CV: Nina Lassila

born 1974 in Helsinki Finland, lives and works in Berlin and Belgium

Education

Guest at ENSAD Paris 3months 2009
MFA Context & Media, Valand school of Arts ,Gothenburg Sweden 2004 - 2006
MFA Context & Media, Valand school of Arts ,Gothenburg Sweden 2004 - 2006
BA photography, Swedish Polytechnics in Nykarleby, Finland 1994 -1997

Solo-shows

2023 Game Over at Galleria Kouta Kouvola FI 2023
2020 Verket - The Plant at Mediabox at Forum BOX gallery Helsinki FI
2017 Why worry; videoworks at Cork Film Centre Gallery IR
2017 DidVincentVanGoghgetLaid? at ForumBox Helsinki FI
2015 Drilljob at Second Room Gent BE
2015 Lucid Dreaming at Media Box/ Forum Box gallery Helsinki FI
2014 Pull yourself together at National Gallery of Iceland Reykjavik IS
2013 Gone Fishing at Kukuk Das Belgisches Zollhaus Raeren / Eupen DE/BE
2012 Critical Review of Icelandic Power structures at MediaBox ForumBox Helsinki FI
2011 In der Not frisst der Teufel Fliegen, with Robert Quint at Kunsthalle M3 Berlin DE
2008 Nainen Tyss - woman at work Formverk, Nykping SE
2008 Nainen Tyss" -woman at work SINNE Galleri Helsinki FI

Selected Groupshows, festivals & screenings

2023
VideoSoundArchive February
SHE DEVIL at Bienalsur, Buenos Aires Argentina, August - December
Screening program Club Anthropocene various locations SE
Group exhibition lheure bleue at Exit 11 art Center Grand Leez BE September -November
Group exhibition Variations abstraites Mathilde Hatzenberger Gallery BXL BE September
Pierre, ciseaux, papier Hors les murs#3 par Mathilde Hatzenberger Gallery BXL November

2022
SHE DEVIL 12 at Studio Stefania Miscetti Rome IT
Maybe Later group exhibition at Meclis Sgnag bunker in Ankara Turkey April-May 2022
Jttmaa art & music festival, Sippola FI July
Whitebox videoart festival Pietarsaari FI 2022

2021
Mirrored/Peiliss at MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre FI March
SHE DEVIL 12 at MAXXI Museum by Stefania Miscetti Rome IT June
Suitcase 11, travelling exhibition starting in Lisbon
Video Screening at Galleria Y Helsinki November
Grosser Herbstsalon at Atelierhof Kreuzberg Berlin, November

2020
Depictions Of Living - Art and Activism in time of climate crisis Art Pavilion Mile End London
Impressions at EXIT 11 Gallery Grand-Leez BE June 2020
Screening night CosmiX III at cultural space Jardin phmre, at Neuilly Plaisance Paris
Tuokaa Tuoli screening by Third Space at kkigalleria Jyvskyl FI August

2019
Lucid Dreaming at monthly curated program on https://www.labocine.com November
CosmiX Screening Night III at 59 Rivoli, Paris FR November
Butterfly effect (groupshow) at EXIT 11 Gallery Grand-Leez BE August 2019
Screening of video at Lovisa Peace Forum in Kino Marilyn August 6th 2019
Control, Screening with Third Space Gallery, October at STOA Helsinki FI

2018
BILAGA editions at Skvde Konstmuseum January La libert comme emblme dՎchec, at old train station Perwez Belgium Dem Filosof ist nicht so Doof, group exhibition at Atelierhof Kreuzberg Berlin Risteilln/Cruising with Sirkku Ketola Exit 11 Gallery Grand-Leez BE

