CURRICULUM VITAE
Anu Pennanen, born in 1975 in Kirkkonummi, Finland. She is currently working in Paris, France, and has worked in various countries after graduating from the Helsinki Fine Arts Academy in 2003. Her work focuses on the influence spatial organization, urban architecture and modernization have on human behavior. She works collaboratively and site-specifically with people, who in her works are the mirrors and investigators of built environment. She frequently collaborates with experimental musicians.
| Education | |
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| 2001-2003 | MFA Academy of Fine Arts Department of Time-Based Art, Helsinki |
| 1994-1995 | BFA Turku Polytechnic Arts and Media Department, Turku |
| 1996-2000 | Nordic School of Art, Kokkola |
| Individual exhibitions | |
| 2006 | Anu Pennanen - Films, Frans Hals Museum, De Hallen Haarlem, The Netherlands |
| 2005 | Anu Pennanen - Clean Air, Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2004 | Playstation: Anu Pennanen – A Monument for the Invisible, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2003 | Lamp Works, Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Helsinki, Finland |
| Selected group exhibitions | |
| 2007 | A city without a center. Curated by Franciska Zólyom. Institute of Contemporary Art. Dunaújváros, Hungary. Istanbul Biennial. Optimism In The Age Of Global War - Not Only Possible But Also Necessary. Curated by Hou Hanru. Santralistanbul, Istanbul. Worlds Resembling Our Own. SMART Project Space. Curated by Hilde De Bruijn. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. I Need No Map. Curated by Jesper N. Jorgesen. Anna Akhmatova Museum. St. Petersburg, Russia. Pensée Sauvage: Reconsidering knowledge. Curated by Chus Martinez. Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt and Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany. 2nd Moscow Biennale. Monuments of our Discontent: Expiration of Place. Special project curated by Lolita Yablonskene. Moscow, Russia Ars Baltica Triennale. Don't Worry - Be Curious! Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany;KUMU, Estonian Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia; Pori Art Museum, Finland. |
| 2006 | Liverpool Biennial 2006, Great Britain SCAPE 2006 Biennial of Art in Public Space. Don't Misbehave!, Christchurch, New Zealand Busan Biennale, 2006 South Korea Near Distance, Gallery Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland Moving in Margins, Vantaa Art Museum, Finland Rauma Biennale Balticum 2006 – Wake Up!, Rauma Art Museum, Finland Pretty Vacant, Liverpool City Centre, Great Britain The Sound of Your Eyes, Künstlerhaus Wien Passagegalerie, Vienna, Austria |
| 2005 | EuroPart. 25 Peaces. Aktuelle Kunst in Europa, Vienna, Austria Under Your Skin, White Box Gallery, New York, USA City Breaks, MUU Gallery, Helsinki, Finland; Whitechapel Project Space, London, Great Britain Heavy Snowflakes-Tour 05, Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru; The Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland Heavy Snowflakes, The Projection Room, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland |
| 2004 | Manifesta 5, San Sebastian, Spain Momentum. Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway Heavy Snowflakes-Tour 04, Ex Teresa Arte Actuel, Mexico City, Mexico; Museo de Arte Moderna Buenos Aires (MAMbA), Argentina; Instituto Brasileiro de Audiovisual (IBAV), Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Finnish Artists, Galeria Salvador Diaz, Madrid, Spain Voids, Pads & Places, Kunsthalle Lophem, Belgium I Need No Map, Overgaden – Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark 4th Biennale Syd – The Tyranny of Intimacy?, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway Gridlock, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Museum, New Plymouth, New Zealand |
| 2003 | MFA Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland Nuoret 2003. The Young Artists Exhibition, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland |
| 2002 | LAB - Video Art at Sörnäinen Metro Station, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2000 | Realm of The Senses,Turku Art Museum, Finland |
| Selected screenings, festivals and events | |
| 2006 | Civic Matters LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Pestorius Sweeney HouseBrisbane Australia Focus Finlande Galerie B-312 Montréal Canada Finnish Experimental film and video screening BAC Baltic Art Center Visby Sweden |
| 2005 | Hamburg film festival GermanyUnclassfiable Folkets bio Malmö Sweden C ourtisane Festival for Short Film A rts Centre Vooruit , Ghent Belgium Peripheral VisionsCork Film CentreDublin Ireland Rotterdam Film Festival Netherlands Stuttgarter Film Winter Germany View festival Helsinki Finland Tent Center for Visual Arts Rotterdam Netherlands Uusi Kino YLE TV Channel 1 Finland SVT Swedish television Sweden Helsinki International –festival ARTE international TV channel Germany and Switzerland |
| 2004 | Finland View festival Helsinki Seoul University South Korea Anthology Film Archives New York USA Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin Paris France Arctic Glory Film Festival Jyväskylä Finland Uusi Kino YLE TV Channel 1Finland |
| 2003 | Avanto-Festival Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki OFF-LOOP Barcelona Spain LUX International Film Festival IFVA Hong Kong China ViewTour03 Tampere Modern Art Museum Oulu Art Museum Montages of Sound Atmospheres Neuer Berliner Kunstverein Berlin Mannheimer Kunstverein Stadtgalerie Kiel Germany Sonar Film Festival Agliana Italy Malmö Konsthall Sweden Shorts! Moving Picture Gallery Amsterdam Netherlands Uusi Kino YLE TV Channel 1 Finland View festival Helsinki ARTE international TV channel Germany and Switzerland |
| 2002 | Les Boréales –festival Caen France Nordic Glory Film Festival Jyväskylä Finland Muu Gallery Helsinki |
| Works in collections | |
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma Finnish National Gallery Helsinki City Art Museum Finnish State Art Collection KUMU Estonian Art Museum | |
| Competitions | |
| 2005 | ZKM Internationaler Medienkunstpreis 2005 competition Karlsruhe Germany |
| 2003 | ZKM Internationaler Medienkunstpreis 2003 competition Karlsruhe Germany |
| Residencies | |
| 2006 | FACT Media Centre, Liverpool, UK El Basilisco, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| 2005 | Cité International des Arts. Paris , France |
| 2003 | Helsinki Fine Arts Academy Studio. Berlin, Germany |