Tea Mäkipää
born 1973 in Lahti (Finland)
Tea Mäkipää
born 1973, Lahti, Finland
tea.makipaa@akademie-solitude.de
Education:
1998 BA Fine Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
1998-1999 Konst & Arkitektur, Kungl. Konsthögskolan, Stockholm, Sweden
2003 MA Fine Art, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2020
Lage Egal
Berlin, Germany (with Shingo Yoshida)
2017
Early Harvest
Museum Schloss Moyland, Germany
2016
Escaping Days
Kunstverein Buchholz/Nordheide, Germany
2015
Prima Carnivora
Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel, Germany
Years After Zero
Kunstraum Goethestrasse xtd, Linz, Austria
2014
Business Hotspot
Cape Le Grande National Park, Esperance, Australia
2012
Pet Love
Galería JM, Málaga, Spain
2011
Oilissimo
Kunsthalle Weimar Harry Graf Kessler, Weimar, Germany
Domesticated Nature
Z2O Galleria / Sara Zanin, Rome, Italy
2010
Catwalk
CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
angekommen
Karlskirche, Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Kassel-Mitte, Germany
2009
Link
Galleria Sculptor, Helsinki, Finland
We should be better off than our children / Debemos estar mejor que nuestros hijos
Galería JM, Málaga, Spain
2008
Seasonal Greetings from Petteri the Reindeer
Irish Museum for Modern Art, The Process Room, Dublin, Ireland
2007
Motocalypse Now
Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, Germany
2006
Catwalk
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2005
Sexgod
Galleri 21, Malmö, Sweden
2004
Solitude
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
Solitude … it’s war!
Galerie K&S (Künstlerhaus Bethanien & Akademie Schloss Solitude), Berlin, Germany
Expert
Ateneum, Finnish National Museum of Art, Helsinki, Finland
2003
Expert
Wapping Project, London, United Kingdom
2001
Placeless
Nordic Council of Ministers, Copenhagen, Denmark
2000
Placeless
Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland
Domesticated Dreams
collaboration with Pasi Mann, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2019
VIENNA BIENNALE 2019. Brave new virtues. Shaping our digital world
MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
Preview Beek in Beeld 2.0
Artphy Foundation – Ruimte voor levenskunst, Onstwedde, The Netherlands
2018
Untragbar. Von der Sehnsucht nach Veränderung / Unbearable. Longing for Change
Schloss Untergröningen, Germany
Spaced 2: Future Recall
Moree Plains Gallery, Moree; Umbrella Studios Contemporary Arts, Townsville City; Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Geraldton, Australia
2017
Trouble Diaries: A Political Statement
Big House Contemporary Art Center, Wuhan, China
IJsselbiënnale 2017
Deventer, The Netherlands
Viceversa (N-S-E-O)
Lloyds Register, Universidad de la Habana, Havanna, Cuba
2016
Kenpoku Art
Hitachi (and other areas), Japan
Wetransform – Kunst und Design zu den Grenzen des Wachstums
Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
Viceversa (N-S-E-O)
Museo Provincial de Holguín, Cuba
2015
Contra-Bbando
Milano Scultura, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano, Italy,
Art, Technology and the Natural World
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Spaced 2: Future Recall
Western Australian Museum, Perth, Australia
BIG Wettbewerb Projekte
Universitätsbibliothek Graz, Austria
2014
Art, Technology and the Natural World
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Nature and More – Contemporary Art from Finland
Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany
ELEVEN: The John Erickson Museum of Art (JEMA) 10-Year Retrospective
Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Florida SouthWestern State College, Ft. Myers, FL, USA
Ein Angriff auf die Zeit
Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg, Germany; Kunstverein Winterstein, Nürnberg, Germany
GLUE. International Survey Exhibition of Contemporary Collage
WARPhaus Gallery, Gainesville, FL, USA
Arctic Take Away
Barents Spectacle, Kirkenes, Norway
We Will Win
JEMA, Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Florida SouthWestern State College, Fort Myers, FL, USA; Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, USA; Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL, USA
2013
Yes Naturally – How Art Saves the World
GEM Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands
Ein Angriff auf die Zeit
Galerie Archiv Massiv, Leipzig, Germany
GLUE. International Survey Exhibition of Contemporary Collage
Down Arts Centre, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK; Hardman Hall Gallery, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, USA
Finding a Piece of Sky Underground
Hotel Wesenufer, Linz, Austria
Open ART
Örebro, Sweden
2012
Worldly House
Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany
The Hidden Mother
L'Atelier Rouart, Paris, France
Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland
Rosphoto, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
The Unknown; Mediations Biennale
National Gallery, Poznan, Poland
Allegory of the Cave
Retretti, Punkaharju, Finland
Alle Worte sind aus!
KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd, Linz, Austria
ARCO
Madrid, Spain
Bologna Art First – Arte Fiera 2012
Bologna, Italy
2011
the 1% concept
Künstlervereinigung MAERZ, Linz, Austria
4th Edition of the International Competition
Outdoor Gallery of the City of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
Green Art
Salo Art Museum, Salo, Finland
Malmöfestivalen 2011
Malmö, Sweden
MAD Foodcamp Festival
Refshaleøen/Copenhagen, Denmark
On the Treshold of Privacy / An der Schwelle des Privaten
Kunstpflug e.V. Baitz, Brück, Germany
Contemporary Art Archipelago
Turku 2011 – European Capital of Culture, Turku, Finland
Art on Lake
City Park, Heroes' Square, Budapest, Hungary
Dog Days of Summer
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO, USA
1year message! – TORINOver010 SOS Planet
elle contemporaryprojects, Underground Station Porta Nuova, Turin, Italy; Trongate 103/Under- ground Station Buchanan Street, Glasgow, UK; CBK Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; City Hall, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA; City of Nagoya, Japan
Friends of Tohoku: Art Fundraiser for Japan
Galerie Quynh, Hanoi, Vietnam
Bologna Art First – Arte Fiera 2011
Museo Archeologico, Bologna, Italy
2010
Tumult Public Art Festival 2010
Nykøbing Falster, Denmark
Tiere / Animals
Galerie Hübner + Hübner, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Survival | Überleben – Neue Kunst in alten Gärten
Parks of the Manors at Gehrden-Lenthe, Germany
SIGNS OF LIFE. Ancient Knowledge in Contemporary Art
Museum of Art Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
100 Acres
The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park, Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), Indianapolis, IN, USA
The woods that see and hear
dertien hectare, s’-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
An das Gerät!
HALLE 14, Leipzig, Germany; ACC Galerie Weimar, Weimar, Germany
Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland
DA2 – Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
vorzeichen // omen
Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn, Germany
RE-THINK – Contemporary Art and Climate Change: Kakotopia
Tensta Konsthall, Spånga, Stockholm, Sweden
A finnish vision, une vision finlandaise
Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris, France
Derridas Katze... que donc je suis (à suivre)
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2009
RE-THINK – Contemporary Art and Climate Change: Kakotopia
Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark
Arctic Hysteria: Trance State of Finnish Contemporary Art
Helsingin Taidehalli – Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Gescheiterte Hoffnung – Neue Romantik in zeitgenössischer Fotografie in Deutschland
The Brno House of Art, Brno, Czech Republic
La Noche en Blanco
Río Guadalmedina water mouth, Málaga, Spain
2nd Athens Biennial 2009 – Heaven
Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece
Wanås 2009: Footprints
The Wanås Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden
Der Kranke Hase
Linz 2009 Kulturhauptstadt Europas (Our Common Problem: People, Pfarrplatz; Money Fountain, Einkaufszentrum Passage), Linz, Austria
Ars Fennica 2008
KUMU Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
animalkind
