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curriculum vitae
MARITA LIULIA artist, director
(born 1957 in Perho, Finland)
Studies
1977-86 University of Helsinki, B.A.1986
1977-81 University of Art and Design Helsinki (UIAH)
1976-77 Savonlinna Secondary School of Arts
Marita Liulia is a visual artist and pioneer of multimedia. Maire (1994) was one of the first artworks published in cd-rom format. Ambitious Bitch, a humorous cd-rom about femininity (1996, 2nd edition 1998) was her international breakthrough. SOB (Son of a Bitch), a cd-rom about men and masculinity, followed in 1999. Tarot was published for six different formats and languages between 2000-2004.
Recent collaborations include Hunt with choreographer/dancer Tero Saarinen and Animator with musician/composer Kimmo Pohjonen. Hunt has been shown already in 20 countries since the premiere at the Venice Biennale in 2002.
Liulia has received numerous awards including Prix Möbius International, Prix Ars Electronica and the Finland Prize. She founded the production company Medeia in 1997 and Prix Möbius Nordica, a media culture competition, in 2000.
Exhibitions, performances and lectures (S = solo show, G = group show, P = performance, L = lecture)
2005
Sublime (photography exhibition, premiere), Youkobo Art Space / Tokyo / Japan (S)
Animator / Teatro Comunale / Ferrara / Italy (P)
Animator / Casa da Musica, Porto, / Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimaraes /Teatro Aveirense, Aveiro / Teatro Acadˆ©mico Gil Vicente, Coimbra /Teatro Municipal da Guarda, Guarda, Portugal (P)
Tarot / FIT Conference / Tampere / Finland (P)
Hunt / Theatre Lantaren / Rotterdam / Netherlands(P)
Hunt / Altstadtherbst / Dusseldorf / Germany (P)
Hunt / SIDance / Seoul / South Korea (P)
2004 Animator (with Kimmo Pohjonen,premiere), Savoy Theatre, Helsinki (P)
Animator / Wiener Festwoche / Ronacher Theatre / Vienna / Austria (P)
Animator / Altstadtherbst / Dusseldorf / Germany (P)
Tarot / Conde Duque / Madrid / Spain (S)
Tarot / Fotografiska Center / Copenhagen / Denmark (S)
Tarot / Amos Anderson Art Museum / Helsinki / Finland (S)
Tarot / Finnland-Institut / Berlin / Germany (S)
Hunt / PACT Zollverein / Essen / Germany (P)
Hunt / Dansens Hus / Stockholm / Sweden (P)
Hunt / Cuarta Pared / Madrid / Spain (P)
Hunt / Posthof Linz Linz / Austria (P)
Hunt / Dance Week Festival / Zagreb, Croatia (P)
Hunt / Movimentos Gala / Wolfsburg / Germany (P)
Hunt / Teatro della Corte / Festival Internazionale del Balletto / Genova / Italy (P)
Hunt / Teatro Ponchielli / Cremona / Italy (P)
Hunt / Teatro Rossini / Civitanova Marche / Italy (P)
Hunt / Maison de la danse / Biennale de la danse de Lyon / Lyon / France (P)
Hunt / Alexander Theatre / Helsinki / Finland (P)
2003 Tarot (premiere) Museo Laboratorio d'arte Contemporanea dell'Universita La Sapienza / Rome / Italy (S)
Tarot / Kunsthalle Lophem Center of Contemporary Art / Belgium (G)
Tarot / HARA Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo / Japan (S)
Tarot / Waseda University / Tokyo / Japan (L)
Tarot / Prix Möbius International / Athens / Greece (L)
Ambitious Bitch (AB) / Dissonanze Festival / Rome / Italy (G)
Hunt / Dansescenen / Copenhagen / Denmark (P)
Hunt / Finnish National Opera / Almi Hall / Helsinki / Finland (P)
Hunt / Lithuanian Drama Theatre / Vilnius / Lithuania (P)
Hunt / Cinema Teatro / Chiassodanza festival / Chiasso / Switzerland (P)
Hunt / Kuopio Dance Festival / Kuopio / Finland (P)
Hunt / Festival de la nouvelle danse / Uzès / France (P)
Hunt / Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele / Ludwigsburg / Germany (P)
Hunt / Kalamata International Dance Festival / Kalamata / Greece (P)
Hunt / Full Moon Dance Festival / Pyhäjärvi / Finland (P)
Hunt / Turku Music Festival / Turku / Finland (P)
Hunt / Aleksandrinsky Theatre / Visit Festival / St. Petersburg / Russia (P)
Hunt / Suzanne Dellal Centre, DancEuropa / Tel Aviv / Israel (P)
Hunt / Centre Dramatique National, Les Boréales / Hérouville Saint-Clair / France (P)
2002 HUNT (multimedia) choreography Tero Saarinen, premiere
music: Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Premiere: Teatro Piccolo Arsenale / La Biennale di Venezia / Italy (P)
Hunt / Park Tower Hall / Jade 2002 / Beyond Butoh / Tokyo / Japan (P)
Hunt / Alexander Theatre / Helsinki Festival / Helsinki / Finland (P)
Hunt / Le Rayon Vert / Octobre en Normandie / Saint-Valery-en-Caux / France(P)
Hunt / NuNorden / Tallinn / Estonia (P)
Hunt / Grimaldi Forum / Salle de Nijinsky / Monaco Dance Forum / Monaco (P)
Manipulator (with musician Kimmo Pohjonen and dancer Aki Suzuki, premiere) / ARS 01 / Kiasma Theatre / Helsinki (P)
Manipulator / Finnish Cultural Centre / Stockholm / Sweden (S,P)
Manipulator / Cultural Centre in Brugge / Brugge / Belgium (P)
Manipulator / Symptomania / Kunsthalle Lophem / Brugge / Belgium (G)
SOB + AB / Bildmuseet / Umea / Sweden (G)
SOB / F2F / Parsons School of Design / New York / USA (G)
SOB / F2F / Saidye Bronfman Centre des Arts / Montréal / Canada (G)
SOB / Maison Populaire Montreuil / Paris / France (G)
SOB / Attachment + / Brugge / Belgium (G)
AB+SOB / Kulturhuset & Kungliga Konsthögskolan / Stockholm / Sweden (L)
2001 SOB / Equator Conference / Art Node / Stockholm / Sweden (P)
SOB / Mois de la Photo / Maison de Photographie / Montréal / Canada (G,L)
SOB / F2F / Vancouver / Canada (G)
2000 Tarot Mobile / Bitch Goes Wireless (premiere) / Gloria Theatre / Helsinki (P)
AB+SOB / Watari-Um Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo / Japan (L)
AB+SOB / Batofar / Paris / France (G)
La Reine du Multimedia / Institut Finlandais, ISEA / Paris / France (S,P)
SOB / GameOver / Netherlands Institute of Old and New Media, Amsterdam / The Netherlands (G)
SOB / National Arts Centre & Gallery 101 / Ottawa / Canada (P)
SOB / F2F / UCLA / Los Angeles & Washington, USA (2001) (G)
SOB / Urban Futures 2000 / Johannesburg / South Africa (G)
AB+SOB / MENAGE / St. Petersburg / Russia (G)
SOB / All You Need Is Love / Bathouse / Gdansk / Poland (G)
SOB / Prix Möbius International / Centre Pompidou / Paris / France (P)
Maire+AB+SOB / Nordic Postmodern / Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art / Helsinki / Finland (G)