2017
FAIR video art festival Miami December
Bangkok international Underground Film Festival February
Skip the weekend Groupshow Hoegaarden BE April
Ibrida*Pluri Festival at Eastern Bloc Montreal CAN
Jurmala World Tour 2017: (A collaborative work between 9 Berlin based artists) at i.e Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, Video-Forum of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA etc. Arts in the Environment Nordic Symposium video screening Helsinki BILAGA editions at Gothenburg Art Biennial September Xian Film Festival China Screening curated by Kristin Scheving Screening at Sknes Konstfrening SE
2016
Rencontres Internationales, Videotheque: Paris FR
FEMMES VIDEO ART FESTIVAL 2 at The Situation Room, West Hollywood USA
Menagerie Animals in the Art Zoo at Galerie Toolbox Berlin DE April - May
Premiere of "Jurmala" a film by Laura Horelli, Brigitta Kuster, Nina Lassila, Agnese Luse, Angela Melitopoulos, Elonore de Montesquiou,Tanja Ostojic, Meggie Schneider, Isabell Spengler & Gitte Villesen at ARSENAL Cinema Berlin
The ladies of the castle, Fernelmont Contemporary BE
Djur eller mnniskor? Animals or people? screening Teater Trixter Gothenburg SE
Ingor & utmarker curated by Mari Lagerquist at Galleri 54 Gothenburg SE

2015
Occupied Emotions 2015 Broelmuseum Kortrijk BE
Homeland at Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art Vaasa FI
POPPOSITIONS Art Fair Brussels BE
Homeland at Vsterbottens museum Ume SE 2015
Now & After VideoArt Festival Schusev State Museum of Architecture Moscow April - June2015
Fernelmont Contemporary Art Festival at Chteau De Fernelmont BE
IN TRANSIT at the CCP, Cultural Center of the Philippines July - September

2014
Homeland Group exhibition at Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art Vaasa FI
Freunde und Feinde group show at Atelierhof Kreuzberg Berlin
Trial& Error' by ArtScreen (SE) at Manipulated Images Coagula Curatorial in Los Angeles
Love Kills Video & performance event at Raid projects Los Angeles February 2014
Les Rencontres Internationales at Gat Lyrique Paris
NEVER LEND MONEY TO A WOMAN WITH A SENSE OF HUMOUR screening, curated by Clemens Wilhelm, at Kreuzberg Pavillon Berlin
Bristol Biennial Landskapa Bristol UK
Time is Love 7 International Video Art Program on Tour 2014 screenings at i.e the invisible Gallery London, Pink Gallery Seoul, Photon Gallery Slovenia, SCCA - Center for Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Vovatanya Gallery, Ukraine, Torrance Art Museum California
700IS Reindeerland Festival, Egilsstadir Iceland
Kassel Documentary Film & Videoart Festival DE
I AM A WOMAN at CAM Casoria Contemporary Art Museum Naples IT

2013
Internationale Frauen Festival Dortmund
The portrait in the moving image at Vandalorum Museum Vrnamo SE
Tampere FilmFestival FI
Group exhibition FATAMORGANA 1 @ Gallery Omphalos Bari IT
700is Reindeerland at Nordic House Reykjavik IS 2013, program curated by Kaarina Ormio
Arctic Heat Film Festival Jyvskyl FI 2013
Kiwi in Love exquisite corps videos initiated by Gun Holmstrm at Helsinki Kunsthalle FI
40 oeuvres pour le temps futur at Centre Culturel Jacques Franck Brussels BE
WALK#2 EARLY VISIONS Brussels
Haunted, group exhibition & screening at the Cultural Alliance of Long Beach California
Kassel Documentary & video festival DE
HOW TO TELL YOU screening curated by Kaarina Ormio at Vetlanda Museum SE

2012
Coeur de silex, Groupshow at La Galerie, Contemporary Art Center Noisy-le-Sec FR
the 8th international Directors Lounge Berlin
NOVA screening at Gallery Suvi Lehtinen Berlin
AaveGhost- festival at Malmitalo Helsinki FI
Art:Screen @ Vetlanda Museum SE
Rencontres Internationales at Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin
OSTRALE Dresden DE
"It must have been a very rainy day" Groupshow at EXIT11 gallery BE
Contemporary Art Festival Chateau de Fernelmont BE
MUU for Ears 10 recording
rebro International Video Art Festival SE
Flussi, Media Arts festival, Avellino IT
ART-FEM Screening @ Cinema Udarmik, Maribor Slovenia
Kassel Dokumentr und Video festival DE 2012
Madatac Festival Madrid 2012
Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival Bristol UK

2011
SHEDEVIL5, Macro Museum Rome IT
Rencontres Internationales at Centre Georges Pompidou Paris
Une chambre soi, groupshow, curated by Helen Delprat, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris
Slippery Terrain, Nordic House Reykjavik IS
In der Not frisst der Teufel Fliegen, with Robert Quint, Kunsthalle M3 Berlin
Strike Groupshow, Atelierhof Kreuzberg Berlin
Screening Gothenburg Film Festival SE
Screening Beaconsfield London UK
Nordic Art Express - Nordic Video Art : Supermarket Art Fair Stockholm, Landmark Bergen Kunsthall NO, Trajector Art Fair Brussels, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery Tallin, Riga, St. Petersburg
CologneOFF 2011 videoart in global context
LOOP Videoart Festival Barcelona
Videotational 1 Minken & Palme Berlin
Ladyfest Rome IT
NYT2011 Together Groupshow Raisio City hall FIN
Pulled from a hat by Av-Arkki at Forum Box Helsinki FI

2010
Screening Performance Stammtisch Berlin
Reality Check Groupshow TSSK Trondheim NO
XV Art Fair Mntt FI
Screen Realities IG Bildende Kunst Vienna AUT
Blanche-Neige Screening Centre Georges Pompidou Paris FR
Survival Kit, Film program Riga Latvia
rebro International Videoart Festival SE
Art killed the Video star screening at Riff Raff Tel Aviv Israel
Cartes Flux Festival of New Media Helsinki FI
Slippery Terrain Groupshow at Draakon Gallery Tallinn EST
Screening Catwalk, Kakelhallen Mariehamn FIN
Nordic Art Express: Nordic Video Art on tour, National Film School of Lodz PL & Fotogalleriet Oslo NO

2009
Slippery Terrain Goupshow, Eastern Edge Gallery St Johns (NFL) CAN
Finland in Full Color, Copenhagen Denmark
LOOP videoart festival Barcelona
Women and mothers screening Raumerweiterungshalle Berlin
Waterpieces Festival Riga Latvia
Sweden for beginners Screening at Raulandkunstforening & Atopia Oslo NO
Amiens international Film Festival Eurolab France
Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival Germany
ValiePlus-Pocket Archive Screening by Bildwechsel at Kino Sputnik Berlin
Polyforme Performance Festival Marseilles France
PLATFORMA VIDEO9 Festival Athens Greece

2008
EMAA Art is in Lefkosa Festival Cyprus
Global Undergrounds Screening ATA, San Francisco
Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin/ Madrid
Reykjavik Festival of Arts IS
Deviant Art Festival Trollhttan SE
Twilight Suite, Louise T.Blouin Institute London UK
Broken English and the missing piece festival Gothenburg SE
Cushion Project Seoul Korea

 

Performances, public events
2010 EXPERIMENT 5:10 Raumerweiterungshalle Berlin
2009 EXPERIMENT 3:10 at Auditorium Cit des Arts Paris
2009 EXPERIMENT 1:10 at Eastern Edge Gallery, St Johns Canada
2008 Critical review of icelandic power structures Reykjavik Arts Festival
2013 Performance with Robert Quint at Performance Festival at Mille Feuilles Nantes FR

Recidencies:
NIFCA Nordic Air Tallinn 2004
Ppinires Europennes Pour Jeunes Artistes Residency Paris 2009
AtelierHaus Mengerzeile Vstra Gtaland Residency Berlin 2011
Asprogerakata residency Lefkada GR 2011

Collaborations:
Private Archive with Lina Persson & Mari Lagerqvist, Ldan/theMobileBox, Bilaga with Mari lagerqvist, "Pony Weck" with Robert Quint.
Represented by AV-Arkki Finland, IASPIS SE,
Work in collection of: Shoes Or No Shoes? Museum in Kruishoutem BE