San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA, USA
Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland
Ludwig Múzeum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
Richtung Norden
MAERZ Künstlervereinigung, Linz, Austria
Ecomedia – estrategias ecológicas en el arte de hoy
Sala Parpalló, Centro Cultural La Beneficencia, Valencia, Spain
2008
Ökomedien – Ecomedia (Teil 2)
[plug.in], Basel, Switzerland
Borderlives. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Helsinki, St. Petersburg und Tallinn
Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany; Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
The Time of Distance
FIELD, Berlin, Germany
Reykjavík Arts Festival
Art in public space, Reykjavík, Iceland
Ars Fennica 2008
Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Nachts im Museum – Das Phänomen Nacht begreifen
Museum der Natur, Gotha, Germany
Wandering Lines: Towards a New Culture of Space
SCAPE 2008 Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space
Christchurch, New Zealand
Catwalk
Urban Screen – Radiator Festival, Visual Foreign Correspondents, De Balie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Natural Relations (Naravni odnosi) / animals-nature-culture – City of Women 2008
Galerija Škuc, Ljubljana, Slovenija
Outside the Rules, Outside the Centers – Nordiska Konstskolan on the road 2007-2008
K.H.Renlund Museum – Provincial Museum of Central Ostrobothnia, Kokkola, Finland; Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, Finland; Kunstföreningens utställninghall, Kristiansund, Norway
The XIII Mänttä Art Festival
Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland
Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland
MoMA PS1, New York, NY, USA
Continuum
Retretti Art Centre, Punkuharju, Finland
Gescheiterte Hoffnung: Romantik heute? 17 Antworten der zeitgenössischen Fotografie
Herbert-Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, Germany
2007
Ökomedien – Ökologische Strategien in der Kunst heute
Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany
Neue Heimat. Berlin Contemporary
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Failed Hope – New Romanticism in Contemporary Photography in Germany
Goetz Palace, Kraków, Poland
Still Life – Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change
Sharjah Biennial 8, Sharjah and Dubai, United Arab Emirates
40v juhlanäyttely – Purnu 2007
(Celebration Exhibition), Purnu, Orivesi, Finland
Juhlanäyttely
(Celebration Exhibition), Northern Photographic Centre, Oulu, Finland
Stip.Visite IV – Kunststipendiaten des Landes Thüringen 2005/2006 stellen aus
Thüringer Landtag, Erfurt, Germany
HOTEL VAN DE VELDE
Palais Dürckheim, Kreisdienststelle des MfS Weimar, Germany
2006
A Life Less Glamorous
O3ONE, Belgrade, Serbia
Art Projects
Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL, USA
viel und wenig
MAERZ Künstlervereinigung, Linz, Austria
Breaking the Ice – Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Finnland
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Yotta Kippe & Tea Mäkipää
Galerie Blickensdorff, Berlin, Germany
Open Studio
ARCUS Project, Moriya, Ibaraki, Japan
2005
Expo 2005 World Exhibition
Aichi/Nagoya, Japan
Drawings for Expo 2005
Spiral Center, Tokyo, Japan
Passion des Sammelns
HALLE 14, Leipzig, Germany
Irony Is Dead. Long Live Irony!
