CURRICULUM VITAE
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
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
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
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
2004 Pärnu Fideo&Vilm Festival, EstoniaLà-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
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