AB+SOB / Centre d'Art Santa Monica / Barcelona / Spain (G)
1999 SOB / Ars Electronica / Linz / Austria (G)
AB+SOB / Melbourne Film Festival / BUG / Australia (G)
AB+SOB / The dLux Media Arts / Artspace / Sydney, Perth, Darwin / Australia (G)
AB+SOB / Mäntän kuvataideviikot / Finland (G)
RETROSPECTIVE / Pori Art Museum / Pori / Finland (S)
SOB (Son of a Bitch) premiere / Kiasma theatre, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Finland / Helsinki / Finland (P)
SOB / MILIA / Cannes / France (P)
SOB / La Maison des Auteurs, SADC, Paris / France (P)
AB / Femme Totale International Film Festival / Dortmund / Germany (L)
AFRODISIAS (multimedia) choreography Ismo-Pekka Heikinheimo / premiere / Stoa /Helsinki (P)
1998 AB / ARCO International Art Fair / Madrid / Spain (G)
AB / Technoculture / Fri-Art Centre D'Art Contemporain / Fribourg / Swizerland (G)
AB / SIME 98 (Scandinavian Interactive Media Conference) / Stockholm / Sweden (L)
AB / La FEMIS / Paris / France (L)
AB / ArtNode / Stockholm / Sweden (P)
1997
AB / XVe Festival International du Film sur l'Art / Montréal / Canada (G)
AB / Stuttgarter Filmwinter / Germany (G)
AB / Finland weeks / Moscow / Russia (G+P)
AB / Ars Electronica / Linz / Austria (G)
1996 AB / Elektra 96 / Henie Onstad Art Center, Norway (G)
AB / Woman as an Artist / Lönnström Art Museum, Finland (G)
AB - Ambitious Bitch + (cd-rom, www and installation) premiere
/ Breaking Ice / MUU ry / Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm (G)
AB / Institut Finlandais, Paris / France (G)
Jackpot (interactive laser disc installation) / WebBar / Paris / France (S)
Maire / x/y, Scandinavian Contemporary Art, Oulu Art Museum / Finland (G)
Artist's 100. exhibition / Helsinki Art Hall / Finland (G)
Jackpot / ANA LOGOS / Stockholm Art Fair / Sweden (G)
1994 Maire / x/y, Turku Art Museum / Finland (G)
/ International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Helsinki / Finland (G)
1993 Jackpot / Art by Freight, Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Sao Paulo / Brazil (G)
Maire CD ROM & installation (premiere) / Pori Art Museum / Finland (S)
Maire / Galerie Artek, Helsinki / Finland (G)
Prejudices (telematic performance between Finland and Sweden) / Liljevalch Art Hall, Stockholm & Tele Gallery, Helsinki / Finland (P)
Jackpot / Electric Art Exhibition, Rauma / Finland (G)
Jackpot / Savonlinna Art Museum / Finland (G)
1992 Jackpot / MuuMedia Festival, Exhibition of Interactive Art (G)
Jackpot / Rovaniemi Art Museum / Finland (G)
Jackpot / Aine Art Museum, Tornio / Finland (G)
Jackpot / Exhibition of Interactive Art, Kuopio Art Museum / Finland (G)
Jackpot / Lahti International Audiovisual Biennale / Finland (G)
Jackpot / Virtual Zone, Turku / Finland (G)
Jackpot / Finland i da'92, Royal Art Academy, Stockholm / Sweden (G)
Hommage aux Voyeurs (photography installation with Arto Forsblom) / Galerie Pelin, Helsinki (S)
/ ARCO International Art Fair, Madrid, Spain (G)
HOME - From Privacy To Operation Centre (curator)
/ Kajaani Art Hall / Finland
Art And Reception (a radio play, an essay etc.)
