Close Watch, a newly commissioned video installation by Pilvi Takala, premieres at the Pavilion of Finland at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Commissioned and produced by Frame Contemporary Art Finland, the exhibition is curated by Christina Li.

The multi-channel installation is based on Takala’s experience in the private security industry, where she worked covertly as a fully qualified security guard for Securitas. The piece is centred on workshops she devel… more

The Miracle Workers Collective (MWC) present their inaugural project, A Greater Miracle of Perception, for the Finnish Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

The MWC is formed and informed by a transdisciplinary and transnational community of artists, filmmakers, writers, intellectuals, performers, and activists including: writer Maryan Abdulkarim; scriptwriter and director Khadar Ahmed; writer and filmmaker Hassan Blasim; choreographer and artist… more

Finland presented “And All Structures Are Unstable”, a site-specific installation by the artist Vesa-Pekka Rannikko at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011. The exhibition was commissioned and curated by MA Laura Köönikkä.

For the biennale exhibition at the Aalto pavilion, Vesa-Pekka Rannikko created a layered exhibition presenting history repeating and recreating itself. The temporary black-and-white facade of the pavilion, a comment on Alvar Aalto’s clean-cut Finn… more