| Dates: | born 1975
| | Biography: | (artist biography as of 2006)
Born 1975, Kirkkonummi, Finland. Lives
and works in Helsinki, Finland
Solo exhibitions
Kluuvi Gallery, 2005, Helsinki, Finland
A Monument for the Invisible, 2004,
Galerie Fons Welters Play Station, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Lamp Works, 2003, The Academy of
Fine Arts Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Selected group exhibitions
Gallery Forum Box, 2006, Helsinki,
Finland
Moving in Margins, 2006, Vantaa Art
Museum, Vantaa, Finland
Wake Up! Biennale Balticum 2006.
Rauma Art Museum, Rauma, Finland
The Sound of Your Eyes, 2006,
Künstlerhaus Passagegalene, Vienna,
Austria
EUROPART Aktuelle Kunst in Europa.
2005, public art project for rolling
billboards, Vienna, Austria
Under Your Skin. 2005, White Box
Gallery, New York, USA
City Breaks, 2005, Muu Gallery,
Helsinki, Finland; Whitechapel Project
Space, London, UK
Heavy Snowflakes - Tour 05 The
Projection Room, 2005, Dun Laoghaire,
Ireland
Manifesta 5. 2004, San Sebastian. Spain
Momentum, 2004, Moss, Norway
Heavy Snowflakes - Tour 04
Galería Salvador Diaz, 2004, Madrid,
Spain
Voids Pads & Places, 2004, Kunsthalle
Lophem, Lophem, Belgium
I Need No Map, 2004, Overgarden
Institute for Contemporary Art,
Copenhagen, Denmark
Biennale Syd, 2004, Sørlandets
Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
Gridlock, 2004. Govett-Brewster Art
Gallery/Contemporary Art Museum, New
Plymouth, New Zealand
MFA Exhibition, 2003, The Academy of
Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
Nuoref 2003: The Young Artists
Exhibition, 2003, Kunsthalle Helsinki,
Helsinki, Finland
LAB, 2002, video art at Sörnäinen Metro
Station. Helsinki, Finland
Realm of The Senses, 2000, Turku Art
Museum, Turku Finland. Performance
with choreographer Johanna Ekman
Selected screenings, festivals and
events
Finnish experimental film and video
screening, 2006, BAC (Baltic Art
Center), Visby, Sweden
Civic Matters, 2006, LACE (Los Angeles
Contemporary Exhibitions), Los Angeles, USA
Peripheral Visions, 2005, Cork Film
Centre, Cork, Ireland
Rotterdam Film Festival, 2005,
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Stuttgarter Filmwinter, 2005 Stuttgart,
Germany
Seoul University, 2004, Seoul, South
Korea
Anthology Film Archives, 2004, New
York, USA
Arctic Glory Film Festival, 2004
Jyväskylä, Finland
LUX International Film Festival, 2003,
IFVA, Hong Kong, China
Montages of Sound Atmospheres, 2003,
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
| | | Source: | International 06, Liverpool Biennial exhibition catalogue | | | Date of source: | 2006 |
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| | Description: | Anu Pennanen's practice as a film-
maker grew from her desire to increase
the affective quality of her still
photography. Her filmic images retain
the intensity characteristic of 'composed'
images, but by adding the rhythmic
sensuality of a soundtrack she arrived at
a medium capable of carrying the
affective charge that she had already
experienced in her earliest artistic
expression (multidisciplinary theatre).
She is drawn to the technical aspects,
the craft, of film, the knowledge and
obsessive care needed to produce a
compelling visual and aural experience.
Her preferred visual vocabulary is the
urban landscape, viewed as an arena for
events and a metaphor for the
social forces that influence
the 'architecture' of our lives. (The
application of 'archipuncture' to the 'body'
of the city in Manray Hsu's conception
for this exhibition is an allied approach.)
Pennanen is very interested in
collaboration, and in the shared
subjectivity resulting from the use of
actual lives as content. She
acknowledges the vital importance of
other people in creating these films: they
are not 'about' her experience, nor are
they shaped formally by her alone. But it
is her vision (her concern for the
interaction between people and the built
environment) that is the catalyst for the
work's existence and its artistic quality.
Lewis Biggs | | Description Source: | International 06, Liverpool Biennial exhibition catalogue | | Description Source Date: | 2006 | | Gender: | female | | Type: | person |
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