ACC Galerie Weimar, Germany
Unheimlich
De Warande, Turnhout, Belgium
Fraktale IV – tod
Performance Program, Palast der Republik, Berlin, Germany
2004
Expert
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
Along the Gates of the Urban
Galerie K+S, Berlin, Germany; Oda Projesi, Istanbul, Turkey
Para Sites – When Space Comes into Play
MUMOK – Museum of Modern Art Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
2003
Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2003
Jerwood Space, London, United Kingdom; Design Centre, Leeds, United Kingdom
Paradise
Bunker, Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany
Rape of Europe
Gallery Luke & A, London, United Kingdom
Supermarket
Helsingin Taidehalli – Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
2002
Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2001
Stockholm Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
2000
Some Parts of This World
Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
N.E.W.S. – Contemporary Artists from 10 Countries around The Baltic Sea
Gotlands Konstmuseum, Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden
Realm of the Senses
Gallery Titanik, Turku, Finland
Human-, Animal-, Plant Life
PARTIE 8, Brandenburgische Kunsttage / Internationales Kunst Forum Drewen (Brandenburg Art Days), Germany
1999
N.E.W.S. – Contemporary Artists from 10 Countries around The Baltic Sea
Pomeranian Princess Castle, Szczecin, Poland; Gallery NOASS, Riga, Latvia
1998
Artgenda 98
Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
Public Installations:
2011
Not Without my Dog
Dog Days of Summer, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO, USA
Northbound
Contemporary Art Archipelago, Turku 2011 – European Capital of Culture, Turku, Finland
Atlantis
Art on Lake
City Park, Heroes' Square, Budapest, Hungary
2010
Eden II
100 Acres, The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park, Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), Indianapolis, IN, USA
1:1
Survival | Überleben – Neue Kunst in alten Gärten, Parks of the Manors at Gehrden-Lenthe, Germany
2009
Atlantis
La Noche en Blanco, Río Guadalmedina water mouth, Málaga, Spain
Atlantis, 1:1
Wanås 2009: Footprints, The Wanås Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden
Our Common Problem: People, Money Fountain
Der Kranke Hase, Linz 2009 Kulturhauptstadt Europas, Linz, Austria
2008
Atlantis
Reykjavík Arts Festival, Art in public space, Reykjavík, Iceland
Petrol Engine Memorial Park
Wandering Lines: Towards a New Culture of Space, SCAPE 2008 Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space, Christchurch, New Zealand
2007
10 Commandments for the 21st Century
Still Life – Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change, Sharjah Biennial 8, Sharjah and Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Atlantis
40v juhlanäyttely – Purnu 2007, (Celebration Exhibition), Purnu, Orivesi, Finland
2006
World of Plenty
Kulttuuritehdas Korjaamo, Helsinki, Finland
Catwalk
Permanent video installation for 5 projectors at VTT – Technical Research Center of the State of Finland, Espoo, Finland
1 : 1
Collins Park, Art Projects, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL, USA
2005
World of Plenty
Installation commissioned by EXPO World Exhibition, Aichi, Japan
1 : 1
HALLE 14, Leipzig, Germany
2004
1 : 1
Museumsquartier, MUMOK – Museum of Modern Art Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
2001
Permanent Installation, Sunspot School, Helsinki, Finland, commissioned by Helsinki City Art Museum
1997-1998
Parasite
Espoo, Finland; Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, collaboration with Pasi Mann and Anni Laakso
1996
Air Cubes
Helsinki, Finland, collaboration with Pasi Mann
Works in Collections:
Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Collection Pentti Kouri, Finland
City of Helsinki, Finland
State of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), Indianapolis, IN, USA
Freistaat Thüringen, Erfurt, Germany
CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Málaga, Spain
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO, USA
Mikkelin keskussairaala (Mikkeli Central Hospital), Mikkeli, Finland
Awards and Fellowships:
2009
Kemijärvi Artist Residence at Arctic Circle, Kemijärvi, Finland
Fellowship, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2008
Fellowship, Galerie Urs Meile Lucerne Beijing, Beijing, China
5-year-Grant, Ministry of Education and Culture, Helsinki, Finland
Ars Fennica 2008 Candidate, Helsinki, Finland
2007
Grant, The Pollock-Krassner Foundation, New York, NY, USA
2006
Fellowship, Irish Museum for Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Fellowship, Schloss Bleckede, Lüneburg, Germany
Dukaatti Prize for Young Artists, The Finnish Art Society, Helsinki, Finland
Fellowship ARCUS Project, Moriya, Ibaraki, Japan
Fellowship (Arbeitsstipendium), Freistaat Thüringen, Erfurt, Germany
2005
Fellowship, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
1st Price, Competition for Permanent public art commission, The Arts Council of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
2004
Fellowship, Internationales Atelierprogramm der ACC Galerie Weimar und der Stadt Weimar
2003
Henry Moore Foundation, London, United Kingdom; Maintenance Support
Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award to Group No-Mans-Land (8 artists), London, United Kingdom
Fellowship, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany