Marko Vuokola

The Seventh Wave - Flora, 2012
Diasec 2x 200 x 150 cm
Edition of 3

MARKO VUOKOLA is an artist who is particularly interested in issues of seeing, perception, knowledge and time. During his career, he has created a wide range of works from physical installations to pieces employing light and sound, drawings, paintings, folded paper works, objects, photographs and video pieces. Time is the common denominator of all these mutually different pieces and ensembles of works: the surprising nature of time as endless, relative and precisely measurable. The meaning of time for perceiving and understanding action and change. The objective nature of time and the subjective nature of human time. In his works Vuokola captures the fleeting microsecond inaccessible to our senses.  

Marko Vuokola (b. 1967, Toijala) lives and works in Helsinki.  His numerous solo and group exhibitions include venues such as Amos Rex, Helsinki; Tempelhof Airport, Berlin; Rovaniemi Art Museum; Serlachius Museum, Mänttä; Trondheim Kunstmuseum; and Galerie 21, Malmö. His works are included in numerous private and public collections, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, the Swanljung Collection, Malmö Art Museum, Saastamoinen Foundation Collection, Rovaniemi Art Museum, and EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art. Vuokola has created several public works in Finland.

RGB 16 777 216, 2021
digital animation
programming: Joonas Siren

installation view
Photography and Video
7 Feb – 10 Mar 2013

Speedmaster II, 2016
silver gelatin print, framed
81,5 x 76,5 cm
Edition of 6

RGB, 1996–2011
c-print, acrylic
3 x 44,8 x 30 x 2 cm
Edition of 10

From the installation / series Merkintöjä (Marks): Untitled sculpture, 1988
plywood, electric engine, propeller, cable, timer
61 x 35 x 9,5 cm

When Is Now
31 May – 29 Jun 2018
exhibition view

Venus (Sharpen), 2012
Diasec, Pigment Print
180x180 cm
Edition of 3

And, 1996
acrylic on acrylic
2 x 42 x 29,5 cm
Edition of 6

Green Flash stills – Random Generator, 2016
archival pigment print, diasec
63 x 63 cm
Edition of 6

The Seventh Wave – Haze, 2008
diptych, digital colour print, diasec
2x 180x180 cm
Edition of 3

When Is Now
31 May – 29 Jun 2018
exhibition view

The Seventh Wave – Space Odyssey, 2010
Digital C-print, Diasec
2 x 180 x 180 cm
Edition of 3

Selection of available works. For the full list, please contact galerie(at)anhava.com

RGB 16 777 216, 2021
digital animation, AV equipment
edition of 3

programming: Joonas Siren

Doppler Effect, 2021
diptych
pigment print, framed
2x 102 x 102 cm
Edition of 3

The Seventh Wave – Surge, 2009
diptych, digital colour print, diasec
framed
2 x 50 x 50 cm
edition of 10

The Seventh Wave #3, 2002
1/3 diptych, colour print on aluminium
2-3/3 digital c-print, Diasec
125 x 265 cm
edition of 3

Magnifying Glass A, 2016
scanography, archival pigment print, diasec on glass
7 x 32,7 x 24 cm
edition 10

Spaceliner I
archival pigment print, Diasec
2x 32x32 cm
edition of 6

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During his career, MARKO VUOKOLA (b. 1967) has created a wide range of works from physical installations to pieces employing light and sound, drawings, paintings, folded paper works, objects, photographs and video pieces.

Time is the common denominator of all these mutually different pieces and ensembles of works. The surprising nature of time as endless, relative and precisely measurable. The meaning of time for perceiving and understanding action and change. The objective nature of time and the subjective nature of human time.

In light, video and sound works time is naturally an inevitable element. But also in works of other kinds by Marko Vuokola, it is present in a broader sense than the time needed for viewing.

Vuokola arrests time, capturing in a photograph the fleeting microsecond inaccessible to our senses. He lets us understand how far, how many light-years away, is a star that we can barely see but with sufficient enlargement turns into clearly defined squares of colour.

Our life is time. Of course, it is also sensations, feelings, memories and things that are forgotten, but all of them and the other contents of life are defined by time.

Considerations of this kind regarding the special nature of our being underlie the art of Marko Vuokola. His particular areas of interest are thus issues of seeing, perception, knowledge and time, and although aesthetic goals do not predominate, his works are also become beautiful in some inexplicable way.

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MARKO VUOKOLA

born 1967 in Toijala
lives and works in Helsinki

STUDIES

2001 MFA, The Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, Department of Media Studies, Helsinki 1991-92 Academi voor Beeldende Kunst / Media Arts, Enschede
1987-91 BFA The Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, Department of Sculpture, Helsinki 1986-87 Institute of Orivesi, Visual Arts Department, Orivesi

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2024
    • Sense and Sensibility, Ars Nova, Turku
  • 2023
    • Ocean of Love, Kunsthalle Helsinki
  • 2018
    • When Is Now, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
  • 2016
    • Green Flash, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
  • 2013
    • Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
  • 2012-2013
    • Marko Vuokola in the Collection, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim
  • 2011
    • Sørlandet Art Museum, Kristiansand
    • Finnish Norwegian Cultural Institute, Oslo
  • 2009
    • Galerie 21, Malmö
    • Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
  • 2007
    • Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
  • 2006
    • Villa de Bank, Enschede
  • 2004
    • SCREEN Swedish Television, SVT
  • 2003
    • Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
  • 2002
    • Galleria Sculptor, Helsinki *
  • 2001
    • Galeri 21, Malmö
  • 2000
    • Galerie Anhava, Helsinki (c)
    • Art Space 1%, Copenhagen *
    • King Kong Forest Camp 2, Tallinn Linna Gallery, Tallinn **
  • 1997
    • Galleria Kari Kenetti, Helsinki *
  • 1996
    • Galerie Anhava, Helsinki Hvitträsk 96 Kirkkonummi *
  • 1994
    • Museum of Contemporary Art / Studio N, Helsinki (c) Lampola (with Mikko Maasalo), Muu Gallery, Helsinki
  • 1993
    • Forumgalleriet, Malmö
    • Gallery of Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki *
    • Stichting de Bank, Enschede *
  • 1992
    • Galerie Anhava, Helsinki

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2024
    • Konkretismi. Geometriscshe Wirklichkeiten, Sammlung Peters-Messer, Viersen
    • Motus, Galleria Himmelblau, Tampere
  • 2023
    • Joyce, Beuys and a (Dark) Blue Sky, Wanantaka Art Collection, Helsinki
  •  2022
    • Subterranean, Amos Rex, Helsinki
    • Motus, Napa Gallery, Rovaniemi
    • Rippling, Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, Trondheim
  •  2021
    • Drawing a Tiger, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
    • Museum of Sound, Studio Grönlund-Nisunen-Vuokola, Helsinki
    • Onoma 25th anniversary exhibition TÄÄLLÄ, Fiskars
    • First International Festival of Manuports, Kohta Kunsthalle, Helsinki
    • Diversity United, Tempelhof Airport, Berlin
  •  2019
    • Sculpture Expanded – Movin Laboratory of Public Art, Helsinki
  •  2017–18
    • Real Celebration!, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi
    • Abstract!, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
  • 2017
    • FAA Finlayson Art Area, Tampere
  • 2016
    • The Starry Skies of Art, Serlachius Museums, Mänttä Basic Photography,
    • SIC, Helsinki
  • 2015
    • FINLAND, Galleri 21, Malmö
  • 2014
    • Memories Can’t Wait – Film without Film, 60th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
  • 2012
    • Kesto, Musterzimmer, Berlin
    • The 7th Wave – Wihuri and Visual Art, Kunsthalle Helsinki
  • 2011
    • Napa Gallery, Rovaniemi (with Jyrki Siukonen)
  • 2009
    • Entr’act, Kukje Gallery, Seoul
  • 2007
    • Näkemisen hetki, Kuopio Art Museum, Kuopio (c)
  • 2006
    • Helsinki International, Korjaamo, Helsinki
    • Ars 06, Villa Nova Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (c)
    • Intersection – Between Past and Future, Pori Art Museum, Pori (c)
    • HUUMA, Lindköping Konsthall Passagen, Skövde Konsthall
  • 2005
    • Copperlight, Pori Art Museum, Pori (c)
  • 2004
    • Contemporary Finnish Art, Olin Hall Galleries, Roanoke Walley
    • European Space Sculpture Quadrennial, Riga * (c)
    • Voids, Pads & Places, Kunsthalle Lophem (cd-rom)
    • Esineiden maailma, Kunsthalle Helsinki and Tampere Art Museum (c) Stockholm Art Fair (c)
  • 2003
    • From Dust to Dusk, Carlottenborg, Copenhagen (c) Haaste, Tampere (FC)
    • Palma de Oro Finnish Institute, Madrid (FC)
    • Mohni 2003 International Installation, Video and Performance Event Mohni (FC)
  • 2002
    • Body and Spirit, Röda Sten, Göteborg
    • Purnu 2002, Orivesi (c)
    • Kesähilloo, Lasipalatsi, Helsinki 2001 Polis Titanic, Turku (FC)
    • Berlin Art Fair, Galerie Anhava (c)
    • Kekarainen, Niva, Vuokola, Estonian Kunstmuseum, Tallinn (c)
    • Rock the Campo, Campo di Santa Margherita, Venice (c)
    • Ikuinen paluu, Korkeasaari Helsinki Zoo, Helsinki * (c)
    • Mieli kuva, Mänttä Art Festival * (c)
    • Widening Circle, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
    • STHLM Art Fair, Galerie Anhava, Stockholm (c)
    • Kappas, Kaapeli Gallery of the Cable Factory, Helsinki
  • 2000
    • Many Ways of Painting, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki Transitions, Malmö Kunstmuseum (c)
    • Ubergänge, Kunsthalle Rostok
    • Stockholm Art Fair, Galerie Anhava (c)
    • Frankfurt Art Fair, Galerie Anhava (c)
    • Momentum Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Moss * (c)
    • Norden Kunsthalle Wien, Wien * (c)
    • Art Gardens, Töölönlahti Helsinki * (c)
    • Memories Can’t Wait – Film without Film, 60th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
    • 100 VR makasiinit, Helsinki *
  • 1999
    • Kekarainen, Niva, Vuokola, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki (c)
    • Finnish Landscape 200 Years, Salo Art Museum ***
    • Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä * (c)
    • Melbourne International Biennial, Australia* (c) (cd-rom) Art in the City of Tampere, Tampere *
    • Finnish Line:Starting Point, Musees de Strasbourg, Strasbourg * (c)
  • 1998
    • AVE.COM Arnhem, Arnhem (c) (cd-rom)
    • Forest Camp, Galleria Kari Kenetti, Helsinki
    • Forest Camp, Lusto, The Finnish Forest Museum, Punkaharju
    • The Side of the Ocean, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki * (c)
    • Cool Places, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius * (c)
  • 1997
    • Smart Show goes to sea, Stockholm / Helsinki (c) Five from Finland,
    • Stenersen Museum, Oslo (c)
    • Teerijärvi Sculpture Project, Orivesi *
  • 1996
    • On Sculpture and Time, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
    • Lux Sonor, Kunsthalle Helsinki (c)
    • Comp I box ,Galerie Anhava, Helsinki Bothnia Ice Scape, Oulu * Multippeleita,
    • Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
  • 1995
    • Stockholm Art Hotel / Galerie Anhava, Lydmar hotel, Stockholm (c)
    • Galleria Artina, Helsinki
    • Stockholm Art Fair / Galerie Anhava (c)
    • Art attack Oslo (c)
    • Interior decoration is art, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
    • La Hora del Norte, Madrid and Barcelona (c)
    • Myötätuuleen 2, Hanko *
    • Study of the Head… (Harding, Karjula, Kekarainen, Muller), Kunsthalle Helsinki
    • Smart Show Stockholm *
  • 1994
    • Nordic -90 ́s, Stockholm (c) Behaviour, Art Museum Mikkeli
    • Big Oslo *
    • Myötätuuleen, Hanko *
  • 1993
    • Annual Exhibition of Finnish Artists, Karkkila
    • International Skulptuuri Workshop, Otapää (c)
  • 1992
    • Private Collection, Rantagalleria, Oulu
    • Photographic Notes, Mysore, India
    • Otso Gallery, Espoo
    • Young Artists Exhibition, Kunsthalle Helsinki *
    • TimeSpace, Nordic Arts Center, Suomenlinna * (c)
  • 1991
    • Multippeleita, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki Wisconsin University, Appleton, USA
      Sveagalleriet, Stockholm *
    • Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki *
    • Notoro, Multimedia Symposium Poland* (c)
  • 1990
    • Biennale Balticum, Rauma Art Museum (c)
    • Modern Monsters, Virrat
    • The Museum of Contemporary Art Tampere * Art Centre Mältinranta, Tampere *
  • 1989
    • Painters Union 60 Years, Nordic Arts Center, Suomenlinna and Pori Art Museum (c)

(c) exhibition catalogue published
* in collaboration with Pasi Karjula (OLO)
(FC) Forest Camp: Juha van Ingen, Pasi Karjula, Antti Keitilä and Markku Kivinen *** in collaboration with Pasi Karjula and Markku Kivinen

VIDEO WORKS, COMPUTER ANIMATIONS AND SOUND PIECES
2007 Flash (dvd)
Blue Movie II (computer animation) 2006 Linssi (cd)
2002 Frutti di Mare (dvd) Blue Movie (dvd)
2000 Red, Green, Blue Movie (dvd)
The Pot Full of Gold (installation, dvd)
1999 Still Excites Me (vhs) Flow (dvd)
Still Water (dvd)
1998 RGB-Information (2004 computer animation)
1996 Oho Oho Bang Bang (vhs) 1994 Irreversibility (U-matic)
1992 RGB-Order (computer animation)
RGB-Light (video projection)

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Espoo City Art Museum
Finnish State
Skanska
Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Collection Swanljung
Malmö Art Museum
Statens Konstråd
Helsinki Art Museum (OLO No. 22)
Museum of Contemporary Art Tampere (OLO No. 39)
Bank, Enschede
Notoro Gallery Agency, Poland
Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Vexi Salmi Collection
EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Saastamoinen Foudation Rovaniemi Art Museum, Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation
The Finnish Museum of Photography
City of Lohja
City of Toijala
City of Valkeakoski
Private collections

PUBLIC WORKS
2019 Green Flash – Aleksanterinkaari, Porvoo
2009 OLO No. 44, Turku University, Turku
2006 Villa Nova Myllypuro, Helsinki (Forest Camp)
2002 OLO No. 39, Public school of Karonen, Tampere
OLO No. 38, Arabianranta, Helsinki 2000 OLO No. 22, Hietalahti, Helsinki 1990 Mäntynummi kindergarden, Lohja
1987- Various works and projects in city space

