Tea Mäkipää, Biography
born 1973 in Lahti (Finland)
1998 BA Fine Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
1998 - 99 Konst Arkitektur, Kungl. Konsthögskolan, Stockholm
2003 MA Fine Art, Royal College of Art, London
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2000
Placeless, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki.
Domesticated Dreams, collaboration with Pasi Mann; Kiasma,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki.
2001
Nordic Council of Ministers, Copenhagen.
2003
Expert, Jerwood Installation commission in Wapping Project,
London.
2004
Solitude, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany.
Galerie K S
Künstlerhaus Bethanien and Akademie Schloss Solitude, Berlin.
Expert, Ateneum, Finnish National Museum of Art, Helsinki.
2005
Sexgod, Galleri21, Malmö (Sweden).
2006
Catwalk, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
1998 Artgenda 98, Kulturhuset, Stockholm.
1999 N.E.W.S. Baltic Contemporary Art Szczecin (Poland), Riga,
- 2000 Visby (Sweden).
2000 Some Parts of This World, Museum of Photography, Helsinki.
Realm of the Senses, Turku (Finland).
Human-, Animal-, Plant Life, Brandenburg Art Days (Germany).
2001 Stockholm Art Fair.
2002 Art Forum Berlin.
2003 Royal College of Art, London.
20 White Chairs, Wapping Project, London.
Design Museum, Leeds (UK).
Jerwood Space, London, commissioned by Jerwood Foundation.
Paradise, Bunker, Alexanderplatz, Berlin.
Rape of Europe, Gallery Luke A, London.
Supermarket, Helsinki Art Hall.
2004 Expert, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (Germany).
Along the Gates of the Urban, Galerie K S, Berlin;
Oda Projesi, Istanbul.
Para Sites, When Space Comes into Play, MUMOK;
Museum for Modern Art, Vienna.
2005 Drawings for EXPO 2005, Spiral Center, Tokyo.
World of Plenty, EXPO 2005 World Exhibition, Aichi (Japan).
Passion des Sammelns, Halle 14, Leipzig (Germany).
Irony is Dead. Long Live Irony!, ACC Galerie Weimar (Germany).
Unheimlich, De Warande, Turnhout, Belgium.
Fraktale 4, Performance-Programm, Palast der Republik, Berlin.
2006 Breaking the Ice, Bonn Art Museum, Bonn (Germany).
Galerie Blickensdorff, Berlin (with Yotta Kippe).
Public Installations:
1996 Air Cubes, Helsinki, collaboration with Pasi Mann.
1997 - 98 Parasite, Espoo, Finland; Kulturhuset, Stockholm,
collaboration with Pasi Mann and Anni Laakso.
2001 Permanent Installation, Sunspot School, Helsinki,
commissioned by Helsinki City Art Museum.
2004 1 : 1, Museumsquartier, MUMOK; Museum for Modern Art,
Vienna.
2005 World of Plenty, Installation commissioned by EXPO World
Exhibition, Aichi (Japan).
1 : 1, Halle 14, Leipzig (Germany).
2006 Catwalk, Permanent public video installation in Digitalo,
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo (Finland).
Recent awards and fellowships:
2003 Henry Moore Foundation, London; Maintenance Support.
Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award, London
(artist group No Man's Land).
Fellowship, Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart
(Germany).
2004 Fellowship, ACC Galerie in Weimar (Germany).
2005 Fellowship, Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin.
1st Price in Competition for Permanent Public Video Art
in Digitalo, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland,
Espoo (Finland).
2006 Fellowship, Schloss Bleckede in Lüneburg (Germany).
The Finnish Art Societys' Price for Young Artists.
Works in Collections:
Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki.
Collection Pentti Kouri.
City of Helsinki.
State of Finland Central Archive of Art, Kiasma, Helsinki.
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (Germany).
Sammlung Federkiel, Leipzig (Germany) (loan).