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Mika Taanila

Mika Taanila

Mika Taanila is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Helsinki. His films have been screened at several international film festivals such as TIFF Toronto, IFFR Rotterdam, Berlinale, CPH:DOX, Clermont-Ferrand, Karlovy-Vary, Midnight Sun Film Festival, IDFA Amsterdam and Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen. Taanila’s moving image installations have been shown at major international group shows, such as Venice Biennale (2017), Aichi Triennale (2013), Documenta (2012), Shanghai Biennale (2006) and Berlin Biennale (2004). Solo shows include Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau, Bologna (2020), STUK, Leuven (2018), Kiasma, Helsinki (2013–14), CAM, St. Louis (2013), Badischer Kunstverein (2008) and Migrosmuseum, Zurich (2005). In 2015 Taanila was awarded The Ars Fennica prize.

  • Failed Emptiness
  • Monica in the South Seas
  • Failed Emptiness. Place
  • Verbranntes land
  • Failed Emptiness. Time
  • Patent Nr. 314805
  • Sad Song of the Hard-Edge Transition Wipe Markers
  • The World
  • Branches
  • Tectonic Plate
  • Return of the Atom
  • Spindrift
  • 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
  • The Zone of Total Eclipse
  • Optical Sound
  • The Future Is Not What It Used to Be
  • A Physical Ring
  • RoboCup99
  • Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow
  • Bad Vugum – From B To V
  • A City Symphony
  • The Double - Russian industrial music and low tech videos

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