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Garret Publications, Marko Vuokola, Contributors: Maaretta Jaukkuri, Leena Kuumola, Pontus Kyander and Jyrki Siukonen ISBN: 978-952-7222-07-2
OLO No: 40, ISBN952-91-7952-9
Tyhjyyden täyteyttä – buddhalaisuudesta suomalaisessa taiteessa , Marja Sakari ’ Mystiikan portit’ – Tampereen taidemuseo, Karisto Oy, 2003
Like Uutiset 8/2001, Markus Ånäs
Tiede ja edistys 3/2000, Jonna Jussila
Katseiden näyttämö Maaretta Jaukkuri, 2000, Galerie Anhava / catalogue
Great balls of fire, Mika Hannula, nu 1/2000
Kekarainen, Niva, Vuokola, Erik van deer Heeg, 1999
The being of OLO Maaretta Jaukkuri, 1999
Mäntän kuvataideviikot 1999 Mäntän kuvataiteen ystävät ry p. 56
Signs of life Melbourne International Biennial 1999, Juliana Engberg, ISBN 0 646 373307
Like Virginity, Once Lost From Modern Utopia To Transit Hall Entropy, A Farewell To The Metaphysical Landscape by Timo Valjakka, ISBN 91-87952-17-3
Finnish Line: Starting Point ISBN 2-901 833-42-X
Kings of Understatement Mika Hannula, Hjärnstorm 65/99
Centrifugal forces Leevi Haapala, Museum of Contemporary Art, publication 45/98
Next to nothing Five from Finland, Timo Valjakka 1997
Talk about space-three space makers, Leevi Haapala, Master Thesis of Art history, 1996
The Hour Of The North Tuula Arkio, 1995
In Praise of Dullness Mika Hannula, Taide 4/95
The Observer as Maker Maaretta Jaukkuri, Siksi 2/94
The Colden Concept in Function, Rita Roos, Form and function 4/1994
The 90 ́s in Nordic Art, Maaretta Jaukkuri, Stockholm Art Fair 1994
Marko Vuokola and an Oblique View into the World of Images, Maaretta Jaukkuri, Museum of Contemporary Art publication 7/1994 Studio N nro 14

MEMBERSHIPS
The Union of Artist Photographers
Association of Finnish Sculptors Muu ry
AV-arkki
Kaapelin taiteilijat
Forest Camp

AWARDS
2007 Thuring Award
2003 Maija and Urpo Lahtinen Foundation Art Award (OLO)
2000 Finnish Foundation of Environmental Art, Environmental Art Work of the Year (OLO No. 22)
1998 Competition for Hietalahti environmental art work, first award (OLO No. 22)
Saapuminen Helsinkiin environmental art competition, honouring (OLO) 1997 Finnish Art Society

GRANTS
Oskar Öflunds stiftelse, 2007
CITÉ Internationale des Arts, Paris, 2002
Frame
Cultural Office, City of Helsinki
NIFCA, residenssi / Maze, Norja
Lehtinen Foundation
AVEK 1998, 1999, 2006, 2007
Ministry of Education
Finnish Foundation for Visual Arts, New York
VISEK 1996, 2001
Nordic Art Centre
City of Helsinki
County of Uusimaa 1992, 1999
CIMO Centre for International Mobility
Sleipnir 1997, 2000
Alfred Kordelin Foundation
Finnish Art Academy Foundation
Paulo Foundation 1992, 1995, 1996
Finnish Cultural Foundation 1993, 1996, 2000
Central Commission for Art 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004 Wainstein Foundation
City of Toijala
Kesko, 1991
The Academy of Fine Arts, 1989
Oriveden Opisto, 1987

TEACHING AND LECTURES
The Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
The University of Industrial Arts, Helsinki
Theatre Academy, Helsinki
University of Technology, Department of Architecture, Helsinki Nordic Art School, Kokkola
Free Art School, Helsinki
School of Arts and Communication, Tampere
AKI, Enschede, Holland
Institute of Orivesi

OTHER ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES
Mika Vainio, Sähkö Recordings, image for the record cover
Berlin Alexanderplatz, scenery / Viirus Theatre, Helsinki 2002
Fastighetsskötaren (The Caretaker), scenery / Sirius Theater, Helsinki 2004, Hanko 2005