Crisis (installation) / Oulu Art Museum / Finland (G)
1991 Jackpot / Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (G)
Jackpot (interactive installation) / premiere / Mesenaatti / Oulainen / Finland (G)
Two Serious Ladies (installation with Anna Trap, Netherlands)
/ Galleri Franciska / Arhus, Denmark (G)
zet (curator) / Rotuaari, Oulu / Finland
Artist, The Image And Reality / Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki / Finland
1990 Religion and Prostitution (paintings) / Malta National Museum of Fine Arts (S)
Selfportraits 1980-90, from Schjerfbeck to Video Grate Helsinki Festival / Galleria Okra, Vantaa / Finland (S)
The Garden (installation and performance) / Otso / Espoo / Finland (G, P)
The Garden / Kajaani Art Hall / Kajaani / Finland (G, P)
1989 Arbeit Macht Frei (sound and light installation) / Muu ry, Billnäs / Finland (G)
Religion and Prostitution (paintings) / Galerie Pelin, Helsinki / Finland (G)
Testament (sound and light installation) / The Esplanades, Helsinki (G)
Brandi (visual designer) / Helsinki Festival, Savoy Theatre / Helsinki / Finland
1988 Testament (interactive sound and light installation) / Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki (G)
Daimonion (sound and light installation) / Suvi PinX, Sysmä / Finland (G)
Mummies (sound and light installation) / Jacobsberg Art Hall, Stockholm, Sweden
One woman show / Galerie Pelin, Helsinki / Finland (S)
1987 8 Min. From The Sun (visual designer) dir. Idalotta Backman / Dalvadis Theatre, Kiruna, Sweden / approx. 200 performances and versions for Swedish and Norvegian TV
1986 Zenon (sound and light installation) / De Galerie, Leeuwarden, Netherlands (G)
To Indonesia (a radio play script, dir. and ed.) / YLE / Finnish Broadcasting Company
1985 Zenon / Glass House, Stockholm, Sweden (G)
/ Old Student House, Helsinki / Finland (G)
Svoboda / J. H. Renlund Art Museum, Kokkola / Finland (G)
Bone and Wing (sound and light installation) Galeria Brama, Warszawa / Poland, Old Student House, Helsinki / Finland (G)
Videos and documentaries about the artist
Elämän peli / Kosmos / dir. Minna Kilpeläinen / YLE 1 Finland
2002 Swedish TV / Sweden
2001 NetTV / USA
1998 TV5 / France
1997 ARTE/ Germany
1992 Three Women, A Self Portrait / Oulu Art Museum
zet (manus with Jari Aalto-Setälä)
1991 Three Women, A Self Portrait / Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki / MuuMedia Festival, Helsinki
1990 Ad Astra / Kuopio Video Festival / VIP Video Festival, Berlin
A Self Portrait / Galleria Okra, Vantaa
Shadows (documentation of The Testament by Mara Kovski)
Prosessio (documentation of The Garden by M. Kovski and T. Penttilä)
1989 Ad Astra / AVE Biennale, Arnhem, Netherlands / Contemporary Photography, Helsinki
1988 Ad Astra / Lahti International Audiovisual Biennale
Memberships
The Finnish Artist Association, MUU ry (chair 1990-91)
Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques, France
The Finnish Association of Media Culture m-cult (vice chair 2000-2002)
Prix Möbius Nordica, founder and director, member of international jury
Recent awards and major grants
2003 Art Council of Finland: 5 years artist grant
Erik Enroth Memorial Award
2000 Prix Möbius International: La Mention Spéciale pour SOB
GRAFIA: Honorary Mention for SOB (The best multimedia of the year)
Finland Prize (Suomi-palkinto)
1998 Pori Art Museum: Maecenas of the Year 1998
1997 Prix Ars Electronica: Honorary Mention to Ambitious Bitch
1996 Finnish Cultural Fund Main Award (Kulttuurirahaston pˆ§ˆ§palkinto)
Prix Möbius International: La Mention Spéciale du Jury (Ambitious Bitch cd-rom)
II Festival Internacional de Video y Artes Electronicas (Argentina): Best cd-rom 96
GRAFIA (Finnish Graphic Designers): Honorary mention
Media & Message Conference: Bronze Award
1995 Art Council: 5 years grant
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