group shows in museums and public institutions among others: The Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast 2013; Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, 2013; Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, 2012; Turner Contemporary, Margate, 2011; 17th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2010; Momentum, Moss, 2010. Tykkä's films have been shown at international film festivals like: 60th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, 2014; 8th Miami International Film Festival, Miami, 2009; 36th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 2007; 21st Brest European Short Film Festival, Brest, 2006; Tribeca Film Festival, New York, 2003; International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, 2003 and 2002. Her most recent short film Giant won the Canon Tiger Awards for Short Film at the 43rd International Rotterdam Film Festival 2014.

On screening: Giant
HD Video, 12:20 minutes - 2013

Giant features leading junior team gymnasts of Romania. The film is shot in two boarding schools for artistic gymnastics in Onesti and Deva. A soundtrack of interviews with the gymnasts accompanies images of them training and of empty gymnasiums. Archive film footage starting from 1970s and clips from a feature fiction film shot in the same locations reveal not only a continuity in picturing this sport but also the structures of recording it.


RECENT SOLO SHOWS

2014 FestArt2014- Salla Tykkä, TR1, Tampere, Finland
2013 The Palace, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, UK
2012 Zoo, Drimart Garibadi, Istanbul, Turkey
2011 White Depths, EX3, Florence, Italy
2010 Airs Above the Ground, Hayward Gallery: Project Space, London, UK
2010 Airs Above the Ground, Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki, Finland
2009 Salla Tykkä, Solar Cinematic Art Gallery, Vila do Conde, Portugal
2009 Victoria, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden
2008 Salla Tykkä: Zoo and other film works, 300m3 Art Space, Gothenburg, Sweden
2007 Salla Tykkä, Helsinki City Art Museum, Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2007 Salla Tykkä, Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Dublin, Ireland
2007 Cave & Zoo, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
2007 Cave & Zoo, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
2007 Zoo, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

RECENT (SELECTED) GROUP SHOWS

2013 The Mystery of Tears, The Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast, UK
2013 Making Space. 40 Years of Video Art, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
2013 Tell Me Her Story, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2013 Amnesia, Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Norway
2013 After The Arc - an Island: Findings of Team B, Botkyrka Konsthall, Botkyrka, Sweden
2013 After The Arc - an Island: Findings of Team B, The Finnish Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
2012 Cavalli e Cavalieri / Post Scriptum, MAN Museo d’Arte della Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy
2012 A Window on the World. From Dürer to Mondrian and beyond, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
2012 Cave Parables - Finnish Contemporary Art and Pictures of the Times, Retretti Art Centre, Punkaharju, Finland
2012 You aren’t anything, you are everything, The Duchy Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2012 La La La Human Steps, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey
2012 Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, Rosphoto, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2011 Nothing in the World But Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
2010 17th Sydney Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2010 Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain
2010 It’s a Set-up, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
2009 MOMENTUM 2009 – 5th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art Favoured Nations,
2009 Momentum Kunsthall, Moss, Norway
2009 Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland
2009 Fly me to the Møen, 44 Møen, Askeby, Denmark
2009 Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2009 Sounds and Visions, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 Comme au cinema, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
2008 The F Word, Western Front Society, Vancouver, Canada
2008 Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, P.S.1, New York, U.S.A.
2008 You are my mirror 1: L’infamille, Frac Lorraine, Metz, France

RECENT FILM & VIDEO FESTIVALS

2014 22nd Festival Internacional de Curtas Metragens de Vila Conde, Vila do Conde, Portugal
2014 30th Hamburg Short Film Festival, Hampuri, Germany
2014 60th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
2014 Dortmund | Cologne International Women’s Film Festival, Köln, Germany
2014 REGARD – Saguenay International Short Films Festival, Saguenay, Canada
2014 43rd International Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands { Canon Tiger Awards for Short Film }
2013 Double Feature, Schrin Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2013 Espaces In/civils, French Institute, Istanbul, Turkey
2013 Ikono on Air Festival, Global broadcasting event
2013 Videogud Festival, Uppsala, Sweden
2013 Videogud, Video stations in public places, Gävleborg, Uppsala and Dalarna, Sweden
2011 Konst Bio, Gothenburg International Film Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden
2010 Splace Filmprogramm, Berlin, Germany
2010 18th International Short Film Festival of Vila do Conde, Vila do Conde, Portugal

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