NEXT UP

Group show with There Might Be Corners but the Center is On the Move in Oksasenkatu 11 gallery, Helsinki in November 2023. We will also publish a book about the three first exhibitions with this project.

I am a visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. I work with site and space specific installations, visual illusions, video projections, object compositions and so on.

In my work I try to involve the viewer and the space as an active subject of the artwork. Working with video projections made within the exhibition space, my aim is to dislocate the vague distinction between the artpiece and reality.

STUDIES

2004-2010 MFA Fine Art, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Finland

2009/2010 École supérieure des Beaux Arts de Marseille, France

2003-2004 Nordic Art School, Kokkola Finland

2003 Acadeemia Grata, Pärnu Estonia

2001-2003 Art School MAA, Helsinki Finland

2000-2001 Västra Nylands Folkhögskola, Karjaa Finland

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Random Timing, Galleria Muuntotila, Tampere Finland

2021 Frame for a new era, B-gallery, Turku Finland

2020 Frame for a new era, MUU gallery, Helsinki Finland

2019 Alteration, Third Space, Helsinki Finland

2018 Paris-Helsinki-Keuruu, Keuruu pop-up gallery, Finland

2017 Bird Catcher, Galleria Huuto, Helsinki Finland

2016 @mänttäexperience, Mänttä Finland

2015 Hub, Oksasenkatu 11- gallery, Helsinki Finland

2015 The Cave, Galleria Uusi Kipinä, Lahti Finland

2012 Do not move, Studio Mältinranta, Tampere Finland

2011 Runway, Galleri Sinne, Helsinki Finland

2008 It wasn't me, Galleria Välivuosi, Helsinki Finland

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Ars Weikkola, Kirkkonummi

The Grey Garden Studios: Organic, Galleria Longa, Helsinki

2022 There Might Be Corners but the Center is On the Move:
Part One, Molekyl Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
Part Two, K17-tila, Sipoo, Finland
Part Three, Köttinspektionen, Uppsala, Sweden

2021 Tracing traces, rosalux, Berlin Germany

2020 Stockfors Art Festival, Pyhtää Finland

2018 Sublime and repress, Enia gallery, Piraeus Greece

2017 The Grey Heron, collaboration with Hanna Marno, ID:I galleri, Stockholm, Sweden

Mänttä Art Festival XXII, Mänttä, Finland

Exquisite Corpse, Praxis 14, Kallio Kunstahalle, Helsinki, Finland

2015 Valtio+ group show, former Turku prison, Turku, Finland

2014 Running Man, collaboration with Arttu Kurttila, Galleria Huuto, Helsinki

2013 The Biennial of Young Artists, Helsinki Art hall, Helsinki Finland

You are here, collaboration with Arttu Kurttila, Kulttuuribingo, Oulu Finland

2012 1:1, Rööperin Taidesalonki, Helsinki

2010 Jussi Suvanto and Ella Tahkolahti, Galleria Fafa, Helsinki

2009 Kainulainen&Ella On the Road, Baaribaari, Helsinki, OMA Galleria, Lohja, Finland and Kunstraum Lalibela, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Degree Show of the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki Finland

2008 Ars Kärsämäki 08, Kärsämäki Finland

2007 Scene Change, EEA 07, Beelitz-Heilstätten, Germany

2006 The button store, galleria Studio Mezzo, Helsinki Finland

Human and Animals, Galleria Välivuosi, Helsinki

Kenossa, Galleria Välivuosi, Helsinki

INSTALLATIONS & SCREENINGS

2022 MUU mediataide tori, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland

2017 Art Fair Suomi 17, Helsinki, Finland

2016 Supermarket Independent Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden

2012 "Boy from Paikkari"-installation, Paikkari Performance 12, Sammatti Finland

2009 Planet Mundo C'fé, Marseille, France

Suokissa-event, Suomenlinna, Helsinki

Là-bas, Helsinki

2003 Line-in festival, Helsinki

Pärnu Fideo&Vilm Festival, Estonia

PERFORMANCE

2016 Performance at Galleria Rankka, Helsinki

2015 Aamunkoiton Siat, group performance at Pori art festival, Pori, Finland

Aamunkoiton Siat, group performance at PAB open, Bergen, Norway

"Territory" performance, Winter CREATure, POST galerija, Kaunas Lithuania

"Mirroring" solo performance at Esitystaiteen markkinat, Helsinki, Finland

2014 Performance with Katri Kainulainen, Pakkohoitola, Mad House Helsinki

Performance with Katri Kainulainen in Jimi Tenor and Jori Hulkkonens movie "Nuntius"

"About fruit" performance, Eskusplosion24h, Eskus-Center for performing arts, Helsinki

"About cream" performance, An Okay at OK11, Galleria Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki

"About sugar" performance, Paikkari Performance, Sammatti Finland

2013  "Send off"-performance, Pixels and Presence-event, Helsinki Finland

2012 "Instructions for indoor gardening" -performance/installation, Muu Gallery, Helsinki

2008 Kainulainen&Ella "Before x-mas"-performance, Koko Theatre, Helsinki

2005  "Three little elephants" performance with Jussi Suvanto, Perf05, Pori Finland

2004 1/3 -performance, Kokkola Finland

2003 1/3 -performance Tarto Art hall, Young Artists exhibition, Tarto Estonia

Kainulainen&Ella Performance, Pärnu Estonia

1/3 -performance, Cable Factory, Helsinki

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS

2009 Paldiski, city as living organism, Paldiski, Estonia

2007 European Exchange Academy 07, Beelitz-Heilstätten, Germany

RESIDENCIES

2022 Group residency with the Corners, Köttinspektionen, Uppsala Sweden

2020 Old mine residency, Outokumpu Finland

2019 Cité internationale des arts, Paris

2018 Matera AiR, Matera Italy

Casa do Careca AiR, Icaraí Ceará Brazil

2017 Cité internationale des arts, Paris

2016 Serlachius residency, Mänttä Finland

2013 Sfakiotes Residency Programme, Greece

2010 Academy of Fine Arts Student Unions residency, Utö, Finland

2008 Kunstfabrik, Berlin Germany