SALLA TYKKÄ

Born 1973 in Helsinki, Finland Lives and works in Helsinki

EDUCATION
1995–2003 The Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
1992 Graduated from Secondary School of Visual Arts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2024
  • Places We Look At, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
  • Lasso, Mediataidetila Sielu, Karkkila
• 2022
  • Europe – Europa, Södertälje Konsthall, Södertälje
• 2020
  • Europe – Europa, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
• 2019
  • Salla Tykkä, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku
• 2018-2019
  • Short Titles in Ludwig Museum, Budapest
• 2016
  • Salla Tykkä, M – Museum Leuven
• 2015
  • Retrospective, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
  • Giant, Turku Art Museum: Darkroom, Turku
• 2014
  • FestArt2014 – Salla Tykkä, TR1, Tampere
• 2013
  • The Palace, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
• 2012
  • Zoo, Drimart Garibadi, Istanbul
• 2011
  • White Depths, EX3, Florence
• 2010
  • Airs Above the Ground, Hayward Gallery: Project Space, London
  • Airs Above the Ground, Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki
• 2009
  • Salla Tykkä, Solar Cinematic Art Gallery, Vila do Conde
  • Victoria, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping
• 2008
  • Salla Tykkä: Zoo and other film works, 300m3 Art Space, Gothenburg
• 2007
  • Salla Tykkä, Helsinki City Art Museum, Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki
  • Salla Tykkä, Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Dublin
  • Cave & Zoo, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
  • Cave & Zoo, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
  • Zoo, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
• 2006
  • Salla Tykkä, FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen
  • Salla Tykkä, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen
  • Salla Tykkä, Chapter Gallery, Cardiff
  • Film – Salla Tykkä, S.M.A.K., Gent
  • Lucid Dreams, De Appel, Amsterdam
  • Lucid Dreams, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands
  • Zoo, Centre pour l’image Contemporaine, Geneva
  • Zoo, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York
• 2005
  • A Whiter Shade of Pale, Kunstraum Hüll, Hüll
• 2004
  • Salla Tykkä, Finnish Institute, Stockholm
  • Cave, Portikus, Frankfurt
  • Cave, FACT, Liverpool
  • Cave, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
• 2003
  • Happy Days, Collection Lambert, Avignon, FranceCave, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm
  • Salla Tykkä, The Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee
  • Cave, Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City
    
  • Distance, Bethanien, Berlin
    
  • Cave, Tramway, Glasgow
    
  • Salla Tykkä, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca
    
• 2002
  • Thriller, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
    
  • Pain, Pleasure, Guilt, Bawag Foundation, Vienna
    
  • Pain, Pleasure, Guilt, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
    
  • Hidden Forces, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
    
• 2001
  • Lasso, Delfina Project Space, London
    
• 1999
  • Power, Studio Mezzo, Helsinki
    
• 1997
  • Healthy Young Female, Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki (with Aurora Reinhard)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2023
  • The Laugh of Medusa, EKKM, Tallinn
  • When they were kings, Artspace Boan, Seoul
• 2022
  • When we’ll take the streets, do remember to separate womxenand rioter, 6b, Saint-Denis
• 2021
  • No Arrow in Time, Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki
  • Ambient Temperature, Museo Jumex, Mexico City
• 2019
  • Objection! Helsinki City Museum
  • MOMENTUM10 exhibition, Moss
• 2017
  • The Western: An Epic in Art and Film, Museum of Modern Art, Montreal
  • The Western: An Epic in Art and Film, Denver Art Museum
  • Systema Naturae, Kusthalle Stavanger
  • Jeux – rituels & récréations, Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille
  • It’s more fun to compete, Collection of the [mac] and its guests, Museum of Contemporary Art [mac], Marseille
  • Green Earth – Blooming City, Sinkka – the Kerava Art Museum, Kerava
• 2015
  • Constructing Nature, Akershus Art Center, Lilleström
  • Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg
  • Let Me Tell You a Story, Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg
• 2014
  • MAC International, The Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast
  • Fair Play, MAXXI, Rome
  • Archeological Festival a 2nd hand history and improbable obsessions, Tartu Art Museum
  • Dance Me, Wanås Foundation, Wanås
• 2013
  • The Mystery of Tears, The Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast
  • Making Space. 40 Years of Video Art, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
  • Tell Me Her Story, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul
  • Amnesia, Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum
  • After The Arc – an Island: Findings of Team B, Botkyrka Konsthall, Botkyrka
  • After The Arc – an Island: Findings of Team B, The Finnish Institute, Stockholm
• 2012
  • Cavalli e Cavalieri / Post Scriptum, MAN Museo d’Arte della Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro
  • A Window on the World. From Dürer to Mondrian and beyond, Museo d’Arte – Museo Cantonale d’Arte,Lugano
  • Cave Parables – Finnish Contemporary Art and Pictures of the Times, Retretti Art Centre, Punkaharju
  • You aren’t anything, you are everything, The Duchy Gallery, Glasgow
  • La La La Human Steps, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul
  • Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, Rosphoto, Saint-Petersburg
• 2011
  • Nothing in the World But Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate
• 2010
  • 17th Sydney Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
  • Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, Domus Artium, Salamanca
  • It’s a Set-up, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
    
• 2009
  • MOMENTUM 2009 – 5th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art Favoured Nations, Momentum Kunsthall, Moss
    
  • Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, Kunsthalle Helsinki
    
  • Fly me to the Møen, 44 Møen, Askeby
    
  • Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
    
  • Sounds and Visions, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
    
• 2008
  • Comme au cinema, Fotogalleriet, Oslo
    
  • The F Word, Western Front Society, Vancouver
    
  • Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, P.S.1, New York
    
  • You are my mirror 1: L’infamille, Frac Lorraine, Metz
    
  • Print the Legend, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
    
  • Other than yourself, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
    
• 2007
  • Unidentified Emotions, Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong
    
  • Stop. Look. Listen, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca
    
  • Global Feminisms, Davis Art Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley
    
  • Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Montréal
    
  • Under Hitchcock, Solar Cinematic Art Gallery, Vila do Conde, Portugal
    
  • Offside, St Paul St Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
    
  • Moving Portraits, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo
    
  • Extension vidèo – corps et figures, Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, Amiens
    
  • The Screen-Eye, Casino Luxembourg
    
  • Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum, New York
    
  • The Artist’s Body, Then and Now, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève
    
  • Self-timer, Museum for Contemporary Art in Bucharest, Bucharest
    
  • Sguardi da Nord – Reflecting with images, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena
    
• 2006
  • Digital Tales, Galician Center for Contemporary Art, Santiago de Compostela,
  • Fremd bin Ich eingezogen, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
    
  • Self-timer, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen
    
  • Art, Life & Confucion, October Art Salon Belgrade, Belgrade
    
  • Tropico-Végétal, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
    
  • Girl’s night out, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston
    
  • Women of Europe, L’espace Rendez-vous des Lices, Saint-Tropez
    
  • Sip My Ocean, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
    
• 2005
  • Selbstauslöser, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
    
  • Girl’s night out, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
    
  • Girl’s night out, Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis Missouri
    
  • Girl’s night out, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover
    
  • Self-Discipline, Overgaden, Copenhagen
    
• 2004
  • Down Here, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
    
  • Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
    
  • Nuclear war, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden
    
  • Gokann, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki
    
  • A Fripon, Fripon et demi, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon
    
• 2003
  • Gokann, Voice Gallery, Kyoto
    
  • Greyscale / CMYK, Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts
    
  • Girl’s night out, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport
    
  • Girls don’t cry, Parco Museum, Tokyo
    
  • The Squared Circle, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis
    
  • Transparente, Museo Nazionale Delle Arti del XXI secolo, Rome
    
  • New Realities, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg
    
• 2002
  • Trans Sexual Express, Palacio Municipal de Exposiciones, Kiosco Alfonso, A Coruña
    
  • Edstrandska Nordiska Stipendium, Malmö Konsthall
    
  • Beyond Paradise, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
    
  • Power, Casino Luxembourg
    
  • Les Enfants du Paradis Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
    
  • Centre of Attraction, Lithuanian Triennial, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
    
  • ArtUnlimited, Basel
    
  • Greyscale/CMYK, Tramway, Glasgow
    
  • Kenen jäljillä?, Salo Art Museum, Salo
    
  • Fantasies, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere
    
  • Beyond Paradise, National Gallery of Art, Bangkok
    
  • Trans Sexual Express, Mûcsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest
    
• 2001
  • Voltti, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
    
  • Identity, Oulu Art Museum, Oulu
    
  • Trans Sexual Express, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona
    
  • Plateau of Humankind, 49th Venice Biennial International Art Exhibition, Venice
    
  • Rock the Campo, Venice
    
  • Bienal International del Deporte en el Arte, Universitat de València, la Nau, València
    
  • Voltti, Rauma Art Museum, Rauma
    
• 2000
  • Master Degree Show, The Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
    
• 1999
  • Beauty Queens, Art Centre Ahjo, Joensuu
    
• 1998
  • ArtGenda Retro, Stadtgallerie Kiel, Kiel
    
  • Intimacies, Rethymnon Centre for Contemporary Art
    
  • The Nude and the Masked, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki
    
• 1997
  • ArtGenda, Kulturhuset, Stockholm

SELECTED FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVALS AND SCREENINGS

2017 OLHO, Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice
2016 Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival, Vila do Conde
Les Écrans Documentaires, Arcueil
UrbanEye Film Festival, Bucharest
2015 Les Rencontres Internationales, Berlin, Germany11th Akbank Short Film Festival, Istanbul
Mecal, 17th Festival International of Short Film and Animation of Barcelona, Barcelona
2014 Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival BIEFF, Bucharest
Directions – European Video Art Screenings and Artist Talks, Vlaams Cultuurhuis De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris
56th International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, Bilbao
27th exground filmfest, Wiesbaden
Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal, Montreal, Canada23rd dokumentART, Neubrandenburg
Sport, Sport, Sport: A Screening Programme of Soviet-Era Cinema and Artist Moving Image
Vêra Chytilová | Salla Tykkä, Glasgow Film Theatre
24th International Film Festival Message to Man, St Petersburg
22nd Festival Internacional de Curtas Metragens de Vila Conde, Vila do Conde
37th Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad
30th Hamburg Short Film Festival, Hamburg
60th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen
Dortmund | Cologne International Women’s Film Festival, Köln
REGARD – Saguenay International Short Films Festival, Saguenay, Canada43rd International Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam
2013 Double Feature, Schrin Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, GermanyEspaces In/civils, French Institute, Istanbul
Ikono on Air Festival, Global broadcasting event
Videogud Festival, Uppsala
Videogud, Video stations in public places, Gävleborg, Uppsala and Dalarna
2011 Konst Bio, Gothenburg International Film Festival, Gothenburg
2010 Splace Filmprogramm, Berlin
18th International Short Film Festival of Vila do Conde, Vila do Conde
2009 Arctic Lights, a touring venue in Poland: Gallery for Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Krakov;
Wro Art Center, Wroclaw; Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; Centre for Contemporary Art Kronika, Bytom, Poland
Arctic Hysteria Onscreen, KimKino, Riga
Northwave, Scuola de Calegheri, Venice
8th Miami International Film Festival, Miami
Off Festival: Sorrow Conquers Happiness, Myslowice
2008 Unclassifiable, Overgaden, Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
Cave, Barco Centro Cultural, Sao Paulo
Arctic Hysteria Onscreen, Museum of Modern Art MoMA, New York
Future Shorts, Copenhagen
Electric Forest, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
Electric Forest, Svetozor Kino, Prague
Electric Forest, ACUD Kino, Berlin
2007 Boucles d’or, Caen
Festival International de Films de Femmes, Creteil
Trikrát Finská, Kino Svetozor, Praha
Unclassifiable, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York
Future Shorts, Copenhagen
Salla Tykkä, Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa
Salla Tykkä, Gallery TPW, Toronto
Conversations at The Edge: Salla Tykkä, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
En primera persona – relaciones del sujeto en la intimidad, Galician Centre of Contemporary Art, Santiago de Compostela
36th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam
2006 First Night Short Film, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro
21st Brest European Short Film Festival, Brest
12th Athens International Film Festival-Opening nights, Athens
17th Nordisk Panorama, Århus
59th Locarno Film Festival, Locarno
14th International Short Film Festival of Vila do Conde, Vila do Conde, Portugal21st Midnight Sun Film Festival, Sodankylä
22nd Hamburg Short Film Festival, Hamburg
Sólo los domingos, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid
25th Viper International Festival for Film Video and New Media, Basel
2005 Sound and Vision, Bloomberg space, London, UKVAE9 International Media Art Festival, Lima
A Good Day Today, Ujazdowski Contemporary Art Centre, Warsaw
Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires, BAFICI, Argentina 2004 Northern Lights Film Festival, Newcastle upon Tyne
12th International Short Film Festival of Vila do Conde, Vila do Conde
Tampere 34th International Short Film Festival, Tampere
Tribeca Film Festival, New York
Cave, Meeting House Square, Dublin
Playlist, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
2003 Enzimi Festival, Rome
Cave, Pompidou Centre, Paris
Salla Tykkä, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Legende, Kino Arsenal, Berlin
Legende, Filmhaus Kino, Köln
49th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen
Salla Tykkä, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Salla Tykkä, Platform Garanti Contemporary Arts Centre, Istanbul
Salla Tykkä, Borås Konstmuseum, Borås
Salla Tykkä, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
2002 55th Locarno Film Festival, Locarno
44th Festival Internacional de Cine Documental y Cortometraje de Bilbao, Bilbao
48th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen
Canadian Film Centre’s World Wide Short Film Festival
Media City 8, Windsor, Ontario
Lasso & Thriller, Meeting House Square, Dublin
Impakt Highlights, a touring venue in Europe
Blick, a touring venue in Europe
Thriller, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki
2001 Video Art Plastic, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie
Shorts festival, The Netherlands
12th Impakt Festival, Utrecht
Shoot on tour, a touring venue in Sweden
30th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam
2000 Buenos Aires Biennale, Buenos Aires
Video Garden, Helsinki
Media City 6, Windsor, Ontario
Unimovie Festival, Pescara
Avanca 2000, Avanca
16th International Hamburg Short Film Festival, Hamburg
Jonctions IV, Brussels, Belgium
Short Spring Festival, Helsinki
Tampere 30th International Short Film Festival, Tampere
Shoot – Festival, Malmö
13th Stuttgart Film Winter, Stuttgart
1999 Living room – Festival, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland 1998 Femmedia, Stockholm
French – Baltic – Nordic Video and New Media Festival, Tallinn
Salon of Young Artist, Croatia
Videonale 8., Internationales Video- und Medienkunstfestival, Bonn
1997 Short Spring Festival, Helsinki, Finland 1996 Biennale for Audiovisual Art, Lahti

PRIZES AND NOMINATIONS
2016 AVEK Award for media art, Finland
2015 Thuring Prize, Finland
2014 Canon Tiger Awards for Short Film, 43rd International Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands 20006 Arte-prize for Zoo, Hamburg Short Film Festival, Hamburg
2004 Nomination for Ars Fennica prize, Finland
2002 Edstrandska Nordiska stipendium, Sweden
2002 DZ Bank – Prize, Germany
2002 Honourable Mention for Lasso, Media City 8, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
2001 Nomination for Gilles Dusein Prize, France

FILMOGRAPHY
Untitled (White – Alps), HD video, 1:08’, 2019
Retrospective, HD video, 15’5”, 2015
Palace, HD video, 7’5”, 2015
Giant, HD video, 12’10”, 2013–2014
Equestrian, five channel installation, HD video, 6’33”, 2012 Airs Above the Ground, HD video, 7’21”, 2010
Victoria, HD video, 9’06”, 2008
Zoo, HD video, 12′, 2006
Cave, 35mm / HD video, 9’58”, 2003
Thriller, 35mm / HD video, 6’50”, 2001 Lasso, 35mm / HD video, 3’48”, 2000 Power, 16mm / video, 4’15”, 1999 Bitch, 16mm / video, 5′, 1997

My Hate is Useless, video, 2′, 1996 Pure Hate, 16mm / video, 1996

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)
Helsinki City Arts Museum
Saastamoinen Foundation, Helsinki
Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Collection Lambert, Avignon
Centre Pompidou, Société des amis du Musée National d’art moderne
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
National Gallery of Australia
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, United States
Jumex Collection, Mexico
Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal, Canada
BAWAG Foundation, Austria
Museum Het Domein Sittard, The Netherlands
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam