Curriculum Vitae (1985-2009)
Marita Liulia, artist, director (born 1957 in Perho, Finland)
Exhibitions, performances and selected lectures
(Bold = premiere, S = solo show, G = group show, P = performance, L = lecture,)
2009
Choosing My Religion – uskontoja jäljittämässä, exhibition, Kiasma / Helsinki / Finland (S)
Choosing My Religion / Tampere Art Museum / Tampere / Finland (S)
Choosing My Religion and Tarot / Wäinö Aaltonen Art Museum / Turku / Finland (S)
Hunt / with Tero Saarinen Company / Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires, El Portón de Sánchez, Buenos Aires, Argentina (P)
Hunt / Alexander Theatre / Helsinki / Finland (P)
Hunt / Bergen International Festival / Bergen / Norway (P)
Hunt / La Coursive / La Rochelle / France (P)
Hunt / Oldenburgisches Staatstheater / Oldenburg / Germany (P)
Hunt / Magdalenazaal / Bruges / Belgium (P)
Hunt / Teatro Gayarre / Pamplona / Spain (P)
2008
The Accordion Man, animation film with Kimmo Pohjonen / Retretti and TV1 / Finland
Time Perspective, performance and installation with Valérie Gabail (France) and Mikko Perkola / Retretti / Finland (P) (G)
Photographs from Choosing My Religion, Christianity -series / Honkahovi / Mänttä / Finland (G)
Photographs about animism / Fennofolk – New Nordic Oddity / Design Museum / Helsinki / Finland (G)
Hunt / White Bird / Portland, OR / USA (P)
Hunt / VSA North Fourth Art Center / Albuquerque, NM, USA (P)
Hunt / Le Phénix -Scène Nationale de Valenciennes / France (P)
Hunt / La Maison de Musique / Nanterre / France (P)
Hunt / Tampere-talo / Tampere / Finland (P)
Hunt / Theatre de Chatelet / Paris / France (P)
2007
Sublime / photographs / Gallery Uusitalo, Helsinki (S)
Ajan ja hitauden arvot / multimedia installation / Container Village / Habitare / Helsinki (G)
Marimekko / multimedia installation / Habitare / Helsinki (G)
Artek / multimedia / Design Fair / Milano / Italy
Tarot / Galerie Montcalm / Ottawa / Canada (S)
Hunt / Territory Festival / Moscow / Russia (P)
Hunt / Alexander Theater, Helsinki (P)
Hunt / National Arts Centre / Mexico City / Mexico (P)
Hunt / Alexander Theater, Helsinki (P)
Hunt / L´Ermitage Compostelle, Le Bouscat, France (P)
Hunt / CCN Centre Choreographique Nord, Pas de Calais Roubaix, France (P)
Hunt / Dresdner Musikfestspiele, Dresden, Germany (P)
2006
Tarot / National Gallery / Bangkok /Thailand (S)
Hunt / Atelier de Paris / Paris / France (P)
New York University (TISCH) / New York / USA (L)
Parsons School for Design / New York / USA (L)
Animator / Savoy Theatre / Helsinki / Finland (P)
Hunt / Opera Lausanne / Lausanne / Swizerland / France (P)
Hunt / The Joyce Theatre / New York / USA (P)
Hunt / The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust / Pittsburgh / USA (P)
Hunt / National Arts Centre / Ottawa / Canada (P)
Hunt / Harbourfront Centre / Toronto / Canada (P)
Hunt / Alexander Theatre / Helsinki / Finland (P)
2005
Sublime (photography exhibition, premiere), Youkobo Art Space / Tokyo / Japan (S)
Animator / Teatro Comunale / Ferrara / Italy (P)
Animator Portugal Tour / Casa da Musica, Porto / Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimaraes /Teatro Aveirense, Aveiro / Teatro Académico Gil Vicente, Coimbra /Teatro Municipal da Guarda, Guarda (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 / HARA Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo / Japan (S)
Tarot / Kunsthalle Lophem Center of Contemporary Art / Belgium (G)
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 (live multimedia) choreography and solo dance: Tero Saarinen, 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 / Montreal / 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 / Montreal / 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 / 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 / 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) chor. 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,/ 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 (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
Bone and wing / Old Student House, Helsinki / Finland (G)
Videos and documentaries about the artist
2009 Choosing My Religion - uskontoja jäljitämässä / Medeia / dir. Jakke Kastelli
2008 Ohhoh - mikä päivä / dir. Tiina- Maija Lehtonen / YLE 1 Finland
2004 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
University of Art and Design, Helsinki (UIAH), vice member of the board (2007-)
AVEK – The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture, member of the board (2002-)
Prix Möbius Nordica, founder and director, member of international jury (1999-2008)
The Finnish Artist Association (photographer) and MUU (chair 1990-91)
Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques, France (2000-)
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
Recent awards and major grants
2008
Stina Krook Foundation: Honorary Prize
2003
Art Council of Finland: 5 years artist grant Erik Enroth Memorial Award
2000
Prix Möbius International: La Mention Spéciale pour SOB Finland Award (Suomi-palkinto)
Grafia: Honorary Mention for SOB (The best multimedia of the year)
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 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
GRAFIA (Finnish Graphic Designers): Honorary mention
Media & Message Conference: Bronze Award
1995
Art Council: 5 years grant